Arizona silver belt., 1898-09-29
VALUABLE MINES.
The Black Warrior Copper Com.
 pany's Properties.

pany's Properties.
 Last Friday in company with Jamel A. Fleming, principal owner of the Black Warrior Copper company, W. visited the compnny's mines in Web ster gulch and Lost gulch.
 We first visited the Dadeville and Montgomery group, which covers sev. enty five hundred feet in length, witt several side claims. This is 8 most re. marksbls continuous wide, contac, vein. In places the roots of the trees grow down into the ore. It is believed there is nothing similar to this vein anywhere. In one place, particularly, the soil about six feet deep has been removed by plow and scrsper down to the ore, which resembles m asphalt pavement The orc at this point is stripped to width of forty feet, and 8 big open cut has been run into the hill lengthwise on the ore. The vein is possibly eighty feet wide, as it shows l on both sides of the cut to where it is unstripped. The company has test shafts and drifts, which connect this large ore body, coDtihuipg down to a great depth, as well ss its length and width.
 To give an idea of the value of this ore would be to say that after sorting 1t out tone seventh of the whole yein) the balance suns l3.6 per cent copper. or l3.6 pounds of copper to the hun dred pounds of ore, and the one-sev- enth, or what is called waste, runs sew en per cent copper, which is about the average of the value of all the copper mines ia the United States, of the ores as they come from the mines. Some two thousand tons of ore has been shipped from this vein to the United Globe smeter that gave l3.6 per cent in copper, which IS good test Rs to its value. It IS practically copper quar- ry, and can be extracted aud delivered ip bin at the mine for S1 20 per ton. It is believed tbnt this great vein is prac. tically inexhaustible, and will likely be n great copper mine fifty years hence.
 From the Dadeville aud Montgomery group VIC went to what is known as the DIamond H group of ten claims that covers over one and oue-half miles of another large vein, with copper show ing at intervals along the snrfuce. The vein is also contact vein---the same formation us the Dadevillo spd Mont gonery. The Black Warrior Copper Company has n bond, or option, on ibe Diamond H group, and is now devel- opiDg by double compartment shnft. The character of this ore is copper rulphide. The vein is forty feet wide, and the ore has increased in ricbnes. from the top down to the bottom of shaft, which Is now one hundred and thirty feet deep. This mine will uD- doubtedly male a large producer. lake it all in all, We can not see how any company could wish for more than tue Black Warrior Copper Company has. Mir. Fleming will leave in few days to attend the Knight Templsr's Conclsve in Piitsburg, Pa. While in the East he will arrange for capital to build twenty inch gauge road to ex- tend from the standard gauge, near the United Globe shelter to Lost Gulch, Webster Gulch and Bloody Tanks Gulch. The length of this road will be ten miles. This in itself will be pay. ing proposition to enable this company to not only handle it's own ores, but to handle ores, timber and supplies for all the other mines in Bloody Tanks, Webster Gulch und Lest Gulch.