Arizona republican., 1901-03-22

ciuus Hetdi m the two pieces. ana the
 were the result of clean-up he ha
 just made at his mill. He had ru
 through 60 tons of ore from the Mo
 hawk mine and got the 60 ounces O
 gold, valued at $l,000. The Mohawk i
 valuable mine and Mr. Roach is re
 gretting very much that he ever bond
 ed the property to others, for he see.
 visions of the mine getting away iron
 him and enriching others, as it ha
 been doing himself and partners. Th
 scarcity of water for the last three
 years caused Mir. Roach to give an op
 ton on the group. He had not suffi-
 cient water to run his mill and could
 do nothing with the ore for it was not
 rich enough to pay for shipping. With
 plenty of water the ore pays an i'm.
 mense profit. The heavy rains an6
 snows this spring have filled the noun.
 talns with the precious fluid till every
 one has all the water he may need for
 inning purposes. The Roach proper l ty consists of several developed mines.
 known as the Mohawk group. They
 are situated about 30 miles south of
 Prescott in one of the best gold dis
 tricts in Arizona. Tunnels and shafts
 nave been driven and sunk into the ] property in various places, carrying | from Sl6 to $50 to the ton, a first class | proposition for any company to take | hold of. The option was let to Eugene Greenwood, mining man of consider able experience, who knows a good thing when he sees it. By the terms Of the agreement Greenwood was to be allowed to do all the development in the mine he cared to do, and the own CTS were to go ahead with their mining
 and milling as though there was no op-
 ton out on the property. The price to
 be paid by Greenwood Is $40, ,000, and
 the time will be up in about year.
 Greenwood has sunk on the shaft until
 he is satisfied the mine is all that he
 expected it to be, and, if anything, a
 great deal better. Now that there is an abundance of water, Messrs. Tom
 and James Roach and the third part
 ner, Fred Ashman are taking out ore
 and running the mill for all there is in sight. They count on cleaning up an
 other s40,0O0 with their mill between
 now and the time the option is closed, which it assure to be- Tom Roach Is a respected citizen, and has served two terms as supervisor of Yavapai county.
 After the team had eaten al the barley and hay it wanted, and we had all plrtaken cf an excellent dinner, We drove on towards the Crown King, and then on up the grade to the Lin coin property. The camp was reached all right and supper partaken of, In the morning Mir. George began to pre- pare for the starting up of the camp in great shape. The first thing to do was to take a general trip through the group and determine where fo begin work in the mine. c. H. Prahm who Is foreman of the mine and the mill, | sent word to some men he had prev iously engaged anl they came to 30 e work, The Lincoln group consists [ of six full claims and two mill sites. | l have been in a number of mines in I the west and among the last were sew ! eral first class gold properties. but l | have yet to visit mine with the same amount of gold ore in sight that there Is in this group. There are ledges and ledges; some narrow and same wide, but all of good grade milling ore. Enough ore is in sight to run a mill For years 60 come. Tunnels have been run, opening the mine ;o the inspection 1f anyone desiring to go into the bow ,'s of the mountains. Shafts have been sunk in many places. Every -unnel and shaft is in ore. The sur lace of the ground Is covered with ore broken from the ledgss that tons of yold ore could be picked up without ouchiny lne ground with pick CT shO- 'el In the Quien Sabe mine the most development work has been done. The edge in the claim Is from eight IT,-hes
 Q three feet thick and the ore aver igos ov5r $30 to the ton. In the Car in. the south extension of the Quien 'sloe. there is a ledge of ore over four eet thick In the Yellow Jacket, the forth extension of the Qulen. Sabe, here is an equally wide body of ore as
 m the CaIlin. All tffs immense mount Cf rock carries over s15 to the on; assays taken across the whole edge run as high as $40 to the ton 'he only true way to estimate the ex- ct value of the ore is to mill it and ', ntil that is done the true value of hCse ore bodies will not hc determined. 'he ore from the Quien Sabe has been ! filled and it's value determined by aking the gcad from the plates of the ill and selling 1t to the refineries. On V he property there is a crude, two tamp mill, built by F. K. Lincoln & ! ons. who put in many a month of ! ard work on the property during the yenty odd years they have held on to :, le group, waiting for the day when 10 right man would come along and s lake a deal with them for the mines ' lad they had the money to put in the ght kind of machinery they would ever have made deal The moun- Iins at the property are covered with .e finest growth of timber to be found
 that section today, and the reason q
 easily seen; whble the timber has asn cut from adjoining property for s lining purposes, the timber on the ,d incoln mines has never been touched io ith ax or saw. There is water for II e mill in a spring nearby. A sufii- +' ent amount of water for ten stamp " Gl can easily be developed by sink s' E for it. MT. George Is now arrang- III F to put up a new mill. of the latest s' iprovements. When this is com i' eted the Lincoln property will be 'd ard from in the mining woild of iD Tizona. si Irgf q. T s....-