Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1906-11-07
sULPHIDI ORE III CoNoRysS
 MINE.
(Froin Sundays Daily.)

News reached this city yesterday from the Congress mine that body sf sulphidc ore was recently uncovered h sinking shaft No. C, below the 2,OOO foot level, the size or extent of which has not been determined, Q cross cut having been run on it 0 distance of 23 feet with no walls yet in sight.
 The Congress group, of thirty con tiguOus claims, is the property of the Congress Consolidated Gold Mining company, successors to the Congress Gold company, which purchased 1t from the heirs of Diamond Jo Reynolds, who developed 1t from n mere prospect, in 1887, into its present standing among the great gold producers of the Terri. tory, before his death at the camp in September, 1891.
 The equipment of the mine includes twelve hoisting engines, varying in ca. pacity from 20 10 200 horse power, with a reduction plant, consisting of an s0-stamp mill, New Standard concen. trating plant and cyanide plant, com. prising a roasting furnace and seven Seton teaching tanks, with three 200. ton teaching tanks for trcating the ores which do not require roasting. The main shaft on the property enjoys the distinction of being the deepest 'n the Territory, having passed the 1000 foot level, where the ore body is larger and richer than in suy of the spper workings.
 Discovered in the carly SOS. by Dennis May, it soon attracted attcn. tion all over the Territory by the rich. neas of the ore mined from it's sur. face workings. Being without means May interested John Doughcrty of this city with him in the property, when a shaft was sunk along the vein of high grade ore which gave good returns af ter the enormous transportation ex. pense of hauling it by wagon dis tance of over so miles, to this city. which was then the nearest railroad station, from which point 1t was then shipped to the Pueblo smelters. Recognizing its great future, r. M. Murphy, now president of the s. F. P. | F., in 1887 secured a bond on the property, and later succeeded in asso. ciating Diamond Jo Reynolds with him. X new shaft was started, a hoisting plant erected, and n plan of develop. ment insugurated, with . large force of men, which continued until Septem- Der, 1891, when Diamond Jo Reynolds, the leading spirit in the enterprise, die,l
 After the building of the $. F. P. < F. was commenced, work was rc. sumcd in March, 1894, by the Congress Gold company, which purchased the property from the Reynolds heirs since when the mines have been oper. atcd continuously, with a constantly increasing output.
 branch railroad from Congress Junction, a distance of three miles, af fords transportation to the main line of the 5. r. P. ( r. The mine employ, n large force of men at all seasons of the year, supporting n population oi over 1000 in the town.
 Water for the mill is pumped from Martinez Greek, across inc mounts aims a distance of three miles, where th, company has large pumping plant.
 NestliDg in bend of the southern slope of spur of the Weaver Noun tains, in the Martinez district, th. hoisting plant, reduction works ant. the town of Congress can be seen fo, many miles across the desert moaa reaching to the Harcuver and Harars Ha'n mountains, n monument to th, energy and good business judgment O, Y. N. Murphy, who was among th, hrst 10 realize the great merit of th. Congress vein, the first to interest cap ital in It's development and the gen eral manager of 1t when it entered tb, list of the great gold producers of th, Territory.