Arizona republican., 1899-05-29

hanks Morse & Co.,. Chicago, and MT.
 z I Fleming also of Chicago It was
 started three years ago last July anu
 1be shaft is down 400 feet, levels belnS
 run at each 100 feet cn the ledge north
 east and southwest The total amount
 of development work is some 5,OOO feet
 at a cost including the mine buildings
 and plant, of s125,000 to $15O,OOO.
 The mine is equipped with ten-
 stamp mill and forty horse power
 hoist connected with an eighty morse
 mower boiler-the excess Of boiler
 mower being intended for an air com
 pressor.
 They have been working from twen-
 ty-fve to forty men but the mine is
 shut down for the present pending the
 decision of a contest regarding title of
 one of the claims. A start, it is ex-
 pected. will again be made in July
 next
 The ledge is a paralle, vein to Red
 Rock and the ore is similar in char acter. The concentrates, when the
 mine was at work, amounted to about ten tons per day and were shipped to El Paso At this mine, however, they plate as well as concentrate.
 The Red Jacket mine is owned hy the same parties but is an independent undertaking It is only just in course Of development, the shaft being down 140 feet with level on four-foot ore 100 feet on each side. The ledge is almost at right angles to the PrCFl- dence vein
 At Red Jacket with the present trifing extent of development they are raising from fifty to sixty thousand gallons of water every tWenty-four hours. while at the Providence with t-y1x c water to speak of This in view of the
 mines belonging to the same owners, is a not undesirable state of things, as the water in excess at Red Jacket can be used to great advantage in milling operations at the Providence.
 Tn addition to the properties men tioned Messrs. Morse and Fleming own ten claims in compact body adjoining the Providence and Red Jacket, These claims are held under the title or the United States Treasury Gold cOnl- pany." Two tunnels have been com 1nenced on the claims and enc of them is in 800 feet with 800 feet of ground above it. The other is in 1000 fee, and will have over l, 300 feet of ground above it. Both tunnels are in ore and so far as can be determined from pres ent developments these tunnels, both being on the same ledge, will open up vast body of mineral; and from the trend of the different veins in this sec tion of the Big Bug district they are all rapidly converging to a central point somewhere in this Treasury property. The expectation, therefore. if nothing unforeseen occurs. is to cut all these veins at their union.
 The Oriental Mining company Gan eastern corporation) owns five claims IL 41. yet in course of development. The shaft on this company's Lottie mine is sunk TO depth of 480 feet, nearly all the way Tn the ledge which is from twelve to twenty feet in width. This is a gold proposition but the values are carried in the copper. Having sunk the shaft to the depth stated the flow of water (135,000 gallons per day) be- came more than could be dealt with with the existing appliances. It was then resolved to tunnel from Wood guIch into the Lottie shaft-a distance of no less than 5000 feet, and this tun- nel driven on the vein is now in 1600 feet. Seventy-five thousand gallons of water in the twenty-four hours is the present flow in the tunnel, and 1t would seem that the owners of the Lottie will not only have more than sufficient water for their own pur- poses but will have a considerable sur plus to dispose of to their neighbors
 EXperim mental tests of the ore have | been made at the ten-stamp mill erect ed at the mine and its treatment has l practically been decided upon. It con- | centrates at about nine to one and will | be worked by Wilfiey concentrators. | This property was taken hold of about | three years ago, the tunnel being | c,fn fod I1r4 ,rsI r w. A. Kent are the superintendeuts.
 The Sterling mine is the property of ] the Sterling Mining and Milling com I pany. MT. w. s. Taft is the manager | The shaft, comm in June, 1858. ! is seventy feet deep and a level has | been run onNthe vein in a continuous [ body of ore for upwards Of 400 feet. The ledge varies from four inches to ! four feet and is high grade copper car rying gold and silver. It is free mill | ing up to the present but like the other | ores of the district becomes a sulphide | with depth, or below water level.
 So far It is a smelling proposition | and the ores taken out in developing the miLe have been shipped to Silve, | City, ". M.
 The mine is equipped with a thirty five horse power boiler, and about if teen C. sixteen men are employed Mir 1 Taft has been in the Big Bug district for twenty years and was the original locator of the Lottie claims. He is of the opinion tLat depth is what is re- quired and that the greater the depth the richer will be the ores. and the opinion of such a thorough "stayer" as MT. Taft has proved him self to be is entitled to respect.
 About one and a half miles nearly due west of the Red Jacket is the Bell and Poland mine in which MT. F. M. Murphy, the president of the s. F.. & P. railroad, is interested One tuu nel of continuous length of 5000 feet has been driven and altogether some $500 feet Of development work las been done at cost of some S8O,00O This mine is all ready to become a pro ducer and it is the opinion in the 1is-