Arizona republican., 1906-05-26
GAVE CREEK MINES
 LOOK PROMISING
Development Work in That District
 Proceeds Uninterruptedly.

recent interview with a citizen of the 1 Cave Creek district, for a year past growing in importance, elicits the fol- 1 lowing information:
 | The Oriental is rapidly developing
 under the strenuous, nearly restless work of the contractor, Charles Frisk. and under the general management of Mir. Don Donald, the president of the company. A. s. Mills formerly the l sole owner, and yet to some extent and i in some way apparently connected | herewith, has his home there. The camp, about six miles from Houck's store, is a large and quite conspicuous one of tents and tent houses, and to | that during the last week has been add ed a frame office It was framed in Phoenix and brought up here in sec tions, ready for immediate erection. The outcropping of this mine known | for twenty-five years past to be ex- ceedingly rich in gold and in copper,
 is high up a mountain slope. A shaft was sunk deep down through the ore body, and for several weeks past Char ley has kept as large force as he could use to advantage in a working tunnel that eventually will tap the shaft at or below its bottom. For two
 weeks past he has had an extra force
 engaged in timbering the works wher-
 ever the least peril might develop.
 The Mormon Girl has been under comprehensive development ever since
 last fall under the management of MT Summerill, the lessee. Lately. E. A. Howard, Jr., and Mr Hadley have
 taken a contract to continue the work
 in progress. It is also understood that
 the development of the Mormon Girl is
 to continue indefinitely. It is said that
 under the present contract the amount
 of ore predetermined is to be taken out in readiness for milling next fall. By
 this time an immense lot of ore must
 be on the dump. It might be properly stated here that the diagnosis of Will liam A. Deity, made ten years ago. as
 to the capacity and extent of that rich shoot, has been verified completely. The drifting, both ways from the bot tom of the winze. proves MT. Defty-s prediction that that shoot or chimney 1 would widen out as it went down: and
 so it does. He also expressed a convic- tion that all along that black wall (two miles long and itself gold bearingJ drifting, either way or both ways. would uncover other such chimneys-a serrated or saw-toOth arrangement Of copper and gold shoots. But the en- tire foothill is heavily mineraIized. and eastward is 2 contact vein between granite and slate formations which four years ago was carefully prospect ed and the ore bodies found to be of l high grade. These the present com pany will eventually secure, and thus have ineXhaustible bodies Of high | grade ore The Mormons who two or more years ago located every outcrop- l ping on the slopes of that foothiII knew what they were doing But persecu- | ton drove them out, and the perse- cutOrs found a mineral elephant on l their hands which they were not abla | to manage.
 A month CT more ago a MT. Skinner and family came up and took lodging | in the Ben Hur camp. His first work | was repair of the road from the creek 1 to the camp, preparatory to hauling over 1t some heavy machinery. or which | an air compressor was a part. The working tunnel is far advanced ana l the common ground is about to give | place to ledges paraIleling the main ore | body; thence on, the drilling will be wholly in live ore, hence the necessity | for machinery that will accomplish as | much as possible in a day
 | About three weeks ago William Os- l born came up to join MT Skinner in
 tunnel work for the placing of the machinery
 The work on the Ben Hur is inspired i by substantial business men of Phoe- | nix, who compose, with the Osbornes | the stockholders.
 Ever since last fall from twenty to | thirty men have been at work on the | properties popularly known as the l Cooper Top The corporation name
 is "The Kentucky and Arizona Consoli-
 dated Mining and Smelting company | of which James D. Marler is the super | iatendent, but one of the Robinson | family, Petit, has been here right along ! in some managing capacity. old timers | will recognize the location of the camp, which is about five miles westerly from Cave Creek station. when I say it is on the site of the "Old Jones Camp" "
 It will interest the Robinson families | if give here a little ancient history. Old Jones was 9 queer old character, and had the push and energy to estab- fish quite camp there and to sink a l deep shaft down to an outcropping of
 friabIe red oxide of iron mixed with | high grade copper ore Away back in
 1888 mining man from the Black
 Hills encountered the old man arastring
 some of that ore on the creek opposite
 where the LinviIle homes are now | Why, some of this rock assays 2O.OOC
 to the ton,' remarked the old man, and
 so IL did, and does yet. The old man
 was in fluttering rags. the picture ol
 want and poverty. Then pan out a
 few pounds of it and buy some clothes
 to cover your nakedness." said the vis-
 itor. Why I have a good suit bought
 in 1840 during the Harrison campaign .
 he said. And that suit was a curiosity | in Phoenix.
 ; To the old Jones groups are now add
 ed all the other valuable ore bodies fr
 that vicinity, and they cover about hall
 a township Of land in their entire area
 To them are also added the Mckay
 groups, lying within a mile of Houck's , store and in their midst, half mile
 from the store, the shelter is to be To-
 cated. When in the near future the
 Mormon Girl, Ben Bur- the Copper Top
 the Oriental, Phoenix mine, and the
 Gold Mil properties are producing, on, Lrn rnL .rrL LnnL ruMn .