Bisbee daily review., 1907-02-13
Report of Requirements To Make Good Camp. Indicate That $l52. 900 Would Put It In Good Shape.
Graphic Description Of Latest Mine In Cananea District Is Given By ]. B. Tomllnson of That Section.

T. Wnkey. president Of the West canauea Copper company. has been iu Douglas for the past two days, coming here to consult with Judge Richardson. attorney for the com pany Mr. wilkey was for four years paSmaster al cananea for the Greene Consolidated company, going with the company during the early days of it's exfstence
 me West cananea Copper com pany was organized last fall to take over 8 copper property located seven miles west of Cananea. which Is high ly regarded by ali who have been on the ground The officers Of this eon- pany are J. T. Wilkey. president; C. B ShibeIl. of Tucson. secretary; K. L. Samuefs. of Cananea,. vice president. The officers with John H. Slaughter and J. P. Mills compose the board of directors
 This company Is In the hands of well known men, who are entitled to the confidence of the stockholders of this company. Hon. John H. Siaugh- ter. now in the legislature from this county. after visit made to the West Cauanea property last month, eN- pressed himself as having every eonh- sa.cc that the property would develop into oae of the big mines of sonora. Nr. Sttteil, the secretary of the com ueny. is the son of Hon. Chas. Shibeil, xrese1t county recorder of Pima coun- ty and enc of the pioneers of Arizona. ". Ws.rxey, the president of the com pany has been following the mining industry in the southwest for many wears and is fully capable to direct the development of the company.
 Three shipments of ore from this property have been made to the Can anea smeIter and the returns have been highly satisfactory, the ore net ting from s1S.50 to $21 per ton.
 About the first of the year the di- rectors of the company held a meet ing al Cananea when it was decided 10 have the property thoroughly eX- amined by a competent mining engi- neer for the information of all con cerned. The firm of Norton and Tom linson. of Cananea, were employed for this purpose and extracts of the re- port. made as a result of a personal inspection of all the property byt J. B. Tomlinson. are given below:
 REPORT ON WEST cANANEA
 'The property consists of 2S6 hec- taras namely the Abundencia, 5O hec' taras, Abundencia No. 2, 156.l and the Continuation de San Benito, 100. The ground is taken as shown by the map accompanying. The location is IF miles bv wagon road and trail from Cauanea in the mining district Oi Arizpe, state of Sonora. Mexico.
 Topography.
 ground lies on the southwest .iJgs main spur of the Cananea rIufaig at elevation above sea level of ssa9 feet and transportation to and ---r, ananea, the present railroad
 $ by trail two and one-hali miles to the end of a good wagon road thence four and one-haf miles 10 the town.
 Geology
 The prevailing country rock Of the Canarea mountains on the west side is a porphyry-granite and Guartz-por phyry, On the property of the West Cananea there are found large masses of limestone; these have dip le soutb and west of Is degrees. The croppings showing indications of cop per are extensive and the surface oi inc Abundancia shows sheeted zones of garnetiferous matter along the con tact of the country rock with lime stone. Here is seen direct evidence of contact metamorphfc acton, which resulted in altering the limestone into garnetite and epidote.
 About HOO feet below the main granite-porphyry contact shallow open cuts fn the guIch show copper stalns with particles Of chalcopyrlte-
 The limestone occupies fully two thirds of the area of the exposed side of the mountain on the west and about oue-ffth of the north or opposite sice and top where the unaltered ores oi copper are exposed along the south oucrop of the sheet; appearances m dicafe a nearly horizontal sheet lying under the granite porphyTy for lVo 70 zoe feet. This is distinguished from the country structure by it's dark grey color. dips slightly to the westward for about 45G feet, then turns upward. showing its course plainly on the -.dge for 275 feet and ranging around the ,.orth side Of the mountain and c,sappears in the surface debris and masros of porphyTy. Wherever ex- nosed he outcrop gives strong eyi- denree of containing copper.
 r,xn.anaffon of the connection oi t-metamorpkism with the gene sis of ore bodies. is not necessary here. Sufiee t to say that all the important ore bodies opened in this section owe their origin to this cause and the Elisa mine of the Consondat ed company is a similar deposit to the West Cananea. which promises 10 be equally as extensive and profitable.
 Ore Bodies and Development
 The copper ore showing in the de yelopment made, occupies plane DC tween the oyerlying grano-poEphyrs and is bedded in the limestone under meath. This, with dip of 1s degrees westerly. shows on three sides Of the ridge and occupies area of approxf mately 1000 by izv0 ieet, as inofcs'eo by line of discoloration which shows on the north, south and west sides or
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