Arizona republican., 1902-02-24
Mines and Minerals
 ef Arizona
WILCOX GOES WILD
A Rich Strike On the Casey Group at
 Dos Cabezas.

Wilcox and vicinity are wild with excitement over the most phenomenal mining strike ever recorded in the his tory of mining in these parts and pos sibly in the world. The strike is located q bout ten miles east of Wilcox. in the Dos CabeZas mountains on what is known as the Casey group of copper claims.
 The history of these claims is re- markable and farcibly illustrate what perseverance and faith in q property will accomplish as well as the vast pos abilities of the mineral resources of the Dos Cabezas, Dragoon and Chiricahua mountains surrounding Wilcox.
 Fully forty years ago the Casey brothers landed in New Mexico and after a career full of adventures in cident to frontier life finally settled at Dos Cabezas, about twenty years ba ok.
 On their arrival at Dos Cabezas they located gold property which they have bonded several times and which is considered a good property. but in Variably it has fallen into poor hands and has never become the producer which it's ore bodies warrant mining men in believing under proper manage ment that it will. At the same time they located the Casey copper claims upon which the recent strike was made and which will from now on form an interesting attraction in the whole min ing world.
 In speaking oi the new discovery the Range News says: Two months ago P. J. Scanlan. T. F. Niland and J. s. Kraft secured bond and lease on this popular ground for the sum of S35. 900 and set about to do the assessment work. which was one of the conditions of the bond. They started on an old tunnel and drove in few feet farther when they discovered ore stains on the north wall. Relieving that they were close to the ore body they commenced to prospect the surface and discovered indications which led them to believe that the ore body was further to the north. Accordingly they put in a few shots and soon encountered ore. After stripping the ground for a distance they discovered the foot wall and be- gan sinking q shaft along it They sunk q distance of fifty feet in solid ore. in which there is hardly a pound waste. At the depth of fifty feet. find ing no bottom to the ore body. they started to drift ahead to see if they could discover the hanging wall. They are now about twenty feet in the ore body without having discovered the hanging wall. They are also drifting along the foot wall in both a northeriy and southerly direction to ascertain if possible any break in the ore, but so far none has appeared. The size and dimensions of the ore body are at this writing entirely unknown, but the cropping of this enormous deposit can be traced for miles over the surround ing country. Scanlan and his partners have now nine claims and nine mill sites and have also laid out a town site near by the mine on the foothills below.
 The only barren rock to be seen was the smooth face of the foot wall, the rest was solid mass of ore. The ore is carbonate strongly impregnated with iron, copper, gold, silver and also some bismuth and cobalt. Throughout the enormous mass appeared punches of very rich ore which assays as high as s1.200 in gold. The other day five sam pies were carefully taken from the en- tire mass, so far as it had been exposed. and sent to Lordsburg, N. NJ. where it was assayed and tested. The general average of the five samples were as follows: Gold, IS ounce; silver S5.2 ounces; copper. 10 per cent. No assays were taken of the bismuth and cobalt MT. Scaalan informed us that the ore became richer in copper and gold the deeper they went down and at the depth they are now working the ore would not average less than $1OO per ton. In several other places surrounding this shaft small holes had been sunk re- vealing ore of the same kind and quail ity. That the deposit both in size and richness is really phenomenal no one who has seen it ever questions. Above and below the strike for a long dis tance enormous croppings are visible on the surface, giving one an idea of the tremendous ma magnitude of this find.
 FROM GOLD MOUNTAIN.