Weekly journal-miner., 1909-02-17
TAXES TWO GROUPS IN BRADSHAWS
 UNDER BOND
Lester Jackson Acquires Gladiator And
 War Eagle
Rrom Tuesdays panvl

By far the largest and most impor-
 tant mining transaction in this county
 in many, months was recently closed
 when the titles to the War Eagle and Gladiator groups in the Bradshaw
 mountains passed into the control of Lester Jackson of this city. The deal is the eonsummation of several months of negotiations between Jackson and the owners. The price was not made public but is known to be in the six | figures, payable in installments cover ing a period of two years.
 MT. Jackson left here yesterday af- ternoon after shipping a carload of supplies and tools to the camp which was established Saturday at the Glad iator mine. The groups which are con- tiguOus comprise. fifteen claims.
 Small forces will be started clean ing and repairing the old workings in both properties. As soon as some ne- eessary repairs are finished and rail road tracks placed in the tunnel active development will be commenced.
 The War Eagle vein is considered by miners and mining men one of the mother lodes of the Bradshaw noun tains. It as located distance of 10, 900 feet, all the claims being held un- der United States patent. The War Eagle group, taken over by MT. Jack son from E. B. Gage and Mrs. Calvin Jackson, covers 7,500 feet of the ledge, the outerop of which is continuous a distance of 5000 feet. It cuts through the same mountain with a northerly and southerly strike as the Crown King vein, 1000 feet east of the lat ter, It is opened by over 1,O09 feet of tunnels, drifts and shafts, the deepest shaft being 235 feet.
 The paystreak ranges in thickness from 11a to 4 feet. The ore values have been proven by many tests to plate over $20 to the ton in gold.
 The War Eagle claim was located in 1871. It has been a producer at in termittent periods ever since. The Del Paseo mill, the first stamp mill ever enacted in the county, was built to re- cover the golden treasures from it's ores.
 Since its discovery in 1873 over $25O,OOO worth of ore has been taken from the Gladiator mine. Some of the product was shipped to markets in Texas and Colorado and a large DOT ton milled in a ten-stamp mni, now on the ground but in a dilapidated con- dition. The values of the ores milled were not recovered closely and the rich tailings left have been washed away by floods. The mine is opened by a shaft. over 700 feet deep. A sam pie taken from the bottom a thickness of three feet gave assay returns of $36 in gold to the ton. Other samples talk en from different levels in the proper ty show a general sameness in values with the exception that ores from the deep workings are slightly richer than those mined in the higher levels. A conservatives estimate places the value of a block of ore in one of the deep levels blocked out and ready for stop ing at $4O,OOO.
 The groups are two and a half miles north of the Crown King terminus of the Bradshaw Mountain railroad. They are located in one of the best tinbered sections of the Bradshaw range. There is ample water in springs near the camp for domestic purposes and the mines will afford a sufficient supply for a large reduction plant
 MT. Jackson expevts to be ready to commence breaking new ground in , both properties in ten days.
 The Gladiator group was formerly owned by Mrs. J. c. Herndon and At torney T. G. Norris.
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 A bill was offered by Wolf in the house establishing a truant officer in districts of five hundred children, and one by Doan for the revocation of h- 1uor dealers licenses by the district court instead of by supervisors.
 Wolf's bill passed making it option Il for city councils to close barber ihOps on Sundays.
 De SOusa's bills providing for the payment of two per cent on territorial unds desposited in banks and taxing ,anks in all counties where they have 'fiees, passed.
 The bill for divorce where on party Ias been insane ten years was reported 
 Adjournment in both houses till Monday took place.