Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1904-10-26
Capacity of Mill Be-
 ing Increased.
Other Improvements Being Made and Development Work Pro-
 greSsing on Property,

ing a lively air around the Little Jes-
 sic mine and General Manager John
 s. Jones is kept on the jump looking
 after the various details and in per
 sonallY supervising the improvements
 which he has under way at different
 points. He is now oveThauling the
 ten stamp mill and expects to get mat ters in shape to start up in about six
 weeks In addition to the present ten
 stamp plant a new Monadnock mill and one Kinkead mill will be added
 which will practically double the pre-
 sent capacity of fifty tons per day.
 The old cyanide plant which IS locat-
 ed about eight hundred feet below the
 mill is being torn down and rebuilt
 on more improved and convenient
 lines immediately below the mill
 which will effect great economy in the
 handling of the output.
 wagon road is being built down
 ChaparraI Gulch from the mill to McCabe and will be completed in two
 or three weeks which will add another
 great saving in the hauling of concen-
 trates and in handling supplies. This
 new road is a first class piece of work
 has an easy grade and reduces the haul
 to McCabe to one mi @ and a half.
 At the hoist a compound air con-
 pressor costing slO, 900 and of sixteen drill capacity has just been installed adn is all ready for making the con- nections. The five inch pipe for con- meeting this up is TOW being made by
 Brown Bros. of Prescott and will be completed and shipped out as early as possible.
 Two and one half miles of narrow guage railroad is almost completed which connects the different working with the mill and will handle the ores and supplies at a minimum expense. It is laid with 16 pound T rails and small locomotive will handle the cars. The new double compartment shaft is now down 265 feet. Each compart- ment of this shaft is 5x51@ feet in the clear and it is timbered exclusively with Oregon pine. The old shaft is six hundred and ffty-seven feet deep and from the workings in this shaft more than s75O, ,OOO has been mined in the past. At the present time there are 40, GOO tons of ore on the Jessie dumps averaging SIP to s16 in value per ton and fully two per cent of this mass is high grade running from S250 to S300 per ton. In doing recent de- a new body of ore was en- countered at depth of three hundred feet and at a point further west than heretofore worked. This new ore body gave assay returns of over S400. The survey has been recently completed for the proposed water line from the DeLarge ranch on the Agua Fria river at point six miles distance from the Jessie mine. The water is to be pumped to an elevated reservoir four and one half miles from the river and will flow by gravity from there and supply the Jessie mill and camp. This added to the present water supply will guarantee against shortage under any and ali conditions and will amply supply plant of 5J0 tons daily carac- ity. Preparations are being made to put in cyanide plant of 200 tons 1aily capacity below the Jessie dump | to cheaply handle that great mass of ore and it is expected to have this plant in operation early next year. General Manager Jones will go east | about November lst for the purpose ,f buying the other machinery needed md to confer with his eastern associ- ties. Upon his return the mill will oon be pounding out a stream of wealth from the large quantities of ore low awaiting treatment.
 W. L. Dustin, of Chicago, has been pending some time looking over the mineral possibilities of this section md after having visited different DOT ions of the territory fexpresses him elf as greatly pleased with the show ng here and expects to remain with IS. We under stand he represents sIge amount of capital and as MT. Dustin has the appearance of man 7ho "does things' we dare say your correspondent will have opportunity o say something of his operations in be near future.
 Elmer Wells and wife have fitted up ,
 cottage in neat style and are cozy nd comfortable at convenient point o the Lelan mine.