Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-06-23
Mining Interests.

There exists upon each side of the San Pedro river, and all tributary to | Tucson Marrow Gauge or the Arizona | Mineral Belt Railway, whichsoever ] "gits thar" first, many vast deposits of | the different minerals peculiar to Ari- zona. The immense deposit of high | grade gold ore, thoroughly tested and | proven to a depth of 800 feet, in the Mammoth lode, which belt extends sOutheasterly to the Southern Belle | and adjoining properties is one of the grandest gold propositions on this coast. The ores, though somewhat | refractory and chemically combined | with vanadium, have been experi- | mented on until a process of working them to high percentage of contents 1 has been fully demonstrated and these deposits are no longer matter of doubt but are fully proven both as to perma- nency and value.
 Beyond these lies the Santa Cata- lima copper mines which have been, through bad management, abandoned for the time, but which will surely come to the front again. The exten sive growth of pine timber on the Santa Catalina Mountains is reached by this way and is available for any purpose for which lumber or timber is needed
 The American Flag group of mines lie few miles west of the Southern Belle, and although not very we'll de veloped, give promise of large body of good grade free milling silver ore.
 North of them and upon the other | side of the San Pedro river is the Bun ker Hill district, comprising the de- posits of copper ore owned by Steb- bins, Scanlan & Clark, while the Ia ble Mountain group are owned by Bur gess, Gilman & Scanlan. Those two groups are six miles distant from each other and present all the features of successful copper smelling scheme. Fuel and water are plenty upon the mines, and they are developed to a point destroying all doubt of their permanency and richness. Their prox- imity to the deposits of good cokil g coal in Deer Creek and which will soon become available, makes them partic- ularly attractive to parties seeking cop per properties for honest and actual working.
 The McGarrish, 6 miles below the Mammoth mills, shows numt CT of good sized lodges of argentiferous gale ma ore and IS very promising chlorid- ing camp, many shipments of ore from them have been made and the returns in all cases have been over 100 ounces and in some cases as high as 1900 ounces silver. Some fifteen miles be- low there and in the vicinity of the junction of the San Pedro and Gila rivers are the Sample group of six mines,now being successfully operated by the San Pedro Mining Company Of St:Louis and many other equally as promising lodges of high grade silver ore. In the Saddle Mountain district many good prospects are found par tially developed. prominent among them the Hayes and Wheeler mines, the Lookout Mountain and Saddle Mountain mines, the San Carlos group of copper mines and the copper mines of Messrs. Schneider, Newman & Oetzman, now under bond, the "79" group of lead mines carrying pay ing quantity of silver. In fact the whole section is one net work of min eral bearing veins, almost any of which would pay to work, were a railroad in operation along the San Pedro From the mouth of the San Pedro along the Gila river to Riverside and Mineral creek great croppings of good lead, silver and gold ores are known to ex- ist, all of which gives promise of a big mining district in the near future.