Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-08-13
COLUMBIA COPPER co.
The Coming Copper Bonanza. of Pima
 County.
A Description of this Promising Prop.
 erty.
Inc sHIelier Makes n successraI Run.

Inc sHielier Makes n sacce>sTaI Run
 The Columbia Copper Company, com posed of a number of Washington capitalists, incorporated under the State laws of West Virginia and operating a group of copper bearing mines, situated ID the foothills of the Santa Ritas, are beyond peradventure, in a far way to realize largely on their investments, in addition to beng speedily reimbursed for the outlay of their first principal which to begin with, was generously large.
 The group consists of three mines, | the Bull Docer, the Wonder, and the | Wild Boar. On the latter but the neces- sary assessment work has been done, on the two others sufficient develop ments have been made to mark them as magnificent and paying properties. | The Bull Docer, bow shaped by surface measurement, spans hill of possibly one hundred and thirty feet in height, and nearly the entire length of claim, has the appearance of having been in time past, a great "blow out" as the outer surface has been and Is much | broken, and the mineral without com | pact density of vein matter Is, although Tn great masses, much scattered. The | Wonder mine IS but the westerly extsn- | tion of the former and lies directly on | the level mesa, being separated from | the Bull Docer by an arroya or dry wash, at the bottom of which the Messrs. Williams had sunk a well with a view of | obtaining water for domestic uses. At a depth of thirty-two feet water was en- | countered but so peculiarly bitter as to preclude any possibility of it's use for | the purpose sought. The well was then | abandoned.
 At the depth of eighty feet on the Wonder mine the same character of water was met with as that m the we'll As the bottom Of the shaft was ID rich ore the Idea was suggested to its owners that the water in the well WAS produced from a like cause and that at a greater depth a body of copper ore would be uncovered similar to the one ID which they were then working. Later devel- opment proved them practically correct, for on squaung up the well and sinking an additional ten feet a body of ore was struck rlch in native copper. How ever this rock may be broken the same metal-clad surface Is visible. At the depth stated there were three feet Of ore, eleven feet lower down it had widened out to five feet, the size of the shaft. That the same quality of ore will be struck on the Wonder mine there can be no doubt, the water indications be- ing the same.
 The Bull Docer hill has been honey combed with cuts, drifts and tunnels, each of which in its course exposed ore of an extra quality, which on being taken out and stacked accumulated during the past year ID sufficient quantities to warrant the putting up of a smelter for its reduction alone without taking into consideration the unextracted ore in sight or speculate on unknown values below, which 1t Is but far to suppose are great.
 The company with a iustifiable faith In their properties, subscribed sufficient money to erect thirty ton smelter, be- sides putting forty thousand dollars in the treasury to be drawn on for contin- gent purposes, thus giving the superin- tendent, Mir. James c. Williams, who, for the past year has had charge Of all developments, an opportunity of show ing the mInes up on their own intrinsic merits.
 The smelter, thirty-two tons capacity. Is put up on the side of the Bull Docer hlil and was ID working order at the time of the arrival of Messrs. J. $. Del anO and Geo E. ChittendOn, president and secretary of the company, about one week ago, and although having but ht- tie fuel on hand IL was decided to make a trial run, which was done with the most satisfactory results, the ore h. quefyIng without trouble, and in that condition running with the freedom of water. The bullion, of winch 6 car load has been produced, Is nlnety-six per cent. fine. An analysis made of the slag showed 1t tO contain less than one per cent. of copper, which in itself Is sufficient proof of the non rebellious character of the ore. On the arrival of -ufficient coke the shelter now stand ing will be put ln blast and kept in con- stant operation. For the present Tue. son will be used and may be regarded IS the nearest supply point on the rail road, but later on road will be opened from the mine to Papago Station, and thus make a saving of fully eighteen miles. HOisting works arc to be put 'ver the main shaft on the Wonder mIne, of sufficient capacity to supply ore tO three extra smelters, which the company propose to erect in the course Jf few months, as developments may indicate their want.
 The capital stock of the company is divided into two hundred tn usand shares at par value of five dollars per share, and 1t Is estimated that divi- dend of one per cent. per month can be iald on production of two tons of cop per per day only, which amount under the circumstances cannot be considered large.
 The mines are most beautifully situ- ated on the low foot hills of the Santa Rita mountains, about twenty-three miles southwest of Tucson, which on c ear day is plainly visible. On the site of the Wonder mine a little town to be known as Santa Rita, with a present population of about one hundred inhab- itants, has sprung up. 1t IS abundant ly supplied with fresh water from the Bull Docer hill and Is shortly to be pro- vided with a postoffice. The mines at present give employment to about forty five men, and developments are being pushed at the rate of three shifts of men per day. When a little further along the working force is to be increased and the mines forced to produce for all they are worth.
 The officers of the company are Presi- dent, Hon. J. ;. Delano, deputy controll- CT of the United States treasury; Vice President, Major Ii. l.. Williams; Secre- tary, Mir. Geo. B. Chittendon; Treasurer, NIT. Norris Peters. The two latter gen. tlemen are Washington capitalists. Su- perintendent, Mir. James G. Williams, 10 whom belongs the credit of opening mp the mines and putting them on their present productive basis. Messrs. David Hughes and Seeley Owens, two practi- cal men have charge of the shelter.
 Other properties in the neighbOrhood are coming into prominence, notably the Omega, which hes but two miles to the southeast, and others of lesser men, ton, but with those named of sufficient importance to warrant the belief that that end of the Santa Ritas is, in the near future to be one of the best paying bull ion producing camps in Arizona Terri tory, and the Columbia Copper Compa- ny, because Of its first establishment will gather in its full share of the gold en plums.
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