Weekly Arizona journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1903-1908, 1903-07-01
PARTY VISITS
CORONA PROPERTY
Officers and StOCkhOld-
erS Inspect Work.
They Are Well Pleased and Be-
lieVe They Have Good
Property.


dated Gold and Copper company paiC
a visit to the property Of the compan!
on Turkey creek a couple of days age
for the purpose of a personal inspec
ton of the properties and the worl
which has been showing up such good
results the past few weeks. Arriving
at the camp their we'll filed lunch
baskets were opened and good OLD
fashioned picnic dinner was enjoyed,
after which the party started out
under the leadership of Us. Acker,
who is thoroughly familiar with every
foot of the property, to see what the
company had. that being the first visit
to the property of several of the COM
pany.
The first place visited was the work
ings on the Copper Hill claim on the
extreme east side of the body OF
claims, which number fourteen in all.
Here they found about 100 feet of de-
velopment work had been done and
about 80 tons of fine looking ore
sacked and stacked up on the dump.
This is a decidedly copper PROPOSE
ton, the ore running between sixteen
and twenty per cent copper while car
rying from So to So per ton gold and
little silver. The work has been
done at the apex of the mountain but
it is the intention of the company
when the development of this claim
is taken up to run tunnel in the side
of the mountain several hundred feet
lower so that the ore may be stopped
out from below and the expense of
hosting avoided. The Copper Hill
claim gives promise of being fine
property with proper development.
The party then visited the Deer :
Rest claim near the foot of Corona
mountain where the tunnel is now be-
ing driven in to tap the ore shoot
exposed in the large open cut
near the top of the mountain.
Three men are pushing this tunnel in
as fast as they can and have now
reached distance of about $50 feet.
At 10 feet they cut two ore veins
which showed no groupings above
ground. One of these veins Is about
twelve inches wide md The other from
eight to ten inches and show fine
looking ore. 1t is expected to strike
the large ere body at q distance of
about 200 feet at which distance they
will have obtained between 600 and
700 feet depth on the ore. If indica-
tions count for anything the company
will then have a mammoth PROPOSE
ton. By drifting, upraising and stop
ing the ore can be taken out through
this tunnel at a nominal cost.
The open cut above referred to on
the Christmsa Gift claim was then
visited and the party saw something
which did their eyes good. Here in
a 60 foot open cut a splendid ore body
running from four to six feet in
width has been opened up. Numerous
assays of the ore in this cut have run
from Sl1 to $50 in gold and from four
to fourteen per cent in copper. These
being surface values it is only reason
able to believe that the values will
be considerably greater at the depth
which the tunnel will strike it. But
even if the values do not increase nor
the vein increase in size the company
will still have fine property.
There are several other places on
the property where more or less work
had been done but on account of lack
of time the party could not visit them
all, but they felt we'll satisfied with
what they had seen and started for
home feeling that they had property
that in the near future would attract
considerable attention with a good
chane of making one of the big pro-
ducers of this county.
This group of claims lies in one of
the oldest mining sections of the
county, the first mill in the county
having been operated on the Bully
Bueno property in this neighborhood.
This mill was hauled by mule team
from st. Louis about thirty seven
years ago and large amount of bull
ion was taken from the ore, but the
tremendous expense of operating,
combined with the hardships and
dangers, resulted in the practical
abandonment of work il that part Of
the county for many years. On the
property now owned 10y the Corona
Consolidated Gold and Copper COM
pany, quite a lot of work was done
over twenty five years ago, the ruins
of the old mill and camp sites being
plainly visible yet. An old arastra
also shows where several thousand
dollars were taken out by this crude
method. The lack OF transportation
facilities is all that has kept this sec
ton from being among the foremost
III the mining industry Of the county,
but this difficulty has been largely
overcome by the advent of the new
railroad into the Crown King country,
the road passing within six or seven
miles of this property. With the ex-
penditure Of few Kindred dollars a
wagon road can be built to the prop
erty to connect with road leading
tn the railroad. Then with a mill to
concentrate the ore, and the company
expects within a few months to put
up such a mill, the prospects look
bright for those who are interested in
the company
Among the officers and directors OF
the company who were in the party
were: A. j. Head, president; K. II.
Burmister, vice president; w. >.
Goldsworthy, secretary; J. l. Gardner
and J. s. Acker, directors. and they
were we'll pleased with the showing
that is being made. These gentlemen
are among the best and most substan
tiaI business men of the county and
this fact guarantees that the money
spent in developing the property vii
be put 10 the best use possible anC