Arizona republican., 1901-10-12
THE SAHUARO MINE
Description of the Big Silver Strike
 at Wickenburg.

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 Thursday morning News Herald representative visited the scene of one of the richest strikes of silver that has been made in Arizona in recent years. The strike was made Tuesday on the Sahuaro property. belonging to Messrs. Nickles Brenneman and Miller and lies about two and one-quartcr miles north cast of town on the road 10 Gilbert ami the Black Rock district. The strike Wa an accidental one, being. on a path that had been travelej daily for several months. A Colorado man who was looking over the property last week doubted the statement of one of tho owners that mineral could be found any place on the claim and MT. Bren- ncnman broke off a piece of rock at th@ side of the path. and looking at i'. was very much surprised to see quite 9 bunch of pure silver in the pie.e. Tuesday they started to work to strip off the capping on the ledge at the place of MT. Brenneman's find. and exposed over twenty feet of ore show ing large pieces of pure native silver and remarkably rich in copper ami showing good gold values. The ledge is over 250 feet wide and the same ricn silver ore was exposed with pick at
 
 of the ledge. The general character of this great ore body is altered granite formation, carrying assay val ues running from one hundred and six ty to a thousand ounces of silver. from ten to twenty-five per cent copper. and the gold values running up to SIP. These values are from ore taken at the surface and the extent and perma r. ency of the ore body and the values can
 
 opment is done on the property, but all indications would show that one of the best propositions in the country hai been struck.
 The ore is very soft. and. carrying the values it does in silver, copper and gold, will make ideal smelting orc. The claims are four in number. called the Sahuaro Nos. l, ?, and ,. and were located in April last. The two main claims lie along the ledge. while the other two overlap these claims cn the sides. All of these lie in the great ore belt that runs through the coun try on the east side of the Hassayampa river fer a great many miles between two great lime and porphyry dikes ruu- ping northwest and southeast. dipping to the southwest, on which the Orc Grande. the Baxtsr-Ulloa and the prop erty being developed by Dewitt anu May, north of Morristown. are located. The general character of the ore in each of these properties is very similar on the surcace-an iron capped. copper stained, granite formation. That in the Orc Grande turns into a gold bearing ore at a slight depth, the copper ar" disappearing to considerable extent. while that of the properties at the low CT end of the belt seem to be develop ing more into copper propositions, carrying values in silver, the gold values being considerably less than those of the Orc Grande mine. The importance of this strike to this dis trict. and especially to the town of Wickenburg can hardly be estimated The mine. practically speaking. is in town. being less than q half hours walk and from the size of the ore body. almost an unlimited number of men can be set at work developing it. and with a. shelter either in town or at the mine the men can all make their homes in Wickenburg. One mine like this being worked will do more good to the town than doZsn mines farther off. Ore will be shipped very soon from the Sahuaro mine to the Val Verds smelter and with a producing prop erty so close Wickenburg will be one of the livsliest towns in this territory. The Sahuaro property is just over the line in Yavapai county. the Sahuar1 No. l running to within a few feet Of the boundary line A number of min ing men from Colorado have examined the property at different times this fall. before this strike was made. and bN all it was pronounced as one of the best looking undeveloped properties they had seen. there being only about 250 feet of development work perform ed. The work consists of a main shaft about 75 feet deep. a crosscut from tha. at the 90 foot level of about 70 feet, and an incline shaft that is being sunk to connect with the crosscut. beside several shafts that have been sunk for title work on the different claims.