Arizona republican., 1899-12-22
Mines and Mininq
MINING NOTES.

George P. Harrington has completed
 his repairs to the Tiger mill and after
 remaining idle for the past three or four years it was recently started up again. The mill. as originally built, was equipped with pans and settlers for the treatment of silver ore, but MT. Harrington has changed it to a gold mill. It is in charge of John Jackson, one of the best mill men in the county. -Journal-AIine
 Since commencing operations on the Silver King mine the new owners have erected a new steam hoist and have sunk the new shaft to a depth of 100 feet. Several new buildings have been erected, including an engine and boil CT house, boarding house, bunk house, carpenter shop and blacksmith shop.
 Everything connected with the place is of a substantial nature and bears the | impression of a permanent mining camp. The company has encountered good ore in sinking the new shaft. A 1 force of eight miners is at work in the shaft.-Journal-M Miner.
 Frank Bartlett of the Silver Bell
 mines is in Tucson. MT. Bartlett is
 much interested in the proposed estab- lishment of a smelter at Tucson. He thinks that such an enterprise would prove to be a bonanza for the city and for the men who back the project finan- cially, says the Citizen, as there is no reason why a smelter in Tucson should
 not pay large dividends upon the in vestment. MT. Bartlett says that the
 Silver Bell smelter is not large enough to meet the demands upon it. It has two jackets, one thirty ton and one fifty ton and an additional fifty ton jacket is now on the ground and will soon be set up. The Silver Bell mines
 employ one hundred and twenty-five
 men and every day that they are work ed they become more valuable. The ore is rich in copper, silver and gold. None of the shafts have as yet been
 sunk more than one hundred and sev- enty feet.
 ! Dennis Burke of Prescott has receiv-
 ed a letter from John Murphy, who
 went to Peru some months ago on a
 mining enterprise. The following eX-
 cerpt published in the Prescott Courier , shows that the mines are all right but
 the country is most heartily condemned
 for it's climate, etc.: T have seen Ire
 land, England, Canada, United States.
 Central America and Mexico, and for
 misery of climate and vegetation, what
 I have seen of Peru is unexcelled. From
 Callao to Malliendo is three days trav-
 el on a steamship. Along the coast,
 and from the ocean to the continental divide of the Andes mountains, you cannot get timber enough to cook
 breakfast with. There is plenty of wa
 ter. l passed a lake on the divide, and
 peak overhangs this lake where the
 snow breaks away from it. The super intendent told me this peak was 23,0O0
 feet high and that it's capping of snow was POO feet more. Nothing can live there-only the llama and some hungry
 Indians. This mine is located on the line of Bolivia and Peru, and it is a
 rich one. The ore ranges from $40, 900
 to s200,0O0 per ton. Any piece of quartz you pick up is a network of gold. I
 hope to send you some specimens by
 the first person who goes from here to the states, and then you will see that
 my statements are correct. It is, how
 ever, a misery to live here, as the rainy
 season covers eight months in the year,
 and the mine is wet. We have to do
 our own washing. There is a tribe of
 Indians here who fight with the bow and arrow. They call them Choonchas.
 They are very similar to the Apaches,
 and will kill their white neighbors at
 the first opportunity. They live near
 here and we have to go armed to the
 teeth. The males and females both go
 completely nude. I am now acclimated
 for either South or Central America.
 This country is too wet for me. I , want to go to Venezuela"