Arizona republican., 1901-03-01
VULTURE MINE SOLD.
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about lS degrees. me lnulCdtlOnS ut the present depth attained warrant the belief that these two bl1ies unite at a depth of between foo and 450 feet.
 lThc Baby lode referred to above runs anywhere from two feet to twelve feet thick. and in value is equally as good as the larger lodes. In a claim by it. self it would be called good mine. But on this plI1perty 1t Is never con- sidered in making estimates being simply thrown in for good measure.
 THE MINE.
 The mine is penetrated by two in- cline shafts known as the east incline and the west incline, both opening on the southern brow of the hill. and being iO4 feet apart. The east incline at the present time is abandoned so far as actual use is concerned, but the ore body 1t enters is just as extensive and seemingly just as rich qS That present.. ed by the west and more recently constructed incline.
 The west incline is down to the eco foot level. representing vertical depth of 33i feet. The east incline ia down 4l5 feet. representing a vertical depth of 243 feet.
 Nearly opposite and 4sS feet east of a point on the surface ever the lower end of the east incline, a whim shaft has been sunk to the depth of PIP feet. At the bottom crosscut runs south S7 feet encountering 27-foot ore body along which a drift has been run b the east distance of 20 feet Samples from the face of this ledge go $206. 70 in gold. SLIP in silver and II 2-l0 per [ cent In lead Th.s Is the latest big strike in the mina. There is now re- gently developed in the bottCm of this whim shaft and at the ends of the two inclines larger ore body than has been exposed in the mlne previously at any one time in it's history. The reader ls now on the lower levels which. viewed | from the standpoint of the miner, may be sald to be only skin" deep. What lies In the hundreds of feet below may well be imagined but will not be known until the diamond drills cf the new management have been put to work. On the 300 foot level one solid block of Ft-e 13ix129x404 feet has been exposed on thrse sides. Its depth no man know eth. It is virgin ground. having never i been g gohered as has the ore body above. An immense body of copper sulphides has been found at another | place on the same levci. and through Il one crosscut has been made 5S feel In | ltngth and another 35 feet in length, 1 This Is also one of the richest deposits | fund in the mine. From the 300 foot | ievel to the surface and for a distance | of many hundred fceU n0r;h anl saith ! these two principal lodes pierced by both inclincs have simply bean cross | cuttei and borrowed out. Very little 1 stoping has been done and the ore that | has been worked fer the most part cam from the face or thc crosscuts | and drifts. In other words, there Is little timbering in the mine for the ret,- i son that the work is n arly all in q sol | id orc body, end 1t was easier and a ! great deal cheaper digging crosscuts and Griris, leaving huge ore pillars L. support the roof and sides, and there was ample ore from this tunaelng To keep the mill going. But this method on two occasions led to disaster. The ore pillars were not lei. with sufficient care and some Of them were gradually worked int until two mighty caves occurred. in each of which a surface area of an acre or SO sunk perhaps q hundred feet. burying a number of men and killing several. The remains of one victim have never yet been recovered Ile caves left exposed on rith' l side the ends cf the .lrifts and honeycomb work that has been done n the mine, go that the V st:"r invariably descends the pit of the old depressions and enters the mine from side door a: 1t were rather than to laboriously de. scend the incline. At these places wer, it permitted whole herds of burrc' might be driven into the 200 foot leve and loaded with ore.
 As to the character of .he ore 1t ma, be said that in one part oT another ev erything of a gold bearing nature ma, be found. The ore runs in value iron four or five dollars a ton up to thous ands. It is, however, called "higl grade low grade" property, though th' iact that the million tons of ore worked fin years gone by has produced $16.000 900 gives the best idea of the value O } the ore in the upper levels. where 1t i mostly free milling. There is also goo, copper ore III NdIlOuS DiuttS, us well d 7 lead. wolframite. and In fact Q lit,le o everything. The bottom of the whin } shaft iS rich in sulphurets.
 THE TAILINGS.
 Several efforts have been made q cyanlding the tailings of which som : have been successful and some hav
 not The failures may be ascribed L improper methods or lack of capital O those whic have tried 1t, for the reasoi '. that MT. Sanders. who has been run :. mng a small cyanide plant there for tn last two years has worked FLOOD t.n Of tailings and has recovered $3.1 pc ton. There is still left a tailings dunn covering twenty acres six anu one-hal
 feet deep. ana a lower field estimate, , to contain l40,000 tons, making a tota Of 2G1 eco tons of tailing as yet untoucn o3. A description of MT. Sanders littl , pant would be Interesting if space per , mitted. Suffice to say its unlerly,n
 principle Is economy.
 SOMETHING ABOUT VALUES. , There is no reason to doubt that th ore remaining in the mine is q cent les ? valuable than that already worked and which has admit edly returned g.