Arizona republican., 1901-03-01

erything left in sight. ore, tailings and all.
 There Is now on the dump 130.000 tons of ore considered too low grade to haul to Smiths mill 10 work in the carly days. but which is fully tested anl guaranteed u1 return over $4 per ton. There ls easily 3,OC90O0 tons of ore blocked out in the mine and some Of it is known to go up int1 the hum dreds in value There are 26l,o0O tons of tallings untouched. These added to- yether make q tol al of 3,391 GOO tons at Il tailings value of $371. giving total tailings value of s12,5s0.6l0.
 AS early as 1886 prominent mining engineer estimated the ore bodies in sight, giving different values to dif- ferent portions Cf the mine, and based on the. workings of the mill he placed The ne, value of ore above cost yfreduc- ton at from $4 to $7.50 per ton. At this valuation and with the ore bodies then in sight. he estimated net value of s3, ,59l. .s04 Since then there has been uncovered n vastly greater body of ore than has been worked.
 THE NEW MANAGEMENT.
 Mr. Willis E. Troy lr New York city, is at the head of the associated capi- talsts who have recently purchased the entire Vulture holdings. Mir. Troy's a.1ry is a short one and to the point.
 He was first interested in mining in Arizona less than two yeals ago by MT. II. William Stevens, who was handling some properties in Inc vicinity of Wick enburg. MT. Stevens sold to him the Trllby and Bele-G1ld group of claims, which has since been given considera- ble attention. Later MT. Stevens placed with him the White Cloud mine. which just at present Is most promising and which may some day be Vulture, On one of Mir. lTtoys visits here q few manths ago Mir. Stevens induced him tQ go over and take a look .: the Vulture mine. He did SO and n his return to ; New York negotiations were begun which ended in his being placed in con- trol few days ago.
 Mr. Troy Is hustling, up-to-data business man who has hardly yet | reached middle aga. The world is be- fore him. he has liberal backing in his undertakings, and he proposes to see what can be cone with a property that ! any lne who sees 1t cannot fail to pro- 1 nounce a world-beater if properly i handled
 THE FUTURE.
 When asked yesterday about hi. | pans for the future MT. Troy said h, ] diga rot care to say much, as a ] deal of figuring and thinking will bC necessary before much is tlone, but hC said one thing Is certain and that i: that no unnecessary time will be lost All who are familiar with the property 1 knsw that the first great drawback tC the operation of a large plant there ha' been the lack of water supply. In thu ! old days when the eighty stamp mil was running water was piped frGn thu Hassayampa river. The pipe line wen out in the Walnut grove flood and since | then the little work done at the min' has been from the small water suppl! in one of the lower levels. The frs thing to do then will be to bull, q new pipe line from some place ol the Hassayampa and in some manne not yet determined upon.
 The next matter 10 consider i freight The old mill is a wreck ant the mine will require practically a new plant throughout A mental calcuIa ton wifi convince one shat the eXpenst of a branch railroad, either steam O electric motor, from Wickenburg to tn mine. will cost little more than the eX pense of wagon freighting a larg plant It will probably require a roat of some twelve miles and there will b. few engineering difficulties to over come. This may be called one of tn projects.
 Next would naturally be an enlarget cyaniding plant. which of course coui' be run by the same water supply tur nshed to the mill. The present plan requires all the present supply. Thel would follow the necessary machiner, for concentrating the bdser ores 10 shipment to the shelter, and of thes ores there is large body indicate lower down. The upper ores are large ly free milling.
 Following these first steps wOul come every necessary convenience Il the equipment of 2 large plant. MI Troy purposes the working of a hi