The news-herald., 1902-11-29
RICH ORE AT
THEWHITECAP.
High-Grade Silver-Copper Ore
Being Taken Out by the
Illinois Copper Co,
The Vulture District
Is Well Mineralized,


which was neglected for SO many
years after the shutting down of the
famously rich Vulture mine, and
which never was prospected very
thoroughly, is again coming to the
front ard is destine to once more
become producing section, Be-
fore development work was started
on the Angel and Bess groups early
this year, but little work had been
done in that section for years, but
since then a number of very pro-
missing properties have been dis
covered or had more OF less work
done upon them. The latest to
attract notice is the White Can
group of twelve claims, lying one
and one-half miles west of the
Angel, and now being developed by
the Illinois Copper Company, lately
organized by V. E. Messenger and
A. w. Bennett of Glendale and N.
c. Dougherty of Peoria, Illinois.
The company is working seven
men and have just started sinking
a shaft on an immense whiteuuartz
blowout, occurring in a quartzite
formation. They were fortunate
enough to strike pay ore at the
grass roots and have already taken
out over two tous of high-grade
silver-copper ore in the first five
feet OF shaft. Mr.. Bennett brought
IN some large samples to this office
Monday, all of which are about the
finest silver-copper ore we have
seen from any of the mines in this
section. Large masses of glance.
gray copper, azurite and malachite
seem to occur in large pockets or
kidneys through the formation,
and, Judging from the amount OF
ore taken from the five foot hole. the
pockets must be pretty comfortably
crowded up against each other.
Nearly all the ore carries silver, as
is evident from the stain, and Mr..
Bennett informs US thatfloat picked
up around the blowout assaved
well in silver. No assays have
been made yet on the ore now being
taken out so we are unable to state
the silver values, but the ore needs
no assaying to determine the copper
values, which are very evident.
Pieces placed in the forge are easily
melted into metal with an ordinary
blacksmith's fire.
If development work proves the
continuity of such ore as the White
Cap group is now producing, the
Angel will have near neighbor
which will prove no mean rival.
The discovery of this ore body
practically on the surface proves
the assertion that theNews- Herald
have SO frequently made, that the
mining districts around Wicken-
burg have not been half prospected.
Hathaway & Co have consoli-
dated the Junior Tunnel Co., Bess
Gold-Copper Co., Dime Savings
Mining Co. and the Angel Co.
under the name of the Angel Cons
solidated Mining Co. Two of the
properties are in Idaho, the other
two being the well-known Angel
and Bess mines near here. The
consolidation will enable tbs de-
velopment work to be carried on
more economically, for which the
stockholders may be thankful, as
they will receive the benefit.
Henry Wyatt moved camp to his
property in the Black Rock district
Tuesday. Henry has good pro-
perty, lying between the Keystone
and the Black Rock Mining Co.'s.
Garrett E. Lamb, president and
director in the Orc Grande Mines
Co. left for home Monday morn.
ing, after spending several days
examining the mine.