Bisbee daily review., 1904-07-24
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Red Rover Mine VALUABLE PROPERTY
 Has Been Sold
NEW CORPORATION FORMED IN MARicoPA COUNTY TO BEGIN
 OPERATIONS.
Tom Sparks and Others interested in the ssle-Property located Fifty Miles Northeast of Phoenix.

The Red Rover Mining compan,
 was incorporated yesterday and the
 property known as the Red Rove
 mine situated fifty miles northeast oi
 Phoenix, and which has for a long
 time been under bond to T. J Sparks
 was turned over to the new corpora tion, says the Phoenix Republican.
 The consummation of this deal is oi
 special interest to people of Phoe
 nix for Phoenix is the headquarter! for the operation of the Red Rover and the mine itself is one of the his torical properties of central Arizona
 For nearly twenty-five years it has been worked in a desolutory sort of a way. It has always been considered valuable property but it has been handicapped in various ways, some of which were the lack of capital to prop erly work il and series of lawsuits that have interfered at times when the outlook seemed otherwise clear.
 The development of the property be- gan as far back as 1880 when John Demarbaix and Joe Cox were in pos session. They did some work upon it and after it left their possession it was worked more or less extensively from time to time by successive own CTS. The ores are mainly copper and silver, and till recently the mine could be reached only by burro trail. The best ores were packed out on burros and shipped away to various reduction plants, no plant ever having been built al the mine It is authoritatively stated that al least s10O,000 has been taken cut of the mine in this primitive and expensive way. After various law suits the title of the property fin ally vested in J. L. B. Alexander. Mor- ris Archer and Mrs Hattie Goldman, wife of Bernard Goldman. a former resident of Phoenix. For many years the property was in charge of Marcel Dugas, who died recently, as caretaker and who developed it somewhat as op- portunity offered. It came to be known more as the home of Marcel Dugas, than anything else for in late years its ores have been but little worked.
 T. J Sparks, who has made Phoenix his home for the last year or two, heard of the property before he left Dawson City and bonded it by tele- graph. Later he came 10 Phoenix and though he has also been interest ed in other ventures, the development of the Red Rover, under the terms of his bond, has been his principal enter prise and he feels that in the COZ summation of this deal he has made a fortunate investment for himself and his associates. the property having proved all that he had expected of it.
 The new corporation has a capital stock of s500,0G0, and there are buI three incorporators, Mir. Sparks, MT R. E. de Gex and MT. A. E. Willis. Mir. de Gex is an Englishman, Toronto, Can, being his former home but for the last year his home has been in Phoe- nix and Mir. Wills resides in Dawson City where he was formerly asso- ciated with Mir. Sparks Mir. and Mrs. Walls have been here for some time recently, and leave on this mornings train for their home in Dawsan City.
 The property is well developed and much ore is blocked out ready for transfer to the surface. The main opening is a vertical shaft about 25O feet deep and there are in the neigh hood of 2.000 feet of crosscuts, drifts and levels. In addition there are the numerous surface openings and shallow shafts to be found on every old property, made for the purpose of de- fning location and sizes of lodges, etc.
 Until Mir. Sparks bonded the mine it could be reached only by burro trail but he has constructed a good wagon road, via Camp Clark, suitable for heavy hauling, and has erected a good hoisting works. The mine has been worked continuously in a small way ever since Mir. Sparks secured posses sion, but the new owners propose now to increase the force at an early day and as soon as possible erect a smer- CT and begin reduction. The size of the smelter and the methods of re- auction are yet matters for future de- cision. IL is a good piece of news though to know that at las the time has come when this well and favor ably known property will be made to add something to the wor'Ps wealth. One mining engineer of repute was heard to say last night. that while the Red Rover may not be the biggest mine in the world, it is big enough and it's ores carry values as $ eat as any nine of it's size in the country.