Arizona republican., 1906-07-08
AN EPIDEMIC
 OF RICH STRIKES
New Ore Bodies in Many Sonora
 Properties.

A few weeks ago copper ore running 45 per cent was found in the Bonanza shaft on the property of the American the Cananea ore zone and is about a mic from Cananea. Now a prospect shaft has been sunk on the same ledge and at d depth of less than twenty feet has run into native copper in large masses. The extent of this ore body has not yet been determined but indi- cations point to a width or over 300 feet and a length of several miles, It is the richest ore body of the Cananea ore zone. This ore is being shipped to the Douglas shelter at the rate of sev- eral carloads a week and is giving re- turns even better than the assays show
 RICH ORE IN FORTUNA.
 The strike made last week in the Azurite shaft of this property con- tinues to increase in size and values. The ore is a copper-silver mineral and averages over $500 to the ton. One hundred tons will be shipped to Fl Paso within the next two weeks. The property is located near Arizpe, about sixty miles south of Cananea, and con- sists of over 25O acres.
 RICH STRIKE BY CUBANA co.
 Ore averaging $350 to the ton is found
 
 in the main shaft and lower drifts of the Cubana Consolidated company's mine. The ore is a silver-lead and the extent of the deposit indicates that there is at least 100000 tons of the ore in the mine. The property of the com pany is also located near Arizpe.
 ORC MAXIMO IN GOOD ORE.
 The Orc Maxine Mining company is sinking shaft No. on one of the rich est croppings on the property and the entire shaft for a length of over thirty feet is in good ore. Much of the ore is very nigh grade, running up to $6.5O per ton. At present there are four shafts on the property, all of which are being sunk with air and are making good progress. All of these are in good ore which will give large returns when the 200 ton mill is finished. This mill is now in course of erection and will be ready for work within two months. This is the largest gold property in the vicinity of Cananea, employing in all about 250 men.
 l SIERRA DE COBRE IS SHIPPING. l This mine, which is in the heart of | the mines of the Cananea Consolidated | Copper company, is shipping from 159 to 200 tons daily of ore which averages about per cent copper. The mine is ! ONAtu DS the OOppGI A(ucSA ilJdAly and has been in a state of development for the past two years. For some time an excess of water caused great delays and trouble but now this has been | overcome and the mine will be a steady l producer. It is estimated that there are 200 GOO tons of ore blocked out in th2 mine.
 UNUSUAL FORMATION. II The development work which has been done on the Picacho mine by the Fl Picacho Gold Mines company has proved that a very remarkable forma- ton exists in the lowest levels or the mine. It is usual in the gold mines of the southwest that when the ores change from the oxide forms to the sulphides that the values are lost for sometimes many hundreds of feet. In the Picacho, however, these values continue at the change" and go on in- creasing with added depth. Mining men take this as an indication that the mine is of much greater richness than was even supposed.
 A shaft is being sunk on a level with the lower workings of the mine on a six-foot vein and the values are very high in the bottom of the shaft.
 Two hoists are being erected on the upper shafts and air drills and other machinery sufficient to guarantee a production of over 100 tons per day is being placed at the mine.
 CANANEA- DULUTH COPPER co.
 Eight per cent copper is found in the forty-foot drift on the 1OO-foot level Ot shaft No. of this property. This ore carries twenty-five ounces of silver as well.
 Shaft No. 1 is in low grade copper 5. and work has been suspended awaiting the machinery, which has been ordered
 An offer of $250.000 was made last week for this property which the own CTS, however, refused to consider. Il is thought among mining men that this property is one of the richest in the Cananea ore belt.