Arizona republican., 1907-01-04

per mine. There is much to warrant
such a belief and the fact must be
admitted by everybody that the prop
erty lies in the very heart of a great
"copper" belt. even eliminating the ia
nous mines at Jerome and in the sister
republic. Gold and copper are associat-
| ed metals through all this country.
There are some copper indications In
the Two Queens lodges as now exposed
but thus far it is the inferior metal
most decidedly. What will be develop
ed at and below water level the writer
makes no effort to predict. 1t is now
gold mine and in the rest of this ar
ticle will be treated as such, but should
it turn to copper that metal will most
certainly be accompanied by great gold
values.
There are eight full claims and one
fractional claim in the Two Queens
group. the nearest end of which is stu
ated well toward a half mile from the
camp on the millsite. and on the south
ern slope of a somewhat serrated
mountain. perhaps 1900 feet high, that
i'm a general way runs east and west
but which is slightly curved or cres-
cent shaped. the southern slope being
/ the inner OF NOllNdNt SltAt. ht NeiiAp
! is situated we'll toward the west end
of the mountain where its base line is
skirted by Ash creek, running wester-
| ly into the ella. By following up the
creek a quarter of a mile one comes
to the mouth of little gulch that heads
well up on the concave slope of the
mountain. From a vantage point in this
| gulch one may view on the hillside.
/ the dump OF almost every opening of
| Importance now made on the property.
some of good size and some quite small.
/ Up this gulch on one side or the other,
or beyond and circling across its head.
il is proposed at an early day to build
a wagon road, a work that will become
4 imperative just as soon as the placing
of heavy machinery Is necessary. This
will require few hundred dollars pos
sibly between one and two thousand,
but it is a short job for muscle and
brains when the time comes. At the
present time the claims are reached by
a burro trail straight up the hill from
the camp to the end of the claims,
thence winding around the mountain
and across the mineral ground The
first 200 feet of this trail is quite steep
but the rest Of il is as easy travelling
as an upgrade mountain road. The
timbers. steel. powder and other sup
plies necessary in the work are all
provided by the efforts OF single bur
70 who knows his business as well as
any man on the job.
I For the purpose of a description
showing more clearly the relative posi-
tions of the claims to each other. the
reader is asked to return with the
writer to the aforementioned vantage
point in the gulch below the claims.
The nearest and lowest claim is the
one known as the Two Queens. Above
/ il, its width reaching to the crest of the
hill and its length paralleling the upper
and longer defined vein which runs
lengthwise with the mountain. is the
Bullfrog claim. At their eastern ends
the Bullfrog and the Two Queens join
but the western ends are spread apart
] like the two stems of a long and mar
row letter V. leaving this triangular V
shaped fractional claim as a wedge be-
. tween the other two and which is To-
Gated as the Mayflower fraction. Adult
ting the east end line OF the Two
. Queens is the west end line of tho
Mountainside claim. Just above il,
abutting the east end line of the Bull
frog. is the west end line of the Stand
by claim. This gives a little more than
four full claims in an approximately
rectangular form. From the west end
of the Two Queens, abutting at an
angle and sloping down the end Of the
mountain toward the camp. is the Gold
, Charm claim on which but little work
has yet been done and which with the
other claim will not be further men,
toned in this article by reason of more
important things that require attention.
/ The reader will now be taken from
the gulch to the summit and then
back again. The lowest working on the
property is the tunnel which viii be
mentioned finally in the return trip. 1t
I is situated on the lower side of the
, Two Queens claim which is of course
900 feet wide. Advancing half way
across the claim and up the hill one
comes to what is known as No. 3 shaft
now down so feet. The shaft is de-
signed to be a working shaft and is
perpendicular. 1t was started on a fine
vein. that several feet to one side. was
exposed by an open crOsscut, then fol-
lowed i'm few feet along the pay
streak as a mere prospect hole. This
! open cut SHOWS several leSl OF VEIN
matter carrying values and the real
pay streak of probably two feet has
returned some magnificent samples. one
assay being as high as 100000 per ton.
AS mentioned. the shaft started on this
vein is perpendicular but the vein
varies somewhat weaving from one
side of the shaft to the other. though
it is yet mostly within il. Excellent
Essays have been secured all the way
down. the average OF the assays in
this shaft being sS4.74. The ore is fast
assuming a sulphide character.
Continuing on up the hillside there
are numerous smaller groupings. either
small separate veins or feeders from
this one or the one next 10 be mention
ed well up to the top or the hill. pass
Ing lengthwise through the Bullfrog
claim. on this vein in the Bullfrog
claim, directly up the hill from shaft
No. 3. is another shaft. the vein car
rying copper. lead and gold. This is
the upper important vein thus far de-
fined and is the one that can be traced
by the groupings for some 5000 feet.
proved here and there by open cuts and
prospect holes. The really marvellous
values have not been developed in this
upper vein though assays have run to