Arizona republican., 1904-01-31
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while there is fuel for the same mills to last only few years. few springs can run small Huntingtons or 5-stamp mills But since our main and lateral roads are easy, the greatest ob- stacIe to custom mills in town is re- moved.
 The ore Of Gold Hill can easily stand freighting to town and the gold and copper of the ore bodies elsewhere in the district, is of such high grade as to stand the same freight expense. The competition between road freight CTS and between the railroads ought to insure a rate for hauling ore and cCal and coke into the custom mills and smelters that will be reasonable. If Phoenix can insure plenty of that sort of freight, they will bring it in at reasonable rates.
 The Mormon Girl people now an- nounce that the delays to their start ing up are removed, and that their stamps will begin to drop early in February. Their aim will be to save every value in the ore. Among other provisions, they have that of several tons of cid horse shoes and scrap iron. They have in Mir. Englehart. one of the most accomplished chemists and mineralogists in the United States The Davises are quite as sure that the Mormon Girl ore can stand high salar- jed men and expensive machinery.
 Work on the Ben Hur is being push ed with expedition. Vim. J. osborn has put in part of his means in this ven ture and the Osborns, including Nerl and their associates ought to be very rich a few years hence. When mining man looks down a shaft and sees the gleam of copper pyrites on all four sides thereof, or looking over the dump sees much of it shot and paint ed over with sulphurets how can he avoid a conviction of its great value? "Oh, but it ain't all that sort" ex- claims one. But a greater part of it is that sort; fer while l was there John wheeled out a barrow of it and several chunks were shot and painted with pyrites. Why John" said l., Don't you sack that sort?" Why, no I can't" said he, "the dump is conn posed of too much of it to sack" l have seen pieces picked al random, showing nothing on the surface. born spooned, and yield a good prospect in free gold. A careful assay made of all the shafts as near as could be judged of the average of the immense ore body, demonstrates the entire body as very high grade in gold. Now mine croaker could donothing with the Ben Hur if it was half or more bullion, he would be hard up until someone should take it out for him. reduce and coin and place it in his bank. To the croaker there is never money enough in the country CT in any material or speculation if he won't do mans part in extracting it's value therefrom.
 To us natives here another evidence of the Ben Hur's value is that MT. Talbot. your hardware dealer has stock in it. MT. Talbot is as intal- lible in his estimate of the productive capacity of any venture as a finite intelligence can be. It is fortunate for this district that he is taking the ini- tiative in making such mines as the Mormon Girl and the Ben Hur pro- ductive, for he we'll knows that if these are made reasonably productive that ether gold and copper propositions up here will be developed into money mak- CTS to the eternal benefit of the city He realizes that our easy main and lateral roads makes as sure as possi- ble the proposition of erecting in Phoe- nix custom mills and smelters to work the ores that can not be worked here.
 There cannot be a more promising and attractive venture than the Nor mon Girl or Ben Hur. The shoot of the former is widening cut and in- creasing in grade with depth. All of the claims of Sam Taylor, once deem ed visionary, are being verified by the Davis people. The Ben Hur has an easy lateral to the main road and from a point a mile or more up the creek can pipe down water enough for 20- stamp mill. They are now making a tunnel of maybe 300 feet to strike the big dike 400 or 500 feet from the to2. At a depth of 70 feet in one ofthe shafts there are drifts running 30 feet in opposite directions. and are still in the ore body.
 Recently I paid visit to the proper ty of the Grand Traverse and Arizona at the east foot of the Continental range on which the Gold Hill region Is. l had brought a blcek of i.s stock, and was under the impression that it's veins were and foot ones 1f high grade copper and gold. but I was most happily surprised to see two open cuts on ere faces 14 and IS feet wide, in a hill. the whole ten acres of which is