Bisbee daily review., 1906-02-13
GOLD TREASURE MINE
 WILL BE PRODUCER
MINE HAS BEEN DEVELOPED TO
 STOPPING STAGE.
Mill and Tramway Ready for Business and Plenty of Ore Blocked Out in the Mine.

The property of this company, Known locally as the Gold Treasure, and incorporated in Mexico as the been the subject of considerable in- terest of late and a representative of this paper was dispatched to the scene of operations to ascertain the true situation.
 It was learned promptly on ms ar rival that the mine had been develop ed to that stage that stoping would begin immediately. The last feature of development work consisted in connecting a 55-foot raise which tapped an eighty-foot winze and the latter being full of water it was es- sentially a very delicate operation, but through the fine manipulation of that experienced veteran of the stope and tunnel and drift. Charles McHenry, the feat, for such it might be con- sidered, was accomplished without in cident beyond the gentle deluging of the duDp as the heavy volume of wa ter poured out of the tunnel down the side of the mountain.
 There are four levels on which heavy development work in the form of tunnels and drifts, has been accom- plished, an dthe final act above men, toned, has connected the whole sys- tenn, provided the mine with air and chutes through which the ore on every level can be conveniently dumped to the tunnel on the lowest level and from there conveyed by car to the loading station on the outside, where it will be lowered on the tram way, and carried on a splendid road a distance of less than two miles to the mill. It is only just to say that the plan of development is admirable and has been carried out without a hitch.
 Surface Improvements. ,
 In the matter of surface improve Tents a well-working telephone line two miles in lengt hconnects the mine with the camp, which is then in con- munication with Naco, nine miles away. The road from the camp 10 the mine is a little less than two miles long and we'll adapted to haul ing heavy loads, since the down grade leads toward the mill Ore bins of
 
 structed at the head of this road at the foot of the tramway. A receiv- ing bin of the same capacity is sit. uated at the head of the tramway.
 The Tramway.
 The tramway which is of the gray ity rail variety is 800 feet in length, and the elevation involved will en- able it to hoist most classes of mine supplies on deck car while lowering ore.
 It is completed and ready for oPer- ation, except cars of the wrong gauge were sent being S.-foot, when they should have been IS inches.
 The Mine.
 In regard to the mine: It is sit uated on the southwest side of the San Jose mountains. nine miles south west of Naco; is in Sonora, and en- joys a sulubrious elevation of 7S00 feet above sea level.
 The property embraces 54 perte- | necias of 1-2 acres each. The for nation is slate. while the casing of the ore body is Quartzite. The ore bodies lie, up to the present time, in the form of a blanket ledge, dipping at the angle of about IS degrees, less than 25, constituting a blanket ledge under the rulings of the higher courts, but at every step the ore body tends to dip more strongly and at the pres ent rate will shortly pass out of that class.
 The total amount of development work done approximates 1000 feet, besides several hundred feet of sur face stripping, disclosing the ledge in place. The ledge so far as defined averages from to feet in thickness, and the work consists mostly of tun- nels and drifts.
 The raise which finally completed the development of the property is situated 160 feet from the portal of the lower tunnel and will be convert ed into a chute through which the ere from all workings above will be conveyed to the big lower tunnel and thence on a level to the surface. The character of the ore is very uniform and consists of iron sulphides in quartz, carrying gold. Of these gold values, mature tests have demonstrate ed that about 40 per cent. are free milling, and the ore is admirably adapted to the concentrating process.
 The quartz with which the values are associated constitute the finest of silicate, nearly 97 per cent. pure, and the Cananea smelter offers liberal fig ures for the lower grades of ore for the purpose of converting. The con centrates would be what smelter men would call "physic for the furnace" and would carry 60 per cent. of the values.
 Ore Values.
 In regard to the values The state ment of Superintendent McHenry is t othe effect that repeated bulk tests from samples taken by himself, and in the opinion of the management as most conservative estimate and a general deduction. the whole ore body will average $500 per ton.
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