Arizona republican., 1897-12-23
WHITE HILLS DISTRICT.
The Klc1dyke of the MChave Region
 ReheaTsed.

White Hills, Ariz., Dec. 22.-(Speci3l correspondence of The Republican.)- In all Arizona there is no district, perhaps wilh the exception of the cp- erating copper plants at Jerome, Bis bee and Clifton, that offers such vol ume of rich intEEnal workings as the White Hills. This district has pre- ponde.hnce of silver in large ledges averaging S2G0 to the lon, often showing small bodies that will go from 5000 to 4,0o0 ouncls in silver, with a small paroemtage of gold. The writer has picked up specimens of rock that will assay from 600 to 2,OOO ounces in silver and has had samples bearing 10000 ounces m silver. This is no exagge. ration. The district lies sixty mics north of Kingman and is reached by good road for ere teams and lighter vehicles through almost an air lime route, barring five miles cut across from Kingmlan to the Sac ramenj.o valley In itself the group of hills do not cover two miles in length, by less than a mile in width, the hills standing out in relief from the rugged and dark eminences in malapai face rock in the Hualapai range to Ghe east. Judge Schaffer, one of the few locaters in the district, is now prosperous brewer in Les Angeles, while the others are scat tered and gone, some to their eternal rest beneath the sod. It is scarcely six years since the first monument was erected over a claim in the White Hills, strangely in contrast with the prospect in view today A Denver company, represented by R. T. Root, trustee, began operations on a few claims less 'than year after the first location was made and a ten stamp mill was introduced in April, 1894. Th.s company gradually acquired claim aftsr claim and had two score when in the winter of 1896 they trans ferred all their properties to the White Hills Mining and Milling company for about 1,500, ,OOO (the purchasers representing English capitalists) hay ing duriS the three years preceding taken q4t a profit of over $1 ,0OO ,OOO The new company added claims by purchase and now have sixty-ninle on the list, quite a number being leased cn a 20 per cent royalty to chloriders, who do only surface work, with fair profit after paying the haul and sam pfsr charges at Kingman, aggregating, with royalty, about $60 a ton. The bulk of the machinery for the big stamp mill and the seven inch wood pipe was shipped in from Denver at a cost of $25O, 900, perhaps more, not adding freight chargss by rail, which were equally divided with the rail road company a-d teamsterS, the whole aggregating about as much as the original cost of the goods. On top of this the company has paid the cost of lumber for the stamp mill, buildings in town and at mines, add ing haul from the yards of the Arizo- na Lumber company at Flagstaff, the bills amounting to over S100,000 on lumber and haul alone. The charges paid out for hauls up the valley from Kingman would have paid half the cost of building sixty mile railway from the county seat to White Hills, putting it at $3 ,000 a, mile-on expert figuring.
 The White Hills Mining and Milling company has fifty stamps, ten of these near the Grand Army mine Only twemty stamps are in service for the good reason that water is obtained with difficulty and what is had is lifted from water levels in the Grand Army and Treasure mines and then piped to the mills half a mile distant. It is necessary to utilize this water three times besides conhemsing the steam-bcth economical measures, certainly. The nine miles of wooden water pipe was laid up into the noun tains, the idea of an expert who was not expert, which meant only source of expense, without any return what ever, an experience often dearly bought by mining companies. The s,amp mill is 300 feet Ioug by 200 feet wide, in which are connected with the forty stamps, twenty-four van- ners and twelve settlers. Two Cor liss engines of 120 horse power each give the motive power, four boilers of eighty horse power capacity furnish the steam and dynamo of 125 candle light power the light Fourteen men are employed in the mill. William Heimrod having charge of this de- paItment, as well as the retorts, pf two ton capacity each, and smelter furnace. Wood is used in the latter and coal in the engine room of the mill. The Occident and Horn Silvsn mines are close to the mill and from these automatic ore trucks are run by baby railroad into the mill. The