Arizona republican., 1898-01-18
SOUTHWESTERN MINING.

SOITsHWE MINING.
 Several Good Producing Properties
 Being Developed.
 The Yuma Sun of recent issue gives the following:
 Among the many locations made in the vicinity of La Fortuna few have the amount of development work done or show up so well as the Robert E. Lee and Phil Sheridan claims. owned by Henry Blume of Yuma and a MT. Johnson of Tucson, the latter having recently purchased an interest in the properties at good figure. There are two distinct. lodges on the claims. One is of rose colored quartz and the other is an exceedingly prominent black ledge strongly impregnated with iron. On the Sheridan, which claim is so close to La Fortuna mine that one cor ner almost runs into the company's tailing pond, four shafts have been sunk, varying in depth from eighteen to thirty-eight feet. The ore body dis played by the working is evidently in place and is about six feet in width. It cuts the mountain, dipping to the southwest, across the entire claim, and may be seen for long distance. As says of the rock, from samples repre- senting about the average value, vary from $20 to $46 per ton. MT. Blume has a1other claim, the Ophir, about a mile from the Lee and Sheridan, which it is said shows up exceedingly we'll
 Giles Otis Pearce, -mineralogist and meaallurgist of the Rio Colorado the Free Gold group in Chocolate his attorney, H. C. Davis, to recover $22, 800 damages for the alleged fraud ulent, illegal and wrongful sale by the directors of large block of the treas ury stock of said company, in viola ton of the contraht. under which the stock was donated.
 Another rich deposit has been un- covered at the King of Arizona, but such things are of the ordinary as long as development continues on that property and occasions but little ex- cftement there Near the main work ing shaft and on the surface a twelve inch vein was found, some of the ore from which runs S20O per ton, and the poorest of the same gives $1OO per ton. Sinking and stoping continues without any change in the quality of the ore, the entire workings still being in ore without any sign of either foot or hanging wall. Five tons of ore con- stitute the daily mill run, and will so continue until water supply is had, failing in striking which at the mine other arrangements will be made, not as yet claiming the company's atten- tion. In the meantime the mine will have been put in a condition to be op- erated with a large force of men, while a fortune in ore will have accumulated on the dump. Boring for water con- tinues, but a depth has not been reached yet where a supply was antici- pated; sinking will be continued to a depth of fifteen hundred feet unless water in sufficient quantity is en- countered earlier. Twelve hundred tons of tailings which will yield S16 per ton are to be treated, and a cya- hide plant has been erected for that purpose which will be put in operation probably within the next ten days.
 Development on the Free Gold group of mines in the Chocolate mountains is is being energetically pushed by the Rio Colorado Gold Extraction com pany. Sinking on the main working shaft is going rapidly forward and a good body of high grade ore. which is for the greater part base, is being developed. T. D. Mcleod, from whom the claims were purchased, is super intendenlt, and under his direc ion the property will doubtless be properly handled. N. B. Flames. president of the company operating the mines, ac- companied by his son, was there last week to witness the starting of the mill which occurred during that time The bins are full of ore and the mill will run steadily henceforth At pres ent it is working highly satisfactory
 The lead and silver claims at Gas tie Dome, of which the Lola is the principal mine. owned by Gandolfo & Sanguinetti, are producing large quantities of high grade ore, averag- ing in the neighborhood of 75 per cent lead and thirty ounces of silver per ton. At present almost one thousand sacks, or about eighty-five or ninety tons of this ore is on the road to the smelters, four hundred and fifty sacks being at Gila City and over four hun, dred going by steamer. The output of these mines will be greatly ipcreas- ed in the near future, as the property is just recovering from the i'll effects of the mismanagement of the com pany that bonded and worked it fol some time and finally relinquished it The waste with which the tunnels an( drifts were permitted to fill has beer cleaned out, several cave-ins occas toned by lack of timbering have beer rectified, and altogether the mine ii now in almost perfect condition. Abou thirty-five men are at present. em ployed, which number will be increas ed to fifty inside of thirty days. Si1 engineers are now running the threl large engines that furnish power t, pump the water out.