Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1906-11-28
CORPORATION BUYS THE DUN
 KIRK GROUP.


 s~ai weeks, one of the most important S,uing deals consummatcd here for some time was perfected recently, when the title to the Dunkirk group of mines, m the IIassayampa district, passed from D. NJ. Clark and C. W. RufTncr to the Mount Tritlc Copper company, n corporation recently or ganizcd. and with ample capital at it's command to develop the property which IS among the most promising in the county, having m cnviablc record as producer in the early days of min. iog here, when it's grassroot deposits acre mined to the sulphidc zone. by the pioneers of the district. the yellow metal being extracted by the old aras. tra process, at a great profit to its operators.
 Following the transfer the new com. pany has already a force of men en. fe increased from time to time, as the work progresses, the intention being to install air comprcssors and power drills later. and to open tho property - fas, and as economically as possible, in accordance with modern mining methods.
 The Dunkirk group consists of ten claims, situated on the south slope of Mount Tritle, in the Senator range. overlooking Slate Creek the locations covering valuable water rights, which will he utilized later when a reduc ton plant is erected.
 Two of the locations, the Dunkirl and Kentucky Judge, cover the Dun kirk vein. a true Assure, which tray srScs \ diorite formation in a north easterly and southwesterly direction asd which is developed by four tun aels, aggrcgating 5l0 feet in length the lower one on the vein being into the mountain l6s feet, and calculated to tap the ledge at a depth of l00f feet from it's apex when continued (, the northcastcrly end line of thu ground.
 The estimate of n mining engineer places the amount of ore blocked out and ready to be stopped at 1000 tons with 1900 tons partially developed. thu paystrcak showing strong and contin uous in the bottom of all the openings In the lower tunnel, which follows on, pf two paystrcaks, the ore body show a width of fifteen inches in the face and bottom of an average value of s2' to the ton in gold and copper. Tunne No. 2, which start into the vein abou 800 feet farther up the mountain, fol lows an ore shoot three feet in thick ness, which samples *35 in gold an, copper to the ton, a largo part O which, when selected, gives retun of over s60 to the ton. In this tunne there is stope about i0 feet lon, and 70 feet high, from which som, very high grade ore was extracted ii the early operation of the property and in the top of which there is ex posed an ore body from two to thre. feet in thickness, and of the sam, average grade as the ore found in tn, other portions of the tunnel. In nc rRnance with the plan of development inaugnrated ny the company, this tun nci is now being pushed ahead witf two shifts, the ore body keeping it, "ize and values as the opening ad vanccs.
 About 500 feet farther up the noun tain a shaft is sunk on the vein to q depth of go feet, on the dump of which there is several tons of galens ore sampling s29 to the ton. The veir in the bottom of this shaft shows ( thickness of two feet, the ore being of the same average value as found ir the second tunnel. Three car load shipments made from the property ir the past year to the plant of the Ari zona smelting company, at Humboldt gave respective returns of si2.47 $5l.5O and $40 to the ton.
 Situated about nine miles south of this city, tho Dunkirk camp is easily reached by good wagon road, four teen miles in length, the last two miles being branch road recent, built to the camp from the Prescott, and Crown King stage road, abou, one mile distant.
 The survey of the proposed narrow gauge railroad, leading from the Lyn, Creek mouth of the Poland tunnel passes within one.half mile of tn, group, in it's course to the Bodic mine 1t being the general consensus of opin ion among the mining men of the dis triet that construction work on the lin