Weekly Arizona journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1903-1908, 1905-02-22
THE JESSIE TO
BEGIN OPERATIONS
The Famous Old Gold Mine Faces
An Active and Profitable Future.
New Machinery on the Ground,
and Fine Showing at All Points
In Late Mine Work.

mining enterprise IN JnlS SecJ1On Is
about is to be driven home. 1t is
that of the Jessie Mines company, OPP
Grating in the Chaparral country, I'M
der the management of Hon. John S.
Jones. Readers of this paper will re-
call that some months ago the reha-
bilitating of this property was inaug
urated. Today that work is practical
ly an accomplished fact, and during
the month of March the roll of the
stamps will again resound from that
old time heavy producer.
There is no piece of mining ground
in northern Arizona that has linked to
it in gold production the favor and
regard enjoyed by the Jessie. There
is likewise entwined to its future
deep and interested belief that it will
be as heavy and as profitable a pro-
Queer as in years gone by if not more
so. This is based on the practical
and conservative manner in which the
late work has been prosecuted and &C
complished. There is nothing left in
short of the old, and the primitive
methods of the early nineties have
been discarded and the new and mod
ern takes its place.
An inspection of this property will
prove one indisputable fact. Every
thing to be seen either on top of the
ground in mechanical improvements
given, or at any point below in ore
bodies to be seen, will be a demon
strative argument that the money ex-
pended has been judicions. Further
more mining men who are conversant
with the possibilities of the ground,
will openly approve of such, and say
so. The Jessie mines have Jared in
the past, as many others have, in this
as we'll as In other sections of the
mining region of the west. Leasers
have naturally followed the invariable
course on this property like they have
on many others, namely, worked it
for all In sight, and no more, and the
outcome has been the same in this as
in the others-the property was Quilted
from one point to the other. 1t has
accordingly taken time and money to
remove these conditions, and that such
has been accomplished and that the
property is today in better shape and
is better established as a producer of
the future, there is no gainsaying.
In the line of development work
given in the past few months a new
shaft of two compartments of one
hundred and sixty feet deep has been
sunk, and tunnel two hundred feet
on the vein has been driven. At all
points in this work high grade ship
ping and milling ore has been struck.
The main shaft on the property, or
the original working shaft that has
produced in years gone by, so many
hundreds of thousands of dollars in
gold, is being enlarged to a double
compartment and retimbered, reaching
a depth of 265 feet at present. This
shaft has depth of CPS feet, and the
intention is after this work of enlarg-
ing and retimbering is completed to
that point, to continue this shaft to
1000 feet. AS fast as this shaft is
completed, exploration follows at all
points below, and this work has dem
0pcfrotad +hat tho daapa- ,,o-l-;ro, oe
the property are yet in their infancy
so far as ore bodies of richness are to
be considered. 1t may be conserva-
lively stated that from a mining
standpoint the Jessie exploration at
all points warrants the investment
that is today being given.
In the line of mechanical matters
introduced, there is new shaft house
on the property that is without doubt
the finest and most commodious of its
character in this section. A new 100
horse power boiler has lately been in
stalled and is in position, together
With 80, 000- pound Austin crusher,
car load of piping is on the ground,
while in few days hence a Kincaid
mill, especially constructed to treat
the ore of the Jessie, and pumping
and other machinery will arrive and
at once be placed in operation. A
supply of coal to last one year has
been contracted for, and every indica-
ton is that when production is again
started it will be maintained steadily
and uninterrnptedly. Everything
about this enterprise is of nature
that reflects stability and permanency,
and with such desirable asset the
80, 600 and more tons of ore that are
on the dumps, there is no avenue by
which this property in future opera
tions can prove a failure. After pre-
Iiminary matters are arranged in