Arizona republican., 1899-05-29
Other WOTd From the HuStliDS
 Big Bug District.
RED ROCK AND OTHER MINES
Descriptions of the Sfaqe of DeVel- Opment Of riany Other Proper- lies With More or Less Com- pIeie EG aiDmenfS of MaohinerY. Prospecting for New Claims Co., ing Forward.

Mayer, AriZ., May 27.-(Special cor
 respondence Of The Republican, )-- About five miles from Mayer Cthe
 terminus of the Prescott & Eastern
 railroad) up the Big Bug creek which
 empties itself into the Agua Fria about
 fourteen miles below Mayer is the en-
 trance to the Big Bug gulch. Being
 too narrow for valley and too broad
 for a canyon. "gulch' is a happy com
 rect designation the scene that pre-
 sents itself on descending the divide
 about mile west of Huron is emi-
 nently picturesque. Nestling at the
 feet of the lofty mountains which form
 the precipitous sides of the gulch Is
 first the little settlement surrounding
 the Big Bug postoffice and three miles
 beyond is another cluster of habita-
 tions known as Providence At the
 foot Of the divide the Henrietta mine,
 on the right, is first encountered. Two
 miles beyond a steep ascent to the left
 leads 10 the tunnel of the Oriental
 Mining company, above which tine Sterling mine stands boldly out. Com ing back to the main gulch the Provi- dence mine puts in it's appearance on the right and the Red Jacket on the left, while just beyond, we'll up on the mountain side, is the Red Rock to the right, and the Lottie to the left hand side of the creek which meanders along the bottom of the valley.
 At the Red Rock mine, which be- longs to California owners, between
 fifty and sixty men are employed. The manager is MT. W. T. Little, well and favorably known in mining circles, and Bruce Evans is foreman. The mine dates from thirty years back, $1S,000 having been taken from the claims sixties and traces of the work then done are visible in the shape of upward of dozen shallow openings not ex- ceediDg forty to fifty feet in depth.
 The present Red Rock mine is, how ever, the result of some eighteen months work, which includes a slight set back given by a disastrous fire which occurred cnly four hours after the mine in it's present shape had been got into running order and only the mill and the concentrating tables be- ing saved from the conflagration. It is worthy of record that this fire occur. ring on Friday, the 4th of March last, Mir Little on the 5th paid off the man. went to San Francisco and on the fo.- lowing Tuesday had the new plant on ears and shipped out, and on the 27th of that month-twenty-two days after the fre-the new buildings were up and the mine running again As a rapid and energetic achievement this Is hard to beat.
 The Red Rock shaft is S60 feet in lepth and 600 feet of development work has been done on each of three evels. The ledges-there are two of hem-are continuous and average rom ten inches to four feet On one # the levels there is a shoot of 400 'eet that averages twenty-six inches, md there is every indication that in he Belcher ledge large bodies of orc Ire bound to exist
 The ores are suiphide, an average lnalysis of the concentrates being: 43 per cent; iron, 42 per cent: he balance in copper, gold and silver. The concentrates are particularly clean nd contain only about 214 per cent Of iIca, and it is scarcely necessary to tate that this is about as fine smelt- ng proposition as can be desired.
 The mine is equipped with a fifty orse power steam hoist, two Tremain team stamps with a capacity of forty ons per day, a Gates crusher, capacity en tons per hour, and tank wate- forage for upwards of 40, 900 gallons.
 The concentrates are shipped to Sil- CT City, N. M. Thirty-five to forty cns of ore are put through the mill ach day, making between eight and inc tons of concentrates. A carload f the latter is dispatched every three avs.
 All the new and important work at ais mine has been done under Mir. titles supervision and as it now .ands it is about as we'll devised and i all respects as efficient a plant as ot only the territory but any mining istrict in the geld producing states m show.
 The Providence mine, before referred ), is owned by MT. Morse of Fair