Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1902-10-22
MINT VALLEY MINING DISTRICT
ACTIVE MINING DEVELOPMENT IN PROGRESS ON LARGE NUMBER OF CLAIMS WITH SPLENDID RESULTS
 ALL ALONE THE LINE
Canyon Copper Company Making Rapid Progress in Opening Its Properties Which Are Showing Up
 Most Satisfactorily.

A Journal Miner representative visited the above mining dis trict on Thursday and was agree ably surprised at the activity existing there. The parties engaged in mining operations are meeting with much encouraging success, yet they are doing it without any noise or buster They believe evidently in work and not words, and had this scribe not happened into the district they might hove kept their mining 'light hidden under a bushel" for months yet.
 The district is not a new one, and yet in the matter of systematic devel- opment It is as yet only in its in- fancy. Spasmodic spurts have been made periodically in developing vari- ous claims, but in most instances the parties have lacked adequate means to direct work on systematic and energetic lines, while in the only case in former years where sufficient capital was employed to.demonstrate the merits of the district, the work was so misdirected that the expendi- ture was practically waste of funds.
 The Jerome Canyon Copper com pany entered the district last spring and secured by purchase sixteen promising claims, the group extend ing along a series of parallel lodges for a distance of 12,OO0 feet, or over two miles, being the length of eight full claims. The other eight claims are located on lateral or side veins, the trend of all being nearly due north and south.
 Old timers will remember huge iron capped dyke, which has often been commented on by miners and others which runs through this sec ton. It is traceable from a point well up on the Williamson valley mesa clear across the country to the Yarnell, Rich Hill and Octave country, dis tance of fifty or sixty miles. Good mines have been found at different points along and contiguous to this dyke, and it is contiguous to it whers the properties of the Jerome Canyon Copper company are located as well as other promising properties of this l district.
 ] The above company has confined ts operations mostly on the Copper Glance claim, which is equipped with fine steamer hoist, and since lcommencing operations last spring has sunk a shaft 150 feet with levels run at each 50 feet.
 At the first level, fifty feet below the surface, the ledge at the shaft is about two feet wide. fairly we'll min eralized, and in the face of the north drift, which is forty feet from the shaft, it has widened out to seven feet between we'll defined walls, with ore of good quality clear across it. A body of black sulphides was encountered in this drift which as- sayed S110 in gold, 2S per cent cop per and sixty ounces in silver.
 In the drift at the 100-foot level considerable molybdenite has been encountered in addition to the other metals, but no tests or assays have yet been made to determine its values.
 The ore is found in schist, the foot wall being a sort of porphyritic dorite and the hanging wall is slate for nation.
 Miners who have worked in the mine and who are familiar with the formation at Jerome have remarked the two exact similarity between two formations.
 A short distance south of the work ing shaft another shaft was sunk to depth of twelve feet from which good shipping ore was taken. Dur ing the September storm this shaft was filled with debris by the flood waters of the creek, the shaft being located on the edge of the creek. A drift is now being run from the working shaft at the l00-foot level to strike this ore body.
 ; As stated, the outcroppings of five separate lodges can be seen on this claim, varying in width from two to thirty feet. The thirty-foot ledge is located about 120 feet east of the one on which the working shaft is To- cated and at the 100-foot level cross cut is being run to intersect this big ledge and another smaller one lying between the two.
 In doing the title work on the other claims of the group good ore