Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1905-03-29
Great Activity in Min
 ing Business.
A Rich Strike Made in the Old Bon anza Mine Prominent Mining Men Visit the District and Are We'll Pleased.

The heavy rains we nave peeh naFlng for the past two months has made the desert look like a flower garden, wild flowers are in full bloom and the grass is knee deep all over the country. The Cullins valley wash has been fill ed to its full capacity for the past six weeks. And still it rains.
 Various parties of mining men from all over the country are in the field looking over the resources of this dis trict. Prominent gentlemen among them are ". C. Bashford, a successful business and mining man of Prescott, Ariz: c. E. Nicolls, of Colorado, for many years connected with the Gug- genheims; H. T. Murray, a mining expert and an authority on copper, from Clifton, Ariz.; Otis E. Young, a Pennsylvania capitalist, extensively interested in Cripple Creek; Mir. Dickman, of the well known firm of Dickman, Potter & Mckenzie, mining engineers of Chicago. Notwithstand- ing the terrific down pour of rain these parties have all camped out and thoroughly examined the respective sections they have visited, and all have been heard to express the opin ion that we have an exceptionally good mineral and mining future.
 Under the able management of Pro- lessor P. c. Smith the old Socorro is running full blast, mine, mill and cyanide plant.
 J. B. Martin is working force of men on the old Bonanza, and is open ing up new ground with very fiatter- Ing results as he has struck a fine body of ore at depth of sixty feet which promises to equal the old time , production of this famous mine. MT. Martin is not an enthusiast, but is opening up the old mine on strictly business principles, consequently the l, mining world need not be surprised at any time to learn that the Old Bonan- ], ga is again taking her place at the head of the list of the many produc- ing mines on the desert.
 f The Golden Eagle, another mine ia nous for its great pr Dduction in the earlier periods, under the capable management of B. J. Quinn is again | producing some of its old time rich ore, a portion of which will average more than S1 per pound. This mine has in the past produced many tons of ore running into the hundreds of dol lars per ton.
 John Cuff, an old timer in this sec tion, is taking out some good ore on his claims in the same vicinity.
 The Wendendale Gold Mining Co.,, are located on the same contact as the Bonanza, and are operating the Cash Entry group of mines. They have seven tunnels from 9 to 250 feet in length, several shafts from b to 70 feet deep. Their ore is a lead carbon ate, carrying from one to five oZ in gold and has high as 40 per cent in lead. It is the intention of this company to develop their mines by tunnels, open up the ore bodies and then put up a treatment plant suitable to work their eyes, The company certainly has very promising showing. The ore oc- CUTS in shoots or pipes which crop on l the apex of the mountain, showing from one foot to five feet in width and crops at intervals all along the surface for the entire length of the claims. One tunnel near the top of the noun tain, seventy feet in length has cut a large body of ore five feet in width,
 but as the depth at this point is only f forty feet the company has started a tunnel lower down the mountain ex- pectirg to cross cut the formation and strike the ore bodies at depth of 2 three hundred feet The tunnel when completed will be about four hundred { feet long. Its present length IS 2oU
 feet, the last twenty feet being in ore,
 
 aging, as this ore vein does not crop or the surface and is the third blind vein they have cut in running this . tunnel, the former veiEs being from
 four to six feet in width and carrying
 from 8 to 3l7 in gold. Assays taken from these veins run as high as S90. - pr o. l.. Geer is working the Min @ eral Belt and has large body of mil ling ore in sight. It is reported that f the Dr. will soon erect mill on this t property. He has lately completed a : wagon road to the mine.
 The weather has delayed the rail road building somewhat, but still they are coming right along and will be at ? Salome, our nearest point, by May first or earlier. Nate.