Arizona weekly citizen. [volume] (Tucson, Ariz) 1880-1901, 1896-04-11
ORC BLAICO
Gold Thrashed out With a
Club in the Grub Stake
Mine.
PIMA COUNTY CRIPPLE
Greek-Great Ledges of Gold
Quartz, of Varying Values,
Being Opened up.
PIMA COUNTY CRIPPLE


OF Oro Blanco, five of il through rolling
bills and come abrupt. all scanned with
large minerilized cropprinRs, and SCARED
here and there with little assessment
b ,les, and surface cute; but generally
speaking quite uHdeveloped, in any
mininga save of the word aud waiting
the advent of capital and enterprise to
develope their mineral wealth, We come
at last to the special section, in the
neighborhood of the old Warsaw camp,
to which propose to confine this
article, as covering new features.
This section is not new, 90 far as
having been passed over before in the
search for greater mineral wealth
beyond, but, is another illustration of
OF the old mining story, that what is
right under good prospectors nose, is
often the last thing to receive his atten-
tion; then again dykes of low grade
GOLD ores could not be proftably work.
ed until recently. and the richest veins
were quite blind; that is, being compos-
ed OF softer material than the surround
Ing country rock, they were easily
eroded and specifically washed away,
becoming covered with the debris of
broken rocks and material, ever gradual
ly working down the mountain sides,
but here is an extensive area, several
miles equare at least where q pan Of
loose dirt can hardly be anywhere
scraped up, that will not pan out good
showing Of the yellow metal, and in the
dry creeks and ravines, coarse placer
gold can be found almost anywhere by
sinking down to the harder or less
broken formation commonly called the
bedrock. Mexicans with worn out
tools, and constitutionalIy worn out
teelinge, are working in several of the
gulches, in an intermittent way, but
much OF their time is taken up, in re-
hearsing the great find uf come Gonzale
or POlycarplo, ten months or ten years
ago, as the Case may be, but who is not
then around to show them Just where
he last dug. But all the same there ia
gold here, gold there and gold every.
where for sll who seek and test. The
thing to be done is to open up and
develop the lodges and veins from
which this scattered precious metal has
come, and 1t is to be done, it is only q
question of time. We need gold,
''sownd MUMMY" ard 'lots of it" or how
on earth are We going to be able to pay
gold interest, 10 say nothing OF the
principal on the many millions of bonds
We have been giving to the United
States receivers Rothschild. Morgan
& Co.. in exchange for our own currency
and silver notes lately. But as Kipling
would say. that is another story, let US
return to our mutton, or rather our
mines, and the first one We will refer TO,
though by no means claiming it ss the
biggest or best, for | am hot going to let
myself be assaulted for saying that,
but still It will be readily admitted that
it is one OF the most interesting pros
pective mines around and very desir-
able thing to have in family. allude
to Messrs Holden end Scribner's, "Grub-
stake Mins."-Who, has not heard Of
the tall, military looking colonel, and
listened to some OF his marvellous opin-
ions. Well, the old colonel is pretty
good judge Of mining proepeots, il
success is any criterion. and his poeticsl
and feelingly named Iyreut stake mine,
is certainly grub producing, and has
been better than a potato patch in
Minnesota or a bean field IN Dakota, to
him for q long time, and is now delight
fully fertile IN appearance and grub
producing power, as evidenced by the
follo~ing facte.
There IS long open cut on the vein
which runs nearly north and south from
which the colonel has been "doing wash
ing," in the past, finally commencing to
tunnel which tunnel, recently driven in
about fifteen feet further by his partner
Mr. Scrivner, shows in the fece of it, a
ledge of about five feet wide, about three
and 9 half feet OF which is quartz carry
Ing both silver and gold and occssiopslly
showing in spots, native or leaf silver
and of varying but commercial values in
gold, the other eighteen inches. about
six 10 hes on the foot wall, and a foot on
the hanging wall, as seen the other day
brecclsted quartz, which carries coarse
and fina gold like placer; every pan as
then beiug tested carrying from one to
two dollars, obtainable by SIMPLY wash
ing and panning it. The hard ores are
being piled up as taker out, the mud
and soft ores being washed; the more
tale like and adhesive clsys. being allow
ed to first dry. then broken up and
pounded with the Holden stamp mill.
which is nothing more nor less than q
common Shillaly welded by a muscular
arm and is the first time the writer Of
this ever saw gold thrsshed out with Q
stick.
The tunnel, pushed in about twenty
feet further will be under q surface
vein, now uncovered but originally quite
blind, that is much wider than where
the tupnellipg commenced, and CORE
spondinRly increased good results are
anticipated, the vein is manifestly well
defined and continuous and there are
also parallel veins, on which some but
not srficient work to determine their
value has been as yet performed. South
OF the Cru ubstake, its apparent continua-
ton, L az been located by Mr.. Phil Ward
under the name of the Golden Cross.
aud surface tests of the decomposed
porphyry and gravel. shows good results
in panning. The northern extension is
called the Horee Shoe mine and belongs
to Mr.. Dougherty, has tunnel in now
about twenty feet, and prospects
handsomely in gold. have not yet had
an opportunity, however, of especially
examining il. or other adjoining work
ing properties. 90 will now proceed to
refer to the group of mines on the east
side and immediately adjoining known
as the Gold Bug group. consisting OF
the Gold Bug. Gold Rock, Forty Nine
and King Bolt mining locations be-
longing to the Noon Brothers. The
Gold Bug is a facsimile IN it's general
character to the Grub Stake mine aud
runs parallel Herewith, there are two
shafts at present upon il, one Of fifty
feet and one Of twenty; the fifty foot