Arizona republican., 1899-06-04
Richest Strike in the History of
 Territory.
GOOD FUTURE FOR THIS MINE
The SuIphide Ores Which Have Been Worked Almost From the Grass Roots Down 10 inc Present Depth Now Changing 10 Very Rich Free Ores All Along inc Line.

Crown King, Ariz.. June Especial correspondence of The Republican. J.
 The postoffice of Crown King is about
 fourteen miles in an air line southwest
 Of Mayer, but by road it is a good
 twentyfour. This read has to be seen
 and ridden over to be appreciated and
 -romembered. The eternal hills
 spoken Of by the psalmist assume .
 new signification, the route being an
 eternal succession of hills or rather
 mountains, between ard around which
 the road winds in serpentine courses.
 It is in spots about as rocky a road to
 travel as any tender-ooned mortal
 could wish to avoid, and is uphill
 both ways, but any physical discom-
 fort is more than made up for by the
 magnificent views this mountainous
 region presents. I don't like the
 words magnificent splendid
 peerless etc, and carefully avoid their use, but in some cases there is
 no alternative, and this is one of them
 There is far finer mountain scenery in this section of the territory than can be found in many European re-
 gions of worldwide celebrity which Americans whci don't know very much about their own country travel many thousands Of miles to see; and if it were not that I am out strictly for business and trying to write more or less pure Anglo-Saxon in words of as far as may be one and two syllables I should be tempted to try bit of word painting, but not even the artists brush, let alone the inferior medium of the pen, could do anything like jus tice to the rugged grandeur, the bold contours and marvellous scenic effects of these mountain ranges reposing in silent and solitary majesty under a brilliant and cloudless Arizona sky.
 The road cut along the mountain side by which the abrupt descent of some fifteen hundred feet is made into the valley where is situated the Crown King postofice, the company's mill, store and boarding house, is a fine piece of work and must have cost a pile of money. The mine itself is passed higher up in the valley about a mile before the mill is reached and it is at present partly shut down in consequence of the extensive repairs and renovatiCns, including the of the shaft, now in prog ress, it strikes one, on first sight, as we'll and substantially equipped plant.
 The shaft, which is down $50 feet, has a sixty horse power hoist with eighty horse power boilers. Between Is, 900 and 14,O00 feet of development work has been done on the levels and here is over 1000 feet of cover on some ot the workings A new air plant is in course of cree ion for drills and power for other purposes. Preparations are being made to deepen the shaft with an un- 1erground hc6st of thirty horse power.
 The mill, as before stated, is about l mile south of the mine and contains | battery of ten stamps and eight six cot Frue yanners. They plate as well IS concentrate at the Crowned King md for reasons which will presently ,e given the concentrating values ara decreasing.
 The sulphides come in almost at grass roots and have continued down 0 the present depth of the workings, ut somewhat strange to relate, these uiphides are now being replaced all long the line by free ores, and some If the specimens of these free ores which MT. Paul Johns, the courteous md able superintendent of the Crowned King, was good enough to how me, were enough to incite one thou shalt net covet,' etc, being ab- oiutely the richest samples of ore hat in an extensive and varied min ng experience I have ever seen. This 5 another argument for the depth, epth, and again, depth" which is be- len.
 The mill, which has been entirely LlSuilt and is practically new, was erected some twenty-three ears ago and was then a silver mill, cling put in to work the ores from the Id Gretna mine. It was freighted cross the desert from Ehrenberg on le Colorado river. A road had to be lilt to get it in, and the, total cost is id to have been not less than D ,nts per pound.
 The cost of freighting is still one of le drawbacks to this district, but ings are getting better. The rate to