Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-06-06

of Colorado to put the mines on pay
ing basis and this expenditure was kept
up for several years. Put the same
amount of money into Arizona and the
return will be Il surplus to the inves-
tors Arizona has more and richer
mining country than any other sec
ton of America and when cap't.d is
turned this way the output of gold
bullion viii surprise the world Mo
have cuunty's gold bearing zone is
more extensive than Cripple Creek and
will exceed it in production as soon as
the big cyanide plants are put in OPP
Grafton. Along the Colorado river are
veins of gold bearing ore that carry
profitable values and the lodges are
remarkable for their great extent
Many of the veins are over sixty feet
in width and cut through The county
for miles. In places there are great
bikes of porphyry that carry good mill
ing ores and the great veins of ban
ket" run through the mountain range
for fifty miles north of Nellen.- No
have Miner.
The Santa Fe Pacific railway COM
pany has made new departure that
will he of considerable interest and
profit to Arizona: more especially to
the mining interests of the territory
\ mining engineer has been added to
the information bureau and a compe-
tant man has been chosen. whose duty
il is to visit the various sections of
Arizona. locate and report mineral,
and thus assist in attracting capital as
well as to intelligently direct railroad
building This means good deal to
have n special mining engineer for
Arizona 1t is said the reason of this
appointment is because of the start
ling discoveries of large bodies of min
eral during the past year. The Santa
Fe desires to fill the field and. to do
so inteiligently it became necessary
to get into closer touch with mining.
c. p Harrington is working lG-tc a
force of men on the south extension
of the Tiger mine in the Bradshaw
mountains. He recently overhauled
the Tiger mill and put concenr .ar3rs in
it and is working the ore in this mill
He has recently made a very import
ant discovery in connection with the
working Of this extension. The ledge
contains Il sort of porphyritic rock
which on being assayed was found to
contain value of $3.50 per ton in
gold. II is all free milling. too and is
saved on the plates y large amount
of this rock was run through the mill
with splendid results During the
palmy days of the old Tiger mine the
property was worked for its silver ore.
exclusively y narrow body Of very
rich silver ore lay alongside this rock
described above. which was thought to
be valueless and only the high grade
silver ore was taken out and worked
in the mill Miners who worked in the
mine during the days it was turning
ont regular stream of silver bullion
state that there is a body of the above
rock in the Tiger mine nine feet wide.
When the mine is relieved of water
and timbered up ready to work, Mr..
Harrington thinks they Will have
small bonanza in this rock He is
taking the water out of the old Tiger
mine to run the mill. Mr.. Harrington
is also working force of men on the
Big Bell mine, with excellent results.
He says the prospects for the Brad
shaw country grows brighter and
brighter every day.
\ bar of gold weighing $50 ounces
was brought in a few days since from
William Buttons mill at Minnehaha.
The mill Will be shut down during
the absence of Mr. Button in the east.