Mohave County miner., 1901-02-09

oiSs "hiCn VIII MAKE Tyson lively
camp in the near future, if the venture
proves profitable.-Sun.
The Copper Era says that strike
of unusual Importance was made last
week on the Comstock, in Bonanza
gulch, five miles from Morenci. The
ore is full of free gold, and is a sight
good for sore eyes. Since the strike
was made further developments have
been most encouraging, and Mrs. Ba-
ker, the fortunate owner, is being con.
graduated by her many friends. Mrs.
Baker Is an old timer in Clifton ana
spent a considerable amount of money
In prospecting and developing. The
strike is on the same vein worked by
Ignatio Campbell many years ago, dur
ing which time he took out small
fortune. Dick Lakenan, who owns an
extension of the Comstock, has been
operating in the same section for sew
eral years, and has taken out consid.
cradle amount of money from his
mines. He is also feeling jubilant over
the strike.
One of the most interesting of the
many surprises, if not extravagant
stories concerning great mineral dis.
coveries of recent date oD the Pacific
slope is told by j. A. Snedaker, Who
recently returned from Ely, Nevada,
where he and his associates, Byron +.
Shear, T.. L. Giriux aud wealthy Chi
cago pitalist---have secured 500 acres
of copper property, says the Pacific
Coast Miner. Mr.. Snedaker compares
the district with Butte, and says that
depth of from POO to 800 feet the ore,
which is oxidized at the surface, comes
into an immense body of sulphides,
the vein matter being from 80 to 500
feet between walls, and bodies of solid
sulphides ten to fifteen feet wide being
encountered that carry 10 per cent
copper, 30 per cent iron and p per cent
sulphur, making an ideal ore for a
mating plant. In one Of the proper
ties visited by him the shaft is down
200 feet and crosscut showed the
vein to be 100 feet wide between walls
and carrying several streaks of sui
phides. This property was recently
examined for sale and the engineers ;
estimate that there are 225O0O tons of
ore above the 200 foot level The com
pany with which Mr.. Shedaker is CON
nected is sinking three shafts, and in
each of them will open large bodies of
ore.
The story yesterday received by
Charles r. johnson, superintendent of
the smelter at st. George, aud the sam
Piles of ore with which he EN- abolished
it, cannot but invite the attention of
prospectors and mining men to the
possibilities of the copper zone by
which the southern country, extending
from the Dixie mine to the SavaDac
and Grand Gulch, is underlaid. The
samples, that cover an astonishing var
iety, include everything from copper
in the sandstone to that in native form,
and that capital has not EN- braced the
many opportunities extended it down
there is what amazed the visitor The
man who has been ridiculing the pros
poets because at the top it occurs in
the sandstone, said Mr.. Johnson, can
no longer do so without making him.
self ridiculous. Indeed, it has not
been demonstrated that the sandstone
is bat the Gaping of deposits that oc-
cur in the limestone and its assures
below, and that have thus far continued
to greater depths explored. The sensa-
tionally rich ledge in the Dixie, from
which Superintendent johnson of the
little plant has just smelted 45,000s
worth of copper bullion during run
of twenty-one days, had a sandstone
Gaping. So did the Savanic that ten
days ago marketed lot of ore on
controls showing 40 per cent of the
red metal. The same conditions ex-
listed in the Grand Gulch, while in
group owned by Mr.. Huntzicke in the
same locality, as much as 10000 tons of
copper ore has been blocked out in
the sandstone with the limestone now
appearing at depth of $50 feet 1t is
at the latter that the owner proposes
to install teaching plant with which
to extract the metal from the sand
stone, the ores from the ledge in the
limestone to be sent to the smelters.