Arizona republican., 1901-08-22

about 55 miles. and is approximately
 65 miles from the Gulf of California.
 It is reached from Santa Ana. on the
 Sonora railway, by an excellent wagon
 road Distance S5 miles. There is
 also a good hard read from Tucson,
 125 miles. The regular cost of freight
 ing from Santa Ana to the mine is $20
 in Mexican money. or sl0 in gold. per
 ton. The elevation of the property
 was not ascertained exactly, but must
 be from two to three hundred feet low
 CT than the Montana Verdi. or from
 TOO to 1900 feet above sea level. The
 group comprises 76 pertenencias, or about 190 acres. Like at the Montana
 Verdi good timber is within convenient distance. and water for operating a plant and for domestic purposes is available In fact water sufficient for smeltng purposes has been encounter
 ed in working the property. The sur
 face formation is entirely different from that of the Montana Verdi, being chai aiacteriZed by well defined ledges having general easterly and westerly trend Across three of the largest Of these ledges lying parallel and appar- ently constituting parts of single formation, it is probably 300 feet. | Nearly all cf the work upon the group i has been done upon a ledge or vein 1 which may be readily traced for over [ 2.o0O feet on the property, and crops boldly for a distance of 1.400 feet. It's average width at the surface is eight l feet, and it dips 69 or 70 degrees north. and has every appearance both above and below the surface, of true fissure vein. Upon this shaft was sunk by the former owners of the property to 6epth of 16l feet. At the 5O-foot level a station was cut on the northerly side of the shaft back to the center of the vein which had inclined away from the shaft until at this point only about one-ha,f of it was in vein matter prop er A winze was then sunk twenty four feet on this vein when water was struck in such quantities that it could not be handled with their double wind- lass. and the winze was abandoned. A drift or tunnel was then driven hori- zontally on the ledge from the station for a distance of over 120 fset. In this drift the vein shows a width of from seven to nine fset. and is plainly trace able it's entire length. The vein mat
 ter is quartz, feldspar and tale. The copper occurs in the form of cha!co- pyrite and bonite. Assays of average
 samples across the drift. and for its entire length. shows the ore to be very lhinfolm ir general and to run from
 four to eight per cent in copper. Be
 low the 50-foot level the vein inciines entirely away from the shaft, and the formation of it's walls down to the
 bottom from that point, as nearly as
 could be ascsrtained, is soft granite
 At the 154foot level a cross cut was run to strike the vein. This part Of
 the work could not be examined owing
 to the fact that there was still about 4s
 feet of water in the shaft; but the
 former owners stated that in this cross
 cut they passed through A fset O.
 granite and l2 feet of mineralized veir
 matter when a great flow of water was
 encountered forcing them to abandon
 the work. The water appeared tt
 come from a regular Assure, probably
 the same that was entered by tht
 winze above. They managed, how
 ever, to enter this Assure three fec
 and obtained some samples before they were driven out by the water. IL wa! estimated that at this cross cut there
 must be from l2 to 15 feet ofve mat ter yet to cut before reaching the hang ing wall. The vein matter is more than double the width here that it i' '. in the 50-foot tunnel above. and th' quartz, feldspar and clay seams or tai'