Arizona silver belt., 1906-05-17

The original mineral locations in th
 section of Arizona were made about ]
 years ago and were made entirely fC
 silver. At that time no attention wa
 paid to cvpper deposits as the distanc
 from railroad facilities precluded tn
 possibility of their being successful
 opened up. About seven years ago
 however, with the advent of the rail
 road, extensive prospecting was don
 for copper and the hills in the vicinit
 of the headwaters of Mineral and Pint
 creeks proved rich field for endeavo
 and numerous locations were made
 among the best being series of claim
 subsequently, purchased by Messrs Gibson and Henderson, now known a
 the Gibson Copper Company.
 The original purchase consisted O one claim, but since then the company has added to it's holdings by six loca tions and the purchase of four claim: from the Pasquale Nigro group anc six claims from the Reynolds group making a total of nineteen extending along the ledge for distance of 10. 800 feet averaging 1900 feet in width
 We say ledge, but in truth the coun' try is series of ledges and there are four large and distinct lodges cropping out on the surface and visible to the naked eye for thousands of feet. The two lodges upon which .he company is working run in a northeasterly and southwesterly direction, one dipping al an angle of 45 degrees and the other at B degrees.
 At the main shaft these two lodges are less than 300 feet apart and about 600 feet down the gulch unite The character of the ores are high grade sulphides running from 30 to 3S per cent copper appearing in veins varying in width of from one to four feet and surrounded for many feet to both the hanging and foot wall by fine concen- trating ore which will average per cent.
 The manner of working the property is entirely original and has yielded eX- cellent returns, the high grade ores having been s,ippe while the concen- trating ores have been placed on the several dumps or used to fill the stopes where they can be extracted at cost of less than 30 cents a ton when the company may have it's own concentra- ting plant in operation, In all there is probably 75,000 tons of this concentra- ting ore either on the dumps or in the stopes which will average per cent copper.
 The partners, Henderson, Beck and Gibson, commencel work on the claims five years ago, in a forty-foot incline shaft. which had been sunk by former lessees who threw the work up when the ore pinched out at 40 feet. With total capital of $90, and team of old horses, they worked in the bottom of the shaft but ten feet before they again encountered the ledge and high grade sulphjdes. This shaft, was sunk to depth of 200 feet after encounter ing and overcoming all manner of ob- stacles such as only the true western mining man is accustomed to. Con- stoping was done and enough ore shipped to assist the owners Gibson and Henderson, to equip a 22horse power gasoline hoist and com mence another shaft, in the meantime their partner, Mir. Beck, having drop ped out. Passing to the new shaft, which is now the scene of all the con- pany's work and which has been sunk on the ledge to a depth of 245 feet, with drifts on the first, second and third levels, the company encountered large quantities of rich sulphides, which have been shipped since last September and for the past two months at the rate of 600 to 700 tons per month. The March run for twenty eight days bringing over $31, ,0OO, of which $21 900 was net. Most of this ore has come