Arizona weekly citizen., 1895-03-16
ARIZONA'S MINES. Why Capital is Shy of Invest
 ment There. A Los Angeles AssayeT Tells of His Experiences While Travelling in the Southeastern part of
 the Territory
(L. A. Times.)


 For some years Arizona has been forg. ing sbead, the varied resources of the country Delng developed and a steady, if not very large, influx of people con- tinuing to settle in the the fertile valley of the tropic belt. Tho cry has ever been Capital Capitalr' with which to carry on the multifarious schemes of improvement recognized as necessary, and yet that have had to be left ID abey- ance for lack of the much desired capi- tai.
 E.. M. Wade, an asssyer of this city, has just returned from a trip through Arizona, and his epitomized verdict re- gsrding the Territory is that with more capital Arizons would become Tn these days what Californis was ID '49 and the early flfties. And this, too, taking no cognizance of the territory's resources save mining.
 Among other of the camps visited, remark d MT. Wade, yesterday, "V as he W q hington, in the southern part of Pima county, and about thirty miles from Nogales, There Is most curious formation there. There IS solid moun- tain of limestone cut up by veins Of cop per, silver and lead ores. For two miles this mass of limestone may be traced, all cut up by these intersecting veins O valuable mineral. A Duqnesne company y gan to mine, and has bean succeeded by an Indiana company and these people have put in concentratOrs by means of which 100 tons of ore per day are handl cd. Of course It is a low grade pr po- s,tion, but the supply appears inexnaue tible. The assays have averaged twenty eight ounces in silver, s ID gold, ana about s per cent copper with just enough zinc to make the ore some ghat retrsc- tory.
 'One of the most promising locations is being negotiated for by Lbs Angeles parties, and if the pur chaso is consum- mated there will be a good return Jn the money invested, despite the fact that considerable money will have to be ex pended h a concentrating plant, IT addition to which the concen Irates will have to be smelted.
 About orty miles southeast from tucson, ID the Santa Rita Mountains, work is beIng carried on at the copper mines If l.. J. Rose, and some of these days it will prove surpri-e. The ore IS very fine and all that has been the matter has been t3st It wasn't develop ed. As th, property IS opened up upon and the ere accumulatiOns warrant the tsrting up of the S60,000 smelter erect ed, the outlays made will be more than re ;ouped. At Greaterville, small camp close by there is some good placer ground that has yielded largely ID the past, but Mexicans are now working the ground almost entirely, and there Is little shipping ora being taken out by h o-io CTS
 II passed a month at the Glory miDe, eighty miles southeast of Tucson, and which belongs to Capt. G. G. Mullens. Shirley Ward having a slight lnteres' The property Is at present ID the hands of receiver, but the outlook Is good and encouraging. A tunnel mas been run in for about AGO feet, and large bo ly of lowgrede ore uncovered which averages from S6 to SS per ton, and which is free milling proposition. Two Griffin mills of thirty tons capacity each per day, have been put iu. The vein ls about fifty feet in width and has yer ticle dip of about 60 deg. Most of the ore in the vicinity is of porphyritic character, but rather strangely, m the Glory, while the formation ls prophyry, Jhe ore is mostly white quartz and ex- ceedingly hard.
 "After quite au extensive trip through Arizons," said Mir. Wade iD conclusion ''I believe there are any amount of min ing claims, and there would be little difficu ty in getting the necessary 'pl- tai for development purposes lf the owners did not hold them at such ex- travagant figures. With little more modesty in this direction the mining iu- dustry of Arizona would receive an i'm petus that would enrich the Territory to an almost inconceivsble degree"