The Arizona sentinel., 1897-05-15
UNA, ARIZONA, SATURDAY, MAY 15 IS97

feet thick, that has attained a deptl
 of 300 feet; and it's record can be boiled
 down to the regular result in slip-
 ments of gold bullion from twenty head of stamps, running from $50, ,00t
 to Sl0O,OO0 monthly. This holds ir
 value and strength with depth.
 : Where these two late finds in Colo
 rado they would long ere this rivaI
 the worldwide reputation of Cripple
 Creek. As 1t is, the La Fortuna is
 quietly pounding out fortunes every
 month and is simply close corporate
 and quiet business affair; while in the
 really remarkable volume and values
 of gold in the King of Arizona, or
 Gleason group, local people of small
 means, having secured an interest,
 are putting in ten stamps thirty miles
 distant, at the nearest running water
 on the Gila river, and will make the
 mine purchase any additional plants
 required.
 Let us see how Arizona and the
 desert compare with other and more
 favorably situated regions. In addi-
 tion to the properties mentioned, we
 have the Harqua Hala with about
 $3,OOO,OOO to it's credit, now paying
 leasers handsomely, after the usual
 topheavy English company shut down.
 Again, the Congress mine with no chatter, no blast of trumpet, sending out bullion regularly and at depth of 2OOO feet having ore blocked out for many years work, to go through their 4O-stamp mill. They have modern plants and methods in all particulars, and 1t IS probably the equal as dividend mine of any on the Pacific coast, and that means the world. The next in order is the Old Vulture mine with $15,0OO,0O0 production from the surface zone, and to the 600 level. | This has at last got into the hands of men with money and nerve to drive down to the lower ore zone, when this old producer will doubtless continue a dividend property for years to come.
 I wonder if it ever occurs to some of our California mining men, when they condemn by wholesale the desert mines as mere surface or infiltration deposits, that very much thessame talk held back developments aass ing for the lower ore zone on the mother lode of California for many J e"Ie, unylI mon having the money and doing little single-handed think ing on their own account solved the problem of permanent ore bodies of great magnitude below the barren vein matter of the surface ore zones md made the mother lode of Califor- lia synonym for great and lasting hines. Diamond Joe Reynolds did his on the Congress mine, which, by he way, was originally worked for the copper, and depth made of it a gold nine.
 Pray, gentlemen, why should this happy condition be confined to north z Tn California? However, this is a i natter that will be defined in the I arly future, as this desert region q the Lower Colorado river is V eing thoroughly exploited by Colo t ado mining men who are corraling r very tangible mining prospect of 9 lerit they can secure; and the energy, r bility and nerve that have made h Colorado what it is to-day will surely cmOnstrate more permanent paying l lines in this region. Q
 The Gold Rock OI San Diego county, g alifornia, near Yuma, was condemn il d in its prospect state by at least two t and able California min s ng experts, yet it appears to be doing tI retty we'll with 60 feet thickness of a $ to $S rock at the 300 level, and 12O n amps dropping. This, the Gold a ,ock-a segregation vein in porphyry il is certainly property of merit and lt nder competent management would ever have got into the hands of o receiver. It was the old thing of Q, biting off more than you can chew" " While forty ,stamps were making q, loney, eighty stamps additional re- fl uired some pretty low-grade stuff to d 9 under the hammers to keep them fl; Il dropping. Then they started to re at the wrong end by cut ng down the pay of their mill-man-- n, 1e of the best on the coast. He ri hitting, all sorts of tank men, be usher feeders and general miE br tried 1t a rattle and the h, filings pond fattened, until the old fe illman was recalled at double his te ast salary. The Gold Rock is good be