Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1903-09-30
THE HIDDEN
 TREASURE MINE
Visited By the Journal
 Miner RepOrter.f
Extensive Preparations Being Made For Development -M Mill and
 Other Machinery Ordered.

During visit to the famous Fur
 key Creek mining section this week,
 JOurnal-Miner reporter had the
 pleasure of visiting the Hidden Treas
 ure mining property which is To-
 cated on lower Turkey creek, about
 four miles south east of Turkey sta
 tion on the P. & E. railroad. This
 property consists of seven full sized
 claims nestling together in a pretty
 little basin just at the foot of the fla
 nous Bradshaw mountains, where
 millions of dollars have been taken
 out and where millions more are sure
 to be taken out within the next few
 years. The Hidden Treasure was To-
 cated by Chas. Gorin in 1896, and has
 been worked on a small scale almost
 continually since that time, but, like
 dozens of other properties, no exten-
 sive development was undertaken be-
 cause of the great expense of transpor-
 tation, being nearly fifty miles from
 railorad and in a country where
 freighting was nearly impossible. But
 the advent of the railroad to that sec
 tion, bringing the iron speed to with
 in four miles of the property, and for
 tunately splendid wagon road leads
 down the canyon from the railroad
 to the property, making it possible
 now to handle the product of the mine
 at minimum cost, with good profit
 to the company.
 Realizing this advantage, last De-
 cember Ed S. Campbell, who was we'll
 acquainted with the circumstances in the case, and a thoroughly practical
 miner and business man, secured a
 bond on the property and began the
 work of develoving it on small scale until he could interest capital in the
 enterprise, which he did, organizing a strong company of wealthy and in- fiuential gentlemen in Canton and Massilon, Ohio, and preparations have been completed and new machinery to he extent of over .s30,OO has been ordered for the property and work will be vigorously prosecuted from now on. The machinery which will be installed as soon as it arrives, con- sists of ten stamp mill of the best kind that money can buy, and the mill will be built SO that ten more stamps can be added as soon as the development of the mine warrants it. | 4 hoist capable of sinking to depth | of 1000 feet, battery of two 60-horse | power boilers, a 50-horse power Frost | engine, 30-ton cyaniding plant, will also be part of the equipment. 4 pipe line is now being surveyed from an immense spring about four miles distance where an endless supply of water can be brought to the camp by | gravity thus assuring an abundance of water for all purposes. The mine at | 120 feet began to produce;cOnsiderable | water and it is thought when $50 or 400 feet depth has been attained will furnish all the water needed for the plant. Carpenters are now at work | building the camp which will consist | of about ten bunk houses, boarding | house, office and assay office. This and the contract for the mill is under the supervision of W. w. Elliott, the we'll known mill man, and is a guar antee of the good work that will be done. The machinery will be put in place by Brown Brothers, of Prescott As soon as the machinery is in place about thirty men will be put to work in the. mine and as fast as work pro gresses more will be added, so that no time may be lost in the thorough de- of the property, which will be done in a business like and sub stantial manner. Mir. Campbell fully expects to be able to be paying regu- lar dividends by January first, as there are at present over 0,000 tons of ore blocked out on three sides, ready to stope out and run through the mill, besides the hundreds of tons of ore on the dump, and at the lowest possible estimate that can be placed : )n this ore is S20 per ton, which would tive over s2O0, 900 in ore in sight and enough to run the mill day and night or over year without developing mother pound of ore. This in face of { he fact that the ore that has been ( aken out. of the shafts and drifts and ! hipped to the Fl Paso smelter has i veraged S135 per ton as shown by the I melter receipts. does not seem be- -ond reason. In this connection it !. night also be said that the develop !, nent of the mine so far, which \ mounts to about 520 feet of shafts ! nd 800 feet of drifting, has been \ nore than paid for by the ore that ' as been shipped from these workings, E mich is thing very few mines any E 'here can say. The work consists of T our shafts, running from 65 feet to e D feet in depth, three of the shafts s cling connected by drifts, all in ore, s he lowest possible average of which . ould be five feet in width. Another T dvantage the property has is the W heapness with which the ore can be W lken out and milled, it being esti- 'ated from experience, that the ore lt an be mined and milled for not to xceed S4 per ton, which would leave
 very handsome profit on s20 average st re. The ore so far developed will b,