Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1906-12-12
IMPORTANT STRIKE IN BIO BUG
 DISTRICT.

What appears to be one of the most important strikes made for some time m the Big Bug district, was reported recently on the properties of tho Red man Mining company, the details of which were learned yesterday from J. r. Casper, general manager of the con. cern. who is here purchasing supplies.
 Pending the arrival of an air com. pressor, which was purchased some time ago. Mir. Casper said, "wc have been engaged in cutting stations and starting drifts from the 100 and 200 foot levels in the shaft, which is now down to n depth of 2G5 feet. After finishing the station at the 100 foot level drift was started, which is now in distance of eighteen feet, in which n paystreak was encountered about two feet from the station, which is con. tinuous SO far in the drift, showing an average thickness of eighteen inches, | the average assay value of which was determined by the drillings from holes made in the ore body to be 3.S ounces in gold and l.5 ounces in silver to the ton. On the 200 foot level a similar body of sulphidc ore was found in the drift being run from the station, saul- bling equally us yood as the other, and from two and one-half to four feet in thickness.
 Describing the formation of the dyke covered by the two locations owned by the company, he snid:
 "The vein upon which the working shaft is being sunk is the center one of three parallel veins which follow a porpnyry dyke, l35 feet in width, in q northeastcrly and southwesterly direc. ton, the footwall of which is schist and the hnngins wall diorite. The foot. wall ledge has been opened by Q shaft
 70 feet in depth, showing Q paystreak about two and one.half feet in thick.
 ness, sampling $24.65 to the ton, the
 ore also being sulphide. The hanging
 wall is explored by number of shal
 low shafts, from which some high grade
 galena ore has been mined, carrying
 good values in gold and silver, the DOT
 phyry and conglomeratc in which tho
 deposits of gnlena ore occur being also mineralized.
 "As soon as the new mir compressor
 is installed 1t is our intention to con tinue the shaft to the 300 foot level . where n station will be cut, from whicl drifts will be run on the center veir and cross cuts run to the parallel led ges following both walls of the dyke The property is located about tw,
 miles west of the Humboldt smelter md about two and one.half miles cas 5 of the propert,es of the Jessie Mine company, the Dividend, and the Lelal ] mines, all proven prOeprtics of meri, E Northeast of and adjoining the Red . man properties, Mir. Casper owns tw !. claims covering part of ,he same pos ], IAyry dyxc which passes through tn s Redman Mining company's ground, bu e which appears 10 gradually grow nal [ rower towards the northeast. Al
 point where two of the veins come tt il eether Q tunnel has been run n di, tnnce of l25 feet along the ledge, froI Q which three shipmets of ore were take |. which gave average returns of froI SIP to &l64 to the ton in gold and si ,. yer, the gold values prcdominntin, |. This tunnel enters the ledge where n interesects Chapsrral Gulch. Work ha
 been abandoned there temporarily 0 k account of the high water following n D. present rnin api snow storms.