Bisbee daily review., 1907-06-21
CAVE CREEK ONLY WAITING WATER
 LEVEL
When Prospecting Gets Down Below the Line Great Ore Bodies Are Expected to Be Revealed.
(Phoenix Gazette.l

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 PhOenieiaDs as a ruie do not take
 he interest in mining property that ] they should. This is primarily an ag-
 ricultural community and the resi- dents of the Salt River valley in fact
 have but little time to remember that
 We have the best of mining prospects
 right at our door and that it will not
 be long before one of the principal
 mining districts in the territory VII
 be only a few mles north of us. on
 Cave Creek
 The activity that is going on in that
 district now unparalleled This de-
 spite tue fact that as yet there is not
 single dividend paying property in | that country. But people do not un-
 derstand the reason for this. Mining
 has been going on up there in hap
 hazard way for many years, yet no big beds of copper ore have been { struck.
 The reason for this is that the wa ter level there is very far down-far- | ther down than anywhere else in Ari-
 zona where the surface indications are
 so encouraging. Any mining man
 knows that never yet has any appre- ciable body of copper ore been found
 above the water level The Copper Queen. the Calumet X Arizona, the
 United Verde and others all showed less promising indications on the top
 of the ground than many prospects in
 the Cave Creek district.
 But with the present development that is going on it certainly will not
 be many months before this water level will be reached. And then We
 may expect an unprecedented rush to
 the new district Miners and in-
 vestors will flock Cave Creek-ward, knowing that only depth must be
 reached before the richest of copper
 sulphides will be obtained.
 Work is going forward faster on the Grand Traverse and Arizona property than on any other mine on the creek. There is one ledge or the claims owned by this company which is sev- en feet wide on the surface. Speci- mems from this ledge contains copper,
 gold and silver in large quantities. 4 shaft is now down sixty feet and contract has been let for the sink ing of another 100 feet. At the pres. ent level the ledge is 20 feet wide. There is another ledge 20 fleet wide on the surface, on which shaft is down 325 feet. At 300 feet a body of l red oxide, six feet wide and contain ing gold and copper, was encountered. When down to the water level this 1 company expects to get into a big ! body of sulphides. Dr. c. F Smurth- waite, general superintendent, be- lieves that the sulphides will be reached at a depth of aboul 400 feet
 and that they will run at lsst G. per | cent copper. Indications arb that the [ body will be from 50 to 100 feet in 1 width.
 The Grand Traverse is a Michigan corporation. backed by Michigan peo- | pie. There is no doubt that they will push the development work from now
 on until the water level is reached and the fact definitely proven that the
 Cave Greek country is one of the big
 gest mining districts in the world. ] The grand Traverse people expect to
 be the first to demonstrate this fact. Everything looks promising on the Kentucky-Arizona property. Though 1 this company has been troubled with internal difficulties for the past eight or nine months. all disagreements have been satisfactorily settled. The management will soon start in developing the mine in earnest. There is a better equipment on this property than anywhere on cave Creek. There Is quite a nice little shelter there. The KeptuckyArizona is represent ed by R. T. Mccullough. who has been with the company for about year, and will take an active part in the de yelopment work about to be started. A shaft Is sun on the Mormon Girl mine to a depth of 800 feet, and sew eTaI drifts have ben run, encountering fine bodies ofo ore. At present the mine is shut down for the summer, but will be reopened about September |.
 There is no doubt that the property will be on a paying basis soon after that.