Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-05-12
GREAT MINES,
Immense Bodies of Ore Under going DeveiOpment.-The Southern Districts Show.
 ing Wonderful Min
 erAl Wealth.

tn irt y-hve miles southwest of Casa | Grande, are rapidly becoming famous for the quantity and richness of thelr ores Inc Vekol and its contiguous splendid properties occupy the northern | end of this snort range, and continuing | through it's entire length mineral bodies l are found in strong ledges ill very many places.
 In an almost isolated peak at the ex- treme southern end of the range, about three and one half miles iu an air line from the Vekol, group of mines IS To- cated that show immense bodies of ore uf very satisfactory grade and quality The ledges run through the mountain and across the gulches upon either side into the opposite hills, and the croppA gs in places are very bold. In fact their immense size has heretofore beep the great obstacle to their development, for the slender means of the prospectors forI ade such great undertaking. Sew eral shafts were sunk upon the Masto don and Monarch, enough to show the character of the ore and it's continuation through the mountain.
 About one year ago Col. Elmer A. | Howard obtained bond upon these mines and a few months later he formed the Monarch Mining and Milling Com pauy iu Kansas City, the weal,hy real estate firm of Charles Matt & Co. being the principal stock holders. A camp was established and the work of exploitation commenced under the superintendence of MT. J. A. Conlee. At the present time fifteen men are employed, working day and night shifts.
 The developments, which constitute the systematic workings of the mines, be- gin at the west end of the Monarch claim, on the side hill of the gulch,
 where tunnel is being driven on the Monarch ledge with the intention of cutting the Mastcdon ledge, lying parallel with that of the Monarch Thls tuune! is now in a distance of 200 feet, all in ore, and progress of from ten to
 fifteen feet are made in the hard rock each week
 Sixty feet from the mouth of the tun- mel Is a south drift of 40 feet cutting through the ore body to the south wall,
 which IS limestone, and ten feet beyond north drift of 30 feet reaches the north wall of granite, showing the ledge to be l over fifty feet wide at this point. Two f drifts have been started at polnt POO
 feet from the mouth of the tunnel, one
 north aud the other suutI. A winze } for ventilation has been sunk to tap the } tunnel I25 feet from the mouth; 1t is P fifty feet deep and passed through ore
 all the way, proving the existence of an ore body at least fifty feet wide, fifty feet deep and two hundred feet long, the = ore of which will average over $40 per n ton in gold and silver, the former pre- l !. fta
 be safely gauged by the fact that an lnl- , partial sample of one hundred pounds
 from the waste dump gave S43 50 in gold u and silver, and there are between 600 and :. 700 tons of this character of ore that e has come from the tunnels and drifts. 0 No dead work is nee essary, as all the
 workings are ill ore of this character. U East of the Monarch claim is the t Leona, upon which but little work has l. been done other than to show the con & tlnuance of the the ore body through it
 These three claims are calculated t, J supply q mill to be erected at the presen
 camp, little over half mile down thu
 gulch, to which a tramway will likely b. built.
 h A substantial boarding house. offic IS and assay office have been erected an( $ the foundation of permanent camp hal
 been laid.
 U Mr. J. H. Hughes is the foreman, ant B. he is not only thorough. miner but o very pleasant and agreeable gentle k man, conservative in his statements re
 gardng the property and discreet in al
 It's business affairs.
 The mineral belt upon which til !" above properties are situated has bee y located for distance of two or thre D. miles, all the croppings showing a uni r. form quality of ore.
 The east extensions of these propertie 'o are Chicago and Kansas Guy claims an l. south of east of the Mastodon is the Min
 eral World, owned by Messrs. E.
 Howard, Frank Williams, Jere Frye of d. Dr. Sabin. It lies to the south ( ,n anu parallel with the Chicago, with tn V Howard us 8 north extensi ,n and B
 Chance ih, so I.h extensltn. Upon tn u Mineral Wo.id there IS cut of twent xt feet aid shaft of fifteen feet, all in
 bIg body of rich ore that grows riche
 with depth. This property gives bl of showing for the amount of developmel #. and 1t gives promise of becoming one ~ the greatest mines m the Territory. The group of mines on this side (eas
 ernJ of the mountain will furnish ore fo
 another mill winch can be SD located thi the orc from the mines upon both sid, ot uf the gulch can be run from the tunpe on direct to the null without re-handing "a Water, of course, must be develope
 and the success SD lar attending evel .t- effort in his line in that vicinity gives tl m most ample assurance that an abuudan,
 will be found at a reasonable depth TT 'o- ore is all free milling, the quartz beiu
 lron-stained, close grained and somewh
 hard.
 '0' It IS the intention of the owners ng put force of men on the Mineral Wor
 to push the work of development. Tht
 realize that the property is very val ed able one and they wish to thoroughly d id velop it before making sale.
 Southwest of the Mastodon Mr. Chi
 Johnson has q very promising claim cal ,h- ed the Golden West, from which he
 taking and sacking ore that will m
 several hundred ounces in silver per toI an He will have sample lot worked at u -, Vekol mill for good test of Its value OK All kh, .,l o,o .I,,