Arizona weekly citizen., 1895-07-27
NEAR AT HOME
A Group of Mining Claims that Are Being Unobstrusively
 Worked.
"A Copper Camp Within Seventeen Miles of Tucson That Promises to Be Chased Among the
 Great Producers.

dppreclateu III US own ulstrlcb. It may De within easy access of thriving town,giv- ing employment to number of miners and adding its quota to the cir culating medium of the locality and yet be un- known. It is ever so in a mining con- munity. Strangers and investors will come in from afar, and in making enq uir- ies for mines be taken to out of the way spots over difficult roads far from towns and lines of communication to be shown prospects, great mines in embryo that only need purchasing at high figures to become valuable properties. There are hundreds such and they have been we'll visited. and still they remain mines In embryo. But these are not the only mines that Tucson can point to. Close at home, within seventeen miles over good wagon road Is a group of claims being worked modestly and unobstruslvely, hat it is not unreasonable to hope will one day develop into copper camp fit to be clsssed among the great producers of the territory. This group is known as the Mineral Hill camp and Is located on the northeast side of the mountain of that name. For the last year it has been producing steadily, and Is at the present time employing ten men who are all working on ore which is freighted to the Tucson smelter.
 On these claims no capital has been expended, for the owners are not men having money to spare for speculation, but nevertheless the Mineral Hill group has done lots better than many others ID the possession of more fortunate pro- prietors; it has paid from the grass roots down. Situated in purely limestone formation the seven claims may be said to cover 8 great irregular mass of cop per ore. The one upon which most de- velopment work has been done is the Winnie. On this claim there are four shafts, all In ore respectively lOl, 106, II and 60 feet, besides drifts, and other openings on the ore bodies of DO great depth and not therefore classified as de- velopment work. From all of these shafts, the main four of which the measurements are given, ore has been taken out and shipped. During the months of December 1894, and January, February and March of the present year little over GOO tons of high grade | copper ore were shipped to El Paso for treatment. Of this 600 tons 200 had sn average assay slightly in excess of 2 per cent copper, besides carrying some silver.
 Previous to this several hundred tons ! were shipped to the Tucson smelter and now the mines are again furnishing that institution with high grade copper ore On the Daisy which adioins the Winnie are three shafts down 60, 45 and ! 90 feet respectively. It is the intention { of the owners to sink the main shaft or | tl is claim to a hundred feet and com
 mence shipping ore as soon as possible From the appearance of the surface thiG would seem an easy task as the ground
 appears to be composed principally o
 copper ore, and the difficulty would b' not ia singing shaft to discover it bu ing some ore body.
 l On the claim known as the Hughes
 some little development: work has beer done to depth of 25 or 30 feet and from
 this ore has been shipped running 15 pe
 cent in copper. The appearance of th'
 ore body there is very encouraging. The
 claim is on the outside of the group anC | demonstrates the fact that high grade ore is contained in the whole group iron
 one end to the other. The remaining
 claims as yet held in reserve, no grea
 amount of development work having
 been put on them, are Surprise, Aimee | Crest, and Little Mammoth. The sur face indications are as good on then
 as on those just mentioned and give
 promise, once the mines get thorough!
 opened up, of an ability to furnish euffi cient ore to keep at least two stack
 employed continuously.
 Taking everything into consideration the unusual size of the ore bodies, th,
 nearness of the mines to th,
 Southern Pacific railroad and th,
 short haul over good wsgoI
 road to the Tucson depot 1t would seen
 that the Mineral Hill group IS bound t.
 become, even if it only progresses at tb'
 present rate of development, an import
 ant addition to the resources of Tucson
 and Pima county.
 Thos Hughes and Fl. c. Banes are ths
 fortunate owners.