Arizona republican., 1906-03-16

lately been taken over by a company
 The Great Republic Copper and Gold company has been sinking a shaft, now more than zoo feet in depth, upon its properties on lower Turkey creek and has been rewarded by the finding by crosscuts of large bodies of copper sulphide ores. Jess Davis, Jess Rob.n- son and others are shipping several carloads of ore to Humboldt, all from this section. A MT. Theissing has a small mill running in this section upon ores from his own mine and has been successful.
 The great Blue Bell property, be- loging to Senator Addicks of Della ware and F. A. Haggott has been taken hold of by the American Explor- ation company, an offshoot of the Ari- zona Smelling company. which is acquiring large interests in the mining fields of this county It is build ing a two and a half mile bucket tramway from a point about five miles south of Mayer on the Bradshaw Mountain railroad and sidetracks and ore bins have been and are being put in for the handling of the large tonnage that will become available from the Im- mense copper ore deposits of this prop erty.
 Above Middleton is the property of NHe Ac OOlO I1lIlillB COIIlpdnys IOTIIlGTly the Bradshaw Mountain Copper com pany. the ownership of which also rests in the American Exploration company. The claims of this company are located over the mountain for eight miles in length upon we'll defined DOT phyry dikes which outcrop along the whole strike of the property to the Blue Bell property upon the north, located upon the same dike. Between two and three miles of underground work has been done upon this group and large bodies of copper sulphide ores have been blocked out. The width of the mineral zone in this property is about 2.O00 feet, am informed and the width of the outcrOp of the main ore body is about 300 feet. The pay ore in the Hot Number tunnel as blocked out is forty-four feet in width and as discovered in another part of the property is eighty-five feet in width. This camp is connected with Middleton station with a bucket tram way and power is supplied from there for the working of the property. This and the Blue Bell group will supply large tonnage of ore for the smelters at Humboldt.
 Above the De Soto property to the west is the old Peck mine. It is being reopened by a party of congressman in which J. H. Tawney of Minnesota. and Judge Goebel of Ohio are the lead ing spirits.
 The old workings through and under the great dikes of quartzite are being abandoned and a new shaft is being sunk to a depth. it is said, of a thou sand feet, immediately east of the low CT tunnel mouth. This old property has had a history. I saw last fall a small bunch Of ore just uncovered by a lessor which was literally plastered with horn silver. assaying some $12, GOO per ton. I have no doubt that if the plans as proposed are carried out that the Peck will repeat it's record of the past.
 Nearby are the old May Bean proper ties and the old Curtin and Silver Prince, the former, besides carrying the rich Silver Prince vein, also con- tains within it's lines the great copper dike of the De Soto property. The Black Warrior, which produced much money in early years, is now being examined by parties with view to purchase. To the north Is the old Lone Juniper and beyond this the Blue Bird group is being slowly exploited by local owners.
 A new road leads from the Crown King station to the Lincoln mine upon lIle east sue OI W ar 6lC p'~Slh- AASAC the Lincoln Gold Mining company Is doing extensive work under the direc- tion of Chas. J. George of Los An geles Daily teams unload into cars at the station many tons of high grade ore. The mill is being enlarged and there is a "winner' being opened there.
 The old Crown King mine Is silent and deserted. due to tan years of litigation in the courts. After pro- duction of over a million in gold, at times when the facilities were almost insurmountahle. it seems as though there should be an awakening soon. North still further from here are the old War Eagle. the Gladiator and Dixie groups, all rich in ore. and. it is
 To the west of here is the old Del hoped, will soon be worked.
 To the west of here is the old Del Pasco mine at the summit or Del Pasco peak, from which much ore was milled and worked by arastra in early days.
 The Wild Flower group, belonging to F. M. Murphy, has been under de- Yelopment for many months Large bodies of ore have been uncovered over the hill to the north or the divide and some day there will be steady stream of concentrates fed by tramways 10 waiting cars at the shipping point. Below is the Cadillac group To the west the Rainbow, the Mohawk and other properties.
 Crown King is busy point. Huge twelve hoI SC teams haul loads of oil ever the divide to the properties Of the great Tiger Gold company property and other teams line the road with other supplies. Here is one of the old abandoned mines, being worked again. The old Gray Eagle and other proper ties were at one time under develop ment by the Orc Bella Mining com pany. They could not be made to pay until large bodies of good grade ore were found with depth and facilities were bettered by cheaper transporta- ton rates. Now one of the great mines of the county and territory is opened here. and steady streams of concentrates are daily shipped The