Bisbee daily review., 1905-11-30
PITA CANYON GOLD-..
 SILVER MINING FIELD
SECRETARY KENNEDY. OF SEER
 RIA MADRE CO. TELLS OF TT.
Much Activity in the Rich Mining Sec. tion-Rich Assays Are Received From a Number of New Veins. Prospects at the York Camp.

Douglas, Ariz., Nov. 29.-(Special.)- )-I c. O. Kennedy, secretary Of the Sierra Madre mining company, ar rived in Douglas Saturday from the rich mineral section in Sonora known as the Pita Canyon mining field and including some of the best silver and gold properties in the country south and tributary to Douglas. MT. Ken nedy is now on his way to Denver TOT the purpose of organizing a company to prosecute development work on large holding which he and his asso- ciates secured in 1903, and which he has been prospecting a good portion of the time since. MT. Kennedy was, prior to going into the Pita Canyon, located at Cananea, and became at tracted to the location in which he is now interested first by the glowing description of the country given him bv A. J. King, who held a lease for A time on the Cinco de Mayo mine, now being operate dby Colonel Garcia, The present holding of MT. Kennedy consists of about 100 pertenencias and is on the opposite side of the mountain and six miles from the fa- nous Fl Tigre mine and sixteen miles SOuNn Ol Alt NAlANc NN mine. which yielded A. J. King more than S600,O00 during the life time oi the lease which he held on it. The property lies on the east side or | lime belt, which is about five miles | long. north to south, by one mile vide MT. Kennedy, in describing the char acter of his mineral showings sald that they had pOrphyry. quartzite and | eruptive granite for a contact. me l ore occurs in quartz outcrops and the value is mostly silver. though copper and gold are found in respective out crops.
 The policy of the Sierra Madre comnany has been to prospect for mineral bearing ground and sell the same in prospective state, so but httle development work has been done on
 any of the property. Mir. Kennedy was the pioneer in the Pita Canyon region but he was soon followed by many prospectors who have located
 and are now operating six or seven different properties within a radius of ten miles.
 Notable among these properties are
 those of w. L. York and associates from which there has been a small shipment of probably the richest gold and silver bearing ore ever shipped from the state of Sonora.
 D A number of assays from the prop ; critics in the Pita Canyou field range from to 190 in gold and from 10( Q to 12.0O0 ounces in silver, associated , with 15 per cent tellurium.
 Within the same mineral zone anC $ probably on the same ledge are thu f properties of the San Antonio syndi 3 cate that are now under progress O
 deyeloplm,@S,nTto of aPd P6e SHSr,1ns d%SaPs up ' . Parallelling this York zone and bu
 mile to the south is a property
 owned by a Mormon syndicate tha is becoming popular as development progresses. At the head of this prop
 erty is Bishop Orson Brown of Colo
 nia Morales. He has just completed
 a ten-ton concentrating mill to trea the ore and also the ore of severa
 of the surrounding claims.
 Between the York camp and tha
 owned by the Sierra Madre company is a splendid prospect owned by s. s
 Suplee and Homer Prickett. the latter proprietor of the Roy Hotel in this
 city and the former well known ir
 Douglas and Cochise county. MT
 Suplee is pushing development on this
 property, which is known as the Ruth
 and it is showing up a nice body o ore that carries from f to 12 ounces
 in gold and 6U to 100 ounces in silver with 12 per cent tellurium Mir. Sup
 lee has recently built a trail to tho
 new mill of Bishop Brown on tho Santa Rosa, over which he will soor
 pack a goodly quantity of ore fol
 treatment.
 Some three miles to the south O the above named property is a recen strike made by N. D. Shippy and E
 R. Pirtle, from which 10-ounce golt ore and l200-ounce silver ore has beer , recently taken.