The Arizona sentinel., 1895-05-18
Mines ap the Colorado River.

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 pendent" of the Engineering and
 Mining Journal of New York City
 The mill at Cargo Muchacho has
 started up on ore from the Com.
 padre veins, which ct the present
 stage of development. promises we'll
 MT. Frank Guerra, for years the
 superintendent of the Cargo Mucha.
 cho, is in charge of the mine; and
 M. R. Ritchie and T. l.. Johnson
 are Tn the mill. Some thorough
 prospecting and development work is being done in other mines in the
 vicinity.
 The Gold Cross Company, at Hedges, is keeping it's 4O-stamp running day and night while the managers are very busy putting up 60 more with which to work the ore at that mine. The sale of five mining claims nearby to parties able to open them up speaks we'll for the district. The plaoers at Mesquit, a little west of the Gold Cross, are enticing many thither who are out of work.
 At Picacho things are gradually improving. The new shaft on the Gold King is down 50 ft', all in good ore. A careful test made last week gave excellent results. On the Gold Queen, an adjoining claim, some of the finest specimens of white gold were taken out that were ever found in that camp, or in the White Gold belt.
 Juan Silvas is opening the Gold Carter mine with good prospects. The vein is 10 1t, wide and rich in free gold. Wm. Swain has been prospecting the White Gold Group and found some rich rock. Only for vexatious lawsuit 10-stamp mill would be under process of in these mines.
 Some fine rock was taken out of the Ponce de Leon mine last week. This mine is believed to be the one that fed the Providencia Canon with it's great yield of coarse gold, as none was ever found above the Ponce de Leon veir.
 The new discoveries in this inn mediate section make it one of the most promising on the Colorado. Most of the mines in this as we'll as in the White Gold Group are with n one mile of the Colorado river. and none more than two miles away and all are reached by canons of easy grade leading down to the liver.
 In the Picacho basin, four miles vest, the placer mines are turning ,ut about $500 weekly. A few of he placer miners have gone to Mesquit. Very rich ore has lately ,een found in the old Colorado and South Goshen mines near the sur ace.
 An estimate made of the amount 'f ore that can be quarried out of ome of the old mines, without go- ng below the bed of the arroyos hat cut the veins are as follows; Vest Pacific, 15,0O0 tons of $8 ore; 10000 tons of s10 ore: told Zeal. 10000 tons of $10 ore; Jenus and Mars each 57,692 tons f $5 ore; San George, 184,615 tons f $5 ore, and Goshen, 110,769 tons t $S. I obtained these figures rom a m1nlng man who has just 'een at the mines and bases them n starting in at the bottom of the rroyos and running open cuts at a rade so as to turn the water out of he mine into the dry beds of the rroyo, and taking out all of the ein matter and working 1t in the nill. The value per ton above is ased upon the tests which he has 1ade, and are confirmed by others. Ie IS also having tests m ade on he No Hay Dulcenilla, Nina Rica nd ther mines adjoining.
 The new railroad which will soon e built from connection with the Utah Southern and the Denver & Rio Grand railroads, at Cedar City, Utah to Yuma, and thence to San Diego, will follow the west bank of he Virgin and Colorado rivers, and 'ass directly through the rich gold 'elts at Fl Dorado Canon and 'icacho. By parties interested in