Arizona silver belt. [volume] (Globe City, Pinal County, Ariz.) 1878-19??, 1906-10-28
AR|z. NATIONAL
IS COMING Up
New Machinery on Way Here
and Good Results are
Anticipated
REPORT OF COL. Parish
Predicts That Company Will Have One
of the Best Mines in Globe District
Railroad will Tap Pinto Creek
District

The Arizona National Copper com
many have for the past two months
been breaking ore on their Hal and A
claims. upper tunnel, where large orr
bodies have been opened up.
Ore has been shipped to the Old Do
minion smelter and handsome returns
received on all shipments. The com
pany is at present employing a full
force of men and working three eight
bour shifts in sinking their main work.
ing shaft to greater depth on then
ore body. The shaft is now down 81
feet in the iron Gaping and shows in
creasing values in copper.
A large shipment of mining machin-
ery from Denver has arrived and will
be rapidly transported to their mines,
where immediate installation will be
made. The plant will be of sufficient
capacity for developing to depth of at
least 1000 feet.
The holdings of this company consist
OF twenty-five Coilisuou SioiihS anu
comprise nearly 500 acres. This group
was formerly known as the Crowley
McNelly property and has been under
development for number of years;
and large bodies of profitable copper
have been opened up.
Many of the local mining men and
others who have been on the property
and learned of its high merits have in
vested largely in the bonds of the COM
pany. The bottom of the 80 foot winze
is in high grade ore, running as high
as and over 80 per cent copper.
Permanent buildings are under con
struction, all general supplies, includ-
ing mining timbers and large quantities
of cordwood, are being delivered, roads
graded and repaired, site for hoist
and boilers on the hillside is in readi-
ness, and many other preliminary steps
have been taken for the more active
operations.
1t is conceded by prominent mining
men and others that the Arizona Ma
tiOnal Copper company has one of the
coming great mines of the Southwest,
and experts who have examined the
property do not hesitate to confirm the
opinion. Col. Thos. F.. Parish, of rec
ognized authority. recently made thor
ough examination of the above men
toned property and submitted the fol-
lowing report:
Mr.. T. NJ. b. Hicks, President Arizona
National Copper Co, Williamsport,
Pa.
SIR: Il submit the following report,
the result of my examination of the
property of the Arizona National Cop
per Co:
Twenty-Five full and fractional min
ing claims are embraced in the prop
erty, and the accompanying map shows
their location upon the surface. They
are situated on Pinto creek, in the
Globe mining district, fifteen miles
west of Globe, the county seat of ella
county, Territory of Arizona.
Within radius of five miles from
this property are the largest ore ship
pers of the district-the Live Oak,
Keystone, Inspiration, Continental,
Gibson and others.
The property is reached by wagon
road from Globe, the terminal of the
railroad over which freight and supplies
are delivered at cost of S.. 80 per ton,
which will be materially reduced in the
near future, for the railroad company
Is preparing to extend its road from
Globe to the Continental and Gibson
mines during the coming year; this will
bring the railroad within three miles of
this property.
The physical and geological features
OF this property are unique and most
interesting, as shown by the red dotted
lines on the map, which is approx
mately correct. 1t is mineralized
zone, running N. E. and S. W., about
Two thausand feet long and about eight
hundred feet wide, inclosed on the
northeast and south by various kinds of
granite rocY, which is known to the
world by the United States Geological
survey of the Globe district as Shultz's |
R'anite. On the west this mineralizi-
tioh takes the form of a well-defned |
,ead, varying in width on the surface
IRON twenty to forty feet and extend
"g Tor three or four thousand feet be-
yohd your ground into diorite and
n'e formation. The surface in the
"n'neraIlzed zone is quartz, quartzite
anu quartz porphry scanned and colored
WI" ron protruding through which
appear bands, punches and lenses of
carbonate ores, very silicious and run
copper.
- i"'o The hills, rising from the ether
,n VI me bed of the creek, have been
dss ' tunnels OF from fifty to three hun
aEo 'es1 IN length, and it is notice
t, TACT that in the tunnels the car
os % eve disappear at a depth of forty
le.ay ieet from the surface. the
oL "e'eo IRON predominates. the quartz
and guy Jug from blocky massin to grains
wbia h'oules mixed through the iron. in
Der ora "ppear lunches of sulphide cop
board. Inc longest tunnel-by the
bund,g nouse-is caved in about one
and , and fifty feet from its mouth.
"''u am told il was 49, ",