Phoenix weekly herald. [volume] (Phoenix, Maricopa County, Ariz. Territory) 1896-1899, 1898-10-13
VALUABLE MINES.
The Black Warrior Copper Company S
Properties.

Last Friday in company with James
A Fleming principal owner of the
Black Warrior Copper Company, We
visited the company's mines in Web
ster gulch and Lost gulch.
We first visited the Dadevllle and
Montgomery group, which covers sew
enty-five hundred feet in length, with
several side claims. This is a most
remarkable continuous wide, contact
vein. In places the roots of the trees
grow down into the ore. 1t is believed
there is nothing Similar to this vein
anywhere, In one place, particularly,
the soil about six feet deep has been
removed by pillow and scraper down to
the ore. which Resembles an asphalt
pavement The ore at this point is
stripped to width of forty feet, and
big open cut has been run into the hill
lengthwise on the ore. The vein is
possibly eighty feet wide, as it shows
on both sides of the cut to where it is
unstripped The company has test
shafts and drifts, which connect this
large body of ore, continuing down to
Il great depth, as we'll as its length
and width.
To give an idea of the value of this
ore would be to say that after sorting
it out lone seventh of the whole vein)
the balance sums 1876 per cent copper
or 1876 pounds of copper to the hun
bred pounds of ore, and the one-sev-
enth, or what is called waste. runs
seven per cent copper, which is about
the average of the value of all the cop
per mines in theUnited States, of the
OTIS as they come from the mines.
Some two thousand tons of ore has
been shipped from this vein to the
United Globe smelter that gave 1876
Ger cent in copper, which is a good
test as to its value. 1t is practically a
copper quarry, and can be extracted
and delivered in bin at the mine for
$1.25 per ton. 1t is believed that this
great vein is practically ineXhaustible,
and will likely be a great copper mine
fifty years hence.
From the Dadeyille and Montgomery
group we went to what is known as
the Diamond II group of ten claims
chat covers over one and one-half
miles of another large vein-the same
formation as the Dadeyille and Mont
gOmery. The Black Warrior Copper
Company has Il bond, or option, on the
Diamond Fl group, and is now devel-
oping by a double compartment shaft.
The character of this ore is 4 copper
sulphide. The vein is forty feet wide,
and the ore has increased in richness
from the top down to the bottom of
the shaft, which is now one hundred
and thirty feet deep. This mine will
undoubtedly make a large producer.
Take il all in all, we cannot see how
any company could wish for more than
the Black Warrior Copper Company
has Mi Fleming will leave in few
days to attend the Knight Templar's
conclave in Pittsburg, Pa. While in
the east he will arrange for capital to
build a twenty-inch gage road to ex-
tend the standard gage to Lost Gulch.
Webster Gulch and Bloody Tanks
Gulch. The length of this road will be
ten miles. This in itself will be a pay
ing proposition to enable this company
to not only handle its own ores, but
to handle ores, timber and supplies
for all the other mines in Bloody
Tanks, Webster Gulch and Lost Gulch
Silver Belt