Yavapai County AZ Archives History - Businesses .....Humbug Mining District 1881
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HUMBUG, YAVAPAI COUNTY.

  Humbug is in the extreme southern part of the county, bounded on the north by
the Tiger and Pine Grove Districts, and on the west by the Weaver District. The
Humbug and Cottonwood Creeks run through it. The Tip Top Mining Company's
property consists of 4,500 feet on the Tip Top ledge, and 1,500 feet on the Foy
ledge. The Foy ledge has been prospected to the depth of 120 feet. The shaft on
the Tip Top is now down 550 feet. Five levels have been opened and worked. The
vein of ore is narrow, which makes the mine expensive, a large force being
required to keep a ten-stamp mill supplied with ore. The ores are chlorides,
black sulphates, horn silver, ruby silver and native silver. The average value
of the ore is $227 per ton. The mine has produced $1,100,000. Its stockholders
have been assessed $170,000. The company has a White & Howell roaster and a
ten-stamp dry crushing mill, located at Gillette, eight miles from the mine. The
ore in the lowest level is said to be equal to any heretofore extracted.

  The Virginia, Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4 is a silver location, owned by Messrs.
Rodenburg, Suhr and others. On No. 2 a shaft has been sunk 147 feet and several
drifts run. The vein is three and a half feet. Ten tons of assorted ores were
recently shipped to San Francisco, which yielded 81)187.57 per ton. At the
deepest point the ore is said to be improving. The Cross Cut, owned by Marks,
Hutchinson & Thorn, has a shaft down 100 feet, and several cross cuts. The vein
runs at right angles to the general direction in the district. It is from four
to fourteen feet, and gives average assays of eighty-four dollars per ton. The
Nevada, owned by the same parties, is a narrow vein, from five to fifteen
inches, of very high-grade ore. A shipment from this vein sold in San Francisco
for $1,575 per ton. The 76 is a silver mine, located a half mile east of Tip
Top, which is being worked through three tunnels. The vein is from three inches
to three feet in width. It works 1300 per ton. The Isabella, owned by Fisher &
Carpenter, has a four-foot vein. A lot of this ore worked $300 per ton. The
Rescue has just worked thirty tons of ore in the Tip Top mill, which gave $316
per ton. The Red Bird and Silver Jack, owned by Messrs. Vernon & Co., both
produce high-grade ores. The Swilling has milled ores which returned $400 per ton.


Additional Comments:

Extracted from:

ARIZONA BUSINESS DIRECTORY AND GAZETTEER;
CONTAINING THE
Names and Post-Office Addresses of all Merchants, Manufacturers and Professional
Men in the Territory of Arizona;

TERRITORIAL, COUNTY, CITY AND TOWN OFFICERS.

A DESCRIPTION OF THE DIFFERENT MINING DISTRICTS AND THE NAMES OF MINING
SUPERINTENDENTS.

ALSO, A GAZETTEER OF THE COUNTIES, CITIES AND TOWNS,
Giving a full exhibit of their Mineral, Agricultural and Manufacturing Resources.

WITH AN APPENDIX,

CONTAINING THE NAMES AND ADDRESSES OF WHOLESALE MERCHANTS AND MANUFACTURERS IN
THE CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO.

W. C. DISTURNELL,
COMPILER AND PUBLISHER,
534 California Street, San Francisco, Cal.
BACON & COMPANY, PRINTERS.
l88l.


Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1881,
By W. C. DISTURNELL,
In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, Washington, D. C.


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