Arizona silver belt. [volume] (Globe City, Pinal County, Ariz.) 1878-19??, 1905-08-10
YAvAPAl COUNTY
Growing Importance Of the Mining In
dustry. New Developments

county as to leave it an open question
whether the property is in one county
or the other, new fifty-ton mill plant.
with cyanide outfit as well, will be in
operation within the next three or four
months. The plant is to be placed on
the group of claims known as the
Golden Grown mine, and no time is to
be wasted in putting the plant in work.
ing order.
1t has been definitely announced from
the inside that the Copper Chief Min
ing company will erect smelter on
Equator hill; All of which would in
dicate that there is promise of much
mining activity in that neighborhood in
the near future. The Cleopatra, Deca-
tur and Venture Hill mining compa-
MES continue to work their properties
with good results. AT the Decatur
they are taking some good looking ore
from the 800 foot drift.
Whether the Great Peck mine, which
was one of the greatest producers of
wealth in Yavapai county, will be de-
veloped, will depend upon the action to
be taken by the board of directors
when they hear the report of the three
principal stockholders, Congressman
Tawney of Minnesota, Congressman
Brown of Wisconsin, and Congressman
Goebel. These gentlemen have just
returned from a weeks stay at the
mine and made thorough examina-
tion of the property. The conditions
there, they report as discouraging in
the extreme. The mine is full of water
which is flowing out through one of the
tunnels. Down TO the 250 foot level
the main shaft is caved in, and if any
development work whatever is done it
will be on different ground.
From the Prescott Courier
The old John Clark property, on Lynx
creek, is being worked under lease by
Messrs. Henderson and Greer and re-
port is that they are taking out some
very good grade ore.
John Hise, of the Santa Maria mining
district, has bond on the Lucy group
and with force of 10 men is taking
out ore and driving two tunnels into
the mountain, one on the east and the
other on the west side $50 feet and $50
feet respectively. Mr. Hise has vast
deposit of ore which gives a value of
$40 in gold on an assay taken across
the entire ledge. The ore is being
piled up on the dump.
Philip Richardson, pioneer miner of
this district, has for some years been
developing a group of quartz claims at
the head of England gulch, few miles
south of Prescott, and has upon the
group tunnel. 220 feet in and several
shafts. That is well watered section
and his work has been seriously re-
tarded by water coming in. He has a
very good showing for a mine and min
ers from Colorado who have seen the
peculiar granite and iron appearing
quartz encountered in the lower work
ing of these properties express the
opinion that larger and richer deposits
lie below as such has proven the case
with similar formations in Colorado.
Mr.. Richardson says he has never seen
any ore of this sort in the section.
From the Arizona Republican.
1t is probable that the FOOLS Gulch
mine changed hands Friday last. 1t
was expected that the deal would be
consummated the day before and if it
has not already been done it almost
certainly will be. The prospective pur-
chaser was III. j. Beemer, who had al
ready had some mining experience in
this territory. Tony Johns of Pres
colt had an option on the mine which
expired Saturday and it is thought that
his negotiations with Mr.. Beemer
would come to conclusion about the /
same time. The figures are not known
but they are supposed to be somewhere
between $50, 200 and SIS, 900. The prop
erty was once in probate court and a
price of $4,000 was fixed on it, but
conditions are different now. That sit
iation followed the deaths within a
'hort time of each other of two presi-
ients, both of whom had been the
leaviest stockholders. The stockhold-
RS were unable to agree upon the
election of third. The property is
lnder the management of w. A. Clark
Who has had charge of it for years and
Who was one of its earliest owners.
rom the Prescott Herald.
After being vacant for several
months the fine buildings erected at
layer by the Rigby Mining & Reduc-
ion company are to be filed with ma
hinery and the plant put in operation
t the earliest possible date. r. John
'igby left this morning for Maver ;
here ne will remain for the next