Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1903-09-23
ACTIVITY IN
 GROOM CREEK Mines Increasing and Good ShOwings Made. Some of the Properties Which Pro- mise to Make the District
 Famous.

Groom Creek, Sept. 1S.-I have seen or read of but little mining items of this part of the country. Have you newspaper men turned Rip Van Wrinkle for a while? If so 1 will try and tell what my observation was as l went to the postoffice yesterday. 1 did Tot get as far as
 THE IDEAL COMPANY'S
 Mine but was told they had their mill building up and were expecting their machinery every day. The Ideal com pany has one of the largest lodges in J this part of the district. It is about six miles south of Prescott and lays in l the Granite belt. They have large bodies of sulphide ores that carry good gold values. They have plenty of water to run their mill which they pump from the mine.
 CHICAGO MINE
 At the Chicago mine everything is looking fine. I did not see any of the miners or men setting around reading the society news of Prescott, but they were all on the go. MT. Clark, the owner, and manager must have two hundred cords of wood cut, beside hundreds of feet of stull timbers. He believes in having material ahead and it is good plan. The men have a good boarding house and Mir Clark will soon commence to build quarters for the men, beside building himself a house. As soon as he accompanies his wife back east he is coming back to superintend his mine this winter He is now down 300 feet and has cut a station and started to cross cut at that level. Hewill have to cross cut some nine or ten feet to cut the ledge. Mir. Clark says all he wants is that the ore is as good at the 300 foot level as at the 200 foot level, and he will be satisfied. l think it will be, if not better. This company is incorpo- rated but Mir. Clark has sold no shares. He wants to know if he has a mine before he will sell. Mir. Editor what few companies in this county do like him.
 In going up the creek there is a large stream of water running down the mountain from
 THE MONTE CHRlSTO MINE.
 They have been pumping for a week and have it almost pumped out, and will put on men in very short time. They are repairing the roofs of their buildings also which makes a great improvement to their looks. From this mine there has been some very rich ore shipped and milled by differ ent parties. They are down 400 feet, and when the shut down came they had not cut the ledge at the 400 foot level. So one of the first things they will finish is their cross cut 10 their ledge.
 Above Gus Williams station l run across MT. Snow. He was breaking up some fine looking rock. He told me it came from
 THE INFANTA MINE, Owned by Joe Hobbs and MT. Snow. They told me they had two and half feet of ore in the shaft. It looked fine but what it carries in values 1 do not know. This mine is between the Monte Christo and the Empire. Joe Hobbs partner says Joe is a good miner and worker till he hears that mountain lion has run through the country then he takes lay off.
 ALMA MINE.
 They had steam up and were pump ing from this mine. They milled some two hundred tons of ore at the Gold Basis mill. There has been a company exporting the mine, but did not understand whether they had bought the property or not.
 The boys that have charge of the property for the company, Laidlaw and Tyndall, are bachelors by cir cumstances. l went over to their house and the following conversation took place:
 "Hello! Whats broke loose?"
 "Scrubbing out; swell affair tomor- row night Come over. Some of the 100 out from town, and few Hassay- ampers from the creek. !"
 What's doing?"
 "Oh, little card party and some music''
 "Anything to drink?"
 "No beer or whisky, but is thIs not beautiful punch bOwl?"
 As thought it was good enough next find myself at the
 HOME RUN MINE.
 1 hear they are working between ]