Arizona republican., 1899-03-07
THE BRADSHAWS.
Lieutenant Hill Returns From the Mountain Chief and Other Mines
 Suffering From Drouth.

Lieutenant w F. Hill lately returned
 from trip to the Mounted Chief mine in which he is interested. The prop erty lies twelve miles south of the l Crown King in the Bradshaws and is
 on the opposite side of the range
 A four stamp mill was erected last | August, it's capacity being twelve tons.
 There are two batteries there. each
 with two stamps and the arrangement
 of the batteries with the stamps en-
 ables them to do the same amount of
 work as an ordinary five stamp mill.
 The increased discharge at both ends
 O. the batteries represent a saving of
 twenty-five per cent of the power over
 the usual five stamp mill, but there is
 no saving in the plant. MT. Hill said
 that the snow had evaDorated and the l country was very dry. that condition
 being the one great draw back. The Humbug creek, about three-CuarterS of
 mile off. when not dry. furnishes the supply of water, but at other times,
 the supply is drawn from a well in the creek. On such occasions the mine can
 be operated only about thirty hours in a week.
 The work, like most of the other mines in that section is on the surface. Operations are now at the end of APO  main shaft and the ore, forty per cent of which is free milling, runs on an average over twenty dollars, gold ex- clusively. There are a few traces of copper but an assay proves the amount to be merely nominal The third level 275 feet deep has been sunk in to some extent from the side of the mountain, but it will require over 500 feet of tunneling to gain a position under the present diggings, and operations have been suspended for a time. The total amount of work done so far represents probably 1900 feet and a large quan- tity of ore has been blocked out, but no approximate estimate of it's ton mage can be made until the third drift is extended and the main shaft sunk to meet it.
 Speaking of his trip MT Hill, said: Numerous stamp mills are being erected throughout that country and also, as I noticed on my return, the Castle Creek district. The places are assuming state of general activity, but the one difficulty generally, is the lack of water. How ever, there is usually some way of get ting water if the claims are satisfac- | tory, and the nature of the properties will almost always justify large eX- penditures for the purpose.
 There is another disadvantage | which will be overcome eventually, | and it results from the fact that the | mines on the south side of the Brad | shaws are tributary to Phoenix and ! they do not receive as much encourage | ment as those tributary to Prescott, | where mining is practically the only | source of revenue. That is of course | natural at present, but before long l many active camps will be established, | Those immense undeveloped and rich regions will not always remain idle, and now that mining has been, or is fast becoming reduced to a legitimate business and almost an exact science, eastern capitalists are not slow to in vest their money, but as it happens, mining developments must pursue their natural course, requiring long time to be placed on a paying basis. and their benefit to the territory is not felt"