Arizona weekly citizen., 1895-06-29
RESOURCES OF PIMA COUNTY
The Old Glory a Mine Full of
 Cheekered ViseiSsitudes.
One of the Big Gold Properties Of the District.

The Old Glory mine Is peculiarly ch9E-
 acteristic of the Gro Blanco distrlct fn
 its main seatures. Mighty seldom out
 side of this district can be seen gold ore q1arrIed out, rather than mined, or property with storage reservoir catch
 ing the rain of one day to use 1t for the
 next 365. Such is the Old Glory mine,
 besides being we'll lined out as to build
 ings, tracks, ore supply, etc,--a hand
 some camp and one withal having his l tory.
 To the Old Glory more than any oth-
 CT is due the present reputation of the
 district. Once tried and condemned the district suffered, getting as it did
 very black eye indeed. Then with its reiuvenation came the vindication of
 the district. Gro Blanco camp is now beyond where the record, bad or good, of one mine will affect it much in the eye f the world, but euch was not its state
 of affairs always.
 To look at it today one would think the Old Glory was new property. The
 mill, the trsmway, the buildings. all are scarcely weatherstained as yet. Never
 theless, it is the second of it's kind. Gone are all traces of the old concern, the buildings, mill and everything. Only the mine shows evidence of the old state of affairs.
 In the old days it was known as the Esperanza. Its fret location was back fifteen or twenty years ago. When first found it was not explored. It was To- cated as; or became st any rate, the property of an American syndicate, who owned more mines than they could work. Finally the title lapsed from lack of assessment work, and a Frenchman named Blanc relocated it.
 The mine is a mass of quartz carrying
 FREE COLD AND sULPHURETs.
 The ore is in reef capping one of the l biggest mountains in the district. Some | day the mountain was good deal high l CT, and the ore was vein. The couu | try rock was softer than ordinary, how ever, and subsided. ThIs brought tht | vein tumbling about itself All this wss | a matter of hundreds of centuries. A | the ven collapsed it formed the reef il question, and therein is the ore found, in an immense body, easily removable The body runs southeast and north west, piching to the east. The width of the | vein proper Is not known, for 1t has nev- ST been explored. There is plenty of ore in the reef for long tune, so that it's width IS not material. The length of he body IS indefinite; the width will ay- eiage 150 feet.
 Blanc pierced the outer crust of the | reef. The outside had no encourage nent but hls work brought it's reward. With depth of few feet in the several places be tapped it, he found paying ore. He developed the property sufficiently .o show that he had "a good thing" Be- ng satisfied of its value be negotiate d 8 sale to Boston parties through Mir. H. 8laisdell The price was never known outside of the parties concerned. All sorts of figures were reported, up to S70,- D00. This sale was made after MT. Blais- lell had made numerous tests at the Arivaca mill.
 Then came the era of the Esperanza Two years or more 1t continued. Per laps the less sad of it the better. though n justice to a really excellent mine 1t cannot be ignored. A twenty stamp hill was put in, with Boss process anal ,amators. Gold is not like silver, need ng going over and over again, to catch he metal. A good deal of the gold was lot saved, in addition to the process be- ng expensive to run. It is told that the ,ffal of cattle about the old Esperanzs hill went