Year: 1879

About two miles up the trail easter 1 ly from the Tiger is located the Orc

 Bonito, a gold mine, Mir W A D.

 Daunes being the superintendent,

 who very courteously gave us all the

 information sought and supplied us

 abundantly with samples of the ore

 in fact such was the case with all the

 mines we visited with the exception

 of the Tiger and the Peck. Here, for reasons we do not understand, we

 were denied admittance One would suppose that the Tiger interest might

 be best served by allowing proper

 persons at proper times to inspect it i;

 as to the Peck, time and those who

 control and manipulate it, will tell

 t!le story as to its future value as a

 dividend-paying proposition. They

 have just erected on the Gro Bonito

 property q Huntington .mill with a

 crushing capacity of ten tons daily.

 It looks well but has not worked sat

 fsfactorillY to the superintendent The ore is in large part decomposed

 honey-combed quartz, carrying free

 gold and considerable percentage of silver. They have in the aggrc- gate 39S feet of tunnel. The width of the vein is eighteen inches to three feet on the foot wall. and ono to two and half on the hanging wall. In No. ? tunnel the vein is three feet wide in the face of the tunnel. Va rious drifts and wizens have been run in addition to those already mention ed. The cost of wood here is $7 per cord, delivered at the mill under con tract Water is obtainable only from the mine and in sufficient quantity to run the work twelve hours day; but it is expected as they get in on the tunnel water in abundance will be found.

 To show the difficulty of transpor- tation to these mountains, il is said to have cost some $G,000 to bring the machinery for the Gro Bonito, which weighed about ten tons, from Walnut Grove, a distance of 9 miles. They had to build their road up and over a precipitous divide and down avery steep mountain side into the canyon where the Gro Bonito is located, and where the mountains rise up at a very sharp angle on either side.

 Right above the Gro Bonito on the side of the mountain, is located the Gray Eagle mine It is well opened and has 500 or 600 tons of ere on the dump. It is free gold, carrying lib eral percentage of silver IL is own ed by Mir. Richardson, who has d con- tract with the Hon. C. C. Bean, owner of the Luke mill in the Bradshaw basin, to pack and crush 300 tons of ore for him at $31 per ton. The ore is now being worked at that mill and I predict satisfactory results. He gets his water for the mine from a living spring in the side of tue mountain The mine is approached by trail from the Orc Sonito, which is almost perpendicular, zigzaeing up the and by another trail, of more recent construction, from Lukc's mill in the Bradshaw basin, over which the orc Is packed on dOnkcys from the mine to tue mill, distance of about five miles. The mine has the appearance of being worked lya man who knows his business. Eve rything is kept snug and in order; no loose ends lying about, and the ore is worked clean 10 the walls, which are well defined Mr. Richardson lacks i capital to work his mine to the best { and would like to interest ! some one with him who could furn- ish the amount of money necessary to enable them to work il SO as to ob- tain the best results. Wood and wa ter arc abundant for milling purpos- ps Pine lumber aGounds in some parts of the Bradshaw range, espec- ally in the Lynx Creek, Pine flat, Iassayampa and Big Bug districts. The Gray Eagle vein will average hree feet wide. It is continuous. we'll defined ledge. They have, hink, thsee tunnels run in on the edge at different levels

 The Tiptop mine is about ten niles across the country over a rough rail from the Gray Eagle It has produced largely of bullion, but is cry expensive to work and has re urned no margin of profit to the stockholders. The regular approach O this mine is by the Blacl, Canyon cad and Gillett, where the ien-stamp aill of this company is located, some ight miles from the mine

 There are other mines in this neigh l but they are not #s well l .nown as those I have namod.-lF : ' Seaman jli Scjc4t.fc Prsss.