Mohave County miner., 1905-03-18
Another Pima Coanly Property Changes
 Hands.

l1dndS.
 Thos. F. Weedin, editor of the Blade
 was sent to Pima county, last week
 on telegraphic orders from easterr
 capitalists, to examine and report up
 on the Mineral Hill Consolidated Cop
 per Company's mines, situated in the Pima mining district, about IS mile; southwest of Tucson. This is the Tom Hughes property, operated, until the present reorganization, under the name of the Azurite company. We found a surprise in this property. It shows some of the largest copper ore bodies that have come within the range of our obs bservation, and if it does not become a dividend payer within short time after it has been properly developed and equipped the management and not the mine will be at fault. We found, approximately, on the 25 claims com. posing the group, ten thousand linear feet of openings ranging from ten to $50 feet in depth, all showing ore car, rying copper, gold and silver. In one of these ore bodies we found men at work, sinking winze in a sulphide ore shoot of unusual magnitude. The winze is about 10 feet by 12 feet in size yet every side of it is in ore. Two men are breaking down ten tons of ore in this winze every ten hours and it is hoisted to the surface, dumped into wagons without any asserting, hauled to Tucson and shipped to the El Paso smelter. We sampled l22 buckets as they were hoisted from the winze and had the sample assayed at the labora tory of B. M. Jacobs, Tucson. The re turn was 3IO per cent copper and 2$ gold and 5-10 ounces silver per ton. We sampled one of the carloads just before it was st rted for El Paso and the return by the same assayer was 66-1O per cent. copper and ? 40S gold, 1.lO ounces silver per ton. This gives some idea of the value of the property at present but one must see it to fully appreciate it's possibilities. There are many thou sand tons of ship ping ore in sight in the various opel. ings aside from the great ore body above mentioned.
 Douglas Gray, of the Ell Paso smel- ter, was on the ground about the 18th of last month and entered into a twelve months contract with Snpt. Hughes for the shipment of sulphide ore to the El Paso plant. The contract fixes the minimum monthly shipments at 300 tons and the maximum monthly shipments at 1,OOJ tons.
 MT. Edward Kirkpatrick, of Pitts. burg, Pa., has placed this property with Pitts burg capitalists aud they will take possession on the 23d of this month. It is their intention, ln accordance with the recon menda,ion of Mr. Kirkpat rick, to thoroughly equip the property and develop it at once on large ecale, the latter in accordance with an exten. sive plan of development submitted by the editor of the Blade. They will also remodel and repair the present plant situated at the mines and put this plant, which has capac ity of 80 tons of ore per mill day of "A hours, in operation. At the same time they will continue to fill their contract with the El Paso shelter. The tr ms. fer of this property to the Pittsburg gentlemen means much for the mining industry of Pima county. They pos cess sufficient means to equip and op crate the property upon a scale war. ranted by it's capabilities and are used to handling enterprises of great mag nitude. We congratulate Ed ward Kirk. patrick upon his good judgment and good fortune in securing this property for his clients. It will be a winner.- Florence Blade.