Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1907-01-09

oldest organized mining districts in the Territory, is agog with excitement over a rich strike of orc made Monday morn ing in the Ten Spot vein, when solid body of heavy sulphidc of iron ore, nch in copper and gold, was cncoun tored in n cross cut being run from the 2SO foot level of q shaft on the Storm Noud group of mines, owned by II. ]. Bcemcr.
 not yet been determined, but work is bcing pushed ahead and it is expected that the footwall of the great vein will be struck today. Ono of the deep eat shots in the face penetrated the rich find two feet. Great was the sur prise of the workmen, who found the face of the opening a glittcrng mass of suiphidcs when they returned 'o clean up after the round of holes was fired.
 Samples of the orc were brought to this city, but on account of yesterday being generally observed as n holi. day, no assays were made. However, those familiar with tho orc found in tho upper level, which samples sii in gold, 9per cent in copper and II ounces m silver. do not hesitate to say that tho new find is much richer than any yet discovered in the vein, and express their opinions freely to the effect that this is the most important mineral dis. covery made in many months in the district, which has furnished many sur prises in its mineral development.
 Almost coincidcnt with this discovery and equally as remarkable s the fact that the ore body in the tunnel being run on the Storm Cloud vein has widen. cd out to seven feet in the face of the opening, which is now into the noun. tain distance of G50 feet, and at an estimated depth from the apex of the vein of 25O feet. About one. fourth of this body of ore samples better than 10 pc' o'rt copper. the whole with. ''N ''''''k '''''k'hk 'N'i I'f in the red met |. all carrying values in gold. This vein follows large iron dyke, running in n northwcsterly and southcastcrly direction. which parallels what is known as the storm Cloud ledge, loo feet to the west, and coy. cred by the same location.
 Up to the time of the purchase of tho group by II. ]. Becmcr from Fred Williams, this iron dyke was consid. cred worthless, showing little mineral value ou the surface, copper stain be. ing visible in isolated places in shallow openings which had been pushed 10 any depth.
 Beemer purchased the mine. he hoving, as all others did wno ever eN- amincd it, that |, was n gold proposi. tion, and commenced to develop the gold ledge from the bottom of the shaft, which was then ljj feet in depth. After several examinations made of the outcroppings of the iron dyke, Lester Jackson, superintendent for Mir. Becmer, decided copper values might be found in depth in it and started a cross cut from the bottom of the shaft in its direction, and was sur. prised when he encountered, after run ming only 100 feet, three and half feet of ore on its footwal that sam pied 10 per cent m copper.
 1t was then realized that the iron dyke was the most valuable of the two veins, and plans were perfected at once for its development. A tunnel was started along it into the mountain, where good values wcro found, after running ahead n short distance, the ore body increasing in thickness as the work advanced, until now, at dis iance of l60 feet from its mouth, the ore body has gradually widened out to seven feet
 On the dump at the mouth of the tunnel there is now about 700 tons of ore which will sample about per cent in copper, 200 tons of which has been sorted and sampled, showing values in gold and over 10 per cent in copper. Work is being pushed on this tunnel as well as in the shaft on the Ten Spot vein, which is now down to n depth of little over 300 feet, the management condning the operations to development work only, no stoping be- ing done and no orc shipped, it being apparently the intention of the owner 10 erect reduction plant on the ground, when tho development of the series of veins is far enough advanced to insure a steady orc supply for ex' tunsive reduction worka
 The group of fifteen claims, which