Mohave County miner. [volume] (Mineral Park, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1882-1918, 1901-05-04

not tried TO learn better way of hand
ling it. He will now introduce the
new methods, however, and it is said
that the mine will pay ne rly l50,O00S
per year. There are few mines in the
country that produce more silver than
the Shafter and the present owners
have received over 700,O0OS in dividends !
since they bought it. There are many
other rich prospects in the Shafter
country but as the laws of Texas are
not friendly to mining few men have
ventured to prospect that section.-El
Paso Herald.
A Phenix dispatch says: A syndi-
cate has just been formed for the re
opening of the famous and ancient
Mowry mine, in the Santa Rita noun.
tains, just north of the Arizona and
Mexico boundary line. 1t is believed
that the mine was one of the first to be
operated by the Spaniards, early in the
sixteenth century, and it is known be-
yond doubt that during many years,
and perhaps centuries, it produced
many tons of silver and lead bullion.
The primitive smelters used by the
Spaniards are still standing and, as
nearly as can be ascertained, they have
not been used since the beginning of
the last century. In 1860 the mine was
reopened and worked by Sylvester
Mowry, the lead and silver being trans
ported by wagon and burro pack to
Guaymas aud shipped to Europe. Some
of the silver, in the absence of other
currency in the region, was cut into
small, fiat squares, the value stamped
thereon and circulated as money.
Large quantities of the lead were sent
East and moulded into bullets for the
Confederate army, at one time 10000
pounds of 1t being shipped TO New
! Orleans, where it was converted into
] bullets aud distributed in Lees army.
| The mine is said to have been at one
! time owned by the church and to have
produced many millions, which went
into the Catholic treasures in Spain.
With the patriotic uprising in 1910,
which lead to Mexican Independence
eleven years later, the Spanish forces
were removed from the Pacific Coast
provinces. Then came the Apache up
rising, with its record of malignant
cruelty and murder, putting stop to
all activity and industry in the vast
region now known as Arizona, Sonora
and Sinaloa. Hundreds, if not thou
sands of richly productive mines were
abandoned--too frequently owners and
workmen being exterminated by
Apache hatred, and in many instances
all traces of where rich mines once eX-
listed have been obliterated.
The strike in the Brookshire grows
in importance as prosecuting pro.
crosses. In conversation with News
representative Supt. Treadwell said
that they nov had fourteen feet of pay
ore, and that as the body increased in
size at every shot he had the utmost
confidence that they we're now in the
main ore body and that it would prove
to be big and very rich one. We'd
nesday they had been working through
the ore for four days with three shifts
and yet no indication of the end. At
ter prosecuting the body of ore at this
the 2OJ.foot level, the shaft will be
sunk another 100 feet where the ledge
will be again cut, and if the ore should
be found there the question of large
ore bodies between the great United
Verde mines in Jerome and the Iron
King mine on Equator Hill, which is
proving to be almost as wonderful a
mine as the United Verde, will be for
ever settled, and then will commence
the real and earnest development OF
Jerome's great copper belt, tunnels
will be or should be abandoned, and
the more costly or more sure way OF
thorough development will be COM
menced by way of deep shaft and cross
cuts. To Jerome and the district the
strike in the Brookshire means more
than any discovery made in this sec
ton since the opening of the United
Verde mines by Senator W. A. Clark.
And to the Treadwell's will go out
the we'll deserved praise merited by
this splendid work accomplished
through their ability as business and
mining men. The Brookshire group is
located about one and one.half mile