Weekly journal-miner., 1909-12-08
FAMOUS MINES ID OPERATE
 AGAIN
(From Saturdays Daily.)

of the syndicate into this field, the beginning of work would be inaugu- rated next week. F. L. Wright of the Prescott Electric Company is pres ident, and W. Wood of Mayer is vice president and general manager. The latter will have charge of the development. Associated with the enterprise are several wealthy east ern people.
 It was learned from President Wright that the old Black Warrior mine in the Bradshaws is to be the scene of the main work for the fu- ture It was also learned that the Silver Prince that adjoins on the north is included in the ownership of the Swastika people. Running parallel is the Isis and the Hard scrabble mines, making a desirable group of four mines.
 It reads like a tale of the olden days to see the familiar name of the Black Warrior and the Silver Prince revived. Around each is the hal eyon days when silver was standard at $1.29 an ounce; when it was 800 miles to the nearest shipping point for reductions; when men in their frenzy were rushing into that field, when the old Peck was yielding its fabulous wealth, and when, too, the Warrior and the Prince were running neck and neck with their white metal, and when as if by magic, trou ble took place in each of the com panies, litigation followed for the riches, and to cap the climax the value of the metal went down to where it is practically is today.
 Under these conditions the War rior kept up its yield until the inev- itable crash struck it. It went the way of the other silver mines in that famed zone-elosed down. In 1880 it gave its last yield. A year or so before that time it yielded to its New York owners from one comb that was struck the handsome sum of $6OO,OOO.
 A few months before it was sold by Messrs. Curtin, Houghtaling, Smith and Buttrick for the cash price, paid on the dump, of $6O,OOO in gold. That was in 1879. With the sale of the mine the Silver Prince went the same route, and $4O,OOO was paid for it on the spot
 By way of a peculiar coincidence, Andrew Curtin, who owned a one fourth interest in the Warrior at that time, arrived in Prescott yes terday, and again goes to that iden- tical belt to start work where he left off thirty years ago on the Alta mine. MT. Curtin was also the dis coverer of the Silver Prince and his patent papers are dated in that year also.
 With all the fabulous wealth these two mines can show in production, the deepest workings on any of them are less than 200 feet below the shaft work, in fact the old gopher meth ods to get out as readily and cheaply as possible prevailed, and the highest priced labor ever known in any min ing field, will give some idea of the past day and the richness of the ore to make it pay and handsomely so.
 The Swastika people believe, after careful and practical examination of the ground, that it has hardly been prospected, and this is based upon what has recently been seen in the old workings and along the sur face at points never developed.
 A wagon road will be built from the Peck siding on the Bradshaw railroad to the Prince, less than a mile away, and the installing of a hoist, a com pressor and other mechanical utilities will follow. A force of miners will also be started to work and with the erection of buildings the old place will again assume the life it enjoyed in the distant past.
 The belt on which the Swastika claims are located can be traced from the Lincoln, on through the Blue Bird, to the DeSoto and thence to the famous Blue Bell of the Arizona Smelling Company, that is creating so much comment through its heavy and rich yield of late. The ores of the Swastika carry heavy per cent ages in lead, while the values are chloride and horn silver, in which some of the richest and most beauti- ful are seen in wire silver, and specimens of which are in the city at the present time.
 The taking over of this particular