Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1905-12-13
From Fridays Daily)

or Frank Burns, who arrived here or
 the northbound, bringing with hin
 many samples of ore of a new discov
 cry made Ev him in the immedia-.
 vicinity of the Carrigan strike and of
 an exactly similar character.
 It will bc remembered that he lief;
 here in conipany with H. S. Walls i'm
 mediately after the Carrigan discovery
 was reported. with well equipped pro
 specting outfit, furnished by a syndi.
 cate of business men, determined to
 explore the fastnesses of the forbid.
 ding mountain range known. as the Harcuvar mountains, with a view of locating, if possible, some of the rich veins of copper and gold bearing rock, which recent discoveries had establish ed existed in that section. As a se- quel to his return the parties interest ed with him called a meeting last ev- ening at the office of Attorney Reese M. Ling, and there formed the nucleus of new mining company, to be known as the Liberty Gold and Copper Min ing company, at which ample provi- sion was made for the development of the new strikes reported by MT Burns, with view of establishing their ex- tent and values.
 The officers of the organization el- ected at this meeting are: J. E. Mccoy, president; L. H. Tobey, vice-presi- dent; Frank Whisman, secretary and John K. Ross, treasurer, and Frank Burns, general manager.
 Frank Burns, who is well known in this city as an upright and straight forward business man and miner, when interviewed by a Journal-Miner re- presentative last evening, said:
 "Upon arriving at the Carrigau strike, I and my partner after getting the lay of the ground, traced the veiu about three quarters of a mile in northerly direction right to the foot of Black mountain to some unappropri- ated ground, and there located four claims''
 Continuing the conversation it was learned from him that the claims he located covered a distance of about 5000 feet of the surface of the vein, and that what work was already done on it established the fact that the width of the ledge was at least 20 feet, and that it could be traced on the sur face the entire distance. The ledge 0. vein dips under the mountain at an angle of about 45 degrees, and the ore, some of which he brought with him here, is exactly similar to that being taken from the Carrigan properties.
 The description of the ledge anl vein of this new find as told by MT. Burns, is that close to the hanging wall the copper and gold values are found in an oxidized iron formation un- derneath which lies a conglomerate of porphyry and iron, in which gold is found sometimes plainly visible to the | naked eye, while closer to the foot wall is a large deposit of porphyritie quartz, also rich in gold and apparent | ly carrying high per centage of cop per.
 Three other claims were also located | close to the four just mentioned, upon | which can be seen large ledge crop pings, but upon which enough develop ment work has not been done to es- tablish he extent or value of the min eral deposit
 He also stated that he and his parts ner had located a group of seven claims about miles from Wenden dale in the Harcuvar mountains, and in the vicinity of Cottonwood springs. the e-oppings of which he had sample,' giving returns of 7 per cent in cop per. with some values in gold.
 He made arrangements with those interested with him to commence work on this group at once, with view of determining the extent of the discov cry and the size and trend of the vein. These claims are situate in the vicin- ity of tho group owned by Michael Dolan, upon the dumps of which there are now about 100 tons of ore, which the owner is preparing for shipment.
 The deepest shaft on the Dolan mine is only 11O feet, and the shaft. all trH way down exposes a vein of nold ar' copper ore varying in width from to 16 feet.
 About four miles from the Carrigan claims a large number of men are at work on the Rosenberry mine, which is producing some very rich ore for its new owners, while the development work on the Osborn claims is also open ing up good bodies of ore of high grade. The Blanchard properties, also in the same locality, are showing up
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