Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-05-24
HEAT WILL NOT
RETARD GROWTH
WINCHESTER PREPARES FOR
BUSY SUMMER
ANACONDA STRIKE is FOLLOWED
BY OTHERS
Eight Location Monuments Sell for
s3ooo-sitting Bull Claim Changes
Hands-YelIow Bird Will
Resume

Especial TO The Herald
WINCHESTER, Ariz.. May 23-Gen-
eral activity in. this district within the
past few days has made marked
changes. More development work is
now going on than ever before in the
history of the district, although the
camp is an old one. Many rich strikes
have caused the beginning of a new era
of development, which gives every in
dication of a big gold district. De-
spite the fact that the hot weather is
just coming on, northern and eastern
mining men are going right ahead with
their work and say the hot weather
will not retard development.
The Winchester camp is located in
the mountains right at the mouth of
a long and cool canyon, and while dur
ing the day time it Is hot in the sun
the shade is always cool and the nights
are always very pleasant. AT no time
does it get hot enough to stop work.
Mining operations can be carried on as
successfully during the summer
months as during the winter months.
The recent strike of rich ore on the
Anaconda mine has caused number
of mining men to come into the camp
and make investments. 1t has also
caused many of those already in camp
to get into the hills and start work.
with the result that since the Ana
conda strike there have been several
other rich strikes. The Anaconda is
located in the rich zone contiguous to
the great andesite and rhyolite bikes.
This strip of country is about one mile
wide and six miles long. The Ana
conda is now sinking a shaft $50 feet.
The shaft is already down twenty feet.
and the ore shoot is widening with
depth. The rich pay streak is follow
ing the diorite foot wall and some rich
specimens of ore running into the
thousands have been taken out.
New Gold and Silver Find
One of the newest finds of rich gold
and silver ore is the Mary G, which is
located near the Anaconda This prop
erty was owned by c. W. White and
H c. McCarty, who discovered the
rich ledge of gold bearing quartz and
since the strike have sold out a half
interest in the property TO E. c. Hull
of Phoenix for a good round figure. A
contract has been let for a shaft to be
sunk 100 feet. This property is on the
south side of the andesite dixie and the
ledge is dipping for the dixie.
Another good sale of the week are the
eight claims belonging to H. c. Nc
Carly, ]. W. Day and ". W. Peurine
to G. w. Read of Roswell, N NJ. These
eight claims adjoin the Mary G prop
erty and the purchase price was $4,000,
simply for the location monuments.
The claims had been located only a
short time when they were sold and
while the purchase price was not large
it was a good figure for simply the To-
cation monuments.
Another good sale has recently been
reported whereby J. D. Mitchell and
associates have taken over the Sit
ting Bull claims belonging to Barney
Quinn. The purchase price has not
been made public, but it is understood
to be very satisfactory. This property
is pretty well developed, having one
125-foot tunnel and several small shafts
and tunnels, all of which have uncov-
cred a very large body of ore. In fact.
it looks like a whole mountain of ore
and assays made show that practically
the entire hill will go from SO to S20I
in gold. besides good values in silver.
II is understood that Mitchells assoc
ciates are from Michigan and that theyI
viii start work at once.
yellow Bird to Resume
L. B. Hogue and DR. D. w. Mott of
Santa Paula, Cal, president and sec
rotary of the yellow Bird Gold Min !
ing company, which owns the old Vel
low Bird mine near Winchester, were
in camp few days ago and have de-
cided to again begin work ON this
property. It was located and worked
for many years by O. Ellsworth Ru-
mer of Los Angeles and much rich ore
taken out and shipped, having beenI
hauled over 100 miles by wagon That
was before the building of the rail
, read. The property was afterward
sold to the present owners. who have
done considerable work, but shut down
on account of a disagreement among
the stockholders 1t is now under
stood that these differences have been
settled and the property will start
work at once. They have contracted
for the treatment of the ore at the
Desert mill and as soon as work begins
they will be able to start shipping ore
The Desert mill has contracted to haul
and treat the ore for Sc ton and it is
claimed that the yellow Bird ore will
average better than S25 clear through.
The Stafford mine is going ahead
with work as fast as possible. The
working shaft is now down over 100
feet and the pay streak has widened
out to over three feet. This streak
will run over $50 a ton. The quartz
ledge will average from ten to twenty
feet thick and the entire ledge is good
shipping ore. This property will be-
gin shipping to the Desert mill as soon
as the mill begins operation. Opera
ton on this property was hindered
much on account of no water. but a
new well has been sunk 1902 feet and a !
fine flow of water encountered which
will supply plenty of water for theI
NINE
Inc Dig I1Oiu property owned DN /
J. w. Hamilton of Eureka, Cal. w. G !
Leftwitch and T. L. Morris of Phoe-
nix, is proceeding with development
work. The main shaft is now down
over seventy-five feet A gasoline
hoist and skip are being installed onI
the property.
The Calcite Copper company prop
erty. located two miles east of Win
chester, is still working on the north
crosscut, with every indication of GET
ting a rich deposit of gold and silver
sulphide. The main shaft was sunk
$50 feet and the crosscut is now in
fifty feet This property was origi-I
nally supposed to be the making OIL
a big copper mine on account of the
heavy calcite cropping and most of
the shaft sunk was in suphides but
the crosscut toward the big porphyryI
dixie shows every sign of a gold mine
instead of a copper mine. This prop
erty is owned by Judge Stillwell and
Billy Mcdonald of Phoenix and T. H
Finnegan of Salome and was bonded
some time ago by George Kislingbury
and G. D. Londsbury of Los Angeles.
Mining men who have been in campl
recently and have looked over the dis
trict thoroughly say the Winchester
district more nearly resembles the
great Homestake district than anyI
other place in the country.