Arizona republican., 1901-06-18

Wick5nburg, Ariz.. June l9.-(Specia! correspondence of The Republican, )-
 Your correspondent was a visitor at Orc Grande yesterday. They now have
 the shaft down 190 feet, at which depth
 the ore body continues the same as
 when the rich strike was first an
 nounced. On the l00-foot level they are working two shifts in the drift
 running up the hill. 1t being in now over 100 feet. As soon as the blower Is
 installed and the good air problem
 solved. they will be able to put on two hifts with four sets of men drifting each way with the ledge and oross-
 cutting each way. and until this is done no one is able to estimate this
 mammoth ore body.
 Few people realize the magnitude of
 this strike. from the reports that have
 com. out. IL has been variously esti- mated by mining experts as being
 worth from s2O0.00O to s500000. A
 simple way of expressing what they
 have, would be that body equal to a
 cube 100 feet square has been opened
 up so far. without reaching any walls
 Of any kind. This body of ore at any
 point will assay s3O to the ton. and as
 high as $500 to S660. A safe figure is
 that the whole body Is s60 rock, which | brings the value of the ore in sight at about s60O,000. to say nothing about the
 possible extent of the ore body the last eighty feet
 As soon as tha 20O-foot level is ahp1 n rttn n m nj pt the right size and kind can be figured
 on-anything less than eighty stamps
 would be a waste of very valuable
 time. Work is being pushed to the limit. and they now have employed all
 Of the men they can possibly use, the number being over twenty.
 After visiting the works the conver. sation turned to the history os this very valuab ble piece of ground, of which
 the following is a part: The gulchs on the property were first dry washed in the early eos. about the time Henry Wickenburg commenced operations on the Vulture. which mada this section | first famous as n gold producer. After this every gulch on the Hassayampa between tha box canyons above and below town were dry washed and the gulches now called the Orc Grande gulches. were worked over again. II is known that the Gro Grande lead that Is, the quartz croppings have i been held from the first discovery Of gold in the eos The only work dona aside from dry washing, was done with a lead pencil, and the names of the | original loGAors are not now known tc your correy ybondent. The first real history of the Gro Grande as a quartz claim, dates from the latter '70's, wh6n n
 man by the name of Copeland, To- cated the ground and sunk a shaft to
 the depth of sixty feet, which is on an incline following the quartz croppng: About this time the Vulture mill, then above town, was running and some of the ore was tried, but on account of the copper, it was not a success, as it would not plate.
 ,, After this, an arrastra was built al | the head of the box canyon above RCarke's ranch, and the ores taken out and packed over the hill and arrastraed This did not pay, and the claim was abandoned and nothing further done except the posting of notices at reg
 ular intervals, by different dry wash CTS. Some people call them the real Hassayampers, but one by one they have lost their long hail." and they
 are not now a distinct type as form l erly
 The records of Yavapai county show that this ground was relocated again in March, 1896, by Wm. M. Scott and
 John Lucas, who located a claim called | San Pedro. and started what is now the main shaft of the Gro Grande, and sold the property to man by the
 name of A. J. Pigeon, now of Phoenix
 AriZ. Mir Pigeon did a little work on
 the property and let it lapse by, going off to Alaska to hunt gold, with for | tune within 100 fest. He left the shafi
 twenty-four feet deep with a short
 cross-cut in the bottom. As soon as
 MT. Pigeons rights ran out, man
 named Schultz, located the ground fo, 1 himself and R. W. Baxter. The first
 and only work was to work Mir. Bax-
 ter for the usual grub-stake. NJ Baxter wrote out two ssts of location ! notices,' sent one to the recorder ano
 put the other in his safe, where they
 turned up in December, 1900. All this
 was done in the month of April, 1900