Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1903-02-09
: Mines and Minerals f:
! Of Arizona p:
WORK ON ELECTRA
Other News From the Mines Around
Wickenburg.

Between 400 and 500 feet of develop
Electra property up TO date, the larger
part of the work consisting of two
shafts on the main lode. one $50 feet
deep and the other GO feet deep, says
the Wickenburg News-Herald. Both
of these shafts have been sunk on the
ore which holds an average width u
about three feet, and as they are about
1000 feet apart and the same mineral
ogical conditions exist in both, there is
little question but that the lode car
ries a long and continuous shoot OF
ore Short drifts have been run from
both shafts at different levels, all in
ore, the longest being over so feet, and
conscientious sampling gives an av-
erage value of s27 per ton, the greater
values being in gold. The lode is a
highly mineralized dixie of altered di-
orite, with micaceous granite on the
foot and porphyritic granite on the
hanging wall, the outcrop being easily
traced for q distance of 1000 feet.
Up to the present time everything
hoisted from the workings has been
done by horse power, a whim being
used, and the property has now reached
stage where it is necessary to equip
with a steam or gasoline hoist. When
this latter necessary equipment for
economical working is placed upon the
mine, the long ore shoot can be rapidly
opened up and blocked out, and the
property will then be ready for a mill
ing plant.
That the Electra is one of the coming
big mines of the Wickenburg district
is conceded by everyone who has visited
it. It has had the two qualities al
tached to it necessary to make a good
mine, that is, good ground and a good
! manag cement, and with the provision
of sufficient capital to open it up on n
large scale, it should not take a very
| long period to make it a dividend-pay-
ing property.
Superintendent Franklin is building
road from the Wickenburg- Gilbert
road to the shaft on the Uncle Sam
| conpany's property. AS soon as the
road is completed the shaft, which is
now down 100 feet. will be timbered
and a gasoline hoist will be installed
and sinking will be continued to the
800 foot level. The Uncle Sam property
has some of the best surface indica
tons in the Blue Tank district. The
ledge on which the work is being don:
| is the same ledge on which the Denver
group is located, and which Superin-
tendent Carnage of the Denver grour
IS driving Il tunnel to cross-cut.
William Scott, J. C. Reed and Pedro
Gonzales have located some claims near
the Grijalva mine, and are taking ou1
some very rich ore from a small string
er in one of the lodges.
Roy Sayre and Tom Connell came IL
Sunday night from their claims In thu
Black Rock district. They have twt
groups of very promising claims lyire
| between the Black Rock Limited an(
the White Gold companys' property.
| Colonel Thomas Ewing, president @
| Southwest Miners Associat ton, and Nj
p. Gilbert, Salt Lake mining man
spent the fore part of the week iookins
| at various properties in this district
Henry NJ. Love OF Chicago, who i
one of the owners of the Vulture mine
arrived Tuesday morning and will
spend seevral weeks at the mine. Thi
| is Mr.. Loves first visit since 1897, an,
he Is very much surprised at tn
growth of the town.