Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1903-09-23

twenty five and thirty men. 1t i mostly all top work except a few mel raising in the mine. They have thei skip completed, and have the founda tion laid, made of concrete for tbei batteries. They have also thre, benches at their mill raised. They intend to have a fine mill. They will have two 50 horse power boiler, in the engine room. This will give them power enough to run the mine and mill. They would be sinking now but have not enough power to run the compressors and pumps and raise the ore. They are getting in lots of cord wood for this winter and you bet they will need it for there is going to be plenty of deep snow in here this win ter or I will miss my guess.
 Lying parallel, on the east, of the | Home Ruu is the
 PACIFIC GOLD COMPANY,
 A company that you don't hear talked of in the papers much but they are going ahead just the same They are putting down one of the finest shafts as we'll as one of the largest on the creek 4xS l-2 in the clear, ali sawed timber. They are now excavating for machinery. They are going to put up an so horse power boiler and hoist. They are down some 70 feet. The last sample at the bottom, and a genuine sample of three feet of ore taken across the face, went STA in gold, and eleven ounces in silver, and as they get depth they will beat that. This mine is sure winner. This company has seventeen claims almost all being full claims, so it covers quite a scope of country, extending from Groom creek to Lynx creek over the divide.
 l think the different companies that are in here will test this country pretty thoroughly and not skip over the ground and if there is a mine they will find it and develop it. They are all good companies, the Ideal, Chicago, Monte ChrIsto. Home Run and Pacific Gold company.
 THE MIDNIGHT TEST
 Is good mining property and good men back of it. If they get tstarted they will do plenty of work l for one would like to see them open up this valuable property. You can hear it rumored around here of its going to start in a short time. but the truth of it is no one knows when it will start up. One of the worst drawbacks we have in here Is our wagon road. It is county road, but the county is so ! cussed poor that they have only about | five thousand dollars in the road l. funds to cover several hundred or thousand miles of wagon road in the county. For the interest and trade to Prescott we ought to have good | wagon roads to the mines around I Prescott.
 Here at the Monte Christo hill it | would cost three hundred dollars to | fix it up. As it is, it is quite a pull | to get up with au empty wagon. | There are reefs of rocks two. feet high l that one has to pull over. Inside of | three weeks there are three 80 horse l power boilers coming in here besides | other heavy machinery. If one meets | a load coming up hill be has to back down as there is no room to pass them on the point of the hill; so it is confusion every day beside the bad language that is used on that hill
 l believe that a mining district starting up like this one is, and close to Prescott. should be encouraged by the county and also by the city, for the better the roads the more capital you bring in. I am not making this talk for my own interest, as 1 have in here, but it is to the inter. est of Prescott business men and the mining in general.
 Yours Resp,
 T. J. Laird.