Arizona republican., 1896-08-09
The Mines Near Wilcox
 Show Value.
Capital and Labor All that Is
 Needed.
The Entire District Honeycombed With Rich Ore-Develoment
 Work Tells.


 pective mining center is little under stood or appreciated. This condition is attributable to two causes, lack of property and judicious advertising and the disinclination on the part of mine owners to concede to capital terms on which they can feel them selves justified in taking hold and opening up properties. 8
 Your correspondent has made a number of trips to the mining districts tributary hereto, and nowhere west of the Missouri river has he seen the same quantity of surface mineral, nor geological conditions that pointed more strongly to the existence of large and continuous bodies of ore.
 The Chiricahua mining district, To- cated in the Chiricahua mountains, is about forty miles south of Wilcox, and has many very promising surface properties, though the heretofore prevalence of Apache Indians has pre- vented extensive prospecting and re- tarded development.
 In White Tail gulch MT. Sullivan has four very promising copper properties. Development work is very limited, the shafts ranging from ten to fifty feet. In all the workings, however, is shown remarkable regularity of size and value in the ore bodies, the ledges ranging from five to eight feet in width and showing values of from four to thirty seven per cent copper.
 Chris Cover is working a silver lead property on the divides near the old Dunn mines, and at a depth of thirty feet has large chimney of high grade ore, and as the pay streak in- creases with depth this property prom ises in the near future to become 8 regular and paying producer.
 The properties of the Buckhorn Mining company located in Buckhorn Basin, are more extensively developed than any property in the district, and the results here attained have fully borne out the theory that depth alone is required to demonstrate the values of properties in the district The main shaft on their property has attained a regular pay streak from top to bot tom and averaging about $40 per ton in gold. There are also about 500 feet of drifts, wenZes, etc., and the prop erty easily shows $100,0O0 in sight al the present time The gold in the ore | is remarkably clean and heavy, which will bring the plating percentage near | ly to the maximum. Fuel and water two very important features in Arizona mining, are in great abundance throughout the entire district, which will naturally cheapen the extraction and reduction of the ores
 Dos Cabezos, located in the Dos Cabezos mountains, fifteen miles from Wilcox, is the oldest camp in the vi cinity and shows the largest surface indications in the southwest.
 The Casey property consisting ot four locations, has been in the hands of it's present owners for many years l From surface workings from $40,00( to $5O,0OO in gold have been taken, tht ore being reduced principally in aras tras. The Caseys have refused severa very flattering offers for the proper ties, and as they are handicapped b. lack of means for proper development
 it initiates against the camp takin! the high rank as a producer justified by its capacity.
 The Davis group, owned by MI
 Chas. Noble, are very promising prop critics, showing large bodies of higl grade gold rock Here also develop
 ment is required, and MT. Noble i , pushing it as rapidly as possible, wit l gratifying results. Negotiations ar initiating in this property that ma 5 transfer it to a company, and if SC all indications point to it soon becom ing a large dividend producer. 3 MT. Frank White and associates re 3 gently bonded their large gold-coppe l property to Chicago company. Thi
 is one of the most promising proI
 critics in the district and as the con
 pany is backed by abundant capits
 and is under contract to commend v and push operations at once, we loo :. for an early and satisfactory output. t The Pearce district is comparative T of recent discovery, and is hardl u known and rarely heard of, yet we al ,. credibly informed that the mine | turning out about $10OO00 per mont U U with over a million in sight.
 If this mine were in Colorado
 would fill columns of the papers, y
 here one rarely hears of it, and the m;
 jority of our own people don't kno
 of its existence. However, it is e close corporation and the property u not for sale at any price.
 !. The AraVaipa district, located '' Aravaipa canyon, fifty miles north
 Willco9, has many very promisi1
 properties.
 IF The Grand Reef, owned by u j>Messrs. Raum and Cunningham, shoy