Arizona citizen., 1877-06-16
Vazura Consolidated MIL and
 Mining Company.

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 We take the following extracts iron ! The Daily Exchange of San Francisco of date May 5l:
 The property winch this company proposes to acquire consists of fifteen distinct mining claims, located in Ger TO Colorado mining district, Pima county, Arizona Territory The prop erty is situated unon and is part oi the Cerro Colorado lode. This cele brated lode is distant, in a southerly direction, about fifty five miles from Tucson, sixteen from ReventOn, seven from Arivaca, and twenty-five from Tubac. It is on the public highway from Tucson to Altar, Saric, and all other points in Sonora. The road runs through broad open valley from Sopori to the foot hills of the Cerro Colorado.
 The claims of this company are ex- tensions of the Cerro Colorado mines, amounting to 5000 feet on the main vein. Others are located on parallel lodges, and still others on cross veins, and some on what are perhaps only feeders to the main ledge. Work 10 q greater or less extent has been done upon all these mines. The course of the ledge is nearly northeast and southwest dipping slightly to the east. T he Cerro Colorado loca- ton is the oldest in the district, and the one upon which the greatest amount of work has been done There Is a shaft sunk to a depth of 212 feet, showing both foot and hanging walls clearly defined. The course, dip, form atiOn and character Of the walls prove beyond the shadow of doubt that it is a true Assure vein, and the ledge in the bottom of the shaft is eighteen feet wide between walls. The ore varies in character, being decomposed quartz and chlorides at the surface, from which it changes, at sixty and one hundred feet respectively, to anti monial silver and black sulphurets. The value of the ore SttfhpffllX SttfpffIl !. ilncgeaass l dred feet It assays from S1000 to S9,OOOI per ton. At the lower level fourteen tons of selected ore was taken out and shipped, via Guaymas, to Swansea, Wales, which yielded an average of $9,OOO per ton. The ledge crops out prom nently from the ground and is. distinctly traceable for a distance of four miles. La Nazura, the principal mine of the company, Is situated on the main vein. It is 1500X600 feet; has two shafts, each sixteen feet deep, 4XS: one shaft eightieet deep and an open cut on the crOppings about fifty feet long. Each of these shafts is in ore, assaying from SlO0 to $500 per ton. There are large quantities of the same character upon the dump. Work has been done upon the other mines as follows:
 Tyentv-six shaft fifty feet deep, 6xS. Tunnels at bottom of shaft lSI and 30 feet long, 4x6 feet. Assays from ore in bottom of shaft from SlOO tol S4000 per ton.
 Recurder-cut 12 feet deep, 4x25.
 Nina del Taio-trench from b to 30 feet deep, 3 to feet wide and 33O feet long; on the croppings and Tn good ore
 Captive-cut 20 feet long, 4xS feet.
 Bonanza-cut 30 feet long, 1OxlO.
 Home TIcket-cut 30 feet long, 5XS.
 Esperanza-shaft 20 feet deep, 6X6 i; shaft 15 feet deep, 5x6; cut 4O feet long, 7x16. with tunnel 20 feet long; shaft 9 feet deep, 4x9 feet; shaft Is feet deep 4x9 feet.
 Draughtsman-small cuts on crop pings.
 Poor mine-shaft 9 feet deep, 6xS.
 The other locations consist of thel MOnUmeuldl, Oll bhO nan ciH 'N Belmont, parallel locationi the Sur veyor and Esperanza East.
 These mines were visited and favor ably reported upon as early as 1862 by s. F. Butterworth, Henry Janin and G. Kustel, of Melrose Smelling Works, Alameda county, but distant transpor- tation and hostile savages forbadel operations at the time. These mInesI were formerly owned and worked by d new York company, of which Samuel Colt was one, but in 1858 the people at the mines were killed, the mines abandoned and the country overrun by Apaches, in whose possession 1t re- mained until about two years ago, when it was relocated by MT John P. Arey and others, who incorporated the Cerro Colorado mining company.