Arizona republican., 1901-08-18


 The face of the country on and in the vicinity of the group may be said to be mountainous. tnough the mountains are not high or steep. and resemble more rolling hills There is an abund- ance of timber suitable for both fuel and mine timberlng within easy dls- tance and accessible by wagon. The Altar river is a plrennial stream. hay ing d good flow of never-failing water. more than sufficient to supply the ranches along it's banks Its waters property is not extensive. A vertical shaft has been sunk to depth of 65 feet. An examination of the walls of this shaft shows an exceedingly irregu- lar formation and multiform characters of rock, varying from rich sulphidcs Of copper near the surface. to blie slate impfe gnated to some extent with quarts, streaked with sulphides at the bottom Assays of the ore taken from the upper part O. the shaft run from 1 to 10 per cent copper It is the ln- tention of the company to continue the shaft ata depth of 100 feet. and then drift through the, ore body. large force of men 1t now at work.
 It is impossible for any perscn to look over this group, to walk over and among the masses of minsralized rock and note that characteristic greenlsh appearance everywhere in evidence. without forming the positive conviction that underneath hIs feet lies hidden an immense body of copper ore, greater fperhaps, if ths indications count Tor anything, than has ever yet been nn- covered. He cannot be brought to the belef that this copper ore came from any other source or direction than be- low, nor that the visible copper in the ore was deposited upon the crest of the hill where the ore occurs. by the action of any surface stream. But though he will conclude his inspection of the Mon tana Verdi with the firm conviction that little development work will ds monstrate what appsa ars now so evil dent, it is not until the visitor reaches the San Jose group, the other property of the company. and makes his exam ination, that he fesls warranted in say ing that the company has mine the character of which as such Is assured.
 The San Jose group lies northwestern ly of the Montana Verdi, a distance of 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 good hard road from Tucson, | 125 miles. The regular cost of freight , ing from Santa Ana to the mine is S2o | in Mexican morey. or Sl0 in gold, per | ala nf nrOn9rfX was not ascertalned exactly, but must be from two to three hundred feet low- CT than the Montana Verdi, or from | 1700 to 1900 feet above sea level The group comprises 76 pertenencias, or about 19O acres. Like at the Montana | Verdi good tinher is within convenient distance, and water for operating d plant and for domestic purposes Is available. In fact water sufficient Tor smelting purposes has been encounter ed in working the property. The sur face formation is entirely different from that of the Montana Verdi. being chaI acterized by well defined ledgcs | having a general easterly and westerly trend. Across three of the largest Of these lodges lying parallel and appar- ently constituting parts of single formation, 1t is probably 300 feet. Nearly all cf the work upon the group | has been done upon ledge or vein which may be readily traced for over | 2 900 feet on the property, and crops boldly for q distance of l,f00 feet. It's average width at the surface Is tight | feet, and it dips 69 or D degrees north. and has every appearance both above and below the surface, of true hssure vein. Upon this shaft was sunk by the former owners of the property to a cepth of 1Gl feet. At ihe 50-fcot level a station was cut on the northerly side of the shaft back to the center of the vein which he'd inclined away from the shaft until at this point only about one-ha'f of it was in vein matter prop CT. A wirze was then sunk twenty four feet on this vein when water was struck in such quantities that it could
 Tot be handled with their double wind lass and the winze was abandonsc A drift or tunnel was then driven horl-
 zontally on the ledge from the station
 for distance Of over 120 fact. In this
 drift the vein shows width of from
 seven to nine feet, and is plainly trace lADle US eHlltt l6UB He NSih nut
 ter Is quartz. felaspar and tale. The copper occurs in the form of cha!co- pyrite and b3nite. Assays of average samples across the drift, and for its
 entire length, shows tre ore to be very
 uniform in general and to run from
 four to eight per cent in copper. Be low the 50-foot level the vein inclines entirely away from the shaft. and the
 formation of it's walls down to the
 bottom from that point, as nearly as could be ascertained. is soft granite
 At the 15i-foot level a cross cut was
 run to strike the vein This part oi
 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 F feet of mineralized veir
 matter when great flow of water was
 encountered forcing them to abandon
 the work. The water appeared tc
 come from a regular Assure probabl,
 the same thnt was entered by tho
 winze above. They managed, how
 ever. to enter this Assure three feet
 and obtained some samples before they
 were driven out by the water. It was
 estimated that at this cross cut there
 must be from 12 to 15 feet of vein mat.
 ter yet to cut before reaching the hang.
 ing wall The vein matter is moro