Mohave County miner., 1883-05-06
PACIFIC MINE

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 PACIFIC MINE
 and owned by J. B. White of San Francisco and H. 1. Owen and James A. Smith of this county. This ledge is contact vein. between slate aud porphyry, the hanging wall being porphyry The vein shows an i'm mense body of copper ore on the crest of lofty ridge that It crosses. At this point it shows about thirty to forty feet of ore. The ore is a carbonate, free of other bases and will smels readily and carries all the way from five to sixty per cent. of copper. averaging for the entire width Of tho ledge probably 9 per cent. The ore also carries from $1O to so per ton in silver and . little gold. A spring Of watee has lately been discovered about 400 yards from the mine which will furnish an abundance of uater for a large sized smelting furnace.- There is also large forest of pine timber about two miles from the mine, in fact al- most everything necessary for smelter is close at hand. The mine has been partially opened hy cut at the top of the ridge lbout eight feet long ali in ore. A force of men are now at work under the superin- tepdence of John Gird running in tunnel which will crosscut the vein at depth of about fifty feet. There is at the present writing fine body of ore in the face of the tunnel.
 About four miles from this claim nearer to the railroad and in the low foothills of the range IS the
 ANTLER MINE.
 owned by Messrs. Mackenzie. Roe and Ros- borough. This IS also a contact vein fol- lowing an immense dyke of quartzitc. throwing out ore at intervals of few hun- dred feet. Upon the Antler location there is an immense blowout of copper and lead ore all of which clrries silver, ranging from $10 to $80 per ton. A shaft has been sunI thirty feet on this ledge all in ore. and samples taken from the bottom of the shaft are claimed by the owners to carry 15 per cent, copper and to contain S47 per ton ir silver. The immense body of ore in sight. even of thls grade, establishes the fact that this is a most valuable property, lying as if does 1t ten miles from the railroad C which there is already natural road, all downhill, thus reducing the cost of hauling to a very low figure. The ore body where the shaft is sunk is apparently twenty feet wide and the chimney extends each way from the workings 1B0 to 200 feet. The owners of this claim expended some $12OO cn it last fall and will doubtless soon con- rlence pilipg ap ore near the railroad track
 There are numerous othbF lorations on tll.s ledge, which can be traced for long distance, aii showing more or less ore in the croppings. notably an adjoining location owned by Paul BreoH and P. Dnrgan. - While none of these other locations show Antier still some of th9m are very much richer in silver, some of the ore assaving ueariY S2G0 per ton. The copper mines of Mohava county are destined to take prom inetiI place among its many ether rich mines and it will nGt ue ..;aHE months be- fore old Mohaye will be producing an output of copper bullion that will astonish every one al,i make some of the copper companies in the southern portion of the Territory take back seat.
 new railroad Is projected to run from 6 point at or near Flagstaff on the A. < P. railroad to Globe City via Agua Fria and TontO Basin It is to be called the Mineral Belt FailrG1d and we are reliably informed that there is no question but that it will be in running order before the end of the pres ent year. Surveyors are already at work and