Bisbee daily review., 1906-08-02
THE TUSCUMBIA MINE IS AGAIN BEING
 WORKED
Good Pay Streak Is Found in an Old Abandoned Yava-
 pal Property.

Since the blowing in of the smelting plant of the Ariz\la Smelling company at Humboldt has awakened the miners and prospectors of Yavapai county to the fact that a market was open at home for the ores not rich enough to be mined at profit when transporta- ton to outside smelters was consid- cred, active development work has 5een commenced Cn a number of prop critics that have been idle for several years
 In the line with the renewal of work on number of old time producers up- on which work has be:n abandoned for number of years, s. A. Prince, chief of police tl this city, and F. w. Williams, city assessor and tax col lector, owners of the old Tuscumbia properties in the Bradshaw mountains, realizing the worth of their presses sions, have now a small force of men al work opening the abandoned ground, and prospecting for new ore shoots.
 That their efforts have been re- warded is evidenced from the fact that recently after cleaning out the old S5 foot shaft on the Tuscarora vein, which traverses the Tuscumbia ground, a 9aystreak of ore over two feet in thick ness was found in the bottom of the shaft and drift. sample of which
 gave returns of 206 ounces of silver to the ton, with sS in gold. Finding after careful investigation that the water was harder to handle in the sinking shaft of shaft than in opening the ground by tunnel, they employed Civil Engineer J. J. Fisher to make surveys for connections with the vein from the old tunnel through which the immense ore bodies of the Tuscumhia vein were worked, with the re Slt that they gre I~s making preparations to open the vein from one of the series of tunnels on the Tus-
 cumbia which will tap the Tuscarora | ledge at a depth of over 100 feet be- heath the bottom of the old workings, and immediately under where the ore shoot was discovered.
 In prospecting through the old work | ings of the TuScumbia, rich ore was found in a number of places, enough ! in their estimation, to induce them to continue further investigations into
 the vein, which they believe was not
 thoroughly explored in it's early de- I velopment.
 The Tuscumbia was what is con sidered among the old time miners as ! silver proposition, and was aban- doned when the price of the white metal fell below S1 per ounce some years ago. As a producer it ranked with the Silver Prince, Peck and oth- | CT silver mines in the Bradshaw noun tains, although it was not developed
 in as extensive a way as the others. i The holdings of Prince and Williams
 consist of four claims, which cover in addition to the above veins the Tus-
 cumbia water right The camp is sit
 uated in the Bradshaw mountains. on the south side of Battle Flat, about four miles from Grown King. the pres ent terminus of the Bradshaw Noun tain. railroad.
 A project Is now on foot among the
 mine owners of the local.ty to build a
 wagon road to Crown King. which will afford easy transportation charges to
 and from the railroad terminus for the
 output of the mines and the hauling
 ir of supplies.
 The group is known as the Ingersoll
 group. and is located less than one
 mile north of the Buster and Mohawk properties, which are to be the scene tof active development on large scale in the near future.