Arizona republican., 1902-04-13
BRADSHAW'S BOOMING
Operations on a Few of the Larger
 Gold Properties.

The reInarAa bic success attending nm ing enterprises in the Bradshaw region has brought an unusual influx of east ern capital during the past year and the application of modern methods both of mining and of treatment of ores has brought it's reward and has fully jus tifei the most sanguine predictions. Railroads are being extended into dis tricts difficult of access. old mines are being equipped with modern machinery i and new prospects developed, and the result has not only completely eXplod- ed the theory held formerly in the east l that Arizona mines do not go down." but has established this section as one of the richest gold camps in the Union.
 It was said that Arizona mines do not go down. simply because no one had been down to see.
 Among the new developments the most important are the extension of the Prescott and Eastern railroad from ! Huron to the Poland-Hamilton tunnel. i and the extension from Mayer to Crown King.
 Along the Prescott and Eastern rail- road extension. which will be completed in few weeks. the well known Mo
 
 company. is rapidly extending develop ment with view to an increase in the capacity Of the mill. The Henrietta, also owned by eastern capital is push ing work and contemplates new mill. In the Little Jessie the vein has so 1 increased in size and in values at T depth of 600 feet. that the present old fashioned tWenty-stamp mill is to be torn down and replaced with a modern plant of eighty stamps. A reorganiza- ten of the company is now being ef fected for this purpose. at Columbus, Ohio, where the stock is principally 1 held. The Dividend on a parallel vein to the Little Jessie, has had a five stamp mill at work for four or five months which has not only paid for the development work, but has yielded q profit as we'll. This mill is to be in creased to ten stamps and part of the machinery is TOW on the ground. The Poland Hamilton tunnel, which is to be S.0G0 feet long, running through Poland mountain from the terminus of the Poland Extension railroad to Lynx creek, On the opposite side of the noun tain. is being pushed as rapidly as pos sible from both ends and about 1.5O3 feet is completed. This tunnel will be
 
 twelve veins, some of them extensively developed and the property of the Po- land company. and also to handle the ores and concentrates of the Lynx creek district. In the Lynx creek and Groom creek districts the Penn mine. owned by q Bradford. Pa. company. and com mcnly called the Mud Hole" mine, all | though new property. is already looked upon as one of the most valu- able geld mines in Arizona. It is eX- tensively developed is purely a con- centrating proposition operating thrse Huntington mills with a capacity of 145 tons per day. It is planned to increase this capacity as rapidly as possible with eco tons per day in view. The Cash mine has just started up it's new ten-stamp mill and Superintendent ! Blauvelt states that depth has greatly increased the showing and they now have one million dollars worth of orc in sight. MT. Blauvelt is also super intendent of the Monte Cristo mine. which will start up it's mill very short ly. The Empire and the Gold Basis mills are in operation and the Midnight Test, owned by the Kimberlys of Youngstown. is proved to be very rich mine and a large plant is planned.
  from Mayer to Crown King, has large force at work and the road is being pushed through as rapidly as possible. On the line of this railroad the most promising is the Union gold mine, prin- cfpally owned in the copper country of Michigan. This mine is not working a present. owing to the failure of De troit bank. Under the excellent man. agement nf C. J. Kimbell the property has been put in fine condition, and large body of very high grade ore de- veloped. MT. w. J. Rainey. the presi- dent of the Union Gold Mining com pany, when seen regarding the Union said: eve were forced to shut down. temporarily. on account of the suspen- sion of the City Savings bank of De- troit, where the funds of the company were deposited. It was great misfor- tune to us. It came just when the mine } was looking better than ever before and when everything was squared away for the rapid completion of the develop ment work and the erection of a mill however, We are now making arrange ments in the east that will l trust, en- able us to start tip again very soon. Superintendent Kimbell has put the property in good shape for us, substan- llsii JllIOlilSS nave DtSH SIGCleu, d DlHlN house for men. a boarding house. office room, etc. We were in 800 feet in the tunnel. had uncovered a large body Of , ore with an especially good showing in the face of the tunnel. We had begun | a double compartment shaft which was , down thirty feet. This shaft was To- cated centrally on the Union and is to ? be the main working shaft of the mine. It provided one mpartment for tha skip and a smaller compartment for pumps and man-way A road has been [ made from the shaft to the main wagon = road. A mill site has been provided for below the mouth of the shaft so that ere can be handled from the shaft en- t tirely by gravity, the waste rock being ? run cut of the tunnel. We did not look = for any showing of ere in this shaft. = Ore was sturck, however, at a depth of l about fifteen feet and d rich streak 1 l q bout eighteen inches wide sh0wnd Hi,