The Arizona sentinel., 1899-12-02
Official Paper Of Yuma County
HAS PROVED ITS VALUE.

This mine has just entered on It's career as a producer. Although It was discovered three years ago and was then regarded as one of the bonanza strikes of the day, it has been a constant source of expense and trouble to it's owners up to within the past six months. Locat- ed in the foothills of the Saddle Horse mountains, fifty miles from living water, the King Of Arizona was robbed of some of its value in the eyes of those of the best mining men who visited the strike. They say that it would cost great deal of money to work the mine and, even though the ore ran as high as S3000 to the ton in spots, and the vein had an apparent width of forty feet, the strike was reduced to a questionable proposition before the investigation oflearned experts, and experienced mining men not were afraid of it.
 The King of Arizona fell into the hands of Col. Epes Randolph and NIr. Eugene s. Ives, and it is for tunate for the mine that it did so, for Col. Randolph is man trained to tackle just such a proposition as this mine presented. He applied to the problem of making the King of Arizona a profitable mine the sar2e skill which he has given to proDlems of much greater import ance in railroad building. The ore was thought to be free milling and five-stamp mill was erected at George Norton's ranch, thirty-fve miles away and water was brought in through the Mohawk canal for use in milling. It was found that the values in the tailings were al- most as great as those on the plates, The ore was producing but sixty per cent of it's value, and the long haul across the desert made the operation of the mine unproftable.
 For a year experts were sent out to the mine to make estimates of the value of the ore, and examine the nature of the formation with a view of obtaining water. It was decided by the company to begin drilling, and wall was sunk 1000 feet before water was obtained. Lifting the water that depth meant an expensive pumping plant, and a strain on the rods which does not make the operation of the pump at all certain. And now with 100- ton mill of the Cornish roller pro cess on the property the full value of the plant cannot be obtained owing to the frequent breaking of the rods which are under tremend- ous pressure. Sena,or Ives said that the present capacity of the plant was probably eighty tons a day, but he hopes soon, with an, other we'll, to supply water in emerg ency, the full capacity of the plant may be obtained.
 "Our mine," said Senator Ives to Republican reporter at the Adams yesterday, lis just begin ming to produce gold. We have camp of about 100 people, and l look to see several hundred here soon, for the discovery of water at our mine is going to open up the rich mineral country which sur rounds the King of Arizona. The development of the mine has been practically surface work, and we now propose to sink vertical shaft several hundred feet to penetrate the vein in its dip. This will give us a better idea of the fall value of the mine, but as it is we have enough ore to run our plant for years.
 "The ore is first crushed, then 1t passes through the rollers until 1t is ground as fine as flour. It then goes into the tanks, of which we have six each, with capacity each of 25O tons, where it is psrcolated by cyanide of potassium and the gold values released and allowed to go to the bottom of the tanks. After the ore matter has remained in this solution twelve days the gold has by this time been released By the percolation of the cyanide of potassium and the gold has settled