Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-12-26
MINES
 AND
 MINING.
GROOM CREEK.
A Man Who Is On the Ground Writes
 of the Progress Made the Present Year.

Present Year.
 1 Groom Creek, December 1S.-(Edi- tor al-Miner. )-I will, with your kind permission, and through your paper, state what has been done in the way of mining on Groom creek in 1900, for the interest of the miner, for the interest of the business men of Prescott; also for the information of the capitalist. A year ago there were not over a half. dozen men working on the creek. Today there are over 100 men working. Three years ago the old prospectors would say: "Groom Creek district, seven miles from Prescott, dug out; and the ore would not go down. Yes; some lodges had been dug all along on top for 1900 feet, and if they got down 40 feet they thought they were next to the jumping off place. But now there is a different class of mining men coming in.
 One of the first men to take hold in !. this part was Dr. Hendryx, of the Elm pire mine on the south fork of Groom creek, going quietly along till he got to depth of 300 feet, then running his levels till he was satisfied he had |. mine and would be safe in putting up his ten-stamp mill and cyanide 1 vats. Commencing in March, 1900, | in June his mill was running. In the near future they are going to sink a 1 double compartment shaft and put on | new hoist, so they can go down 1000 | feet, as the greater the depth the wider grows the ledge. At the 300- | foot level it is six feet wide, and ex- perienced miners say it is very rich.
 Coming down from the Empire mine and going up the main branch of Groom creek, the first is the Monte | Christo mine, and well it justifies it's name. It is now bonded to G. w. Sturtevant, who also has the Cash mine in Maple gulch. He has his new hoist up and running. They are down eighty-fve feet and sinking a perpendicular shaft. They are going to sink to a depth . of 400 feet. They will also build mill in the spring. This mine was bonded about five months ago. They have got very rich ore in the tunnel. MT. Slack has returns from ore taken out when he was leasing this mine that goes five ounces in gold and 1lS ounces in silver per ton.
 On the south between this mine and the Empire is Joe Hobbs mine, down 50 feet and in ore. All this mine needs is little money and depth to make 1t a paying property.
 Above this mine a short distance on the middle fork of Groom creek is the Gold Basis Co. with five stamp mill built a year and a half ago. This company owns four claims joining those of J. k. Slack and sons prop erty. The Gold Basis mines and mill and the Messrs Stacks property, ten claims, are now bonded to the BritOn Gold company, c. H. Warth, presi- dent. There will be two hoists erect ed; one on the Little Giant and the other farther up the gulch. Almost a year ago Mir. Slack located an abandoned claim calling it the Lit tie Giant. A month after he had the mill leased and after sinking the shaft down 100 feet the ore they took out more than paid for the shaft and left him nice little bank account. Now they are getting in shape to see what they have. 1 think this is going to be one of the biggest and richest proper ties on the creek.
 Joining the Briton group of gold claims and running parallel with the south extension of the Home Run group of mines is Laird's and Bob Brow's group of mines, eight in all, located in the west base of Spruce mountain, with plenty of fine timber and very easy to develop plenty of water. This is quite an item. Wood and water, with enough done to show that we have some big mines in here and with a good company that they expect to get in the near future there will be one more producer for Groom creek.
 Across the hill on the main branch of Groom creek is the Home Run group of mines owned by Dan Moni- han. He bonded that group of mines some five or six months ago, sinking shaft 40 feet and then commenced drifting at 130 feet and now is in very rich ore in bothnc-..h a,ll south drifts. Mr. MOnihan is man that thoroughly understands mining and is well satis- fled with the out look.
 Above him We come to the Mid night Test mine operated by A. J. Pickerell. It is near the Lynx creek divide. This mine seems to be more of silver mine as some of the rock goes as high as 500 ounces in silver and will mill S6O on an average. This is also a mine that the old timers had dug out. Mir. Pickerel commenced last spring and cleaned the old rotten timbers out Ond retimbered the old shaft and at the present writing he has two large teams hauling ore to his mill. So this is the difference be- tween the old and the new way of mining.
 There are two other parties bond ing, besides other small parties de- veloping, that would like to write about, but not wishing to take up too much of your paper will have to wait till next time, and, if you wish, from time to lime I will give you all the items l can of the progress going on in Groom creek district.
 In trying to give you a rough out line of what has been done on Groom creek for 1906, l might add that I was once a rough rider, and am also rough writer. I'LL. , ] Hon. Charles R. Drake, who held an option on the Picacho gold mines for SlOO,0O0 has sold his option to Senator Stephen A. Dorsey for S125,- | GOO, thus cleaning up S25.00O in the deal. The claims are the Mars. Venus, San George and Goshen, all gold ore quartz veins, and are not far from Yuma on the Colorado river in the famous Picacho gold district. The company will erect a 1000 ton ton cyanide plant and mill at the