Arizona republican., 1901-10-24
SANTA CRUZ COUNTY
Mention of Number of Her Promis-
 ing Properties.

The Nogales Oasis in it's last issue mentions a number of santa Cruz county mines as follows:
 The Melba Mining company own and are developing the Altar mine near the Hardshell mine of the Patagonia Min ing company. in the Harshaw district. The Altar is an old mine. held under q patent and allowed to remain idle for many years. This year the company again took up work on the property and sent out to superintend operations Mr. R. l.. Hammil, q mining man of many years experience in California and Colorado. A new hoist, boiler and gallows frame and pump have been erected and the shaft which had badly caved has been repaired and is being sunk farther. It is, now down 15O feet and will be carried to depth of 300 | feet as quickly and as eXpeditiously as | the work can be done. At the end of drift from the bottom of the shaft is a | winze which is at. a depth of 165 feet below the surface The leGge is broad and well defined and the chutes yield rock high in values. The ore is lead and silver, and copper glance of the latter variety of ore quantities of very | high grade are being extracted. Every thing about the property is in first class shape for effective work, which is | being vigorously prosecuted. The | Malba company will devote ample cap 1 ital to developing the Alta and mak- | ing it a great mine.
 Out at the Happy Jack. in the Santa Ritas CWrightson districD, work is being prosecuted vigorously. Some | months ago a shaft was sunk to depth of 16O feet in fine ore all the way | in a four foot ledge. Then a tunnel was started on the ledge to reach the bottom of the shaft, at distance of 300 | feet The tunnel is now in 400 feet, and | has been in ore from a point 165 feet | from the mouth. As soon as the tunnel reaches the shaft good ventilation will
 be assured and then sinking will be re- | sumed in the shaft.
 1 The President Mining company is pushing development on their property
 out in the Santa Ritas. and are making
 a very good showing. They have two shafts. one thirty-five feet in depth. the other fifty feet. connected at the | bottom by a drift sixty feet in length. showing the fine ore in all the work
 ings. The fifty foot shaft will be con tinued to a depth of 150 feet. As depth
 is attained the ore bodies widen. The ores are lead and silver near the sur face. but with depth copper comes in
 and the lead seems to diminish. It is
 thought that in the ground yet to be l employed below the character of the l rock will change to copper bearing 4
 shipment of ore has been made which
 averaged twenty-five ounces silver per ton and sixty per cent lead.
 | Very close to Patagonia MT. A. l. Stockton has four full mining claims | through which are traced big copper
 bearing ledge which now makes a very
 fine showing. and with little develop
 ment work would doubtless prove of great value. The ledge which runs
 under Castle Butte. very conspicuous | peak which is about two miles west | from Patagonia, is broad and well de- fined, and the pay streak shows plainly
 on the croppings. At one point right | under Castle Butte a shaft has been
 sunk to a depth of fifty-four feet. Sev- eral shipments of pay ore have been made from this point where the ores | extracted are mostly malachite (green carbonate of copper.) At another point l along the ledge aZurite ores (blue car | bonate) are found. The ground could
 be easily opened and as a wagon road | leads right to any point. but short
 distance from the railroad station. the
 cost of such work would be very slight.
 At the Jefferson mining camp in the 1 Harshaw basin about one and one-half
 miles from the Patagonia mountains, Colonel Arthur C. Coffey of Buffalo.
 N. Y, is vigorously prosecuting devel- l opment work upon the Lead Queen
 mine. which he took ownership in last
 March from George Wieland and John
 Jund. He has since then sunk shaft
 100 feet deep. carried down an incline
 sixty three feet farther and run some
 eco feet of drifts. The shaft Is to be
 carried down and a winze is being sunk
 upon one of the drifts. The ledge is
 about forty feet wide and mineralized
 all the way across, upon both the foot
 and hanging walls are rich pay streaks
 q couple of fet in width. The ore upon
 the foot wall consists of a high grade galena, rich in lead and silver, mixed
 up with rich black sulphurets of cop per. Upon the hanging wall the ores
 are copper-gray copper predominating.
 A great deal of rich ore has been ex- | tracted and MT. Coffey has at Pata-
 gonia a shipment which will be sam ! pied and sold as soon as the new sam bling works are in operation. In the
 camp MT. Coffey has four other prop
 critics beside the Lead Queen, making
 a group of mines which will one day
 make q great property.