Arizona republican., 1899-06-10

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 fine showing and are further evidences
 of the great mineral wealth of this
 part of the territory.
 
 I next made for the Copper Queen group, the joint property Of pr. Ford and Mir. Emery w. Fisher. The de velopment work on this group consists cf drift 236 feet in length driven ucrpss the measures to cut the ledge. At fifty feet in this drift ledge matter thick with suIphates of copper was struck and continued fer seventy-f9uT feet. Thts was found to carry s iii gold and from 212 10 IS per cent of copper. The le5ge proper was then struck and driven through for fifty four feet. This carries all the way from B to $2o in geld and from to 30 per cent of copper. In the center of the ledge is three feet of tale gangua ((carrying 8 in goldl the presence of which is always considered to be an indication of high grade copper In the face of tine drift beyond the ledge the rock continues to carry about 5 in gold
 The outcrop of this vein has every indication of good copper vein. it is 5rCn-capped, and the work done on the surface disc.oseS the presence of sul- phurets and red and black oxides of copper, azurite bOznite, etc. and is altogether very promising indication of what may be expected when depth is attained.
 I next visited the Yukon, one of q group Of nine claims belonging to MT William Roberts, but now under bond to Major Pickerell of Prescott and others. On this claim there is a shaf5 sunk in the ledge for distance of f23 ] feet by wind,ass. Preparations are now being made fer the erection of 3 Davis hoist and contract has been Jet for a further sinking of 100 feet. The vein as far as explored is look i ing well and the owner has the high ! est hopes Of the Yukon becoming 2 1 valuable mine.
 Frcm this mine, which is situated at a considerable eminence the Car | lisle &c Nolan can be seen to the south ! west, also the camp of Mr James | Drum and Captain Gilbert D. Gray of | Phoenix the veins on which properties i are copper carrying good values in ! gold, all showing up well and likely to i make valuable mines. Negotiations. l heard, are now in progress for bond ing the Carlisle group of claims.
 
 On the road back to Briggs I came across the Copper Bar group. be.Cng- ing to Messrs. Ford. Fisher and oth- CTS The surface indications (and the work done on the outcrop) make q most favorable showing and are clear ly traceable for some 5000 feet along the ledge. This group of claims is bonded to MT. John Baker of Detroit fer $50 ,000.
 The ground I traveied ever today Is thickly scanned with vein outcrops, the copper ledges being in nearly all cases iron capped and if when the requisite depth is attained the values are in any way equal to what may be confidently expected from the surface indications th-s district will form a most import l. ant addition tc the mineral resources 1 0f the territory.
 The name of Bob Groom, the late owner of the Amazon group a name well knCTn to almost every mining man in Arizona, brings to mind an e.ection story of early days. Thirty years ago when politics ran pretty high in Prescott, the then capi- tai Of the territory, Bob Groom, ac- c0mpanied by band Cf about twenty prospectors put in an appearance on { Castle creek, being the first white men who ventGred into this section of the ( country. They had been pressed to | Tennin in Prescott for the election but although they declined to stay they | had no idea Of allowing their absence ( to interfere with the record Of their l votes. It was therefore arranged that when ( the day cf election came they should ] form a board, wherever they hap T pered to be, and on the date fixed they { were at the falls just above the present l locntion Of Briggs. George Monroe I another name of ncte among mining men, 1t turned out was the only re- ( publican in the camp and for the honor of his party he was expected, ( and tried, to drink as much whisl1ey | as the whole Of the big democratic | majority. | Indians were thick around the camp r and the quality of the corn juice 3 George imbibed inspired him with the brilliant idea cf going among them. l what he termed a treaty of s peace. and bringing them in to vote i I the republican ticket 1 He actually did so, and at enormous Y risk, brought q number of Apaches C back with him. who. it is needless to ?
 ~ -'' Oeot VI tiIII FCIeo- T. " do . not for any constitutional reason. hcw- | 'ver, but because. as Monroe expressed it, he md they were all demo- | erat5; not being sufficiently civilized [ he asserted, tC appreciate the merits $ If the republican platform Of those g lays. c The c. o. P. was. therefore. repre- s 5ented in the Falls election by George fl EoIroe's solitary vote te
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