Arizona republican., 1899-08-30
THE SANTA RITA RANGE.
Has Many Other Good Mines Besides
the He-Vetia.

The Star within the past few weeks
has had sonlathing to say OF the rich
Rcsemor,s mine and the extensive Hell
vetia property. There are many ocner
holdings in and about the Santa R.tas
that are well worthy of mention by
reason of past history and flu ure
promise.
Among the pioneer prospectors Of
this region may be mers5icned Clark,
McGovern, Edward C. Hughes, Law
eGy, Brown and others, and to them
we are indebted for the now flourish
ing conditions prevailing in those
mountains. Some of these pioneers
still have promising holdings in this
region, but others have disposed Of all
or nearly al Of thar interests.
The location of the Old Columbia
camp a short distance below Helvetia
and the site of the smelter remain as
a monument of the work ACCOMPLISHED
in the eighties. The camp experi-
enced many vicissitudes and in 1888
the smeIte1i WAS removed to Tucson,
new Ibaing located a short distance be-
low the city. Under Sheriff Paul now
OWLS the best of the property original
iy included in the Columbia camp, and
with the application of improved
methods of naming his holding will be-
come very Variable As originally
run, failure was invited by the way che
mEnes were worked and the smeIter
was operated. Proof of this statement
is given by the recent sale of the Stag
on the old dump to the Helvetia peo-
pie. 1t is expected that from this s,ug
from 10 to Is pen cent of copper will
be obtained
Further up in the mountains is the
location of the old Omega" mine now
almost IN the center Of the large hold
lngs of the HelYetfa company. This
mine was operated to quite an extent
prior to 1890, but latter the smelter was
removed and it is now doing good
work in the Silver Bell district While
both the Columbia camp claims and
The Omega mine were in a sense fail
ures, shat the fccators OF the mines
were right in thein conclusions as to
the values of the finds is evident from
the fact that this same section is rap
idly coming TO the front as one Of the
best copper camps in the territory
In recent years and within the last
few months many claims have been 10
Gated in the portion OF the Santa Rita
range of (which this article speaks.
What appears to be very valuable
claims are held by J. K Brown and
Tom Deering, while in a noTtheasEerly
direction near the railroad are claims
iheQd by City Recorder Council, Alex
Mckay. ex-Mayor Beuhman and 9TH
frs. Charles J. Lavery and Phil Nc
Govern have recently located some
very promising claims known as the
Porto Rico, Badger, MONDAY, Hidden
Treasure and Grand Central, which
they ure developing. They are the
owners of what is known as the Little
Helvetia group.
For the pas few months there lave
fbeen many prospectors through the
range and a large number of locations
have been made Their value will be
demonstrated later.
Close to the Helvetia property is 10
Gated the celebrated BLUE Jay silver
mine which has been worked for years.
Shipments are made frequently and
good returns have been obtained
Within the past few months ore has
been shipped (which yielded about 200
ounces of silver to this ton as well as
$40 in gold. Superintendent Butterf1eld
is now in the east, but will return
Wi. MIN a few weeks when Il IS expected
that there VII he renewed activity at
the Blue Jay.
City Recorder Connell, Alex Mckay
and others are developing claims from
which the showing in copper is said to
DE excellent. These camps are easy
OF access, not far from the water and
close to the railroad
The S'sar had occasion recently to
speak favorably of ex-iMayor Beuh-
mans property, known as the Requeda
mine. Mr.. Beuhman is pushing devel-
opment work and the showing thus far
has been very encouraging. A shaft
on one claim has been SUNK to a dapth
OF 100 feet and cIosscut seventy-five
feet. In driving the tunnel a ledge of
rich copper ore was penetrated and the
prospects of encountering the ore body
are becoming daily more favorable.
Mr.. Beuhman is enthusiastic and is de-
voting much time and money to the
development of his property. Speci-
mems of copper sulphfde taken recent
ly prom the bottom OF a twenty-foCS
shaft assayed 10 per cent copper.
No section Of Pima county is more