Bisbee daily review., 1907-04-09
LARGEST DEAL FOR FINAL
 COUNTY
More Than One Hundred Thou sand Dollars Paid Down for Property Near the Ray Group of Mines.

Last Saturday there was paid out at Kelvin by the Gila Copper com pany the sum of s117.300. The amount was paid for claims adjoining the Ray copper group and was distri- buted as follows;
 To Thos. Kavanaugh, S45,000: to Frank Guild, s200,000; to Dan Sulli- van. s1S,000; to Burt Culfoms, s1S,- 900; to Frank Schillins. s4,S00: to B E. Schillings. 1900; to Jake Bates. $4,SO0; to Andy Bates, SLIGO; to Ar thur Foreman, s1,100. to Don Pugh, Jim and Jack Davis. jointly, $2,700.
 The preliminary arrangements for the sale of the Ray group, and the additional claims for which the above named amounts were paid out, were made by Hon. Chas. H. Cutting in association with Thos. Kayanaugh, of Kelvin and E. H. Clarkson, of Bos- ton, says the Florence Blade.
 This is the largest mining deal ever consummated in Ptnal county and one that will result in a successful opening up of what, in our judgment, is the greatest copper deposit in Ari- zona- During our 27 years continuous residence in Florence we have been constantly proclaiming that the rich est and most inexhaustibie mineral belt yet discovered lay between 6l.e western boundary of Mineral Hill and the eastern boundary of the Banner district at Christmas and develop ments are rapidly proving the cor. rectness of our contention. Within this area lie the Pioneer, the Mineral Hill, the Reymert, the Box Canyon, the Copper Butte, the Ripsey, the Ray & Kelvin, the Riverside, the Troy, the Dripping Springs, the Ban ner, the Saddle Mountain, the Nam moth and the Old Hat mining dis, tricts, all of which have been prodac CTS for some years, but have been held in check through lack of trans portation facilities, handicap that is now being removed by the advent oi railroads. Within this area is situaI ed the famous old Silver King, which has already yielded over SIG 5000, ,00G in silver, the Reymert group. which has yielded s5,O00,O00 in silver, the Belle and Columbia, which have yielded 101 carloads of lead-slIg -I bullion worth s6,000,00O. the Nam, moth, which has yielded S10,000,0O1 in gold. The copper zone has been reached in all these old time produc CTS and there is no doubt but that each of them will in the future, yield as great values in copper as they have heretofore yielded in gold, silver and lead and the gold and silver values will continue with the copper. There is also included within this area the old Silver Queen mine, which is now yielding and shipping ore worth s10; 900 per carload in silver and copper combined, also the Superior mine in which a large tonnage Of gold-cop per ore is blocked out and from which regular shipments are made that net $2,4G0 per car at the smelter, also the Ray-kayanaugh group, in which prac tically a million tons of low grade copper ore is in sight, also the Copper Butte group, now shipping 20 per cent copper ore at the rate of 20 carloads per month and with millions of tons low grade copper ore in sight, also the holdings of the Big Lead com pany at Ray, now making and ship ping regularly 36 per cent copper con centrates, with vast ore reserves iu sight, also the Hercules Copper Com pany's holdings in which large copper ore bodies have been exposed, also the Manhattan in which over 100000 tons of good copper-gold ore has been blocked out, also the Bryan group from which 30 per cent copper ore is shipped in carload lots, alsc the Calumet, now shipping and from which over 100 carloads of high grade copper ore has been shipped since lasi November. also the famous mines oi the saddle Mountain Mining company upon which 200 ton blast furnace is steadily operated on the high grade copper ore, and in which mines suf ficient ore reserves are now blocked out to warrant the increase of the company's smelting plant to daily capacity of 600 tons and the enlarge. Enent of the plant to that capacity is now underway; also the O'Carroll copper group now undergoing exten. sive development and for which a 50G ton smelling plant will soon be or. dered. Beside the properties named there are hundreds of other proper. ties undergoing development within the area described that have been sufficiently proven to warrant the be lief that they will become profitable producers. The most interesting feat ure of this great mineral area is the fact that nearly all the ores found therein are combination ores, that is ores carrying copper, gold and silver hence the miners have three metals