Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1901-11-20
BULLWHACKER MINE.
Superintendent C. E. M. Bea11 Pushing Work on This Property With Remarkably Good Success.
A Solid Body of High Grade Gre Ex- posed in the Drift and Thousands of Dollars Worth on the Dump Ready for Shipment.

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 Rumors of all sorts have been cir culating in Prescott recently abou rich strikes being made in the ole Bullwhacker mine, located about three miles northeast of Prescott Scarcely day passes that something is not heard of a new strike there The property is being worked by H B. Clifford, with c. E. NJ. Beall as superintendent and on an invitation Friday from Mayor R. H. Burmister the editor of the Journal-Miner visit ed the property in company with him. The visit revealed the fact that the daily rumors of strikes of rich ore are practically true, or that the body of rich ore struck some time since has been continuous and every days work on the property is a continuous strike of rich ore.
 When Superintendent Beall started work on the property the shaft was caved in, the timbers rotten, and the property was in bad condition gener- ally. He started work cleaning out and retimbering the shaft as we'll as enlarging it, and now has one of the finest shafts in the county. It is 130 feet deep, and is timbered from top to bottom, with a separate com partment for the use of men at work in the mine.
 The old drift running north from the shaft has also been cleaned out and fixed up in trim shape, and has been extended for several feet. It is in this drift that the rich ore was struck some time since and in which they are still working. The drift is about 80 feet long and 20 feet of it is in this high grade ore. At the face of the drift a winze is being sunk which is now down fifteen feet in good ore all the way and it is widening out and increasing in value as depth is made.
 Another drift runs south from the shaft, but aside from cleaning out this working, Superintendent Beall has done no work on it. In cleaning it out though he found very rich quartz at the face of the drift, which was full of small gold nuggets.
 There is between 40 and 50 tons of ore piled up on the dump ready for shipment. Assays of average sam ples of this ore gave values varying from S2l1.00 to S3S800 per ton, so that one can see values there of from SS,OOO to S10,OO0 piled up on the sur face.
 The ore in this property differs from the general character of ores in this country in the fact that while water has been encountered in the mine the ore remains free, the general rule be- ing that the ore turns to sulphides when water is struck.
 Superintendent Beall is working two shifts, and is at present doing his hoisting with a whim, but has con- plete hoisting plant in Prescott which will be shipped to the mine soon and placed in position. When this is in operation Prescott will be for the first time in its history within hearing of a mining whistle, although for years it has been the center of one of the best mining sections in the west.
 The Bullwhacker mine has had a varied experience in the past, while the present indications are that it will have a prosperous future. It stands out by itself, several miles away from any other mine, and seems to have been forced up all by itself right on the very edge of flow of malpais, as the latter covers the surface of the ground almost to the north end line of the claim. It was located in 1876 by two men named Gudgeon and Ware. Float was found on the hill side, which was followed to the top of the hill, and after prospecting for some time the ledge was discovered and they commenced work on it.. Just how much ore was taken out by them is not known, but it ran away up in the thousands of dollars. Since that time the mine has been abandon ed and relocated, sold, again aban- doned and relocated a number of times, the ownership having been in numerous hands during the interyen- ing years. At different periods in its history, it has been worked under lease, and every man who has ever worked it has worked it at profit. It is probably conservative estimate to say that the mine has produced S50,- 900, and if the correct figures could be obtained it might reach S1O0,OO0
 Despite the success obtained in working the property, the remarkable thing about it is that it has lain idle so much of the time since it was To- cated. When MT. Clifford negotiated for the property, as already stated, it had been idle for years and tho work ings all caved in so that an examina- ton of the property, which is the usual preliminary to the sale of a mine, was out of the question. Very few people purchase or even take a bond on properties without being able to look at them. Mir. Clifford, how ever, is willing to buy mine at times as man would buy a horse-on its pedigree" He argues that if a property has produced fabulously rich ore on the surface, there must be something deeper down. And in every instance where he has taken hold of properties on this theory rather than what he has been able tC see, he has demonstrated its correct ness, and the Sl0,OO0 pile of gold bearing quartz now piled up on the dump of the Bullwhacker mine, is an | ;IluSfr fiOn of tba fact that tha hiS.