The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-03-03

so miners still earn their living and
support large families from the pro-
| duct of these same placers, earning
| from $3.50 10 $2 per day.
After the richest portions had been
| worked out. gradually the miners fol-
lowed the pay Streaks OF placer gold
out of the arroyos and canons on 10 the
mesas, where they were found 10 end
in the great veins of quartz Whch
crosses the country. What had oeen
mystery. as TO where this gold came
from. was now solved. as the miners
traced the placer gold directly into the
veins of ore. As result. the discovery
of the Mars, Venus, san George ana
Goshen came about, with the grand re-
suits which followed. Then came the
Nina Rica, where the first discovery
of placer gold was made. On the pres
ent location on less than two acres, on
this mine, over SS00,000 was taken out
in three months.
The Mars group of four mines, IN the
three years and nine months, during
which the little five-stamp mill run,
turned out $685. while the l5-stamp
mill, during the five years and seven
months which it run, turned out S2,2Oo,-
600. No ore was run in the five-stamp
mill that paid less than $3.50 per ton,
ana none less IldH Sls.JV III NAiN liCN iiiA-4-
The deepest shaft is down 216 feet, and
the deepest incline $40 feet, all in good
ore. Following the results obtained IN
these mines came the Nina Rica, Apa-
che and Eastern California groups, and
later on. Others on every side OF them
great contact veins from 20 to 100 feet
wide, all the contents Of which aver
aged from 50 TO SO per ton, and, IN
cases, running much higher in value.
In July last some placer miners, dry
washing on the Nina. Rica, run into
some rich vein matter on the vein,
which, upon being followed up, was
found to be 400 feet in width and 1900
feet in length. This has been followed
by another important discovery on the
Apache, Helen Mar and Eastern Cali
fornia, which has been opened for 1900
feet in length and from 40 to 100 feet in
width; both great veins or ore bodies
running from 50 up to 800 per ton. Up
on these mines eight shafts are being
sunk, which now are down from 80 To
so feet, at the bottom of which the ore
more than sustains the value shown a.
or near the surface.
These facts give but a casual glance
A [ those great ore bodies as they lie In
the Picacho basin, while the old veins
follow with a record that warrants the |
assertion that they can turn out large !
quantities Of ore that will pay 50 per
ton in free gold by mill process, a fact |
that is arousing the deepest interest i'm |
mining circles, on account of the great
width OF the veins. The ease and low |
cost with which the ores can be mined !
hauled and milled; the even distribu- |
ton of the gold throughout the whole !
mass, the even, dry, warm climate, en- I
abling the work to be carried on all the
year around, without the loss of a day |
on account of heat, cold or storms, the |
drynesS and firmness of the ground in |
which the gold-bearing rock is found, |
thus dispensing with the use of much !
heavy timbering, as in the case of wet !
or loose ground.
These veins, which cut the country |
for miles in many places, and which |
crop out on the surface in many cases |
the entire length of the locations, are |
found in the contacts between pOr- |
phyry, granite, syenite, gneiss and the |
slate and schistose rocks-which have |
been metamorphosed, until it is hard |
to tell where the one ends or the other /
begins. Porphyry is king in the vein |
matter that carries the gold, while the |
gold is where you find ii, in vein mat |
ter, unlike anything ever found in the /
great majority of mining camps. This |
is Picacho as we find it. These are the /
mines Is we see them, with the best OF |
wood at $3.50 per cord on the river bank
near the mill, so cents per ton for min
ing, 10 cents per ton for hauling by |
tramway or narrow gauge railroad, |
and so cents for milling. what may not
be expected from such bodies Of s. free
milling ore. There are 81 good promis-
ing claims in the Picacho basin. 100 in
ha NhTTa Cold I'D in, J-rapnf. D
gulch, - along the Gatanal canon and
%, rich in gold, silver and copper, in
the Gatanal mountains. All are in the
Picacho mining district, which lies Tor
16 miles along the Colorado river. al
ways naviga bic for steamers of 100 tons
and only 20 miles from the Southern |
Pacific railroad in an air line. These
are the reasons why the PicaChO gold /
mines are enlisting so much attention. !