Arizona republican., 1900-09-06

advanced or fell. was the attention of the pr0spector attracted.
 NOW. with the coming If electricity and a thousand .ther needs. il is cop per. and now is made known .E1t there. under this noble old peak. clad in the robes of caIciIm carbonate held s-- curcly in place by an immense quartz lie e ltGct. rest inn nse copper de- posts awaiting the coming Of tn com pIesSor and the landing of the Buc!aig1. The contact commencing from the soUjh C." fl Fl '.hc san Pedro side dips "-St. from the north side. south: rom the west side. east. and from the south side. rth-northcast mallina, if closely observed. he figure If a frying pan. The ledge is of grea- width f1" the entire length cxcep. or the south si-c when it iS broken. At tIis point ?. V. T., atherwcol has e -ne claims. at mo time operated arc known as the Apache camp. in all other places it sands prominent at an angle of &haut p degrees arl shows width of from f-.y to 15O feet for the entire distance.
 Starf'-; on tho east side of the @,au" ne first claims wc strike are c2Hpris q in what is now known as the Co1I group. formerly owed and bonded them by M. C. man. They are he Go,'~H Teak nn1 Copper Chef, th, lowest ir elevation In the district.
 Much need nc; be said nf these claims when d shaft starte' at the sur face is in twenty feet CT good ore. SuHl; eighty feet and a drift run a the bottom Of the shaft. cut sixty feet Of good suIphide ore without determining is width and all q ne with windlass From the Copper Peak W. V. east lays the Grand Central. also bon5eG t. the Cor'on company by sullivan & Odea. Tuis claim is on and over the hill ani -lises 500 fce, from the level of Copper Peak shaft and shows forty feet of god ora opened on the surface n h.-.a same vein as the other claims
 Adjoining the Grand Central are the Catalina Copper company claims thH first of which is the Mckinley. in the same position as the Grand Central and still higher from h. level of Copper Peak shaft This claim has a shaft sunk on the east end forty feet de-D. all in ore. The surface indications SOW sixty feet in width; the same is r,-i lent rom the bottom of the shaft. Eort hwesj from the McKiIl y is the big Spring. at a still higher elevation, ard from a point on the pass at MDU~ [ Rice Is nearly ? 100 feet higher than t1e level of the shaft n ,he Copper Peak Tt shows good ore ana of the sane c,lara cter as in the Copper Peak. From gre we follow the ledge across .O the Ca~y del Orc side. Th= first claim Wo come to is the Silver R ef. which has fG0 feet If tunnel work and ninety feet If good sulPhide ore in the face nf g crCss-"ut from the main tunnel. This is the claim worked by Dr. Handy aUd pln TjeInty abOut 1850 as lead and sil- yer claims. The sulphiG= ore in facr is id dzntical with that of he Copper Peak. The neX- claim in line is the Gateway. An eighty-fo0t tuan has been driven in this. also wing ore Next in line is the Aztec and Apex. both in the contact. and from their To- cation work these claims both snow caoC su'phiGe and carbonate ores. Tn s claims joined to the Station group of four. which. j7ilinE tn : Lnuthcrwnod group of six. makes q e -aDlste circle in the shape of a frying pan and handle around Marble Peak. with a dip of the vein of about 25 de- gra5s and aboU, -hre. and a half miles il 'rngth. The Clip Cs this vein from ;Ga o2et side of Marble Peak is west. From he north side it dips south. from the southW5sc size it dips east. and from the south sid i. dips north n'" heast and will average fifty fn.t ii width for the erttre distance. The side claims f this ledge are many. all hlvo tr' same pi.ch parallel to tEr main lad. and good many are very val -.alI5 from their sh wing.
 ipday the ConGon company is pre- -naIiaG hcds for steam hoist. compress 1r and Burleieh drill to be operated from the Copper P ak shaft. an at no dis . tam cay one may look f.r them to have absorbed the interest of all the lesser holdings in the dis r!-t. t>eir drills h inning. the smeIter located and the odor of gas from roasting sulphi1= in the air, while the whistlinE of the dis { taH; locomotive. gives notice of the approach to The largest copper can'p in Ari na.
 LIVED AS A GYPSY 25 YEARS.