Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1901-01-09
Mining Items From Groom Greek.

Groom Creek, Arizona, Jan. 9th.
 1901. With the usual custom of the
 first of every year the miners have
 had their annual claim jumping con tests at midnight, and they say it was little livelier this year than usual,
 but everything passed of peaceably, and if you had been going up one of the gulches about 12 o'clock you could have heard coming from the side of the gulches spirit like whisperings "has he got a gun? is he going to stop" This is great sport some times.
 However, 1901 is going to be the banner year for Groom creek, still we are not complaining about the good old year 1900. We believe in expan- sion and there is plenty of it here for the right kind of mining men who wish to take hold, and I wish to say right here to the miners who own mining properties on Groom creek, the better the times the more of the mining sharks we get. Don't let them tie up your property for year or two the way it has been done in two diff ferent cases on the creek. There are too many good legitimate miners com ing to the country for you to get fool ed if you are onl y little cautious.
 One of the first big group of mines l would like to see some good big mining company take hold of is Chas. Behm and J. NJ. Watts claims, group of six claims with plenty of water and the finest body of timber in this section of the country. The Uncle Joe mine has a shaft down 90 feet with a good Davis whim on it but at 90 feet they got so much water they could go no further on the ledge. | They have hundreds of tons of ore on the dump and had to leave over three feet of ore in the bottom of the shaft. | This mine is opened up in places all | along the claim, with a good wagon road running to the mine.
 But the mine 1 am struck on is the | Gold Note. This mine is west of the Uncle Joe and running parallel. On this mine is a shaft down 54 feet but | they struck a big flow of water that drove them out. The water now is within six feet of the collar of the shaft. In the bottom of the shaft they have fine shipping ore. But Chas. Behm is man that cannot be kept | down, so he starts on his tunnel run ming due south with his ledge and will run in under Flag or Spruce Talk about your tunnel sites this is one of the grandest ones in this part Of the country. He is in 145 feet. The Lord only knows how wide this ledge is. He is taking down seven feet wide in the breast, and has no hanging walls. On the foot wall there is three feet of ore. and during the last week he has been taking out punches of shipping ore. This ore lays in beds of ledge matter like ashes, and in it are solid chunks of lead and copper ore. He is going to have some assayed, but I know by its looks that it is rich. Quite stream of water is running out the tunnel, but he has iron piping up to the face of the drift.
 Spruce mountain on top is a blue granite, or some call it cyanide rock, but am almost certain it is the cap ping of a lime formation. Almost on top, but a little east, is the Summit mine. This is the same ledge as the Gold Note. Good ore was shipped to California years ago from this mine, but now the old workings are all caved in. They also have the Legal Tender and Newark, big, strong ledges on top, but not enough de- to see what they amount to, but would like to see some good mine experts take a look over this group of mines. They could be se- cured cheap and a company could handle them to advantage, and I be- lieve make them paying proposition.
 I'LL.