Arizona republican., 1904-03-02

the breasts of the former workings to continue development in these direc tions. The ores are very good and will i bear handling and shipping with con- siderable profit, as has been demon strated in the extraction and shipment of ore from the seventy-five foot level, which, up to the time the property changed ownership, was being worked by lessees. The ores carry a very high percentage in copper and ney, in val ue is silver, which smelter re eipts g-Ne as 103 ounces 10 the ton. Queer to re- late, gold values are small A. H. Dry den Is superintendent for the company. He has two shifts of men at work. The new company equipped the mine with a gasoline motor hoist before work began. and In addition to this necessary con comitant for speedy and economical labor also had a new engine house, blacksmith shop and one or two other new buildings erected, the latter fer the use of employees. The company has capital and is going to thoroughly ex- ploit the mine.
 The Tennessee mine and mill are both closed to work. said to be on account of deal pending for the sale of the  Development comrany to London, England, company for a large sum of money. This step in the closing down of work pending these negotiations was made in December of lest year, but up to that time the mine and mill had been in almost incessant operation for more than six years and in that time was a regular dividend payer, the concentrates frequently running from eighty to 100 ounces of silver to the ton. At oth- CT times shipping values were always good and satisfactory. Both the mine and mill have all the water necessary | for the performance of work.
 The Lucky Boy mine. situated be- tween the Samoa and Roger Boy mines.
 closed down last Friday. No reason has been made public why this measure | for the curtailnent of work was adopt ed and not until this is discerned can the facts be given. The mine has heen
 in operation off and on for the past six years. Frequently however. suspen-
 sions of work would extend over per :ods of six months to a year. In the | work that was done at these times, many carloads of ore were produced. The mine belongs to T. R. Scott and as- sooiates, of Chicago, capitalists who bought it from John Smithline about
 six years ago for $25.Oo0. Frequently a carload shipment of ore would net $500.
 J. H. Pyne is making a wagon road down the mountain from his Roger Boy
 mine at the summit of the Cerbat range
 to connect with the road at the Jersey
 Lily mine at the bottom. over which to
 haul his gasoline motor hoist from the
 depot. The country over which the
 road is 10 pass is the toughest one inn
 agin able, and it will be when completed
 over two miles long. Trees a part of
 the way cacti, soap weed and the us-
 ual conglomeration of matted chapparal
 line the route. and for moro than the
 length of two mining claims the ground
 is covered with great boulders lying aimlessly about, which will have to be
 shot and broken to get them into nov
 able shape. MT. Pyne is doing this work
 with the help of one man only, and quite three months will elapse from the
 time of beginning till the work is com pleted. The shaft of the mine is dowr , ninety-three feet, through a vein oi shipping ore that has averaged ir
 thickness about fourteen inches. Two
 tons of the ore taken out while this } work was going on was shipped and , returned 273 ounces of silver to the ton , It is the object of MT Pyne, as soon a; / he can get his hoist inst alled. to contin- ue tie work of going down on the or,
 vein to an indefinite depth. not only tC
 ascertain how much ore is in the mine but also to open up drifting and stopin: grounds, of which there is much a., ready. There is a snug and roomy sheet iron house on the ground. the ma [ al foy +l,. backs of burros up the mountain owe
 the Lucky Boy trail from the landing , five miles below and thence across tk' . little divide to where it now rests. Notwithstanding considerable worl in the mines is manifest. business il | town and camp is duil. more so tha, ' has been chrcnicled for a number O ' years.