Arizona republican., 1908-08-23
PATAGONIA.

Patagonia, Aug. 21.-.Special Cor IrespOndence of The Republican )-For such shallow work as has been done. { 1t would be hard to find a better showing than on the Prudential group of claims, a couple of miles [ below the. Four Metals mine. near
 the Nogales- Washington camp road. i From the bottom of a little shaft : only sixteen feet deep a drift runs forty feet along the vein. which is i then crosscut fifteen feet at a depth of about twenty-five feet, the hang | ing wall not yet being reached The
 vein is made up of streaks of quarts. tale, schistose and a very high grade | copper ore The orestreak varies i from few inches to a foot in width.
 The vein is wide and clearly defined
 with every indication of permanency.
 In addition to copper. tests of the | ledge matter show good values in gold and silver. The vein is easily traced over the foothills along the surface,
 the cropping at places being fifty feet wide. and is covered by the Prudential group of claims for dis tance of 5000 feet. There are twelve claims in the group, six of them be- 1 ing along the vein, on which a line
 of shallow test pits have been sunk. all showing copper in ledge matter that also shows gold and silver ! values. Eight of the claims are owned by l. c. King who has been prospecting in that locality for the i past ten years. and four are owned | equally by Mir. King and W. c. Ellis, J formerly of NOgales, but now a resi- dent of Canada.
 | Another group of claims on which only shallow surface work has been ! done is the Gettyburg group, four | claims, about five miles from Pata- gonia, up SerranO canyon. toward i the Red Rock, owned by Frank Hale From cuts and test pits at various places on the group, copper stained rock and Jumps of high grade copper ore have been taken, but in no reg ular formation. At one point Mr. ! Hale endeavOred to tunnel into the hill, but after going a short distance was compelled to stop. being unable, alone. to handle the ground. which is i broken and loose and would require i timbers that would hold up all above them, as there is no formation what
 ever to break the weight of the rock
 overhead. MT. Hale believes that
 under this broken and displaced rock there is large copper deposit, though he has so far been unable to locate the ledge in places on the surface. At another part of the group there is what has the appear ance of being the crater of an old volcano, with ash cOlored rock and 2 l. around. From a test shaft sunk at | that place the same slag-like iron was taken. About a year ago Mir. i Hale succeeded in interesting Pitts burgh capitalists in the property. They made a payment of S4,OOO on
 an option they took on the property shortly before the financial troubles, since which time nothing further has been heard from them. The option expired and the property has re- verted to Mr.. Hale.
 | The wagon road is now completed to the works of the Pittsburg- Ari- zOna company and this week the machinery from the old Santa Cruz
 mine, a couple of miles east of Pata- gOnia, is being moved out to the new
 camp in the Santa Ritas. The ma chinery consists of a 60-horsepOwer boiler3 hoist. air compressor and air
 drills and a pump. As soon as the machinery is in place and the pump working. sinking will be resumed in the shaft at the Pittsburg- Arizona camp.
 Monday, F. NJ. Quinn, a represen-
 tative of the Interior department with headquarters at Phoenix, was a visi- tor to Patagonia, coming here from a trip to Greaterville, where he had been to investigate the water right of the Santa Rita Mining company. Several years, ago the company took up the Greaterville placers in Pima county, securing a large and valuable water right and putting in a pipe line of considerable capacity. but did little work at the property. and for the past few years have done noth- ing. Failure to use water rights
 cause forfeiture of the concessions. Another case MT. Quinn was inves- i tigating in this locality was the ap- plicatiOn of the Crittenden Canal
 company for a water right in the
 northern part of Santa Cruz county,
 above Crittenden and extending across | the county -lllle Into f1lIld county. l He was unable to secure any infor
 nation regarding the company either 1 in Patagonia or Crittenden-the peO- ] pie he met never having heard of the projected canal. The application for the water right was dated at Tucson, and further investigation will be nG.de at that point. What Mir. Quinn did lind, though, accord | ing to his conversation with the writer, was the prettiest locality in all Arizona for a summer outing. T have been over q good deal of Arizona" he said. but these can
 yons in the mountains around Pata- | gonia, with their streams of clear water and abundance of trees, the i the most beautiful outing resorts l have seen."
 Thursday of last week James Cat Hin, a cattleman, whose ranch is in
 the Red Rock country. a few miles 1 from the head of the San Rafael valley, was dangerously injured by being thrown from a bucking horse His skull was crushed near the base
 and his left shoulder dislocated.