Arizona weekly citizen., 1895-06-01

| Hopkins and Stevens, prospccted ! through this Gro Blanco district. Lit
 tie they then suspected that they were passing over scores of deposits of miner
 al that for access bility and quantity per square mile is probably not excelled in
 all the wide world. If they had found
 all the deposits they went over that
 were worth locating they would have ! been building boundary mOnuments-l
 was going to say, till yet. These pion- l ger proepectors, between watching out
 for Apaches and probably not knowing
 too much of good lead when they saw 1t, took to the prehistoric workings at the old Gro Blancc, rather than to open any new leads. They found in all 22 long-before abandoned arrastras. Noth- ing was left of the arrastras but the stones. They were out on a grubstake 1 furnished by Tucson men, and to them they transferred partnerships ,n the mine.
 A SCRIMMAGE WITH MEyICANS.
 A bout this tune some Mexicans fron
 the state of Sonora made the same dis
 covery, and forthwith set to work, for
 the arrastrs is the Mexican's ideal quartz
 mill. So when, in January, 1874, the
 Tucson men came to look at their prop
 erty they -held on the ground 150 men,
 women ard children, and 150 horses,
 mules and burros. The arrsstras had
 been reftted and more built. This crude and unsatisfactory process was paying we'll, one Mexican having made $500 in three hours.
 The inevitable occurred. The Tue sonItes and the Mexicans clashed. The Mexicans declared they were in Mexico. It ended in the Americans rounding up all the people and their animals and starting them for Tucson. Of course they did not go. But the desired effect WAS had. They offered to leave if all was returned, which permission WAS given. This Gro Rlanco mine was af- | forwards worked by the Americans in | arrastras, but that process proved too | slow. The owners became interested | later in the Yellow Jacket mine and fin | ally ceased operations at the Gro Blanco | aud let their titles lapse. The property | has been brought to light again, and | more of it will be found in the following accounts.
 GOLD INNING AS 4 BUsINEss.
 Gold inning is often regarded ss 8 gamble. In fact outside of the sections where mines are worked the favorite idea in that regard is that an invest ment ia a gold mine is gam ble, or very much like it. Such is not the case. It is business, and nothing else. There is only enc element of chance in wok- ing mines, and that is as to what ore is not yet removed. As the saying is, "you see farther into the ground than the bottom of you pit" With mine developed no man is "going 1t blind" in a gold property. Every part of a mine should be sssayed thor 1ughly, and the actual business average of what it will return considered. Df- 'erent ores require different processes in working. The most practicable method by which the most metal can be saved should be ascertained. Then the pro- 3ortlon the whole plant will save should De calculated on. Then there is the cost ,f the property and the cost of mill to De considered. Interest on the amount invested should be returned, and usual y big interest. The investor then goes T with his eyes open. His purchase shows So much ore developed. His as- ays show it to average SC much per ton. The mill will work cut its quota per day with profit of so much per ton. This profit should more than cover interest ,n the outlay, and the expense of min- pg and milling. There IS the sold min pg busin( ss in a nutshell.