Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1903-09-30

! IS now down 220 feet with a 90-foot ! drift at the 50 foot level and a 200 foot drift at the 200 foot level. The aver age value of the ore in these openings
 is from SIP to S25 per ton. About 300 feet up the gulch from the main shaft another shaft was sunk to depth of S5 feet on tale ledge, but at that depth eighteen inches of very rich suI- phides was struck and by the time g feet had been attained the workmen were driven out by the water which rapidly filled the shaft to within ten feet of the top and all the water that has been used in the mill has been pumped from this shalt and pumping day and night from the shaft has no perceptible effect on the supply and it is thought this shaft alone would supply twenty stamps with water. The matter of water seem to be pretty we'll settled for the property, as water m large volumes is obtained from any of the workings with depth. Sev- eral other shafts on the Ticonderoga all show ore of good milling value.
 The principal workings of the en- tire group are on the Dividend claim, which was next visited. Here two deep shafts have been sunk on paral- Tel ledges one to a depth of 100 feet and the other 33O feet. These have been connected by seven cross cuts besides numerous drifts have been run, all but the cross cuts showing immense bodies of ore, widening out from two feet at the top to over ten feet at the bottom, the milling ore go- ing from $50 to $40 while the shipping ore reaches as high as SlS0. These figures are not guess work but are shown by mill returns for the past three years. The value of this ore may be considered when it is known that the ore that has been taken out of these shafts and drifts with only a very small amount of stopping, has paid for all the development of the proper ty, or in other words it has more than paid from the grass roots. The pres ent hoist on this claim will be re- moved to another part of the property and much larger one will be install ed at once with capacity of sinking 1900 feet. Another shaft on this claim shows four foot ledge at fifty feet depth carrying an average of sl2 per ton. Besdies this there are several other small openings on the various lodges.
 The Galena claim was next visited and here three shafts were found to be down one 145, one 90 and the other S5 feet. In the 145 foot shaft the ore body runs from thirty inches to five feet in width, with a streak of solid metal at the bottom ten inches wide of value of S9O per ton. The balance is all good milling ore. in this shaft the ore now shown is upwards of 34S0 tons, of an average value of Sl9. 30 per ton, and the ore body in the face of the west drift from shaft No. 3, shows four feet of practically solid metal of an average value of over so per ton; and shafts Nos and 3 show up over 1925 tons of value of Sl6.57 per ton, or a total of ore above the l05 foot level of over 500, GOO ready for milling and shipping.
 Besides the equipment of the prop erty above mentioned there is a com pIete diamond drill outfit. ore bins, blacksmith shops, tools and one Grove hoist with 300 feet of cable, buckets, etc. 4 fine assay office thoroughly equipped for all purposes, boarding houses. bunk houses. office buildings and in fact all necessary equipment for the camp. These however, will be largely increased in many intsances as soon as the necessary arrangements can be made to begin work which will be very soon, and it will not be long until large force of men will be em- ployed.
 As the property is only about one mile from the Poland branch of the P. X E. railroad, the matter of trans portation will be a very simple prob lem, and this will add greatly to the profits of the company.
 As many of the readers of the Jour nalMiner will undoubtedly be inter ested in the geological formations in the section in which these properties are located, and as before said, the re- porter not claiming any extensive knwoledge along these lines, will quote few lines from the report on these properties made by Samuel StOr- row, of Los Angeles. He says:
 ''The structure of the camp is granite intersected and occasionally overlaid by a.white porphyry, and in tersected by numerous narrow dykes of a very dark porphyry. The granite is much fractured by pressure which seems to have been in direction gen orally about south 80 degrees east run ming south 10 degrees west. causing the granite to break into sheets # # < Each sheet of granite Is sep arated from its next neighbor by a Assure extending at times to great depth and to considerable horizontal distances. These Assures are made by the movement and pressure of the earth's crust and these Assures are the loci for the growth of veins by the depositation of the mineral in the crevices thus formed. $ Enough
 has been worked out to show that
 metalliferous veins of the kind now under consideration aIe most plenty and most permanent and most safely worked in districts of extreme meta
 morphic action and orographic move
 ment. The structure of the rocks around the towns of MCCabe and Chaparal clearly show that this is an farea of great disturbance and the find ing of large deposits of pay ore in great many mines widely but evenly scattered over this district, shows that
 pay veins are many and persistent The continuous bodies of ore ouncov