The copper era., 1906-05-03

pio' IL Is HOI ulllICuIL, uOWCNSIy II
sort a shipping tonnage of $50 ore
while specimens may be selected tt
assay several hundred dollars in gold
At the northwest end of the group
at the claim designated as Comstoch
No 10, large lead ore body has beer
open up. The galena here makes ir
a lime gangue and can be readily sor'
ted for high grade shipments. Nc
greater depth than 100 feet has been
attained on any of these veins, but
one continuous ore shoot has been
proven to a depth of forty feet for d
distance of 700 feet, its width varying
from three feet to ten feet, with a
two-foot body of SIS ore. The other
veins as exposed vary in width, are
much oxidized, can be readily treated
by amalgamation and concentration,
by which it is estimated that 75p.c. OF
the values may be recovered. All the
ried on by early owners, who simply
mined the rich shoots which came to
the surface in the doing of the neces-
sary assessments work. 1t is the in
tention now of the owning company
to prosecute systematic developments,
and the work of sinking new shafts is
now under way. The forty-foot shaft
at the northerly end of the 700-foot
shoot will be continued to the 1O0-foot
depth, and drift connections made
therefrom with the 1O0-foot shaft, 700
| feet distant. An available tonnage of
ore will thus be extracted and more
blocked out. At number of open
ings there is available considerable
tonnage of ore, from wich a shipping
product can be sorted, especially with
the advent of the improved transpor-
tation facilities and the working of
the property on a more extensive
scale. Local mining men who have
examined the property regard it as
one of the most likely prospects in
the entire districts, and one that with
the systematic development planned
may become an important gold
producer. The officiary of this COM
pany is as follows: President, J.
Backsteinn; vice president, J. F.
Cleaveland; secretary-treasurer, J. o.
Baylor; general manager, E. U. Beau
champ and ADDITIONAL director F. o.
Bacon.
THE CLIFTON KING MINE, owned
by H. w. Hill and Charles Allen, is
located about one and a half miles
east of Morenci; I,5OO feet above
Chase creek and consists of two
claims covering the strike of the lead
The main opening is d sixty foot
shaft, in the bottom of which there
is 161 feet of drifting, from which
drift there are two fifty foot wines,
131 feet apart. There is also forty
foot shaft, which will be continued an
additional twenty feet to make con-
nection with one of the wines. These
shaft openings are also 131 feet
apart. This work has disclosed $50
foot ore shoot, the width of which
varies from eight to twenty-four in
ches. At one place fifteen inches of
this ore averaged S157 gold as broken,
while six inches ran 5000 gold to the
ton, nine sacks of the latter grade of
ore having been broken. The ore car
ries a small percentage of lead.
The sulphide zone is not expected to
be encountered before a depth of at
least 300 feet is attained. The ore is
a highly oxidized, iron stained por-
phyritiC quartz. A recent carload
of ore made to Ell Paso had
a gross value of 81, 4,353.63, and a
second shipment of equally as good ore
has since been made. Charles Allen
is the managing owner in charge at
the mine.
SIERRA DE ORO.-This property lies
two and a half miles to the east of
river. 1t, as we'll as the other gold
properties of the Greenlee or Clifton
mining district, are within granite
area cut by intrusive porphyry dikes,
the veins making within or along the
dikes. In the several paralleling
veins, which have been developed to
considerable depth, by means of a
170O-foot crosscut tunnel, the gold oc-
ours free in a quartz and in associa-
tion with lead carbonates and sui
phides. The free milling quartz car
ries gold values $40 to $40. The per-
centage of lead varies from 10 to 80
per cent: which, together with its
associated gold and silver values,
makes large portion of it of a ship
ping grade. The veins are of a
width varying from two to eight feet.
ore bodies are available in
the workings to warrant the early
erection of an amalgamation-Con
tration plant. Dell NJ. Potter is the
general manager.
CRAWFORD GOLD MINING CO.-This
has for several years been
a group of gold claims To-
Gated east of Chase creek, six miles
north of Metcalf. In the workings
which aggregate about 2500 feet suf-
fcient SIS to $40 gold ore bodies haye
been disclosed to warrant the con-
erection of d reduction
p1ant