Arizona republican., 1899-01-30

Kenneday, is one of Big Bugs we'll known properties. The mill is now actively engaged in mining Red Jacket ore.
 The main shaft of the Annie is down 3S1 feet and ore is taken from three levels. The company is making prep arations for putting in a concentrat- ing plant. They now have 1000 tons of concentrates on the dump
 I should feel I had missed the best news of all if I failed to mention the Sterling mine. This is certainly the finest outlook for a mine in the dis ! trict.
 The Sterling is owned by M. s. Taft and Col. G. w. Dunn of BinghamtOn, New York MT. Taft is a pioneer min CT of this section The Lottie mine was first located by him in 1879. The Sterling was located in 1881 by Betz & Stephens It lies to the south and east of the Oriental Mining company's group. Mr Taft bought ont the loca- tors in 1892 and associated Col. Dunn with him in the development of the Sterling and the Binghampton, and added property.
 The main shaft is down 89 feet. At present ore is being taken from the sixty-foot level, 115 feet north and PAS feet south At this depth no other mine in the Big Bug has produced as high grade shipping ore. A carload of ore was shipped last week and three more carloads are on the dump wait ing improved condition of the roads for hauling The company intends putting in the best hoist to be had in i the market and will sink a 500-foot shaft on the north end of the claim.
 The ore now being taken out will average $50 to the ton and the pay streak averages 12 inches. J. J. Brooks, a man of broad experience and thorough knowledge of mining has charge of the property, which Of itself is a guarantee that it will be wisely and profitably handled.
 MT. Brooks has two valuable prop critics joining the Sterling. They are the Mark Smith and Mary Anne. These he considers of equal value with the Sterling and assures me we will hear good report of them in short time.
 As to the Sterling, MT. Taft is not an over jealous enthusiast. The wis dom of years, accumulated in this sec ton, qualities him to judge accurately of the value and probable output of mine and his estimate of the Sterling can be taken as correct.
 
 the owners but the entire mining pop ulation of Big Bug as well, are the Po- land and Belle.
 These mines. in which MT. Frank M. Murphy. president of the s. F., P. & P. and others are interested, are two of the most valuable, properties in the district. It is generally believed that the building of the Prescott & Eastern f by the S. F. F. & P. through this sec tion will result not only in active de- velopment of these properties. but also in the construction >Cf a branch line tO , the Poland mine.
 A half mile south of Huron on the F. & D. is a side-track and a station marked Poland. From this station it is presumed the branch line will start and wind it's way along the northern mountain slopes up to the Murphy mines. The construction of this line is a consummatiOn devoutly wished for by the people and the mining men of Big Bug, the result of which would at : once make it one Of the most four ishing camps in the territory There is only one other thing necessary to make the joy of the Big Bugger com plete, and that is the erection of a shelter Among the prominent min ing men I interviewed on this subject were the Messrs. Kent of the Oriental company, W. s. Taft of the Sterling, Gales & Kenneday of the Annie and Freyda & Ragere, who also own val uable claims about the country. MT. w. A. Kent stated that the class of ores abounding here are admirably suited for smelting, as the fluX from the product of one mine can be used in smelling the ore from another. MT. Kenneday assured me that smelter wOuld have all the business it could handle in the Big Bug and would be a grand thing for the district. MT Taft said that the cry of Big Bug is for a smelter. He said MT. Haggett of the Lombard Goode Smelling com pany at Williams was recently through this section and pronounced it mag nificent field for a smelter. He exam ined the old Commercial company Smelter, that was shut down some years ago, and stated that for S250 the smelter could b9 pit in first-clas5 shape for the handling of the ores in the dis trict I consider Big Bug has ahead of it a prosperous future. The whole country is one vast bed of ore ranging from low to high grade. all of which can now be successfully treated, thanks to shipping facilities. and which is bound to be unearthed by the thousands of tons, should smelt- CT be erected. Already there is a big increase in the output and the business of the railroad is rapidly improving 1n consequence.
 I hear encouraging reports from dis tant properties. Over at Copper noun tain beyond Mayer, I. T. Stoddard has begun work again M. s. Taft, who has just returned from there says the new development is on the cross cIIt in the lower tunnel Every expert