The oasis., 1901-10-19


 Messrs Norman Meade from Colo. rad0 Springs, aud Harry Cummings from Denver passed NOgales Saturday night en route to HermosiIlo, and La Dura, having mining interests in the vicinity of the latter place.
 Out at the Happy Jack, in the Sauta Ritas, (WrlghtsOn district ] work is being prosecuted vigorously. Some m0ntu> ago a shalt was sunk Jo depth of l6O feet, in fine ore all the way In four foot ledge. Then a tunnel was started on the ledge tO reach the bottom of the shaft, at distance of 800 feet. The tunnel k now in 400 feet, and has been in ore from a point l65 feet from the mouth. AS soon as the tunnel reaches the slait good ventilation will be assured, and then sinking will be resumed in tue shaft.
 The President Mining Company are pushing development on their prop erty out in the Santa Ritas, and are making very good showing They have two shafts one thirty. i've feet in depth, the other fifty feet, con bected at the bottom by drift sixty feet iu length, showing fine ore in all the workings. The fifty foot shaft will be continued to a depth of l50 feet. As depth is attained the ore bodies widen. The ores are lead and silver near the surface, but with depth copper comes in and the lead seems to diminish. It Is thought that in the ground yet to be employed below, the character of the rock will change to copper bearing A 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. J. Stockton has four full mining claims through which are traced big copper bearing ledge which now makes a very fine showing, and with a little work would doubtless prove of great value. The ledge which runs under Castle Butte, very cons. plcuous peak which is about two miles west from Patagonia, is broad and well deti0ed, and the pay streak shows plainly or the croppings. At one point right under Castle i,utte, a | shaft has been sunk to uspth Of | tfty-four feet. Several shipments Of | pay ore have been made from this | point where the ores extracted are | mostly malachite (green carbonate of | copper. At another point along the | ledge azurite ores blue carbonate) | are found. The ground could te | easily opened and as a wagon road | eads right to any point, but short | distance from the railway station, the cost of such work would be very slight.
 At the Jefferson mining came in the | Harshaw' basin about one aud one-half | mile from the Patagonia mountains, Colonel Arthur c. Coffey of Buffalo, | New York, is vigorously prosecuting | development work upon the Lead | Queen mine, which he took own in | March last from George Wieland and | John Jund. He has since then-sank | a shaft 100 feet deep, carried down an incline sixty three feet farther and run some 600 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 all the way across, upon both the foot and hanging walls are 'ich pay streaks a couple of feet in width. The ore upon the foot wal consist of high grade galena, rich in cad and silver, mixed up with rich black sulphurets of copper Upon the hanging wall the ores are copper Irey copper predominating. A great leal Of rich ore has been extracted md Mir. Coffey has at Patagonia a hipment which will be sampled and old as soon as the new samplUg works are in operation Tn the camp Ir Coffey has four other properties 'eside the Lead Queen, making roup of mines which will one day 1ake great property.