Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-09-05
vULTURE MINE SOLD
 FOR HALF MILLION
Famous old Mine Has Interesting His tory-Said to Have Produced
 Sl6,00O,O00.


 burg has been sold to Boston syndi- cate. J. D. Curry, in charge of the property, was instructed to turn over the property to the purchasers.
 MT. Curry sad It may be sur prise to some to know that the price paid for the Vulture is in the neigh. l borhood of Q half million dollars, but such is a fact, and also l can state with fair knowledge that another half million will be utilized as fast as demands warrant in the exploitation of the property. l consider that this is the greatest event in the history of Wiekenburg and if there ever were any doubts as to her future, they are total ly eliminated now.'
 | While it is not known yet it is prob able that the company will follow the example set by Octave and will estab- fish a power plant here on the Hassa- yampa and build an electric road ito the Vulture. However, this and other important information will be forthcom- ing in due time. Everyone should feel happy on knowing that what old timers in this section believe to be the best gold mine in the west, is again to re- sume operations.
 In view of the location here of the Octave power plant, and that the set ting here of reduction works within the near future is largely believed, places the future of Wiekenburg away above par
 | The mine was discovered by, the late Henry Wickenburg in the fall of 1863 and the first ore treated by him by the Arastra process was in June, 1884 The method netted him over Sl00 per ton gold, figuring the same at the value of $l6 per ounce. So prominent did the Arastra become that for the next twelve months following the first in stallation over forty yere operated be low the town. Wickenburg moved to the mine when he sold the ore to the owners of the Arastra for $l5 per ton and let them mine at whatever point they saw fit on the Vulture.
 1 In the winter of 1865 in San Fran cisco, Wickenburg is reported to have been buncoed out of his mine by a band of "crooks" and the spring of 1866 brought Mir. Phelps of New York upon the scene. But before the arrival of Phelps, Jack Swilling had built q five-stamp mill below town and man by the name of Tyson built another of the same capacity a mile above town. Both of these plants were of short profit to their proprietors for the management of MT. Phelps cut off their ore. In the spring of 1866, James Gas senberry as mine manager, and Mir. Sexton as mill man began the erection of a twenty-stamp mill at the point where the remains are still to be seen above town. Pending its competition, the fve-stamp mill of Tyson nearby was leased by Cassenburg, who paid sl00 day for it. The twenty-stamp mill run for two years when twenty more stamps were added and the forty stamps dropped for four years longer. To relate the thousand or more incl dents in connection with the various arrangements of this famous property during the past thirty years would be interesting, but too volumous for a newspaper article. Its production of over sl6,000,000 by the books of record with the Lord only knows how much more that never was noted is ample proof of its merits. With only a per pendieular depth of about 2sO feet with thousands of tons of good ore in sight, the possibilities of the Vulture yet re- main to be told.