Arizona weekly citizen., 1895-03-23
THE OLD GLORY.
The Best Known Mine of the Gro
 Blanca District-Its Vicissitudes

The Best Known Mine of the Ors
 bianco District Vicissitndes.
 The Did Glory property presents ; ! hac dsome appearance-in fact to lool
 at 1t Is almost an ideal mining plant
 Tie improvements are yet new, opera
 tlons having been under ay less thar
 a year. The p.antis handsome and con,
 venient. The ore is tapped from under
 by tunnel opening on the northerly
 side of the hill, into which track runs
 connecting with the tramway. Cars are
 run into the tunnel to shaft connect
 ing With the ore body above. The mil
 is under the southerly side of the hill
 with easy access to water. It is hsted
 with two Griffin crushers of capacity of 35 tons day, and amaIgGmators cor. responding. Triumph concentration provide for tee sul2hurets. The dam is pre lty sght, even when not viewed from point of utility. In the midst of the dry hills, where the rain sheds off while It Is yet falling, 1t shows off most handsomely. The height of the wall is forty feet and It is yet practically full. 1t backs water welliDtO the hills, follow ing the capyors around, and presents a pleasant COL trasJ to the bare slopes about.
 The mine is characteristic of the dls- trict-a big reef of quartz carrying free gold and sulphurets capping the hill The body runs southeast and north west, pitching to the east. The width of the vein beneath feeding it IS not known, for it has never been explored. The ore in the reef will be the only matter of consideration for A long time to come. The length is indefinite: the width Is over 150 feet. The ore is said to run ST. ton.
 Every mine has a history peculiarly It's own, but the Old Glory has even more vIclssItu0es than usual.
 The property was first one of the To- cations of the Dsrre-Towneend syndi cate of Arivaca, of twenty years ago. It was merely located, no work being done. Finally the assessment work iapsed and Frenchman named Blanc relocated it, The outer crust of the reef gave little encouragement. Blanc pierced 1t and found within body of far grade rock. He tapped 1t in several places and found ore everywhere-in fact he had big property. In 1882 he negotiated a sale to Boston parties through Hiram Blais- dell, now of Yuma. The price paid was never known, but figures were reported all the way to S70,000 The sale was made after numerous tests by MT. Blais- dell at the Arivaca mlll.
 The days O. the Esperanza foll wed. A twenty stamp null was put n with Boss process smalgamators. The pro cess, it Is claimed, did not save all the gold, d the taIllngs showed a c1usjd- erabie loss; besides 1t was expensive Lo run. According to information given today ab ut forty per cent of the gold was saved. Yet the proposition WAS not run at a.loss. h the two years opera ton of the mill S120000 was taken out Then the mill was taken away, and the district got black eye thereby.
 The cut in the reef from the opera tions was only thirty to forty feet deep, and practically there was as much ore as ever. Another Frenchman named Paron relocated the mine. and the dam was located by Nat Crocum.
 Peron demonstrated that all the good ore had hot been taken. He explored and found good ore left in great quanti ties. He worked the ore with arRstrRs. For years, with his sons to help him, one a small boy who drove the burroe, ne cleared an average of S200 for every five weeks. So the Esperanzs was not failure.
 The property was sgaIn offered for sale. In 1893 it wss bonded to Roy Stahl of this city. Just before the bond expired, with the assistance of others b. made the sale, the price being S60,0 ,000.
 Captain c. G. Mullins was put in charge for the capitalists. He made large expenditures "n basis of pr fits from working the ore of S600 a day. In this the plant disappointed him, and whiie expenses Were the sane protiJs We're called on for money, which after several times they refused.
 The creditors of the crncern were Roy Stahl and his associates, L. Zscken dorf & Co.,, for sup, lies, and the employ ees for labor. The court was asked to appoint receiver and named George J. Hilzinger.
 MT. Hizinger replaced the American miners with MexIcans and introduced other economies. He Is now ID charge and is said to be making good progress in meeting the obligations of the con cern.
 A week or two ago Captain Mullins and experts visited the mine, supposedly in the interest of the capitalists. While there the experts advised the putting up of 40 or 50 stamp plant, and working everything. Payments were also made to the Frenchman on the mine. This would look as though something would be done by the old management again, and it is to be hoped the plant will be enlarged soon. r. Il.