Bisbee daily review., 1903-06-14
IN THE MINING FIELD Operations of Interest Throughout the County of CoChise, Arizona
 and Sonora
anO Sonora

northwest of the windmill. and project ing out into Sulphur Springs valley, are two ridges or spurs. designated To- cally as President Hill and Mineral Hill. Both of these ridges are liter ally perforated with prospect shafts and tunnels, there being some forty or fifty of these embryo mines. and in every one of them visited by the writer there was mineral in greater or less quantity.
 From one shaft, now owned by Mr. John Warren. nearly two tons of cop per ore of a very high grade has been extracted and shipped, and in the shaft there is a vein of copper ore showing, nearly foot in width. and of unknown depth And yet this shaft is only down some fifteen or twenty feet. Other small holes on the same claim. which is called by Mir Warren the Stand-Off, show stringers and pockets of copper
 w. W. MonmOnier of Pearce. and his two sons, J. W and Charlie. own some nine claims on these two hills, and on one of them an incline shaft has been sunk some forty or fifty feet, from which several tons of good ore have been taken, which is now sacked at the mouth of the shaft. This ore is d carbonate copper, averaging 30 per cent. with good values in silver. and some gold. The top wall of this in- cline shaft is lime. and in going down. several cross veins Of ore have been cut. which show clearly on each side of the untimered shaft These veins vary in thickness from two to six inches. and all show the same charac- ter of ore. Work on this claim is now stopped, as the Monmoniers have struck a rich silver prospect in closer to Pearce which they are engaged n developing.
 On the other claims of the Mon moniers are prospect and assessmen: holes, from which your correspondent personally took samples of ore These samples are malachite. azurite an9 galena. some of them carrying good values in silver and lead.
 The rock formation in these hills seem to dip to the center from each side, and the ore stringers and veins seem to have been forced up and out from central point along the lines of Assure. This group of claims is only four of five miles from Manzura sta tion., on the Southern Pacific railway and being on the outermost spurs of the Dragoon mountains. wagon road could be built to them from the rail road with comparatively slight ex- pense.
 Adjoining the Monmonier group 70 the south lies the Stand-off claim uf Mir John Warren, noted above, while to theseast and west are claims owned by Messrs. Layton, Reno and Martel. Each and every one of these claims show ore in the location and assess ment work, and in some of them, par ton, the showing of ore is extraordi- nary.
 It is safe to say that if any of these claims or groups were in the Warren district, or within five miles of Bisbee. capitalists would be falling over each i other in their efforts to secure inter- ests in them, at almost any price And such action on their part would be of copper unquestionably underlies these various claims. But it seems to l your correspondent that it would be i equally good business sense for these same capitalists to send their experts out to examine the prospects and in dications noted herein, and if their re port be favorable. far less capital will | be required to obtain and develop properties than would be required to handle propositions nearer to the Copper Queen and the Calumet & Ari- zona. The present holders Of these claims are anxious to interest capital in their development, and will not be ! unreasonable in making terms. Certainly the existence of so much surface mineral and indications, over so much territory. all of like character and apparently dipping to common | center, makes the ground worth in vestigating.
 Work on the new find at Pearce is at standstill, except location work on the various claims, pending an op- tion taken on the entire group for ten days by strong company The short life of the option would indicate the probability of sale
 There are rumors in Pearce of ne gotiation pending for the organization of company to acquire and develop an extension of the Commonwealth mine. Tombstone owners of an inter est in the property in question are said to be blocking the scheme at present. but it is hoped that they may be brought into line.
 | The new railroad now finished into Pearce will be opened for traffic on July 1st. This will help miners in this vicinity. and the new smelter at Benson will help them still more Keep l your eye on Pearce and Cochise