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Newspaper
Mesa Free Press
Location
Mesa, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1894
Page
4
The Democrat notes SP workers who did not strike will not be paid for halted service. The Tribune points to rising silver quotations and the North and South railroad through Florence along with the ongoing Butte dam project as signals of Florence's promising development and beauty.
A Goldfield visitor notes permanence in the camp as new work proceeds at Mammoth with cave-ins cleared and full stamp mills due to operate shortly. Rain has revived pasture and placer mines, boosting regional industry and cattle fattening after weeks of drought while railroad progress continues in Mexico with extensions to Sierra Mojado and Port Mazatlan.
A Courier reporter trails a seedy man whose half grown satchel pops open revealing a large gold brick worth thousands. The man claims the gold came from a mill and mine near Prescott and asks secrecy after a prior shooting incident.
The Courier reports that the old belief Arizona gold mines never go down is disproven. Pocket mining failed as miners ignored ledges, but recent deep mining shows mines growing richer with depth and the best method is to sink from worked-out surface pockets to reach the ledge. Some of the richest recent finds came from this approach.
Latest advices from Congress state that 100 men are at work, twenty new men were put on last Saturday, the twenty stamp will is running steadily. also six whiskey mills, with the seventh in course of construction. This will make a saloon to every fourteen and three tenths men.
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