Arizona republican., 1898-03-05
PIMA COUNTY MINING.
Reference to Several Propositions and
 Others Will be Mentioned Later.

Others Will be Mentioned Later
 Tucson, March 2-(specia1 cor -es- l pondence of The Republican, )-Mr. l Charles Bent dates his operations in mining in this county as far back as l 1872. while Mr \. B. Sampson, his partner. has had nineteen years ex- i perfence in Pima county. In the Bab- Ocuivari they have claims where they built their own twenty stamp mill which was burned down. The South crn section Of this county has been their preference. They are interested in the Guijas mine sixty miles south of Tucson and they have sold seven claims known as the Grant group to i Toledo parties, who are possessed of considerable means 4 bond was giv- en and a deed is placed in es TOW. Frank A. Smith, vice president Of the l Guijas Mining company, is the pre- moter of the enterprise. Noah Bowlus i is president. The claims sold or bonded show an average Of S35 in gold per ton. Pockets have shown s1 800 to the ton. In four years 600 feet of work has been done on the claims. in- c1uding two tunnels. Early in June it is expected that the Guiias Mining company will have a ten stamp mill in operation. Tucson is the shipping point, s6 per ton being paid for the haul of sixty miles.
 About nine miles south Of Tucson is the Amole district, in the south end Of Tucson mountains, to which a stage runs daily out of Tucson, the Saginaw camp being the objective point where the Saginaw Mining company has twelve claims. This company has, so Captain Burgess states, done S93.OO0 i'll development work on these claims. They have sunk one shaft of 300 feet and eleven of 100 feet each. The levels are long and frequent cross cuts were made.
 The cost of developments, improve ments including four miles of four inch pipe to pump on the Santa Cruz, where plenty of water is secured, to date is estimated at S16S,000 At the Saginaw further Improvements will be made to include ten Huntington mills and twenty Wilfey tables, two fl ety ! ton reverberating furnaces, two eighty ton lead furnaces and an additional thirty-six inch water jacket: The contract for these additions was let February 24 and in forty-five days 1 shipments will be made from place or purchase. The addition Of this order will necessitate another eighteen inch pump and eight inch pipe carrying 1 : l 250000 gallons every twenty-four 1 hours. The Saginaw company was or i ganized a year ago. The present di- ] rectory is George H. Sisson, president ] ". B. Page, treasurer; NJ. F. Crow, i secretary, all of whom have their o lice i room at 943 Marquette building, Chi i cago John D. Burgess is general manager and Charles E. Thomas. su- peTintendent both with postoffice ad- dress at Tucson.
 Tn the Amole district besides the Saginaw, and owned by parties inter- ested in that company are the Trojan Miiing company with twelve claims, Uakoto Mining company with ten claims, Dewitt Mining company with ten claims, Gcld Mountain Mining i company with eight claims, and Arc tIeas Mining company with ten claims The plant for the Gold Noun 1 tain company is estimated at 200 1 : COG pound stamps. with battery sluice l and ana lgamating plates, and forty NilEev concentrations. It will cost $l85 01o to install this plant Capta n i Burgess E,s control Of all these plants the last five baing more or less devel- i oped. The captain has the manage ment of the Table Mountain copper i proposition, for the parties mentioned which is being developed and naehin- ! cry placed as fast as hauled in.
 4 telephone connection has been i Cponed with Tucson and the Amola i district is an important factor to the business interests of that city
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