Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1901-09-04
The Old District Looming Up Tore and More Every Day as a Gold Producer.
The JournaI-Miner Correspondent Tells of inc Development Work Being Don and the Results Being Obtained.

will keep on sinking till they reach the depth of 800 feet. They have run levels from 100 to 300 feet long at the first and second stations. At the bottom of the shaft they have three feet of solid ore and the ore they take out of the shaft as they go down more than pays for the sinking. This ore is covered with horn silver or as some call it, green silver. You can cut it with knife like tallow. I was given very beautiful specimen of fake native silver with specks of gold sprinkIed through the rock. They have two classes of ore, free and smelling. They have man sorting ore all the time, which they sack and sead to Fl Paso for smelting. By the looks of the pile of ore on the dump, they must have some four hundred tons of ore on the dump. Their next mine is the victor or Wild Dutchman as they have renamed it; they are down on this property 1O3 feet. They have new hoist with a 30 horse power boiler and they have just received 1200 pound Cameron sinking pump, as they have struck quite strean of water. Some of the miners think this is going to be the biggest mine on the Creek, as they have got between five and six feet of high grade ore in the bottom of the shaft. I understand in the near future the Monte Cristo 10-stamp mill at Peoples valley will be moved up here on the creek.
 Home Run Mine.
 Mir. Monyhan hasfwelye men run ming levels from the second and third stations, and they are also taking out plenty of ore. On the third level they have four feet of ore in the breast of the drift and none of your six bits ton class. This is a gold mine, plating $40 ton and concen- trating SS0 a ton. Mir. Monyhan is going to do lot of development on the second and on the 335 foot levels He then will put on 100 H. P. boiler and sink 10 the 300 foot level The boiler he now uses will do to de- velop with, but it is not strong enough to go any deeper and do the pumping. After getting to the depth of 800 feet he will know what kind of mill to put up and he will know if he has a mine before he builds mill. If all of our mining men were as cautious in building their mills, many a dollar would be saved.
 Monte Cristo Mine.
 They are taking out and piling up plenty of first class silver ore. It also carries good value in gold. They are down POO feet, running levels from the two stations. They are building a five stamp mill and a good deal of their machinery has already come in. They are also building a dam across the gulch to catch the tailings.
 Empire Mine.
 Two shifts are sinking, now down 370 feet. Some of the knockers were prophesying that this mine would close down six weeks after the mill was built. Instead the mill has been running eighteen months steady and I will say that the mine looks better and richer as they go down than any time since they have commenced. Mir. Mansfield is superintendent. He is young man, but seems to understand his business thoroughly. He is also looking after Mir. Rice's property. Mir. Rice is in Boston and will be here in about ten days. I understand they will put hoist on the Little Giant and the Amy when he comes.
 Summit Mountain Mine.
 Owned by Sam Griffin and Victor Kell, but now bonded to NIT. Derr of New Jersey. They have a shaft down seventy feet and Mir. Griffin has taken out some very good gold ore. Chas. Behm hGs twelve men working on the wagon road and they expect to have the road completed in ten or twelve days. Their machinery is already here and they expect to do some deep mining, and 1 hope inside i a, year we will have another producer for this part of the country.
 Looking from here over the country it would surprise the old timers to see the progress that is going on. Look ing across on the Lynx Creek side we see Mir. Pickrell's wagon road that they are building. He has between twenty-five and thirty men working. He is building one of the finest wagon roads in the county and he is taking time and money to do it. They say it will cost five thousand dollars, but then he will have wagon road to haul ore on. You can also see hun dreds of cords of wood and thousands of feet of stulls, plenty of large dumps where mines are under bond and being worked, and with the roar of shots being put off it looks busy scene, and as it is one net work of lodges from Groom Creek to Big Bug, running in a south and south easterly directions and I prophecy inside of 1 five years you will see one of the big gest mining districts in the United States and I don't see why capital wants to go so far away from the railroad, water and timber when we 1 have everything So handy here.
 As l do not wish to take up all of your paper, will close with the re- mark that we now have a postoffice named Oakdale, two stores, two saloons and hotel, where a man can put up and look over the country Prescott had better look out or we might have the county seat moved out here. Thos. J. Laird.
 Of the five living ex-confederate generals in the State of Virginia, four were present at Roanoke the other day as delegates to the republican
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