Year: 1875

The Senator Mine and NH.

 On Sunday last we made an excursion to MT

 Fredericks mill on the Hassayampa. som

 twelve miles from Prescott, and witnessed in

 cleaning up of the plates which they find i

 necessary to do once or twice day while worL

 ing the sulphuret ores. in order to keen in

 plates clean enough to save the gold, and ever

 With this precaution it is quite clear that laryt

 percentage escapes in spite of all they have beer

 able to do. Mir. Frederick is quite encouraoed

 however, at the fact that though his ore is has,

 and refractory, he has an unlimited ouantitv o

 1t In the mine and with the further imnortor,

 fact that it pays handsomely notwitbstandino

 the unavoidable waste. He has three sets ot

 plates to each of the fivestamp batteries and ,be

 last set catches nearly as much gold as the first

 which IS conclusive proof that he needs more

 ana ne IS determined to have them, having al. ready sent Tor them. riffie-box below the plates catches s10 per day and the water is beavi. Iy charged with sulpburets for miles down the creek. In working free gold ores of course all these appliances and extensions are not recuired but even then they do no harm and it is well enough to have them.

 Of course we "dinnered" with the proprietor. and after becoming satisfied with the examina. ton of the mill, mounted quartz wagon and rode up to the mine, mile and half further on, at the head of Maple Gulch. The Senator is traceable from Jeff Davis ranch on Hassayampa for distance of nearly three miles over the hills and in many places crops up boldly to a conside- rable night above the surface of the rround It lies between two huge lodges of grey looking Qfnt l..

 did not examine them closely

 On the top of the mountain where the works are located we found quite a large number of men at work. Some hewiny and saving tim. bers for whim which George Waters is building: some fixing up blacksmith shop, etc, but ma Jority were down in the shafts taking out ore and sending it up to the surface by means of windlasses worked by human power. This will all be changed when the whim is completed.

 There are four or five working shafts open within distance of a hundred yards or so but the one from which the orc is now comin. is at the extreme southern end of the Lworks, where they find the greatest quantity of pay rock ever yet strnck in the mine. The deepest shaft is next to this on the north, and is connected with It by a tunnel on a level with the present work rug enait. DeIo" tnls the deep shait has been al- lowed to fill with water until the whim shall be ready to empty it. We did not descend into any Of the works, were invited to do in fact We contracted prejudice against going into the ground while in Washoe some years ago, and secretly resolved to stay out in the future until our friends should adjudge us unfit to remain longer upon earth and lay us reverendly beneath its surface.

 It is Mir. Frederick's intention to have a thou sand tons of this ore in the mill yard when the snow begins to fly, which, with what they may be able to do in the winter, he thinks will keep them employed until the Spring opens working it up. An excellent grade has been made from the | mill to the mine, the only fault being want of | turn out places, which wl be remedied in time | The road from Prescott is very good with the | exception of one-half mile before reaching the | mill which is abomnably steep, and, until d | grade is made cannot be avoided. This is the -oad over which the travel to the Crook mine md to Bradshaw, Peck, etc. has to pass, and it is lot likely this hill will remain ungraded great while longer. From the mill to the mine is private road built by Mir. Frederick, and near he top of the mountain before reaching the nine Johnson & Co. of the Crook mine and mill lave branched off to the left and built road hree and half miles further to their place. We hall go again when can and extend our re- searches to the Crook and perhaps to Bradshaw