Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1901-04-10
THE NEW CONGRESS-.
Extensive as Well as Expensive Machinery of the Most Im- proved Pattern Recently
 Added to Property.
Ike Capacity of the Mill Doubled. Witt Facilities for Further Additions
 When Required.

The new forty stamp mill of the Congress mine, which is about com pleted, is said to be the finest in the southwest. Facilities have been pro- vided for adding twenty more stamps, making total of 100 in all. Among other new machinery recently added to this property is fine new double expansion engine of 250 horse power and Rand Drill company air com pressor. The steam is furnished by a battery of boilers equipped with auto matic stokers, coal being used as fuel. The main shaft is six inches in diame- ter and in order to prevent its getting out of alignment it is supported by concrete piers, at intervals of every ten or twelve feet. The battery foun- dation for the stamp mill is built of concrete and on the top of the con- crete is a block of steel thirty six inches thick, which receives the concussion of the stamps and minimi- zes the effects on the concrete foundation. Heretofore drilling has been done in this mine by hand but with the recent improvements power will be used instead. In the improve ments recently added nothing has been overlooked that will contribute to the efficient working of the prop erty in the most economical manner. A number of new concentrating tables have also been secured and will be placed in position in connection with the stamps recently added.
 In this connection rumor has been revived, and with an apparent show of Authenticity, that the present own CTS of the property will shortly trans fer their interests to new company. of which John W. Mackay is at the head. It is known that MT. Mackay visited the property and made an ex- animation of it about a year ago. At the time it was reported he had se- cured an option on it, which is stated expires May l of this year, paying something over quarter million dol lars on it, and it is expected that the transfer will be made during the life of this option.
 The mine is opened up now to a depth of over 5000 feet and it is said that there are no signs of the ore body giving out Of lessening in quantity or decreasing in value at this depth. Even should another pound of ore never be discovered below the present workings, there is already enough blocked out in the mine to keep it in operation for years to come.
 The principal owners of the mine at present are F. M. Murphy sand E. B. Gage of Prescott and N. K. Fairbank of Chicago, and it is reported that with the sale of the Congress the former will concentrate their energies in the rehabilitation of the Tombstone mines and will inject new life into that camp, once the most active in the southwest
 Since the above was in type three deeds have been placed on record in the recorders office, one quit claim deed for fourteen unpatented claims the price being S2,0OO,OOO, warranty deed for fifteen patented claims, s. 0O0,OO0, also being the price and one for all the mills, machinery, works, buildings, etc., the price being S1, ,0OO,- 900, the price being, for the entire property, S5,0OO;O00. On the two first mentioned deeds there were at tached 1000 in revenue stamps.