Arizona weekly citizen., 1895-05-25
ORC BLANC0.
The Pluck and Perseverance of a Young Lieutenant Re-
 warded.
The Mary Josephine Fast Developing Into a Paying Property-The
 Austerlitz Group.
THE MARY JOSEPHINE.

| "A glance at the map or Oro BlancC
 shows 8 series of claims in almost 6
 straight line, the Tres Amigos, Sorrel
 Top, Mary Josephine and Bee Hive
 that include the most promising pros poets of the district. It remained for these properties to remain undiscovered all the years that Gro Blsnco has been prospected, and then to be brought out by ''tenderfoot"-in the mining busi. ness. The explanation is that the pro perties are in the porphyry locality, and hitherto gold was generally sought in quartz. A porphyry lead has even been found recently in the excavations of the old Warsaw mill, that was never sus- pected all these years. Withal, there is touch of romance in the matter. Lieutenant Leavell. U. s. A., of the 24th Infantry, stationed at Fort Hua- chuca was in 1893 in charge of the escort of the international boundary survey. When the survey was about leaving the Gro Blsnco vicinity the Lieutenant thought to please his wife by bit of jewelry made of gold found by himself in the hills. In the course of his search he strolled over what Is LOW the Mary Josephine. Here he found a couple of pieces of float that appeared promising. On asssying they proved SO. The next day location monuments were posted along the ledge and the find christened the Mary Josephine, after Mrs. Leavell.
 The new property proved promising. The float assayed we'll tnd justified deve- lopment. Development was accordingly done. man being placed in charge. The reports sent to Fort Huachuca were encouraging, and the Lieutenant, finding the opening of mine too costly an affair for one man took into partner ship three fellow officers. Later dis coursging reports came, Sl.5O and S2 assays, and two of the partners with drew. This left in the enterprise Lieut. enRnts Leavell and BRtchelor. They were firm in their faith in the property and pursued work. Tunnels were driven and cuts made.
 Then came the redemption of the mine-the finding of six-inch ledge of S75 ore. This brought the new vein into operations. A contract was let and the shaft sunk 115 feet. At 90 feet down drifting was done. Here the ore had wideued from the six inches at the surface to three feet wide.
 Lieutenant Leavell is now at the mIne, having been granted three months leave of absence. He had five tons of the ore of the drift, real sample of the drift, worked at the Mcdonald mlll. This was to ascertain for bis own benefit just what the property will pay. The mill test returned g. to the ton. The ore proved very frisble and milled freely. Hornspoon tests have also been made everywhere and were satisfactory. Ia addition samples were taken of the entire length of the shaft The assays were made in three places and they proved satisfactory.
 The mine has more extensive devel- opment than its neighbors. Tbe outlay to date has been 5000, some of it going for experience, but the most of it to good advantage. The work done on the property is as follows:
 Shaft, 115 feet.
 Drift on 50 foot level. 45 feet.
 Tunnels 40, 100 and 20 feet.
 Cuts 20. 25 and 9 feet.
 The result of this work is 8 well dew eloped mine, with ore in sight to justify a mill, and with strong probabilities that mill will shortly be erected.
 When the owner found he had good property he wanted to locate the exten- sions. but To! they were gone. The Sor- rel Top and Two Amigos were both To- cated, while the Bee Hive had antedat- ed the Mary Josephine. Development has proved that all of these are paying mines. The ore is the same as already described in the Tres Amigos and Sorrel Top. a porphyry between red and white diorite walls, very free and frisble. The opening of the neighboring proper ties is probably due to the finding and more particularly the developing of "The Lieutenant's Mine."
 Mrs. Levell now has very large piece of iewelry in the find made by her hus- band.
 THE AUsTERLITZ GROUP.
 The claims of this property embrace the Austerlitz, Parallel, Continuation and Suggestion. The group is situated about 115 miles southerly from Gro Blanco, on the main road. The devel- opments include one shaft, equipped with steam hoist and pump, 15O feet deep; one of 60 feet; two of 30 feet each; one of about 8 feet and one tun nel of 100 feet. The mines are provided with a mill containing Wiswell crush CT of proved capacity of ten stamps, plates, pans and settler. The water from the main shaft is used for the mill supply, passing from shaft to mill tanks through a pipe about 800 feet long. The ores carry both gold and silver.
 Owing to difficulties in working the ores and silver depreciation, the mine has been idle for some months. but is expected to resume operations shortly, as the milling problems have been over come, and much gold ore is now avail ah