Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1898-09-07
Mining Intelligence.

Mining shafts are and have been since their first use, objects of more
 or less speculation and wonder not
 unmixed with awe. The frightful
 disasters that they have witnessed
 the swallowing up of human beings
 by thousands going down into the
 very heart of the earth never to re- turn has thrown a peculiar senti- ment around them. The depth of a shaft is not always its most remark able feature as many other things operate to make 1t interesting. There has just been completed, however, a shaft in the Hecla mine, Montana which is the greatest work of its kind in the entire world. It IS 4,9OO feet deep, a distance that one can scarcely appreciate without deep study and comparison. It is made up of compartments of which there are six. Four of them are used for the ordinary hoisting work; cne IS devoted to pipes and wires for the compressed air. the water and lights. There are enormous pumps which clear the mine of water power drills and other apparatus, operated by electricity and com pressed air. It is not very far from awe inspiring to stand at the mouth of this great shaft and realize that It penetrstes almost 5000 feet into the very vitals of this earth.-New York Ledger.
 F. c. White, superintendent of the Ardsth Gold Mining Company, IS engaged in putting up mill on that company's property, about nine miles from Wicken burg. A company from Denver is also engaged in put ting up a mill about twelve miles from the above town, and the mining interests in the Black Rock district are having quite a boom. Wieken- burg is receiving proportionate bene- fits from the mining activity there, and the town is building up quite lively.
 A fine large new hoist for the Nc Cabe p'Ie arrived at the Prescott depot yes .erday, and will be shipped to the m le at the earliest opportu- nity l. Ess purchased through the machinery department of Sam Hills big mercantile establishment, and is one of the largest, if not the largest, hoist ever shipped to Prescott It has a double drum for use in a double compartment shaft, and has the capacity for hoisting from 6 depth of 2,000 feet. It weighs B. GOO pounds, or eleven and a half tons.
 W. c. Davis was interviewed re gently Tn Phenix in regard to the Vulture mlne, in which he is quoted as saying: We are now vertically about 250 feet deep and on the in cline about 575 feet. We are going on down and find that as we go deeper the ore body increases in promise and richness. We are doing practically nothing more nor less than development work. Opening up mine like the Vultnre is a much larger undertaking than the average man likes to engage in. Many per sons having sufficient capital prefer investing it in a different manner. Although the Vulture has always been rated as a dry mine, we have been fortunate in discovering a sup ply of water which increases in vol tune as the mine goes deeper. We need that water on the surface in our mill and cyanide plant, and will utilize it in that manner. There is some danger that it is merely seep> age water, and may diminish as the water level supplying it is lowered. We are taking careful note of its volume and will be able to accu- rately determine this question be- fore long. The Wickenburg district is coming 10 the front very rapidly. Some good properties are being opened up, and the town of Wicken- burg promises to be in few years an important little place. Even now a complete general merchandise es- where a miner can buy anything he wants, is needed there, and would be a profitable invest ment."