Arizona weekly citizen., 1895-05-18
ORC BLAICO District. The Tres Amigos Mine the Treasure Trove
 Three Friends. THE EDITH AND ITS OWNER. The SOrrel Top Mine One of the
 Prides of Gro Blanco.
THE EDITH AND ITS OWNER,
THE TRES AMIGOS MINE.

THE TRES AMIGOS MINE. Three friends they are indeed, the To- cators of this property named from the Spanish of "three friends" a Devon shireman, an Irishman and a Mexican, to wit: Messrs. Nat Crocum. Martin McNamara and Preciliano Arballo. Arballo discovered the property, a year ago, taking into his partnership Crocum and McNsmara. They set to work with will, and nearly constantly ever since could be heard the booming of the shots and the song of the drill echoing from orag to crag whereabouts. MT. Crocum. who was mine foreman at the Old Glory. paid for his share. and the other partners did their own work. The result is that today they have a shaft and a tunnel, each about 70 feet in.
 The ore IS another of the porphyry contacts of the district, beautifully free, and very friable. The shaft shows the better ore. Careful average assays of the lower portion of the shaft gave S15.50 per ton. Sinking is still in progress and will be continued to hundred feet. Should the air then permit, drifting will be done ID each direction.
 At the foot Of the hill is living water, and here are now in the course of con- struction two arastras. When they are completed, which will be shortly, they will be started at work, creaking and grooming over it, but getting out some gold of the ore of the Tres Amigos. The owners do the arastra work as a practi- cal test of the ore. And if a mine pays to work its average ore with arastras, that mine is good one to bank on.
 The owners are able to be their own capitalists, and probably will be. They expect to put up plant of about stamps on the property, and get the profits thereon for themselves, in 8 short time. The ore dump is daily growing larger, and with the gold there awaiting work ing something should be done, and will. While we were present Lsno was pan- ning out samples of the finer stuff on the dump. The result was gold in encour- aging quantities in the bottom.
 The three friends have good thing ID the Tres Amigos.
 THE EDITH MINE.
 A great quartz reef-a big body of paying ore with what development one msen could do, is what we find in the Edith As will be seen by the map the Edith lies near thee Golden Eagle group, and might almost be called ar extension of it. A year ago last May it was locat> ed, being then an unknown quantity. It has now nearly passed the period where it might be called prospect into that of mine. The developments have all been done by one man, the owner, O. A. Hyatt. MT. Hyatt since locating it has worked nearly unceasingly on it. The result is a shaft % feet deep every bucketful of which was first mined out by Hyatt alone in the bottom after which he ascended the ladder, drew up the bucketful, put it on his ore dump, and again decendsd for another bucket ful. In addition there is lesser shaft and several open cuts. The shafts have ore on all sides.
 The width of the ore body by 8 tape line is 50 feet, and as to depth there is no saying. The length too, IS indefinite, put there is enough to show that it is a big property.
 The ore is free milling quartz carry ing gold, running slightly into sulphur cts with depth. Assays have run all the way from low to high grade ore. A picked sample went S367. In numerous places it will go from $40 to S8O. The average of the mine the owner gives as at least BIO ton. It is big body of moderate grade ore. One hundred tons of ore have been taken out and will be milled shortly.
 Adjoining the Edith is the Oregon, @ mineral property, carrying some min- sral, ss it does. Here is very favor able site for storage dam, with con- siderable watershed feeding it.
 MT. Hyatt has no faith ip middlemen. He IS willing to place his property him. self, either for development and a mill for partnership, or an out and out ssle Otherwise he will keep on developing and milling his ore.
 THE soRRELL TOP MINE.
 The Sorrell Top mine is one of the brides of Gro BlRnco. Perched high, on the crest of one of the big mountains of the district, 1t can look down literally on its neighbors, and might be justified in doing SO figuratively likewise.
 BIG OFFERS REFUSED.
 Sorrell Top was the object of a very advantageous offer about month ago, and was further considered SO good that this was refused. Montana capitalists offered to bond the mine, in conjunction with it's sister property, the Tres Ami- gos, in the sum of $75.000. The further offer was made of doing S15,OOO worth of work developing the mine, prior to pur- chase. The owners believing they had a better thing in the mine itself, refused. Net every mine owner gets so good an offer, and still fewer refuse.
 The mIne is another contact vein in porphyry, between white and red diorite contact, much like the Tres Amigos. The veins run north and south, dipping eastward. The width of the ore is not known. Only one wall has been found the foot wall. The shaft is 5 X feet. and the width of 1t, 5 feet, is in ore. How much more there IS is not known. The work will be continued somewhat deeper when drifting will be done in both directions. A crosscut into the ore from below will then be made. to ascertaia how much they really have. The intention is thoroughly develop the mine.
 Assays chow as follows: s15, s2O, s16 and SIG. Assays of s25 and above have also been taken. A mill test went s22 to the ton. The shaft is DOW down l2O feet, and three men are still sinking.
 The property is owned by Messrs. John and A. E. Began, J. Truscott and William Perry. The looator wss Mir.