Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1901-04-03
OUR GROOM CREEK LETTER.
Work Progressing All Along the Line With Most Satisfactory Results.
 Properties Changing Hands.


 Editor JournalMiner: Groom creek, after lying dormant all of these years, seems to have walked up, and is now one of the busiest sections in the coun- ty, all through a few good mining men that have come in and done little deep mining. They are all proving a success, and the mines are looking better as they get depth. It has also given encouragement to the miners that own mines here. They are all sinking and with good results in most all cases. The Gold Flake and Gold Basis mills are running on custom ore that has been taken out from mines near them.
 Up at the Uncle Joe mine Charles Behm has struck fine ore during the past week. He is working this mine through a tunnel. He has fine tun- nel site that will go in under Spruce mountain. He has plenty of water and timber handy and the way the water is coming out of the tunnel, he must have struck an underground river. He is in about 250 feet. On the south end of these claims is the Victor mine, now owned and worked by c. w. Sauer and F. Vierthaler. They bought this prospect from Nick Slumberger three months ago. They are sinking and have just had twelve tons of ore worked at the Gold Flake mill that, understand, plated them $40 per ton. This is a very rich little gold mine. They have made the first payment, and I hope the boys will make it success, as they are good, hard working miners.
 The Midnight Test mine is also north of the Victor. It is owned by A. J. Pickrell, but is now bonded by Geo. Wood, of Lynx creek. This is very rich silver mine, and also runs well in gold. It is down 130 feet, but as soon as MT. Wood gets the hoist on the ground he will put it down to the 300 foot level before commencing to do stoping.
 West of this mine is the Old Benja- man. owned by Slack, Hawkins and Gardner. This mine was worked by a tunnel twelve or fourteen years ago by MT. Jones. It was he that did all of this pocket mining around this part of the country, but he held on to his claim for years, and it was only about four years ago that Mir. Slack had chance to get it. They have sunk a new shaft, and after going down sixty feet they broke through into an old stope After going down the stope forty feet they got on to the level run in twenty-five feet to the breast of the drift that went S36 in gold and 230 ounces in silver. It is very few mining men that would give up mining claim like that these days
 South of the Old Benjamin is the Stem Winder mine, owned by James OConnell. He has got his shaft down B feet, and he has 22 inches of free milling ore that will go S14.50 ton, and I think with depth it will grow richer.
 Next south is the Home Run. They are down 235 feet. They will cut their | station and will drift north and south. They will also sink 100 feet more. Mir. Monihan has had his first survey made by J. J. Fisher for a patent on the eight claims. Mir. Monihsn thinks Groom creek is good enough for him. His company has left the east and will be here about April l.
 Next south is Laird x Brow's, a group of eight claims. There has been a mining engineer over the ground and he says his company will be out the latter part of April. They are from Baltimore. He is well pleased with Groom creek.
 At the Empire mine they have some 30 men working, mostly stoping and running levels. They have still plenty of water and running their ten stamp mill day and night. They burn crude oil that costs them S2.60 barrel and they burn nine barrels a day. It is cheaper than wood at S4.00 a cord.
 At the Monte Christo mine they are down 160 feet. They are also run ming a level and expect with forty feet more to make connections with the old whim shaft. As soon as this is completed they will have better air and will be better able to work to ad- vantage to send their shaft down faster than at present.
 At the Webfoot mine the boys are having plenty of hard work to keep the water down. It takes half of their time but they want to go a certain depth and then cross cut their ledge before they put on pump. James Mackin has arrived, so I think we will know in a few days if they will start up the old Silver King mine. Mir. Mackin says he will be with us couple of weeks and hope before he leaves he will strike on to some mining property that will strike his fancy, for we are going to have the second Grip pie Creek out here. There is going to be two or three groups of mines change hands in the next month. There has been several mining en- yineers from different parts from the north here and the outlook for the iutue looks bright for Groom Creek.
 Thos. J. Laird.