Arizona republican., 1898-01-26
A SUITABLE PROSPECT.

A SUITABLE PROSPECT.
 J. H. Costello Found Just the Kind of
 Mine He Wanted in Arizona.
 J. H. Costello of Buffalo, N. Y, is stopping at the Brown Palace hotel. MT. Costello was formerly in the tan neIy business and operated the lsrg- est sole leather establishment in the United States, says the Denver Re publican When the factory went in to the hands of the trust MT. CoSx6I 10 turned his attenlion to mining, VAd spent several years in looking over the field before settling down in Ari- zona. q have had hundreds of op stocks said he yesterday, "all of which I have religious,y declined. I made up my mind from the start that I would engage in the business on business principles alone, and if I bought a mine would buy it just as I would buy a shoe store or tannery. Before I decided to engage in mining I looked over the entire field in. the east and concluded that taking all things into consideration mining is the safest business offered to the American public at the present time, and that when the same care is exer- cised as in other lines of business the returns on the investment are much larger than in the ordinary channels of trade. I have traveled through all the mining districts of the Uni;ed States, and in Mexico, in the effort to find just the property to suit me, and incidental to my investiga ions 1 naturally learned a good deal ah5nt mining
 I have now secured mine in 4Ari- zona which seems to fill 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 turn ing out large quantity of ore. I have located six full claims and a few fractions along the ledge, the entire distance being about two mtfEs. ire vein is about six feet wide, and is one Of the most remarkable for its regu- larity that I have ever seen It is not pinched in at all in any place that has been opened. The ore is like most sulphides somewhat ir- regular in value, but the vein is al- ways to be relied upon to maintain it's width.
 We have not done a very great deal Of work as yet but are making prep arations to push development rapidly and I think that in the course of six months we will commence to ship ore. The character of the ore body. the size of the vein and the inclination of the dip is almost exactly the same as in the Congress. We have taken out but little ore yet, but some that we have extracted is exactly the same in appearance as that from the Con- greSs, which runs $250 to the ton in gold. We have not opened any very large ore chutes, but the Congress en- counters some great ore bodies and there is every reasqD to expect that we will have the same experience.
 I do not propose to ship any ore until we have gone down at least 1000 feet, and drifted both ways .suf- ficiently to demonstrate the value of the ore body. If it turns out to be what we expect we will run a tunrel in 1,G00 feet, which will tap the vein at the depth of about 1900 feet, the surface of the mountain pitching at a depth of about 30 degrees from the perpendicular
 STdQGS the first class running hi gin and going to the smelter. and the second class treated in a concentration mill. We will probably have to adopt the same treatment, and have an ideal site fol a mill. The railroad runs through oul property and we can locate our mil so that from the time we drop oul ore into the bins until the finished product is dropped into the cars i will not be handled at all. There will not be an elevator in the mill When the mine is developed I in. tend to operate it through a system of tunnels, and from the calculation! made we will be able to produce al equal tonnage with the Congress which is now operating 425 men, witt more than half the force
 "We have recently ins aMed a gsso line engine of thirty horse power which is doing remarkably good work Our gasoline is delivered to us by tn, carload for about 14 cents a gallon and the consumption is about on gallon sn hour. Nearly all the worl down there is done by hand, but tn success of our engine will enable u to do the work at much less expens We are operating a small compresso and two steam drills and are gettin very good results.
 3I am in the business to get some thing to do, and am not developin the property for sale, but for my ow benefit. I have an ambition to ope up a great mine, and I think I hay the property with which it can b done.''
 ORTIZ MINE UNEMPLOYMENT.
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