Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1903-09-02
Prescott. Ariz., Aug. 30.

my oCiA OA tIC ORBCA A0Ahtt NC fAIAN NAe
 property of the Corona Consolidated Gold and Copper Company.
 Considerable has been written about
 this property of late, but owing to its
 steady development something new
 can be stated daily.
 Approximately the property is sit
 uate1 south of Prescott about twenty
 two miles. It comprises a group of
 fourteen claims Six called the Cop
 per Mountain group lay on the east
 side of Pine creek aud the other eight
 claims known as the Corona group
 lay to the west and south on the Op-
 pOsite side of the creek. All the
 claims are between Pine Flat on the
 north and Turkey creek on the south.
 The first place visited upOs our ar
 rival at camp was the Copper Noun
 tain claims. Copper Mountain No. l
 is the northeast claim of the goup and crosses the apex of the hill bearing
 the same name, and has an elevation of 700 to 800 feet On this claim the development of the group has princi- pally been confined, though several parallel veins have been prospected which have given satisfactory results.
 The Copper Mountain ledge is twen- ty five or thirty feet in width with a large slate dyke on the west and DOT phory on the east. Two forty foot shafts shows the ore from top to bot tom the same gradually increasing from ten inches to fully two feet or more in width. The vein has a slight dip to the west although the general formation has the appearance of being perpendicular. Fully fifty tons of oxidized ore has been extracted from these shafts, which am informed car ries assay values to the amount of nine dollars gold and fifteen per cent copper. About the same quantity of second class ore carrying better than three per cent copper and some four dollar gold is also on the dump. This ledge passes through the entire length of two claims on this group and the ore is found again on claim of the Corona group fully three quarters of mile south. After looking at the great amount of rich copper corbOn- ates and noting the small space from which it was taken as also the steady enlargement of the ore body, one is bound, in the writer's opinion, to pass upon this property as a first class prospect.
 Frum this property we returned via camp on the way to the workings on the Corona group. At the camp are evil dences of faded glories, in the fact that where the cook house now stands and another excavation a short distance below. recall to the memor- ies of old timers when the stamps were making merry music upon the ores of the district much of which came from the claims now owned by the Go roma Con 'olidated Gold and Copper Company. The erection of these mills in those days must have cost an i'm mense amount of money and the builders evidently "figured without their host" in the matter of the quantity of free gold ore. But as mistakes will occur and must have been greater in those days than at the pres ent time, let us sympathize with rather than criticise the "old time" miner believing, that with the knowledge of the improved methods of treating all characters of ore that before a very great while a reduction plant will rise again "Phenix-like" over those "has beens, land a new prosperity will again spread over this once favored section.
 The company at the present time is concentrating its work upon two claims-Deer's Rest and Christmas Gift A good wagon road leads to the first named claim and is about one half mile from the camp to the mouth of the Corona tunnel On these two claims which are end claims their are five distinct quartz veins ranging in width from two and one half to five feet. All of these veins run parallel, and three of them near the center of the claims are very close together some fifteen to twenty feet distance between them.
 The Corona tunnel was started in at the base of the hill Ou one of these veins and after running some distance a cross cut was run aud the east vein encountered. In both instances high grade copper sulphurets carrying good gold values were found. This tunnel is now in 2SO feet and is diag onallIy cutting the ledge for the west vein, which is expected within the next sixty feet. The cutting of this veIn is looked forward to with great expectations, for the reason that it is the largest and shows an enormous ly rich~outcrop of ore on the surface some 300 feet farther to the south. A 50 foot drift has exposed an ere bcdy at this out crop which new shows in the face to be Iis feet wide by II feet in height. Alongside of this drift is corded up considerably over IjO tons of ore. When we say ore we do not mean rock. Both, from the tunnel (which by the way has about 200 tons estimated on the dump and the drift, tons upon tons of ore could be profitably used for copper specimens. The surface quartz when broken, is of a rose color, heavily i'm with hematite. In very short distance the iron becomes oxide and copper carbonates and sulphides making in the ore every color of we'll defined rainbow. At a distance of less than 500 feet Corona tunnel wIll have reached depth of 6J0 feet below the apex. The fOrma- ton of the Corona is the same as Cop per Mountaineering slate, schist and 1t is the opinion of MT Grove, foreman for the company, that the parallel quartz veins on the