Arizona republican., 1903-04-27
Mines and Minerals
 ef Arizona
BUCKHORN GROUP
A Property Near Kirkland That Is
 Attracting Attention.

The Prescott Herald is enthusiastic over the Buckhorn group of claims. twelve miles southeast of Kirkland in a range of rugged hills good wagon read leads to the property from Kirk land. There are five claims in the group proper and Mir. Riblet, who owns the principal part of the stock of the Home company, owns a patented claim adjoining. On the patented claim there is a living spring and suffi cient timbers for stulls and tagging can easily be procured from across a moun- tain not more than mile from the property.
 The main workings consist Of shaft sunk on the ledge of one of the claims to depth of about 200 feet. The ledge Is what is known as a blanket ledge, going down into the earth at a pitch of about 20 degrees. At a depth of 200 feet the bottom of the incline shaft is only about sixty feet beneath the sur face. At the point where the shaft was started there is an immense cropping of ore over four feet through. The ore dump was started from immense pieces of ore rolled from the croppings to the place where the ore was to be piled. The croppings will mill at least S20 to the ton in gold
 We went down the shaft, carefully examining every foot of the ledge, showing on each side of the shaft. There is not a break in the ore at any point, and there is TO place where the are is less than 31a feet thick. In places it is over five feet. IL is all solid ore without a stratum of gouge matter in it anywhere. It is a re- marka ble body of ore. An assay taken from the sides of the shaft from top to bottom gave returns of s3S.03 per ton gold. In silver it runs about s to the ton.
 At point about seventy feet from the mouth of the shalt shaft has been sunk straight down to cut the ledge. The shaft was sunk before the deeper shaft was started. It cut it all right, showing over five feet of solid ore. From this shaft to the main shaft a small hole has Eeen cut, allow ing free circulation of air. Between the two shafts the ore is extremely rich in a small stratum. Assays at this point show about s30O per ton gold. This rich place is in the center O: the large ore body.
 Piled on the south side of the shaft | there is about 100 tons of the ore just as it was hoisted from the mine. A general stample taken from the dump by J. s. Acker, who is a conservative and careful man, gave a return of S39.69 in gold. It hardly seems possible | that the immense body of ore contains such values, but MT. Riblet has had about seventy assays made and they average more than $40 to the ton. About eco feet from the shaft there is one of the greatest blow-outs o: ore in the country. From the shaft to the south end of the blowout there are very conservatively speaking thou sands of tons of ore in sight.
 The showing on the patented claim l about 400 yards north of the main shaft mentioned is the same as that on the other places described. There are sev- eral open cuts and incline shafts, all showing the immense body of ore. There seems to be a great blowout there also. Pieces of ore weighing several hundred pounds can be quar- | ried from the surface.
 The ore bodies at the Buckhorn lie on a granite and schist contact. No l better :Orma ton for gold is known.