Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1905-03-01
Development Work Progressing in
the Santa Maria District With
Very Satisfactory Results Rich
Strike Recently Made.

the Santa Maria this winter than IN
twelve years. The rains having fixed
the country up, prospects are fine for
busy year. The Golden Link Min
ing company is contemplating starting
their mill in the near future on good
ore. considerable of which they have
blocked out.
d. c. Thorne, ST., the father of the
Santa Maria is back again to stay.
Dan is a slayer, having made two
stakes out of properties on the river
The Florence group, consisting OF
seven claims, being the properties OF
the Arizona Gold Mine and Milling
company, promises to be the biggest
gold producer in western Yavapai. the
Florence claim alone having whole
mountain of ore, all of which assays
high enough to mill. The company is
] n erect a mill on this property in May
having a force of men developing the
same now. ]. W. Wilson, OF Prescott
and others own the adjoining claims
TO this property, which means all
kind of money for Joe and his asso-
ciates in the near future.
Just across the river is the Purple
Ros9 group owned by Joe Howell. 1t
is another big property, Joe having
several hundred feet of development
work and in every working. There
are good values and lots of ore. Some
think that 100000 is too high for Joe
to hold said property at. There being
three times that much in sight means
esay money for Joe when the right
man comes along.
Up the river three miles is the Jen-
nette Gold Mining company's proper
ty. on which there is shaft two hun
dred and twenty five feet with six feet
of good ore. G. o. Carbaugb, OF
Rockford, ILL.,, is the manager and a
big stakeholder in this company he
has lust returned from the east accom-
panied by his Drother-in-law, Mr..
Spaulding. The within is being taken
away and a steam hoist is being In
stalled, Mr.. Carbaugh's intention be-
ing to sink one thousand feet, cross
cutting at every hundred feet. The
claim being worked is the Little Girl
Mining claim formerly owned by Alex
Lucy, who owrs a good block OF
stock in the company.
This claim is on the big ledge rs lt
is called on which are the famous
Pocahontas. Turnbaugh, Good Enough,
T rout. River Bend and others. This
ledge crops out for distance OF L,
OOO feet and carries values the entire
distance. The Pocahontas has
three feet of $40 ore.
John McNef, Tom Twomey, Pard
Pierce, Tom McSherry, Bill Noakes
&c orge Holmes and Fred Meisner, all
have good prospects in this neck OF
woods.
The Mammoth group owned by Alex
Lucy bids fair to be big producer,
having good ore on four claims. The
ArioIa boys have encountered some
good ore on the Spanish Girl owned
by them.
Vim. Marshall is getting up good
ore IN the Red Rock mine OF which
he is the lucky owner.
Neiman Grossly struck eighteen
inches of five ounce gold ore at two
hundred feet deep, on the Nelman
claim owned by them.
Several thousand dollars have been
taken out of rich pockets on the sur.
face. but this strike demonstrates that
the ledge goes down.
]. W.Neiman is fixing a permanent
camp at the mine and he intends TO
ship ore at once.
E. r. Shultz has a fine piece OF
property in the Wisconsin. HIS ledge
is we'll defined and carries good values.
He is running a tunnel to tap it at
five hundred feet. Erve, being stay
er, will win out.
J. X. Miller and VIM. Bauder,
brother in-law, and brother of j. L.
Bauder. have struck it very rich In
new discovery of theirs. They are in
on the ledge thirty feet, where they
en- ,ountered an unusually rich shoot
Of gold ore, horning big. This ledge
is continuous for 5000 feet, the val
ues on the surface going as high as
800 in gold The tunnel they are
running will tap the ledge at 1000 feet
! so Messrs. Miller and Bauder have
their fortunes in sight. Staying
qualities are what are necessary to
make a success of mining.
John Hise has a force of men work
ing at Copper creek. With copper a.