Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1906-05-02
MOUNTAINS OF IRON AND COP.
 PER ORE.
(From Wednesdays Daily. l

kTTom Nrunebuhy Dhiy.D
 "Thcrc Is no question in my mind but what the Bill Williams mountains will lead all the other districts in this territory m copper production in the course of few ycars,' said George Wood last evening to n Journal. Miner man after returning from visit to that section.
 "I have seen all the b,g copper camps" he said, "and as copper country l believe that there is no bet. ter than the range which travcrscs the country from Bousc's Wells to the Signal mine"
 Speaking of the different camps visited, ho said, "At the Osborne camp about eight miles north from tho wells, there are miles of veins with heavy iron cappings showing copper values which are in places developed to some depth, showing large bodies of sulphides of very good grade. The owners of the property nrc now pro. pairing to make test shipment to the Humboldt shelter and are pushing work on the different claims. There arc enormous bodies of ore to be seen in the workings, and there is no longer any doubt but that tho camp will be one of the great copper producers as soon as a plant is installed and put in operation there.
 "Eight miles north of the Osborne camp lies Mineral Hill, which is . vcritablc mountain of iron and cop. per ore and . self huxing proposition, thcrc being deposits of lime in unlim. tied quantities on tho ground within easy reach.
 Mineral Hill is within one mile from Bill Williams river, which has sn ample and never failing supply of water suf' hcicnt to supply any demands that may be made on 1t for any sized re- duction plant.
 "Two miles cast of Mineral Hill is the Planet mine, . property consider cd by mining men to be worth more than $1 ,000,000. A large number of miners are at work there developing the immense bodies of iron and copper ore which are in sight.
 "Fiftecn miles to the southeast of tho Planet camp the Signal mine, on, of the remarkably rich ones of tha, country, is reached. Six months agt this property sold for &24,O00, ant three months later after . few hun dred feet of work was done there 1, found new owners who paid t500,00t for 1t. Since then n crosscut has beer run across the vein, which shows {! feet of sulphidc ore in place, carryinI values of from 20 to 60 per cent ii copper. Arrangements are beinl made to prosecute the development o' n much larger scale than ever, tb new owners, realizing the extent an' great possibilities of their holdings turning n deaf ear to all advances fo it's purchase.
 "I also visited the properties O the Liberty Gold Copper company which are owned by Prescott peopl, and think well of them. There is cer tainly very fine showing there whic improves with every foot of worl done. The surface indications ar equally as good here as in any of tn other camps mentioned"
 "All over the range, wherever an veins have been opened to any cxtcn large iron cappings are found simila in all respects to the Mineral Hil Osborne, Planet, and Signal deposit
 "Tbc nearest railroad station | all of these camps is Bouse's well which the Arizona and California mi road will reach in very short tim Good wagon roads lead from th place, and water can be secured heI in unlimited quantity at depth ( about twenty feet"