Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1902-12-10
Groom Creek Mining Items.

0Olu DdSlS Mlnl0S company Is on the middle branch of Groom creek.
 Mir Van Brooks, cousin of the Hon.
 Judge Brooks of Prescott is superin-
 tendent and manager, and must say
 he is a good mining man, from the
 amount Of work he has accomplished
 in the last six months. He has sunk
 from the 100 to the 300-foot levels
 besides running several hundred feet
 of levels. For the last month the
 miners have been stoping. They
 have five stamp mill and l under
 stand before long they will add five
 more stamps and two tables. Before
 the storm they rua 200 tons of ore
 for test. They now have started
 up on steady run.
 The Empire mine lies a quarter of mile southwest. At this mine they are getting in cords of wood and
 making preparations to start on the
 first of the year, so the superinten- dent claims. I think by having this
 mine opened up in the proper shape it can be made to pay handsome dividends. Chloriders and leasers have made good money out of it. But if you gut your mine as you go along and try and crowd your mill to thirty tons day with gangue waste and ore, besides big lot of miners to pay and feed, wear and tear on machinery, etc, you are coming out behind no matter how rich your ore is, and in this mine there is ore that will run up in the hundreds.
 The North Extension-We have the Infanta mine, which I understand will start the first of the year. They claim the same ledge as the Em pire. At this mine they have a new hoist, but it has never been started At the bottom of the shaft they have good ore and with management of it by Jas. O'Connell, he should have it soon on paying basis.
 The Hidden Treasure and Monte Cristo mines is also the north eIten sion of the Infanta. At these mines they have cut their stations at the 400-foot levels and are drifting. They have about twenty-five or thirty men so far. The richness of the mine is too well known to be written about.
 Then we come to the Alma mine farther up the creek, Supt. Frank Mansfield, shaft 300 feet, with sev- eral hundred feet of levels, showing is good, with plenty of rich ore and it will only be a matter of short time before they will start to build a mill. They also OWE the Little Giant, the north extension of Gold Basis, and only 500 feet from Gold Basis shaft. If the Gold Basis is paying mine so will also the Little Giant. All of these mines, nine in number, are incorporated under the name of the Groom Creek Mining Go.
 Niles Mining company, that was sold by Jas. OConnell and was called the Old Home Run with 465 feet of shaft, 5000 feet of levels and | by NJ. E. report there is over one half a million dollars in sight. This mine has been closed down for some two months, only keeping the water out, but MT. Monyhan is expected to be back this week. He will build a 10-stamp mill right away. This is the only mine on the creek that was thoroughly developed before there was a mill.
 Stem Winder mine, owned by Jas. O'Connell. This mine, is only in the first stage of development and I understand it will only be a short time before he will have machinery on the ground. At the present writ ing he has Is inches of ore that will go hundred dollars to the ton. Jim made all his money on the creek and is now putting it back. That's what he thinks of the creek.
 Midnight Test and Dutchman company owns some of the richest mines on the creek, if they only knew it, but they have had trouble among themselves and, as the Arizonan says, the company is composed of what they call Pilgrim or eastern men that want to see 5000 on top of the ground before they put one in; this is the way 1 un- derstand the situation. As for their trouble I understand it's all settled, and if they put in a thorough No. western mining man as superintend- ent and don't try and hold him down by giving him foremen that don't know waste from ore, I will bet in side of year they will have big thing. As I am not the only pebble on the Beach there are others, could tell them the same thing.
 There are others in here inning on a small scale that I will speak of at some future time, and take it all around with the plentiful sup ply of rain and snow that has fallen this fall and the bright and cheerful accounts you hear of the mines every week and of different strikes, old Groom Creek, seven miles from Prescott, will force itself to the front this coming year. If Groom Creek was sixty miles away you would hear of it in the papers. but only six to