Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1907-12-20
Big Combine
NOW Being
AIlnC lid
luHEff. III
Copper Gulf, Controlled by
HoMand and Smith, Will
Take Over Several Other
Properties.

What is By long odds one of the
biggest mining deals that has peen
mining district is now being consunl.
mated. so it is understood. whereby
the Copper Gulf Development com
pany viii increase their holdings
from eighteen claims to over sixty
claims and win acquire an acreage
Of approximate 1000 in the very near,
OF the rich porphyry copper bet OF
the Burro Mountain district saws
the Silver City Independent Officials
OF the company are reticent about
giving out any information with re-
gard to the reported deal. but it is
learned from an outside source that
such deal is in progress of con
summation and viii be completed
within few days. The properties
included in the deal are tweuty-eight
claims of the Iessandro Copper com
pany. called the Gettysburg group,
seventeen claims in the Benny group
and six claims in the Leopold Tyrone
Copper company group. All tae prop
critics lie in a group and with the
Iar7AAAANA NtaAAiAo Vi INC AttGrtul AVU-
per Gulf holdings will form nearly
1.eos acres in the copper-porphyry
belt Of the district. To the north lies
the princely mining estate Of the Che
mung Copper company. to the west
the enormously rich deposits of the
Burro Mountain Copper company and
the National Copper Mining company
and 20 the south the valuable group
Of claims owned by the Comanche
Mining and Smelling company. The
Copper Gulf group is literally bound
ed By the mining estates of the four
companies mentioned above and vita
the exception of few isolated claims
takes in all the remaining ground IN
the center OF the porpAyry mihzI d.
bearing district
It IS understood that as soon -
the deal is completed extensive de
veiopmcnt work viii be begun at
once by the Copper Gulf company.
Machinery viii be installed for going
down to great depth IS # is there
that recent development work by the
Chemung has demonstrated lie great
bodies of low grade sulphide ore Il
is understood S275. 900 in tae treasury
to develop the property and that 1,
wiz be done thoroughly, no one
doubts who knows the directorate o.
the company which includes such
men as II. B. Rowland, and HoFal
Smith. prominent in the Bisbee amt
Globe fields. e. a. Wayne, the pres
ent superintendent of the company,
will have charge of the futulS -,Urh
which has already been mapped out /
Mr.. Wayne was superintendent of the |
Globe Consolidated Mining company !
at Globe, Arizona, previous to com
ing here and is a mining engineer of !
prominence and ability Under his |
direction one hundred thousand tons |
Of ore have been blocked out on the |
200 foot level of the Virginia luIue !
which is one of the original eighteen |
claims the Copper Gulf started in |
with. This ore is a sulphide aver !
aging from two to four per cent COP
per and the indications are that the
body of which it is part is one of |
immense size and tonnage.
Mining men who are acQu2iateu |
with the character of the country |
which the Copper Gulf is acquiring |
have no hesitancy in stating that il \
is very promising ground with all /
surface and geological conditions i
favorable to the uncovering of i'm ]
mense bodies Of low grade sulFhides.
TAe DEVELOPMENT work done by iae /
Chemung and other companies uper
ating In this mineral bearing district
has demonstrated TO a reasonable de
gree, that In all this ground there IS I
a barren zone varying in depth from 1
10e to 200 feet, according TO .TucaI 4
conditions, which must be penetrated 4
before this ore bearing zone is CO. 4
countered. This barren zone ee-clds /
from water level and is caused by the
teaching out of the copper values
which sink through the porous por
phyry soil sometimes TO q depth of
200 feet. This was demonstrated IN
the No. 2 shaft of the Chemung.
where after passing through absolute
ly barren ground for something like
geo feet, they have encountered an
immense body of sulphides at the soc
foot level