Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1903-09-30
DIVIDEND CONSOLIDATED GOLD
 MINES VISITED BY 4 REPORTER
Mammoth Bodies of Rich Ore Seen in Thous= ands of Feet of Development Work.
 Bright Prospects For the Future.

Gold Mines company and in compan! with Secretary Nj. C. Parmley, Gen eral Manager Fred E. Biles and E. R Mcdowell paid these we'll knowI properties a visit last week. Tn, properties now owned by the abov, named company lie in the very hear of one of the richest mining sections in this county or probably in tn, territory, having for its near neigh bors such properties as the Iron King Little Jessie, McCabe, Gladstone Poland, Merchants, Postmaster, Hen, rietta, and scores of others, the whole country being a solid net work of i'm. mense veins of ore, many of which have produced hundreds of thousands of dollars, and yet real mining has hardly commenced on them. As would indicate the properties now un. dre consideration are a consolidation of four we'll known companies into one powerful organization for the proper equipment and further devel- opment of the immense bodies of ore which have been proven to exist on these claims. The companies thus consolidated are the Dividend Gold Mining company, Galena Gold Min ing company, Independence company and Comstock company. This gives the consolidation eleven of the best claims in the Big Bug mining sec tion. The most of these claims are held by patent from the United States. The principal work has been done on the Dividend, Ticonderoga and Gale ma properties, but numerous shafts from twenty to one hundred feet have been sunk on the other claims, all be- ing in ore, this work having been done largely to open up the different ledges, eleven in all, which converge near the centre of the claims, coming together something in the shape of a fiat iron. The entire amount of work done on the property to date amounts to between 5000 and 6OOO feet, which takes the property out of the prospect stage and lists it among the proven mines. In proof of this assertion the Journal Miner will quote the words of Samuel Storrow, one of tine best mining engineers in the west, who has made thorough examination of the property. He says, under date of August IS, 1903:
 HOn November the 1st, 1902, 1 ad- dressed to you a report upon your mines, suggesting to you the advisa- bility of effecting a consolidation of interests and stating then that l was satisfied with the geology and condi- tions of the district wherein you were working, and that 1 felt sure you had long passed the stage of prospect ing and were ready to begin the i'm mediate mining and reduction of pay ore. am sure that the systematic and active prosecution of the work which this consolidation renders feas- ible wilkresult not merely in the talk ing out of the large bodies of ore which you now have exposed in your mine, but through the processes of cautious development along the lines already proved successful, will result in the finding of new ore bodies. ''
 Ths1a TAr,,-,,a1 M.snr lay no claims at being a mining ex- pert, yet these properties looked mighty good to him, as it does not take the eye of an expert to see the immense bodies of splendid looking ore that have been blocked out on the various claims. and shaft after shaft and drift after drift were visited where ore bodies were exposed until the reporter fairly grew dizzy in con templating them.
 The first claim visited was the Inde pendence, the extreme northerly claim of the group. While the deepest shaft on this claim is only about ninety feet, there are various shafts of from twenty to fifty feet which have been sunk on the five distinct parallel ledges which cross the claim from northeast to southwest, and which crop out in great bodies all over it, the ground being literally carpeted with ore which has been broken off of these croppings. There are thousands of tons of this ore that carry on an average of 8 in value and would pay handsomely to cyanide, which it is the purpuse of the company to do. In fact the ore down to a depth of fifty feet is splendid cyaniding proposi- tion, and the amount of this kind of ore is simply incalculable and could not be work out in a lifetime. With depth these ore veins widen out very rapidly as we'll as increase in value, the values of the deeper workings be- ing between s2O and $40 to the ton. When it is considered that these veins run from three to eleven feet wide il does not take an expert to figure out the fact that the product will be something stupenduous. The only mill run ever made on the ore from this claim was made a number oi years ago on the old mill on the Agua Fria, and this averaged s24 per ton. With development this claim alone will be bonanza.
 The Ticonderoga claim was ther visited. On this claim is located tho splendid little mill which the com pany has successfully worked most o the time during the three years it hal been on the property. The mill Wal built for ten stamps but only five o the stamps have been operated, al though the remaining five are in thu mill and ready to set in place ana commence dropping. It is the inten tion of the company not only to pu these in place but to still further in crease the capacity of the mill tC probably forty stamps very soon. Be sides the amalgamating plates the mil is equipped with a fine Bartlett con centrating table which saves th' values of the ore so closely that tn,