Arizona republican., 1906-08-19
BIOLOGIST PROUT
 VISITING PHOENIX
Reports a Second Big Strike in the
 Total Wreck Nine.

Prof John W. Prout. mining geolog-
 fist in the employ of Col. Epes Ran dolph arrived here yesterday morning and is registered at the Ford hotel When asked yesterday if there is any thing in his visit of interest to the public. he said he did not know him. self. as he merely came here under orders to report to certain of MT. Ran dolph's business associates who were not in the city yesterday. so he did not know what was to be required of him.
 Asked for any news he might have
 he replied that he had nothing to say of startling interest except that a sec ond strike of ore had been made on
 Wednesday in the old Total Wreck
 mine. about twenty miles from Tucson.
 This property. Professor PrOut says, is destined to become the largest sil-
 yer lead mine in the entire southwest, unless he is very much mistaken and
 he will not admit at this stage of the development, any possibility of his be- ing mistaken. The shaft in which the strike was made is the same one in which the former ore body was eu countered at depth of - feet the latest strike being at the depth of 15O feet.
 This shaft was sunk 56O feet from , the old shaft through which the prop
 erty was worked tWenty-o years ago and to anyone except a geologist there was no surface indication of ore at that point. The formation in the To- tai Wreck mine is rather unusual. in the early workings the shaft struck the ore body at or very near the sur face and from that point it curved like the segment of a wagon wheel arch like away from the shaft. The shaft very soon passed through the ore body. though $125.00O was taken out of the mine in the stOpes near the surface. After that an immense amount of money was spent i'm deeper workings ! in an effort to find again, the ore body, which had arched away to one S de- or to develop another one Prof Prout directed the sinking of a shaft ] 65O feet distant from the old one in the l belief that he would encounter the ore 1 directly below. At the depth of - feet and rather sooner than expected. the ! miners encountered what proved to be ! not the main ore body worked before but the apex of a deOpsit. reaching toward the surface from the main body ] below. Continuing sinking they have now, at a depth of 1JO feet all in ore from the - foot level down broken into the main body of ore that arches from the old shaft over to that point and continues to go down. Rather the new shaft goes through an adjacent ] ore body. from the apex down to the point where it merges with the main l body coming. in from the side.
 Professor Prout says they have 1 shipped silver lead ore continuously to
 the Fl Paso smelters, in carload lots,
 since il was first encountered at l depth of = feet. Concerning the value ] of these ores the professor said he was not apprised, except as to the fact 1 that they were very rich and are well worth shipping. That is not his part of the business. His business is merely ] to locate the ore bodies and see that they are properly followed. The miners attend to taking the ore out and the ! business men in charge are the ones to decide whether the enterprise is paying or not. But they would scarce ly continue if they were not satisfied with conditions.
 Asked about the iron mines north of BeardsIey, Professor Prout said he did not know the situation in detail as he had not been here for many weeks and would not know until he saw l.. F. Hewins, who is in charge of opera tions. However, the only thing in pro- ' cess now is the doing of the location work which ought to be well along by this time. From his latest advices he believes the ore is entirely satisfactory and all that was claimed for il in the beginning. As for the quantity there has never been any doubt. But it will take considerable time and vast amount of money to exploit the prop erty properly.
 During the last two or three months