Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1904-08-31

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 about which very little has beer
 written in the newspapers, and oi
 which but very little comparatively
 is known by the general public, and yet it ranks today among the biggest mines in the territory, with prospects for even outranking all others in the not very remote future.
 i The mine referred to, or more prop erly speaking the group of mines re- ferred to, for there are several claims in the group, are those of the Brad shaw Mountain Copper Mining and Smelling company, located at Mid i delton, in the Bradshaw mountains. The property hsa been under the management of G. W. Middleton and he has said so little about the proper ties that the general public has learned practically nothing of what has been done, and very few mining men even seem to be aware of the real importance of the property.
 One of the things done by MT. Mid delton was to drive a big cross cut tunnel into the side of the mountain to cut the ledge at depth of about 1900 feet from the apex of the noun tain. This tunnel is wide enough for a double track mining railroad and its length is about HOO feet.
 At distance of 400 feet in drift was run and an ore body encountered, into which they have already run a distance of sixty feet while it is known to be sixty feet wide at this point without having encountered one of the walls.
 Five hundred feet above this or about 500 feet lower than the apex of the mountain, ore was struck some time since in a tunnel. A winZe POO feet deep was sunk in this ore body and then a cross cut was run at this point a distance of fifty-six feet, showing the ore body at that place to be of that width.
 This upper tunpel is known as the Copper Link tunnel to distinguish it from the big tunnel which is known as the Hot Number tunnel, being on a claim of that name. This tunnel, while run parallel with the ledge, was run for some distance on barren rock. In a cross cut run from it a body of good ore was encountered some time since which apparently demonstrated the great magnitude of the mine but nothing was said about it Mir. Middleton preferring to prove the extent of the ore body before making any rash announcements which would Lale to depend largely on guess work. Work, however, was pushed in the development of this ore body until at the present time they have drifted on it for sixty feet and have extended the cross cut for nearly sixty feet without finding the wall of the vein.
 This immense ore body is directly over the one in the Hot Number tunnel and the ore in the 2O0-foot winze sunk from the Copper Link tunnel. In tunnel still nearer the surface tine same ore body has also been en- countered, the character of the ore being different and the extent of the ore body not having been yet de- termiued. The width of this ore body has been practically determined by the various cross cuts to be at least sixty feet while the face of the drifts in both the Copper Link and Hot Number tunnels are still in ore with no signs of a break in it so that the length of the ore body has not yet been determined The depth of it cannot be approXimated beyond the 1900 foot level from the surface, where it has been opened up in the Bot \ umber tunnel.
 This ore body however at its present known size, together with others which l have been opened up in the property, | it will readily be seen is sufficient to class it among the big mines of the territory as it carries good values in ! both copper and gold with a percent age of silver.
 On the surface over thIs ore body | are immense croppiDgs from which | the ore has been leached leaving only | the barren rocks sticking up, but |