Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1902-06-02
Mines and Minerals Of Arizona

ore and yard wide, says the Prescott
Prospect. But even this old expression
! does not quite fit the occasion. for the
mass OF almost solid metal that con-
fronts one at the bottom OF the sixty
foot shaft on the Cypress mine, though
it is all ore, is considerably more than
a yard wide. and how much more no
one as yet is wise enough to say or so
unwise as to try to guess.
! The Prospect man only stumbled on
this strike by chance, as it We're. for
/ the strikers, McssTs. Frank Thornton
and Charles Kingsley, have been too
busily engaged in shooting down
I through the matted mass OF metal and
too deeply interested in that pleasing
occupation to find time to talk about
it. Naturally a man occupied in TAX
ing out 40 to 60 per cent copper GRE.
provided it is his own, finds the occu-
patton very absorbing and that is what
! the owners of the Cypress mine have
been doing for the past week or so.
/ The Bright Star group. which con-
sists of the Cypress. the Auburn and
the Expansion, situated in the broad
level fiat south and southwest of the
Henrietta mill, is the property of Frank
Thornton, Charles Kingsley. Joe Mayer
and Jesse Davis, who have been oper-
Gting it off and on for the past four
years. There is about 500 feet of de-
velOpInent on the three claims, the
greater part of which is on the Cypress
where there is a shaft of go feet we'll
and strongly timbered, with a fine
steam friction hoist and several hun
dred tons of 20 per cent ore on tn"
dump. On the Auburn. the western
shafts aggregating about 90 feet of
work, both Of them reaching heavy
sulphde Gre. The ledge here is capped
with several feet of grossan and iron
oxide, with neither wall OF the ledge
in sight, and on the Expansion. which
enters the Cypress on an angle from
the southwest there is a 30-foot shaft
on the ledge which yields some very
rich black sulphides and peacock.
The new strike is in the southwest
corner of the Cypress. where a shaft
has been sunk somewhat more than so
feet and work is still going on at full
speed. The surface ore here was oXi-
died iron extending down some fifteen
or twenty feet before the suIphdes be-
gan to appear. All Of this oxide ore
gave good values i'll the spoon. some Of
it hCrning as high $50 to the ton.
But when the sulphides did commence
coming in they came in solid. There
was almost no waste rock and what
little there was disappeared as the
shaft grew deeper and now. in that
4x6 shaft, each of the four walls is
composed almost entirely of metal. re-
vealing the presence OF an ore body OF
unknown width and richer than any
thing thus far uncovered in the Big
-McCabe district.
At the present depth water is coming
in pretty fast and about every fifteen
minutes two or three buckets full have
to be hosted out. Watching the water
coming in through the cavities in the
porous Gre at the bottom of the shaft
one gets an idea of how values leach
out CT the ore. The tiny rills of water
running out of the honeycombed cavi-
ties, carried streams of the finest black
powder. which was nothing less than
black sulphide of copper. Catching a
painful from the bottom of the stump
and panning it down. the large residue
is entirely metal, flecked here and there
with irregular fragments of pure native
copper. Every one in the district is
impatiently waiting for the boys to
c:'osscut the ore body to know how
wide it is. They have already shot in
far enough on each side to show twelve
feet Of solid ore. Opinions are divided
in regard to the deposit, some claiming
J that it is not ledge but a large deposit
OF copper like that at Jerome.
The country formation is Z hard
felsitic granite and the gangue. what
there is of it (for it is mostly solid ore),
is pure white granite lime looking
very like the ore OF the ORC Grande.
though there the resemblance ends.
Meanwhile the owners, and more e=-
pecially the workers. are Saying moth
ing and saving WOOD" but no doubt
they are enjoying that very comfort
able feeling which comes with the
knowledge that they have made the
banner strike OF the year. or perhaps
OF any year.