Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1906-12-19
COPPER GREEK $ SH0W|NGS ARE
 GREAT Old Miner Thinks The District A World
 Beater
Tells Of Development Work Now Under
 Way There
(From Tuesdays Dailq.)

Confident that some of the greatest copper mines in the county will be de vclopcd in the Copper Creek region. twcnty.cight miles east of Mayer, and enthusiastic over the mineral possi- bilitie- of that region, about which 1t. tie is known on account of it's isolation from railroad, telegraph and telephone communication, Joseph r. Ryan. n miner with years experience in Colo rado, California, Australia and this Territory, arrived here from that see. ton. where bc is in charge of the op- cration of n Davis Calyx drill, recently installed there.
 "The surface indications for great copper mines are, in my opinion, better there than in any undevcIopcd or par. tially developed district in the county,' he said. "In no part of the county are there such promising copper dcpos- its opened for the amount of develop mcnt work done. The ore bodies arc in great porphyry dykes, cutting the formation in norihcastcrly and south westerly direction. and in every shaft and tunnel on the ground orc carrying good values in copper have been open. cd. The large dykes are capped with iron. under which the copper values are encountered. In one tunnel, now in n distance of 100 feet, on ground owned by the Consolidated Copper company, the entire face of the opening is in ore, while n good body of ore is also cx- posed in another tunnel started TO. gently.
 "Equally as good n showing can he seen in the properties of the Rosalio Copper company,' Mir. Ryan contin- ued, "now being developed by two tun | nels. One of the tunnels is now in q distance of 300 feet, and there Is nc longer any question in my mind but what it will prove one of the big cop per propositions of the county. This company recently completed the in | stallation of 90 horse power gasoliD, engine and large mir compressor, and is now putting power drills in the mine tc push the development work more rapid | ly. Several large buildings were erect cd recently to accommodate the em ployes, of which it is intended to in crease as the work progresses. Anothe, promising property is ono owned h, Charles Scholey and his partner. Thi' is opened by number of shallow shafts, all showing good bodies of or, as deep as opened"
 | The Copper Creek district is located in the Blanck Hills range, about twenty eight miles east of Mayer, in wei timbcred and watered section of thos, mountains. The nearest railroad sta tion is Mayer, the one great drawback in the development of the region being its isolation from railroad communica tion and the lack of good wagon roads It's mineral possibilities attracted attcn ton some ten years ago, when w. \ Conner discovered some promising cop per properties on the ground now owned by the Rosnlic Copper company, whcr, he made several locations, some of which were afterwards abandoned or account of the great expense of ever doing the annual title work in such ar out of the way place. However, he still owns group of claims in tho same locality, which are said to b, equally as promising as the ones now being developed by the two large con cerns.