Arizona republican., 1898-01-07
ON BIG BUG CREEK.


 ON BIG BUG CREEK.
 From Will G. Gilstrap's mention of the Big Bug district in the Journal Miner of late date the following is gleaned:
 A mile to the south of the Commer- cial is the Butternut mine. MT. Boggs is the principal owner of this property, and he considers it one of the best prospects in the country. He is now down eighty feet and has 150 tons of ere on the dump.
 Within 300 yards of the Boggs resi- dence, and up the steep declivity, lies the Henrietta mine and ten stamp mill, now silent through litigation. The mill is we'll built and in a good state of preservation, and the gen. eral belief is that the stamps will soon again be pounding out the golden treasure. At every turn of the road we read in1 the extracts from old earth the prospector's latest dream of riches.
 Along the creek we met a congen- 1al old miner rocking out golden flakes from the bed of a stream. He called his location the Klondyke, and told us to wait few moments and he would tell us how much his wealth had in- creased. He piled the gravel into the rocker, painful at a time and with an improvised bucket dipped water from the newly made trench poured 1t into the rockaway, the oscillation of the crude machine shaking the finer particles down into a screen be- LOW. me reserve was then placed in pan, -Aken to the stream, and by the process at which old miners are expert, the gravel was washed out of the pan, leaving on the bottom a neat saving of gold Drying it in the sun the gold was taken from the pan, plac- ed in the hand, and cautiously trans- ferred to his brass purse in the shape of a cartridge to keep company with more of it's kind.
 The Annie mine and mill are at the gateway of Big Bug town, with five -trh staiinps 1usIIy engaged crushing valuable ore constantly be- ing hoisted.
 R. w. Davis, Jr., is the new super 1ntendent of the Annie Thirty men are employed. The daily output of concentrates is now five tors. The main shaft is 341 feet deep, while l. OO0 feet is the extent of the drifts. s. J. Fleming of Prescott is president or the company, which is known as the Providence Gold Mining company. E. F. Fleming is the assayer and looks after other business for the proprie- tors.
 Back of the Annie, and above. to the north, lies the Belcher mine. out of which $85,000 worth of ore has been taken in the past, and is show ing still better forthcoming results in the work being done on it by the owners of the Annie.
 While our information does no. come from Superintendent Davis, it is true that chlorination plant is to be erected at once at the Annie, and will prove an important factor in the output of the mine.
 Below the Belcher is the Red Rock. owned by Little, Askew and Bliss. A hoist is being erected The mine is now down 200 feet. Seven men are employed in developing the property. Further north is the Hamilton, Belle ard Poland mines, owned by F. M Murphy. There is now 200 tons of ore at the surface, and the mines are considered among the best in that part of the district.
 The LOttie mine, a short distance above the town, has a ten stamp mill but is not operating at present. It vii start up in a short time, as ore is being packed by burros to the mill from the Postmaster for milling pur- poses. Thirty men are at work in the Postmaster mine. F. W. Ullery has some excellent mines near Big Bug. and is now negotiating a sale for one of them He has ore in sight worth S20O to2
 Big Bug is lively camp. The town is new and growing, new structures going up right along. The merchants have faith in the future of that sec tion and they are entitled to it. The country is full of prospectors and de- veloped mines make a fine showing.
 New Years eve was properly ob- served with a big dance in the school house. The music was furnished by George w. Meade, Dan Reams and