The Weekly Arizona Miner

GILLETT AND ITS OUTLOOK - THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS DAILY.

At two P. M. we arrived at the new and thriving town of Gillett, which although not three months old contains several stores carrying large stocks of goods that will compare favorably with the mercantile houses of our own town, Prescott. Anders & Rowe, C. P. Head & Co., and C. T. Hayden are the owners of these mammoth establishments. A brewery has been established by Mr. Pater Arnold, and the people will be furnished with a beverage healthy and agreeable through the exertions and enterprise of this gentleman. Saloons dot the town in many places and seem to be doing a prosperous business. Mr. Edwards has erected at quite an expense a meat market which supplies mill and mine, together with the populace fresh fat roasts and steaks. Building is progressing all over town and the place presents a lively appearance. Town lots are worth $50 and 250 each. J. W. Swilling has valuable farming lands surrounding the new Dorado, a fine young orchard already shows thrifty signs of progress. Wood choppers and haulers are numerous and help to fill the place with an industrious class of people. Corrals are going up and being filled with hay for the accommodation of the freighters and others who are arriving continually from the Capital and other points throughout the Territory. Messrs. Clark & Crooks have a wagon and blacksmith establishment in full blast and are putting up a small dwelling house from adobes, with Mr. Allen, the Prescott bricklayer as master of ceremonies. C. T. Hayden has in course of erection a storeroom, which, when completed, would not be a discredit to the new County buildings of Yavapai were it situate adjacent thereto.

The motive power that keeps the machinery of this new and lively burg alive is the Tiptop Company's ten-stamp mill, which in every particular and form seems to be perfect. The building is substantially built, having for a foundation the solid rock, therefore, such a thing as the machinery settling and getting out of line is entirely out of the question. The engine that propels the whole apparatus of the institution, is a 76-horse power. The mill besides the ore crusher, dry kiln and one of Howell's improvements on White's roasters, four combination pans and two 9-foot settlers, which enables the company to work their ore up to 94% per cent or the battery assay which probably is not excelled by any mill in the United States. The whole amount of bullion produced at the mill during the month of March, with a great delay on account of incomplete belting, etc., during the first thirteen days of the month, aggregated 47,309.69. The average of all ore worked at this mill since it started, shows that it has yielded exactly 185.60 battery assay per ton. The only ore worked as custom thus far has been about twenty tons, however the company have purchased considerable ore from outside mines as an accommodation to miners and prospectors throughout Humbug district. There is sufficient ore on the dump at the mill just now, to keep it running steady for thirty days, which amount is not likely to diminish, as the amount arriving daily is in excess of the amount being worked. Mr. Hoffman has departed for new fields and his place is to be filled by an experienced millman from California, Mr. G. H. Weber. At present the management of the whole business rests with Mr. Gillett and H. C. Gushwiler, two affable and good business men. The company have in their employ at present in mill and mine 136 men, who receive their stamps punctually at the end of each month, therefore from this source there are no complaints. The average bullion yield from all ores that have been worked since the mill started up in the latter part of February to the present time, is 172.09. There are now piled up for use at the mill over one thousand cords of wood and the supply is continually kept up by numerous persons who have contracts for furnishing fuel. The company board the mill men in the company's boarding house, which is judiciously and carefully managed by Mrs. J. E. Brown, assisted by her accomplished daughter, Miss Annie, late of San Francisco.

It is the opinion of honest, conscientious mining men that the Tiptop stock will, on its merits, go up to $8 or $10 per share in a few months. The mine is developing finely and no lack of rich ore. The whole cost of milling and mining per month is about $15,000, and with a yield of sixty thousand every thirty days, which it will not be difficult to accomplish, hereafter dividends of 40 to 45 cents per share will be declared, which of itself, will bring the stock up on its own merits, and if those who own stock in the Tiptop lack faith in its future outcome, we would advise them to cast it to the winds, as the substantiality of the mine is beyond question, notwithstanding slanderous reports to the contrary, which have had a tendency to warp the minds of a few stockholders. Everything is on a solid basis and the great bullion yield from this silver lined district is one that Yavapai County and the Territory at large should feel proud of.

The people are jubilant over the prospect of having mail service put on between Prescott and Phoenix, two very important points in connection with this section. The road at several points between Antelope and Gillett requires some work to make it safe for travel and our Board of Supervisors should see that a small amount of money be used in repairing the same. Good restaurants are one of the things that make life pleasant in this section. Messrs. Smith & Levy furnish all the delicacies to be found in the market, and sufficient to satisfy the most fastidious. Mrs. Brown, also accommodates many who visit the new city and take everything throughout the camp in connection it would be difficult to find a more jovial, happy people, or better conducted town in any frontier country. To-morrow we intend to make a thorough examination of the mine and until then, adieu. B.

Gillett, April 4, 1878.