Arizona republican., 1902-04-21
SOME NEARBY MINES
Mineral Showing in the Salt River
 Range, South of Phoenix.

far away from outftting centerS that it has become q theory with many people that good mines cannot be found close to city unless that city be situated in the heart of the mountains or exists as the, natural offspring of some we'll known mine. That idea, as much as anything else, perhaps, is re- Sponsibie for the limited amount of prospecting done in the Salt River mountains and other ranges near to PEoenix IL Goes rot occur to the pros pector that the mineral deposits were created long before Phoenix was. and so he goes way out into the wilderness before he begins looking for mine.
 Gold is. Where you find it and the place to look for it is-;the first place one comes to showing any ledge signs or mineral formations. The Salt River range, few miles south of Phoenix. has been run over and laughed at and but carelessly prospacted for the last thirty years, and yet it is a safe pre- diction that in some good day there will be developed in that range some very valuable properties. It is not saying too much to announce that even now there are three or four that have been sufficiently developed to warrant the spending of more money on-
 Of these the property having the most interesting history and on which the most work has been done. is the Max milan claim, one of fine looking group of claims now owned by George McClarty. The claim is better known as the old Todd property, the ore from it at che time being worked in five stamp mill just south of the river. For various reasons the venture did not prove a paying one ultima tely, though considerable gold was taken out at first The most important reason. however was the supposed pinching cut of tlir ore body. Mir Todd was then working in a tunnel that went in some distance, and MT. McClarty has pushed it on into the hill twice as far He found that the trouble with the Todd management was that they did not fol- low the ore body when it turned to the right, being deceived in the formation. Mir McClarty did follow the vein from the point ct which it turned and now has in the same tunnel larger and . richer vein than Mir. Todd ever had.
 To go back still further in history, the mine was first worked by George F. Coats of this city and worked very successfully for q time, but was aoan-
 
 ing out of the ore body. The Todd workings were on the side of the noun tain and the Coats workings consisted principally of a cut right across the top of the hill. When the work in the cut began there was a surface vein of several feet of rich ore. It proved to be a wedge shaped deposit, however, and at the depth of fifteen or twenty ha gether MT. McClarty has also done some further work in continuation of the Coats work, or along side of it and he has-feyealed- that MT. Coats was working a sort of Q slip or pocket of ore and within twenty feet of where he was working there is now in evidence finer vein than he had, the continu- ation of the main ledge. He is in only few feet, however. Between the work at the crest of the hill and the Todd tunnel MT. McClarty has started a couple Of tunnels, both on the same ledge, which angles down the side Of the hill. He has a wider ore body in each of them than in the older work ings. there being nine-foot ledge :n one. There are also many prospect holes along the hill on the various lodges. While there has been probably 400 feet of work done on the claim it is all developing and no great ore body is measurable, though it is very evil dent, as it can be traced along one side at least in all the workings. The ore assays at anything from a few dollars up to high figure some of it probably s100 per ton. No one who visits the property can question its fine showing and all it needs is more development. He is now prospecting for water in that vicinity and if he can find it at reasonable depth it ought to prove a good milling proposition, as the ore is soft and the gold free.
 In the same group MT. McClarty has a number of claims and there are good ore signs and possessory work done on all of them. The claim which he thinks will prove the best one, how ever, is called the Gro Grande. It is situated on the north side of the same guleh, directly opposite the Maxmilian toward Phoenix, on the south side of the first row of little hills On the north side and probably on the same lode is Tom Boyle's Badger State property and other claims.
 The Orc Grande has a we'll defined ledge, probably twenty feet in width, NAANI NeAii cO SOCAl at lIle ulSldHc6 Ol d mile, running up the side of the hill There has been but a small amount of work done on the claim, but it is flat tering in its appearances.
 Directly west of the Maxmilian or Todd claim is John Creath's property, which shows very rich ore and of which he has shipped a considerable quantity to a good profit and worked in a little arastra near the Heard ranch. He has made few dollars already and is en- gagged. now in developing the mine. His ore is all right and doubtless develop ment will prove the value of his mine
 On the south side of the range, with in couple of miles, lies the property of the Gold Coin Mining company, which d small force has been deveIop- ing for year past and on which it is probable active work will begin at an early day. Other claims and many ot them: have been staked in that section and some of them show many good points.
 Altogether there can be no question but that little district a couple ot miles. wide and three or four milee long, will at no distant day show soile