Arizona republican., 1906-07-15

eral auditor of the Missouri Pacific; G. A. A. Deane, land commissioner of the St L., I. M. & $. Railway Co. Little Rock; and H. F. Berkley and $. P Weller of St. Louis. The positions of these gentlemen in the business world make superfiuous any reference to their personality. The capital stock of the corporation is $2,OOO,0OO When events justify it every share can be turned into cash.
 THE PROPERTY.
 The one important question then is.
 Have they a Mine?" A representative of The Republican recently took advantage of an opportunity to visit the property and herewith records his findings. They are not the opinions of a mining expert but are the result of diligent hill climbing and conscientious observation expressed with full confidence that they may be verified by any fair mind ed and reasonable man who takes the trouble to investigate. The company's property comprises eighteen mining claims and a mill site. The group in general way is rectangular in shape. embraces about 400 acres, is approx lmately three-fOurths of a mile wide and a mile long. The stratffcation of the country is northeast and southwest and the property Is adjusted to thi conformation, the length of the rectan- gle taking this direction. To be brief and general, the camp buildings are To- cated In the southeast quarter of the group, directly on the banks of Rowe wash, a mountain gulch that in times past has but rarely failed of running water and water will always be avail able with a few feet of sinking. At the present time, midsummer, there is an ample supply of as good water as one could md Tn any country within fifty yards of the cook house. The mill site is a half mile further south. can De reached by tramway when the time comes for ore reduction and is adiac- ent to never failing water supply The camp buildings are of the usual order well located, comfortable but not Imposing, healthful, and better than the average mining camp, in that the flies are fenced out'' of the dining room, where good meals await the hungry guest and the deserving laborer
 Rowe wash in a general direction crosses the property from east to west thence runs south toward the mill site
 Without attempting a minute descrip- ton, the reader can best imagine him self in Rowe wash looking northerly up the precipitous slope of Fl Paso mountain, along the ridge of which runs the northern line of the Oriental holdings. What concerns this article lies along this southern slope of nom tam between Rowe wash and the ridge nearly 500 feet above it.
 The country rock across the entire slope of this mountain is a slate of porphyritfc appearance though pro- nounced argillaceoUs by an engineer. rom The Sulch to the summit. The formations now under deVeIOpment however are in what shall be hereafter termed mineral zone, that is we'll defined clear across the face of the mountain. This zone of strongest min eral indications is between 200 and BOO feet wide, each of the huge ledGes ap- parently pitching into the hill at an angle of approximately S5 degrees. The pest view of this zone is secured from the distance of a quarter of a mile away to the west across a depression In the slope of Fl Paso mountain. From that viewpoint one can see the cron- pings Of all the principal Iedges as ex- posed by the intervening gulch.
 Returning with the reader to the foot of the hill, and looking up. the lower marked vein of this mineral zone ap- pears about 400 feet above the Rowe wash The first effort at following the Ven to depth is found in a shaft A feet deep on one of these lower veins on the Occidental claim, the shaft be- ing known as the Occidental shaft. This shaft has exposed to that depth a three foot vein of good copper ore. Climbing directly up the hillside to the attitude of 495 feet. or about S3 feet higher than the collar of the Occidental Shatt, one comes to the collar of the Occidental shaft, the deepest 5sbS fl working on the property. and the high est above the gulch. This shaft is 67 feet deep, well timbered and cribbed. the shaft being Axe in the clear. At the depth of 40 feet drift runs along the vein to the northeast for fifty feet exposing from to feet of ore. All the bottom of the shaft is a similar drlft along the same ore body in the same direction and for the same dis tanCe.
 These two shafts were sunk merely to determine that the mineral,zed croppings were copper of good grade and that they went down. Between these shafts there are surface pros pect holes few feet deep on various or the intervening veins, opened just enough to show that they are heavily mlneralized and in thickness anywhere rom two to ten feet wide, some of the croppings in the gulch to the west in dicating that these veins are in some cases twenty feet or more in width The purpose of these shafts and pros pect holes has been to demonstrate that the mineralized zone, anywhere the ledgeS were broken into below the surface, carried good values
 The next thing to consider was how 10 work the mine. As every man knows, ore can be removed from a tunnel more cheaply than by hoisting If tunnel be practicable In this in stance 1t is ideal Going directly down the hill at a point 15O feet above Rowe wash, was found an excellent tunnel site. It is yet high enough for the upper end of a tramway to the mill site when one shall be needed and is still low enough so that by running into the hill, the entire forma- lion !,