Arizona silver belt. [volume] (Globe City, Pinal County, Ariz.) 1878-19??, 1906-05-17

The earliest record of Globe district
dates from the location of the Globe
and Globe Ledge mining. claims
the Old Dominion mine--in 1873, by b.
w Reagan, Anderson brothers, Charlie
Mason. belong and COPELAND, who, with
the exception of the Andersons, were
also the locators of the Silver King
mine the same year. Their locations
here appear to have received little at
tention for several years, and no devel-
opment work of consequence was done
on the Globe and Globe Ledge
claims until 1876, when Reagan.
having acquired the interests Of
his partners in the claims,
EMPLOYED Bud Woodson and Phil Phelps
TO run a lOO-foot tunnel; on which to
base application for United States
patent. The contract was completed
in the spring of 1877.
The first silver mines of consequence
were the Ramboz, Rescue and Blue
Bird. aHiof which had rich ore on the
surface The Blue Bird ore at 100 feet
in depth ran go per cent lead AMI 1881
silver: Ramboz' second class ore S4O5
silver ard 50 per cent lead. The Res
cue ore was still richer, running INTO
the thousands of dollars por ton, and
the mine was an important producer
for years.
The Heavy Silver Producers
The McMillen and Richmond Basin
mires we discovered in 1876. The
Stonewall jackson mine at McMillien
proved to be phenomenally rich, and
was sold by the locators, McMillen and
T. II. Harris, to Santa Rosa, CAL,
parties for $l20, 900. Some of the ore
was almost pure silver and had to be
cut from the vein with chisels. The
richest ore va; boxed and shipped to
San Francisco, where it was sold for
specimens. A heavy flow of water was
struck in the Stonewall jackson and
not being provided with pumps to han
die it, the mine was shut down and
operations were never resumed by the
company, although leasers extracted
small fortunes from the Workings above
the water level.
The MacMOrris mine at Richmond
Basin, which proved to be the largest
producer of silver in the district, was
located for MacMorris by Dickey and
Alvaney, who located the adjoining
claim-the Richmond themselves.
Mac Morris after W )rking his mine and
shipping silver from il for years, in
1885 sold to Fisk, Stout & c., of New
York, for $50, 900. The company built
fine l0-stamp mill at Wheatfelds and
developed and operated the mine for
several years with splendid results.
The mine was closed down because of
the lead having been lost, and the fail
ure is generally believed to have been
due to incompetent management, and
the opinion prevails that the mine
could be reopened and profitably
worked again. The MacMorris mine
produced about 81, ESQ. 00p in silver.
Great Nuggets Of Silver
A Richmond Basin mine that game
local fame was the Nugget: The claim
was located by German prOspector
who did not attempt to develop it and
thought he had made good trade when
ne sold the claim to Chilson brothers
for mule. The new owners COM
menced exploratory work and soon dis
covered that they had bonanza. At
the grassroots they uncarthed silver in
the form of nuggets varying in SIZE
from hens egg to nearly a foot in
diameter almost the pure stuff and
their first shipment of nuggets Melted
them upwards of $4,000. The shir-
ment was packed to Silver King, hauled
thence to Yuma in wagons, and trans
ported from that point by boat to San
Francisco.
"Munson's Chunk" was another note
worthy discovery. The story is that
Munson, on his way to Globe over the
Richmond Basin and McMillen trail,
stopped to rest at point short dis
lance east of the present Collins &
Doyle and Globe & Arizona Develop
men company's properties, about three
miles from Globe. Inadvertently he
stuck his pick into hugh bowlder ly-
ing at the north side of the trail, and
to his establishment, discovered that it
was silver. Taking an envelope from
his pocket he wrote on the reverse side,
This is Munson's chunk" which no.
tice he placed on the bOwlder and rode
on into town. The chunk" was brok-
en- up and milled, and yielded silver to
the value of about So, 500.
Other silver mines which yielded
largely were the Fame, Centennial and
Silver Era.
The Pioneer mines, located on the
southern slope of Pinal mountain, fif-
teen miles from Globe, were discovered
IN 1873 by George Scott and Tom New
lands, who sold the Pioneer claims to
William Hellings, representing a Phil
adelphia company. The Howard mine,
at Pioneer, was sold by d. Larre and
For Ford to the Howard Mining company.
Inc mines OF Pioneer camp, up to the
Time that they shut down in 1883, pro-
duced several hundred thousand dollars.
Most OF the silver mines in Globe dis
trlct shut down in 1882 and '83, but
ieasers worked them in desultory fash
ion for ten years thereafter.
Commencement Of Copper Mining