Arizona republican., 1902-03-12

mine. It is almost canyon wall the GUmp of the tunnel reaching to the . wEtsrS edge. and SO steep iS the face Of this bluff it was necessary in places to blast q trail along it in order to i reach the tunnel opening, which is on | the cropping of one of the two ledges. Had the mountain been made to order one of the few improvements that could be desired would have been to place 1t back from the river far enough fer a mill site, for this abrupt canyon N-&ll furnishes the oniy irritating fea ture in the milling entei prise. It will be nee essary to b,:ilG q short railway for carrying the ore around the face of this wall to the mill site at the i southeast corner of the Iowa, near camp. This however. is irritating only, and not disoouraging. for few hun | Gred dollars will do the wO, k. ] Returning to the face of the tunnel
 at the west end of the Right Bower and looking directly east the croppings
 of the two lodges can be traced nearly to the summit of the hill. which is the east end of the Right Bower. Adjoin- | ing the Right Bower at this point and still following the croppinss of the i lodges is the Dark Horse claim. which req aches down the eastern slope of this big mountain to the bottom of the Slim
 Jim guieh. Adjoining the Dark Horse
 or the east in the bed of Slim Jim
 gulch and reaching up the western
 slope of the next mountain east of the gulch, is the Brunette claim. On
 either side Of Slim Jim gulch are vari-
 ous tunnels showing the ore bodies to
 be even larger and of slightly richer
 value than at the point of starting on
 the west end of the Right Bower But the locality is more inaccessible. The mine is all that could be asked at the point of starting and when il is worked from that end q straight tunnel will eventually reach the Slim Jim Sulch T and it will be meTeiy a matter of car ryfng the ore through a tunnel The present stage of this description there fore shows beside the Iowa. north of
 the river. three claims lenSthWise along
 .eIsyes as well defined as the stripes
 Ga q zebra. It is said this same crop
 ping has been flied i.pon by others for
 miles east of the White company $
 holdings.
 Tn the description of formations the re2der. is asked to imagine himself
 gain at the west end of the Right i Power facing east toward the mouth Of
 the tunnel Two distinct le4ges are seen but a few feet apart The crcp- yings are easily traced bE reason Of white or light colored quartZ predomi- hating on the surface where exposed. C1en cuts and short tuEae!s on each ledge expose their walls clearly. Both ir1ges dip to the left, or north at an argle of about thirty degrees and both seem to be almost ma th maticaliy parallel. The most work has been done on what is known as tunnel No. 1. It shows the ledge to be fully ten feet wide between walls. both wills being perfectly defined. with about four feet
 of ore under the hanging wall and fron = inches to three feet along the footwaI. Between is gangue matter
 that may or may not carry values. Tunnel No. 1 is an open cut of twenty feet with forty feet under cover The
 ore is largely red oxide and rose quartz and while assays have been made run ming almost to $300 per ton and at all figures below that it has been esti- mated by reputable mineraiogist that
 the ore body above water level, which includes everything under considera- tiol at this time will average SIP per
 ton in gold. the silver being extra. Gold
 is unquestiona ply the predomina tinS metal but the richest assays have been made in bodies where silver predJmi- mated and gold was also well in eVi- CaaCe The ore. however. all carries
 good silver values and in many places
 even exceeding the gOil.
 There are other small openings on the
 west end Of the Right Bower which it is useless to detail. On the east side Of lie hill on the Black Horse, where the
 same veins crop in Slim Jim gulch both lodges are a little wider than on the
 west end and the pay streaks in the ledge are proportionately wider. On this side of the mountain is the deepest tunnel on the property, there being an
 open cut of twenty feet with about fifty-siX feet under cover. On this side
 Of the hill and probably 100 feet above the bed of the guich there has been slight slip of the hill in one place just | the width of the vein and in another probably twenty feet. But when it slipped the whole hill slipped and the cropping was UnuisIurbed. Another tunnel on the slip in depth of twenty feet open cut and thirty-fVe under
 cover shows the walls as clearly de- fined as elsewhere. From one of these tunnels in the excavation of the