Arizona republican., 1906-07-15

be sufficient to hope for the massing of all these veins in one, at that point, though it is the opinion of those engf- neers who have seen the ground that at some depth below, is one massive ore deposit of which the veins in this mineral zone are but the croppings.
 That, briefly. is all the technical de- scription the general reader will be in terested in at present, of the ore bod ies in evidence. The copper values ac- cording to an average of the assays which have been comprehensiveIy taken, run from to eleven per cent averaging ten per cent. The gold val ues ffuctuate from s per ton to $40 per ton and the silver values from $ ounces to 32 ounces. It is a copper mine with the prescious metals as by- products.
 Concerning the management of the property and the wisdom of present operations nothing can be consistently said that is not fiattering. MT. Donald does uot pretend to be a mining engf- neer but he has been a successful bus mess man and realized in the begin ming that mining must be conducted on business principles. He refused to accept the management of the com pany and the property until he had first visited nearly every large copper district in Arizona and carefully stud led both the methods of mining and the formation of the country the lat ter in company with men who know. This was a course in his mineral edu- cation for he did not want to waste his time and money going after some thing that could not reasonably De hoped for. He satisfied himself that nowhere could be found a better sur face indication of an immense copper deposit and nowhere were there better conditions for it's economical opera = tion, except the lack of railroad facil- tiles, and that can be remedied when there is proper demand for it. For the economical development of the proD- erty, no man who sees it can disa gree with the management on the wisdom of the tunnel enterprise. If the min eral is there the tunnel will find it. If it isn't there, mother nature has painted lie on the face of Fl Paso mountain. This tunnel, now in 25O feet, has been driven at a cost of seven dollars a foot, an achievement almost unheard of under these conditions where twenty dollars a foot would not seem an extravagant expense. This too with labor above the union scale or $3.75 per day. And the tunnel is a model. Full six feet high there is no stepping for the tallest man. There is a good track and rails to the dunn and the tunnel is we'll timbered wherever. 1t Is required. A few thousand dollars expended in the same economical and satisfactory way will demonstrate the value of the property and to demon strate it and fully develop it, before considering the erection of a reduc- tion plant, is the purpose of the man agement.
 The Oriental property was first dis covered by Ed Tewksbury in 1877. but not located as he immediately after ward became involved in other matters. It was first located by William Boone. for gold property. Later Charles F Philes secured it and and held it for many years. It was bought from MT. Phlles by A $. Mills. who prospected 1t sufficiently to assure himself of it's value and then sold it to the Oriental company, retaining an interest in it.