Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1904-05-11
GOOD FORTUNE OF CINCINNATI
PEOPLE IN RICH FIND IN COLD MINE
THE PFAU GOLD MINING & REDUCTION co.
Uncovers an Immense Body of Gold Ore.
Hundred Ton Reduction Plant to be In
stalled at Once---What Has Been
Done in the Property.

1t seems little strange that Pres
colt should be Swallowed by noun
tsins of gold ore and not know it, yet
such is proving to be the fact. Re.
cent developments of the property OF
the Pfau Gold Mining and Reduction
company are calculated to give a
greater appreciation of the environ
ments and opportunities of this sec
tion as a mining district. Observing
the unmistakable tracings of nature on
the surface, this company has had the
courage of their convictions in extern
sively Developing their holdings.
Among the many mining properties
that have been located in this county
few have been so rapidly and success
fully developed as those under con-
sideration in this article. The CON-
pany was organized only little over
a year ago in Cincinnati, Ohio, by
Lee Pfau, who is president of the
company, and who was for a number
of years in the engineering corps of
the war department. 1t has for its
officers and directors prominent bust
ness men of that city. After the or
gsnization of the company its direct
ors employed DR.. Ingalls,, a mining
expert, to make a report on the prop
erty. In company with Geo. Henshaw,
one of the directors, and one of the
most prominent business men of Gin
cinnati, DR.. Ingalls, visited the prop
erty and thoroughly examined the
different claims. Upon their favorable
report the services of c. K. Tibbetts,
a prominent mining expert and super
jntendent of Montana, were secured
and the active work of development
was begun.
Very little has been said to the pub
lie concerning the progress being
made on the property, but several re-
ports having come TO the knowledge
of the Journal Miner concerning the
uncovering of very large body of ore
recently, a representative Of this pa
per visited the property this week in
company with Messrs. Pfau, Heushaw
and Atkins, who have been spending
several days at the mines looking over
the work already accomplished and
formulating plans for the future.
When Mr.. Henshaw arrived at the
mines he could hardly believe the
evidence before his eyes at the splen-
did progress that had been made and
the changes in the property since his
former visit in November, 1902. After
a thorough examination be expressed
himself as highly pleased and said
that in his opinion every dollar of
the money that the company had put
into the property had been judicious-
ly spent and we'll invested. Although
this was the first visit to the mines by
MIR. Atkins he was also delighted with
it and felt no doubt that the company
had great property, and was also
much surprised at the immense devel-
opments made and the extent and
permanency of the improvements.
The first place visited by the party
after arriving on the ground was the
cross cut tunnel on the Valley claim,
which is only about three hundred
feet from the mill Here is where
the big body of ore was recently
struck. The ledge was encountered
when in only a few feet and the tun-
mel is now in over eighty feet and ali
in ore. On account of the dip of the
ledge the distance now attained in the
tunnel gives the ledge a thickness OF
fully thirty feet and the foot wall
has not yet been encountered. The
hanging wall is porphyry and from
the old workings on top of and on the
other side of the mountain, there il
every reason to believe that the foot
wall is granite and that the ledge may
be fully 100 feet across. Everything
in this ledgc, - =, Sizes $50
milling values, while a rich streak OIL
the hanging wall, which varies in
thickness from eight inches TO nearly
four feet, carries values ranging from
$40 to $500 per ton.
Two drifts have been run on THU
ledge, one to the north for a distance
OF sixty five feet showing fourteen fee
of quartz that carries gold values u
the amount of go per ton. The toutl
drift is seventy FIVE feet long anC
exposes eight feet of quartz also carry
ing good milling values. The nOrtl
drift is connected with a fifty foo
shaft while 200 feet south OF this shat
is an open cut also showing the or
shoot thus demonstrating for Ger
tainty that the ore shoot is fully 20
feet long, and the probabilities ar
that it is much longer than that, a
float is found in abundance for a dis
lance of 1000 feet without a break
when it disappears under Rich Hill
1t reappears beyond this mountain
and is again traced for COCO feet
Supt. Tibbetts estimates that there i
now exposed and ready to take on
and mill not less than 100000 tons o
ore that will average, on very con
servative estimate, $3.50 per ton
There are now on the dump over 80
tons of this ore that has been take
out in doing the development work i
the tunnel and drifts.
In addition to the above mentione
ore there is now on the dumps and i
the drifts of the old workings Of th
B. B. claim, on top of the mountain
only about 900 feet above the Vale
tunnel, fully 1000 tons of ore alread
mined that will run from 81 to s2S pc
ton or average between 81 and SO pc
ton. When the reduction plant is i
readiness this ore can be milled fo
about ninety cents per ton which vii
leave a handsome profit. 4 gravit
tram will be built and the expense {