Arizona republican., 1902-03-19
THE DEL MONTE MINES
A Big Enterprise That Will Soon Pe
 Showing Results.

E.X-Senator Stephen W. Dorsey. who has been in the city for a few days, left last night for the south. A great deal has been said in the newspapers about the mining operations of Sen ator Dorsey and his associates at Picacho. on the California side of the Colorado river. and he is surely spend ing a vast sum there in the erection of reduction works and the construction of q picturesque little railroad be- tween the mine anu the mill. But ale is also deeply interested iii an enter prise muth nearer Phoenix. that bids fair tc be O1 vast importance to Cen tJal Arizona in more ways than one. 1t is the exploitation of the Del Monte group of mines, ffty-five miles from Congress. Q little west of south and twenty-milcs beyond Nulture in the Harqua Hala range.
 The personnel of the De! Monte com pany is Interesting. as il has the ap pearance of q senatorial committee. The president of tGe company is Sen ato.- John T.. Jones, the vice president is Senator l.. r. Pettigrew and among the directors are Senator Dorsey, Sen atCr William F.. Chandler of New Hampshire and Senator Henry M. l group consists of about fifty claims on which there are sixty three different lodges varying in width from two feet to twenty-fcur feet. Senator Dorsey mas been doing development work on the property for about six years and has done more or less work on each of these sixty-tinee lodges. There is HOW about 5000 feet of development work done and e large body of ere is e. posed.
 The comp2n. owns all the claims in the district that show workable values. The ore is low grade. avera ging about & per ten. There are places, of course, where the values are high. but this average has been arrived at after an extended examination by five experts. who spent five or six weeks on the property. As;ed regarding the water supply, Senator Dorsey replied that it was practically unlimited. An inn mense underground river. having the surface appearance of dry wash, crosses the property. Water is secured at the depth Of ten or fifteen feet i1 unfailing quantities. Tor camp purposes q big well has been dug. ten or fifteen feet in diameter and through il the water courses with riI!;.ity. A chip thrown on the upper side in q moment floats across to the other side of the well. All efforts to lower the water by pumping have been without result, which is of course the very result de sired
 Two steam hoists and whims are now being placed on the property. About twenty men are employed and the force will be increased as soon as the hoisting machinery is in good working orGer. Senator PettiEreW, who recently visited the property. is now in the east and has by this time probably let con- tracts for an eighty-stamp mill, con centra tor and q cyanide plant for work ing the tailings. The plant will be erected this summer and will be ready for operation the coming fall.
 That is the outlook from the com pany's viewpoint The public general ly is interested in that it means the employment Of many men and the de- Velopment on Q large scale and in a business like manner of q Iich mining section now somewhat remote from the railroad and little heard about. It will hasten the day when railroad will traverse that region, bringing into market many mines now unattractiVe to capital by reason of transportation expenses and the fuf ther fact that men will not cross fifty miles of desert to look at good things when good things are shown them closer to routes of +''avel Senator Dorsey says he be- lieves that region is by odds the rich e-l mining section in the territory and that the ere bodies. when found. are of greater size and continuity.