Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-09-17
IN DOS COBEZAS
COPPER DISTRICT
Salt Lakers Are in An Enterprise
Which Looks Like a
BIG Thing.
PLAN GREAT IMPROVEMENTS.
Concentrating Mil. Sncltcr ANA RAT
road Among the Things Pro
icctcd-Whcrc Located.

win C.. Higgins. editor of the salt
lake Mining Review. has returned
from the DOS Cobezas copper district
in Cochise county Arizona, where
syndicate of Salt Lake, Los Angeles
and Chicago people are developing
the Mascot group Of copper claims.
consisting OF about coo acres. and which
recently formed the basis for the ore
Fanization OF the Mascot Copper come
pany.
Mr.. Higgins expressed himself very
enthusiastically over this Arizona roe
giOn this morning and declared ihui
the Mascot mine is one OF the best
copper propositions Doe has ever seen
and it has been his good fortune u'
visit nearly every copper camp west OBJ
the Rocky mountains. Among the ll1n
people interested in the enterprise are.
Senator Reed SmOot I'd Loose, LAiaN
cite Holbrook OF Provo, G.. w. kuud-
son Of Brigham city J. q. Hardy. cap
tain Ben Tibbcy and others of salt
Lake City. Mr Hardy is superiuten-
dent of the mine and captain Ibhcy is
the Compauy's consulting engineer
Notwithstanding the fact that the Mas
cot company has been carrying Cn a
very vigorous campaign OF Develop
ment Cor nearly three years. very little
has been known about 10 locally. The
company has conducted its operations
very unostenuOusly. In the meantime
a has been quietly gathering n addl-
tional ground and 10 is only within me
past two weeks that the enterprise has
been fully rounded out and the man-
agement could be induced 90 let the
public know Just what has been GoinE
ON.
From Nh Higgins 10 has been learned
that the company has been sOlidly fu-
unced and that IL is laying plans i1
make improvements which will uiC1n
the expenditure Of a sum aggregating
close To 100000 and viii involve Tho
erection OF a mammoth concentrating
plant. a smelter and l6 miles pf stan
dard gagged railroad I'M other words,
10 Be- proposed 20 make 90 one of the
biggest independent copper mining
enterprises in the west. A syndicate
of eastern capitalists during the past
year offered $l.000O0O for "a contron-
INK interest and while 10 looked tompt-
ing enough, the owners concluded 1t
would take a larger sum than that 40
induce them 90 give up their inter-
ests.
The camp of Los Cabezas D. situated
Is miles east OF the town OF Wilcox on
the main line Of the Southern Pacihc
railroad The district is not "a new one,
Mr.. Higgins ascertaned, and from some
of the old-tlmcrs residing in the little
town Of les Cabczas he was told that
many years ago 30 was the center of
considerable mining activity. yet as far
as he could ind out. no one made any
great amount OF money. However in
vestigation has satisfied him that the
fault did not Die with the mines. but
with the people who worked them who
evidently did not have very clear I'M
Outstanding Of the geological condi-
lions OF the region II later took Capt.
Tibbcy. Mr. Hardy and associates TO
show them whore they had made some
serious mistakes.
The property. Mr.. Higgins explains.
was originally worked high upon the
mountain for copper carbonatos,. but II
has since been proved that the value of
the properly lies iu its copper sulphide
ores an water level The main work.
ings consist OF a tunnel which Is In
about I 600 feet and while 10 was being
driven several veins of sulphide ores
were encountered one of these veins
IS six feet wide and contains "a solid
mass Of black oxide and copper glance
showing assays of about 2S per cent
copper 10 ounces Ga silver and $3.50 an
gold. Al "a point $50 feet iu rs un-
other vein OF mixed chloride and sui
phide ore. s feet in width has been cut
on the same vein, ot depth OF li0
feet crOss-cut has been I'm ore for
10 feet without disclosing the footwall.
Al this depth the orc d. q mixture of
chlOrldcs and carbonates, averaging 3.l
per cent copper
At the Consolidated tunnel which Is
in about 200 feet, "a 30-f0ot vein of
sulphidcs-all pay ore. from which Ship
ments have been made I'm the past has
been encountered. Ina this development
no waste is being taken out at ln. Sew.
euty-nve feet further 0u iu this tuuue
is another 25-foot body OF ore and stn
81 feet further boz advance, the meT
working there were just breaking iui,
n large body Of concentrating ore WheI
Mr. Higgins left There are IA well de-
fined veins ON the property ANA some o
them can be traced FOR 5000 feet Their
are also a hundred openings whore cop
Der r. in evidence.
Mr.. Higgins thinks the Ctahaus vh'
nrc in the Mascot are certain to make
q winner of this Arizona enterprise TN
district As situated m the Southwestern.
part OF the territory