Arizona republican., 1904-01-26
BUSY PLACERITA.
Steady Work in Little Cripple Creek
 District and Vicinity.

]. H. Hise, who has charge of the Bragg mining interests in the Placer ita section, has gone to California 10 recuperate his health, and has been succeeded by G. Gordon Green, says a Placerita correspondent of the News Herald. Mir Green has started in to do some extensive mining on the Presi- dent mine, situated in the lower end of Placerita (sometimes called Little Cripple Creek). This name is derived from the King of the West mine, also owned by MT. Bragg, and the Ore of which resembles the ore of the Gold Coin mine of Cripple Creek. Both cf these mines will. no doubt. become producers In the near future, as they are backed with plenty of capital and have competent management They are being operated under the naina of the Central Arizona Mines Go. There Is a complete reduction plant at the President mine, consisting of >team pumps, crushers, vanners, pumps, hoists, etc. There is a larger milling plant in contemplation.
 About three miles northwest of the President mine. on Arastra creek, tho owners of the Virginia Dale mine are taking out ore which they intend p H. ing at their 10-stamp mill farther up the creek in the near future. This is one of the mines which D. Jones, for merly superintendent of the Congress mine, tried to bond before taking he'd of the Octave mine. He could not make satisfactory terms with the own CTS at that time, as the showing was very fiattering, and thereby Placer!ta lost a great opportunity to become a ''live" mining camp. This mine IS in granite formation. There are u mum Der of ether good prospects in the inn mediate vicinity of the Dale, which with capitaf and intelligent manage ment could be made producers.
 Farther up the creek, in the Slate or shale, the owners of thc Virginia Dale have several properties former ly owned by the Enterprise Conlpanv. which have produced large quantities of pay ore. Nothing has been done with these properties since that com pany went out of existence in 1900. The Isabella company, composed of , Chicago people and owning several properties adjoining the above, also has Huntington mill and plant. It is also at a standstill, but shows some S of getting to work in the near future.
 
 patented claims adjoining the Isabella i company's. and he is running tunnels on both sides of the Blackbird hill. at depth of over 200 feet, to cross-cut the numerous veins that crop on the sur face. At the east tunnel, which is new | in over 300 feet. he has encountered about twenty-five feet of low grade sulphide ore which does not crop out on he LIa ing on this but intendes to connect his tunnels before doing any other work. Leopold Walloth, the YarneH mer- chant. has several claims in this loca> ity, and is holding them for better times. or a sale.
 The Nagel group, which is west of the Placerita, is being worked by one of its | owners, C.. c. McKeene. The former owner. Fred Nsgel, caught the Klon- dike fever and left for Alaska. Before going he stopped and gutted all the ore he could get at and the present owners have considerable dead work to do be- fore getting in shape to work profit ably It has hundreds of feet of work done on 1t in the way of tunnels and crcss-cuts and the writer has seen tons of ore from this mine milled that plated in the neighborhood of S100 a ton.
 In the issue of January Q. the News l Herald said: l.. J. Haselfeld was in charge of the Bragg propertiessat Pla- cerita. Such is not the case. Mir Has, eifeld is in charge only of what was formerly known as the Hamilton and Parker ranches in Peoples valley which were purchased and are now owned by C. C. Bragg, of Cincinnati Ohio. MT. Bragg bought these ranches for the water rights principally, to be used for mining purposes when the mines in Placerita have reached that stage of development to require large quantities of water