Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1903-03-04


 {. Producing company, has just receive D word of rich strike of ore in tl l. Crackerjack mine of the group owne
 by them, which more than ever CT titles it to the name. In sinking shaft on the property fine body ( ! ore was struck at a depth of 110 feet , and levels were run in each directio
 from the shaft over 100 feet in length The ore body was quite wide, and tn ore was a heavy sulphide runnin
 thirty-five per cent and upwards il copper.
 Using the collar of the shaft as
 common center and drawing an i'm
 aginary circle six hundred feet il
 diameter there are seventeen distinc
 ledges which cut the ground and ar,
 traceable by croppings on the surface
 From this fact it was concluded
 that the lodges come together in {
 consolidated form at depth, in on,
 large ore body.
 With the dual object in view, frs
 of tapping this ore body at a depth ot
 300 feet, and second, to provide al
 opening for the mine some two mile:
 nearer the shelter owned by the com.
 pany, it was decided to run a cross. cut tunnel on the property. From the point selected for starting it tC the point where it is expected tC strike the ore body formed by the union of these various lodges the distance is 526 feet. The tunnel is now in 300 feet of the distance and work is progressing as rapidly as pos sible.
 It was in running this Itunnel that the unexpected body of ore was found, as they struck a ledge which does not show on the surface sby any outcroppings. They drove sthe tun- nel clear across the ore body which was found to be six feet in width. Drifts were run for fifteen .or twenty feet on each side of the tunnel on the ore body without there being any signs of getting less, much less of pinching out. The ore on being as saved was found to give a value of twenty-five per cent in copper and sl5 co per ton in gold and silver. I'm portant as this strike is the tunnel will be pushed with all possible speed to its objective point, where it is ex- pected the concentration of the lodges whose croppings appear on the surface.
 This ore body was encountered at depth of 235 feet below the surface, and should their hopes not be real ized to its full extent of finding the expected ore body at distance of 526 feet their efforts will be fully compensated by thIt ore body alone.
 The property of sthis company is To- cated in ,the northern part of Gila county, in Tonto Basin district and about midway between Flagstaff and Globe, and consists of twenty claims. The claims are located in the very heart of highly mineralized dis trict, but which, owing to its dis tance from railroad transportation has been but partially developed as yet Very rich copper ore is found near the surface In all the claims opened up, while the ore also contains good val ues in gold and silver. In fact there is considerable ore of sufficient rich ness found as to justify hauling by wagon to Globe and then shipping to the Fl Paso shelter. The wagon haul alone costs S35 per ton, from which it can be judged what the value of the ore must be to pay railroad charges to Fl Paso, added to the cost of treat ment at the shelter.
 This company owns three mill sites on the east fork of the Verde river, and about three miles from the mines, and has built ninety ton water jack ct smelter for the treatment of its own ores as well as for treating ore from other near by properties. The com pany has constructed good wagon roads from its own mines to the smell ter with a down grade the entire dis 1. tance so that the ore can be trans 1 ported at the minimum of expense.
 There is an abundance of timber for !. mining purposes on the claims, while l water for camp and mining purposes is obtained from living springs and | for steaming and smelting purposes . there is an abundance in the mines, , at the permanent water level, which . has been reached in them.
 On the Grand Prize claim owned by the company a shaft five by nine feet . has been sunk to a depth of 26O feet on the vein and in ore the entire dis tance. This mine is equipped with a steam hoist pumps and boilers.
 Another of the claims is named the . Lackawanna which is equipped with . a whim and has a shaft four by eight 1 feet 160 feet deep. It is like the one on the Grand Prize has an excellent showing of copper, gold and silver ore.
 A shaft five oy nine feet has been sunk to depth of seventy feet on the Shannon claim, another of the group, which is also in ore the entire dis tance.
 = The Crackerjack, in addition to the no foot shaft and the 300 foot tunnel mentioned above has a second shaft fifty feet deep which is also in ore, and in fact every opening made on the veins or lodges proper are in ore, the only barren ground found in any of the openings being in the cross cut tunnel prior to striking the ledge of ore at distance of 300 feet from its mouth. The ore already in sight with present development is estimated at b, OOO tons certainly a good showing for the amount of work done.
 In some places on the property the surface is a mass of ore croppings in some places showing a width of 200 feet.
 The property consists of two groups known as the Grand Prize group and he Crackerjack group.
 The company is incorporated under he laws of Arizona with a capital 'tOck of sl, ,0OO, 900 the directors being  A. Johns, J. L. Munds, J. A. King md F.. R. Mcdowell of Prescott and