Arizona republican., 1906-06-06
TIP TOP AND HEATH
 TWO YAVAPAI MINES
Will Be Worked By New Company
 With Headquarters in Phoenix.

Messrs. James s. Griffin and the
 Newhouse brothers returned yesterday
 from trip to the old Tip Top mine, 1 on which they set out last Saturday. | They had nice time and returned to | Phoenix elated with what they had
 seen. The Messrs. Newhouse and their
 associates recently acquired the own ership of the old Tip Top mine from the Wager brothers and also of the | Heath mine, ten miles from Tip Top l in the direction of Crown King These two properties were united in interest and turned over to a corporation they organized known as the Tip Top Heath
 Mining company which has a capital ization of a milton and a half. The relative valuation placed on the two
 properties is sixty and forty per cent
 of the whole, for the Tip Top and Heath, respectively, the former being
 silver mine and the later a gold
 mine.
 The Newhouse brothers came here
 from the north, where they were as sociated for five years with the Gold
 Stabeck Banking company, which op- crates a number of banks in North Da- kOta and Minnesota, though their home
 was originally in Wisconsin. They propose in the near future to make Phoenix their home and operate the Tip Top mine from here. Mir Griffin has associated himself with them. The president of the Tip Top Heath com pany is H. J. Newhouse. E. G. Wager of Tip Top is vice president, J. $. Griffin is secretary and A. N. New house is treasurer. MT. Griffin will have charge of the business of the rar,r the other gentlemen and in view of the proposed active working of the prop critics that business it is expected will ! rapidly increase.
 The first work to be done is the building of a new road to make the | mine more accessible. This work has | been going on for some time being l now half completed, and five men and | a team being employed. The road branches from the old Black Canyon | road about mile and a quarter above | the old AllIire ranch on New river and l it will not only be better road but | will be several miles shorter than the | old road to Tip Top.
 The Tip Top is one of the historic | old silver mines of Arizona. being one 1 of the largest mining camps in the ter rltory twenty years ago. It was never | patented and was at one time owned | by Senator Hearst. When the price of | silver went down he closed it down | and it has been worked but little since l then, though ore has been taken from It from time to time in a desultOry sort i of way Eventually the property was | abandoned and the Wager brothers re- located it and have held it since then until it was turned over to this new corporation. which proposes to work it systematically now that silver is again being recognized as a valuable mineral and taking it's proper place 4h | The world. The Tip Top is opened up to the 500-foot level. It is not a very wet mine naturally but the surface water has been draining into 1t for years. It is believed that once 1t Is II unwatered it can easily be kept dry Il with a fair sized pump Pumps will II be bought a once for it's unWateringI Il and taken to the mine as soon as the Il road above spoken of is finished The Il hoist on the property is in good con- II dition and available for almost imme- II diate operation. The old mill. how II ever, is in a badly dilapidated condi- II tion, though certain parts of it are in very good repair. There seems to be no question in anybody's mind of the value or quantity of the Tip Top ores. They are said to run 400 ounces of sil- yer to the ton and the Wagers have smelter returns showing good results from shipments made since they have had the property. The mine became a has been merely because silver was low and now that it is looking up again there is fine future for the 
 The Heath property is q much newer mine, being opened up but little. The deepest workings consist of one shaft 1O5 feet deep and another 15O feet deep. t the two being connected by d drift 12O feet long. There is also a fifty-foot tunnel in the slope of the hill. Assays from the ore in this mine show an av- craze of S120 per ton gold. This prop erty is also equipped with a hoist but no reduction plant. It is the present E purpose of the company to operate z both properties simultaneously. And when business gets properly started he old stage road from Phoenix to the k Black Canyon will again become a -horoughfare for heavy traffic instead of lonely desert trail. as it has been most of the time for the last decade.