Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1898-02-02

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 when the Tip Top camp was one of
 the liVeliest in the territory. The
 stock of the company was listed on
 the San Francisco stock board, and
 numerous deals were made in 1t. In
 the early eighties it was a dividend
 payer, and it is said that it produced l $2,OO0,C00 or more during it's palmy
 days. Ore that would go 800 ounces
 m silver, and silver was then worth
 SI00 per ounce, was not an uncom-
 mon thing for it to produce. In 1885, the property was sold to St.
 Louis parties, who bought 1t Prin-
 cipally for what was on the dumps.
 After making their purchase, 1t was
 discovered that a lease running Tor
 ten years on everything above the
 700 foot level was already in force
 on the mine, and this practically
 prohibited them from doing any
 thing with the mine. The ore on
 the dumps was worked though as
 originally contemplated, and 1t IS stated that the company made money out of the operation. Chloridlng
 was continued in the mine for some time till silver went down, when the
 property was abandoned and was permitted to 6ll up with water, and
 1t has been in in this condition now
 for several years. A singular feature
 of the history of the mine IS that
 during ali the years it was worked,
 no steps were ever taken to secure
 title to it from the government, ex- cept from year to year by doing the
 required amount of work. As the
 owners failed to do this in these
 latter years, the title reverted to the
 government, and, as stated, the parties named have relocated it.
 All three of them are familiar with
 the property and know the location in 1t of rich ore, and 1t IS their intention to again work it. The
 water only rises to about the 200 foot level, and while tbere is sad to
 be considerable very rich ore below
 that, one of the re-locators. in con
 YersatIon with representative of the JoURSAL-MINER, says they know of sufficient good ore above thst level to keep a small force of men at work for at least a year. This
 will be taken out first and then from
 the proceeds obtained from that,
 machinery will be placed on the property to take the water out Of the lower levels for working them. The property is developed to depth of 900 feet.
 J. H. Costello. who is the general manager of the Golden Wave min ing company's property, near Con- gress, was in Denver recently to buy machinery for the above property.
 While there he was caught by the ubiquitous reporter and in the course of an interview said: Il have traYeled through all the mining ! districts of the United States and in Mexico, in the effort to find just the property to suit me, and incl dental to my investigations I natur- ally learned good deal about min ing. 1 have now secured a mine in Arizona which seems to ill my views of what a mine should be. It is located about sixty miles south of Prescott. about a mile and a half from the well known Congress mine, which is turning out large quan tity of ore. l have located six full claims and a few fractions along the ledge. the entire distance being about two miles. The vein is about six feet wide, and is one of the most remarkable for its regularity that I have ever seen. It IS not pinehed in at all in any place that has been opened. The ore is like must sul- phides somewhat irregular in value, but the vein is always to be relied ! upon to maintain its width. We | have not done a very great deal of work as yet but are making prepara- l tions to push development rapidly | and I think that ID the coure of six | months we will commence to sh D ore. The character of the ore body | the size of the vein and the inclina
 ton of the dip is almost exactly the 1 same as 10 the Congress. We have l taken out but little ore yet, but | some that we have extracted is ex- actly thes same in appearance as that from the Congress, which runs S250 to the ton in gold. We have ! not opened any very large ore chutes, but the Congress encounters some great ore bodies and there is every reason to expect that we will hare the same experience. | 1 do net propose to ship any ore | until wo have gone down at least | 1000 feet and drifted both ways sufficiently to demonstrate the value | of the ore body. If it turns out to | be what we expect. we will run a | tunnel in 1000 feet, which will tap the vein at a depth of about 1900 | feet, the surface of the mountain pitching at a depth of about 30 degrees from. the perpendicular. The Congress ore is of two grades, the first class running high and l going to the shelter, and the second l class treated in concentration mill. | We will probably have to adopt the same treatment. and have an ideal site for a mill. The railroad rans through our property and we can
 ocate our mill so that from the time we drop our ore into the bins until the finished product is dropped into the cars it will not be handled | at all. There will be an elevator in the mill. When ths mine is deyeI- oped, l intend to operate it through a system of tunnels, and from the calculations made, We will be able to produce an equal tonnage with the Congress which is now opera ting 425 men-with not more than half that force. We have recently installed gasoline engine of thirty horse power, which is doing remark ably good work. Our gasoline is delivered to us by the ear load for about If cents gallon, and the con sumption is about one gallon an hour. Nearly all the work down there is done by hand, but the sue cess of our engine will enable us to do the work at much less expense We are operating 8 steam com pressor and two steam drills and are getting very good results. am ID the business to get something to do, and am not developing the prop erty Tor sale, but for my own bene- Hk k n-