Arizona republican., 1908-12-01
Unprecedented Mining Activ-
 ity About Sa|Ome THE ULT|MATUM BOND
The Butte & Arizona People About to Get Into That District--A Force of Men at Work Again on the Old Bonanza.

Salome, Ariz., Nov. 30.-(Special cor respondence of The Republican j-The
 mining activity around Salome is in creasing rapidly since the election of Taft and Cameron and the bonding of
 the Ultimatum Group to Michigan cap italists. The Ultimatum Group is one
 of the big copper properties northwest of SalOme, located in the Harcuvar limestone belt, near the CObralla mine,
 and the price for which it was bonded is reported to be in the neighborhood of S100,000 Houghton, Michigan, peo-
 pie secured the property through the
 efforts of HeatOn H. Wright, a New
 Haven, Conn, banker and mining man, formerly of Michigan, and well known
 in Globe and Bisbee. Three shifts are
 now at work under the supervision of
 Gideon B. Shull, and MT. Wright is ex-
 pected back very soon to start more eX-
 tensive operations. The Ultimatum
 group is characterized by immense iron
 outcrops and cappings at the intersec-
 tion of diorite cross dikes and limestone
 reefs, while the interlyinS schists and
 lateral intrusions of monzonite are also
 liberally impregnated with iron oxides
 tAAAA NblipNI Slcil4A'. NpAl AllN 1OJl clAlei
 group lying to the west of the Ulti-
 matum group on the same limestone
 reefs. the workings have penetrated the
 leached surface zone and are already in
 high grade copper sulphides, carrying
 high values in gold and silver, and
 from surface indications and what has
 already been done, the Ultimatum
 property promises to develop into one
 of the big copper properties of Arizona.
 The Ultimatum, Copper Flat and Co.,
 bralla groups cover the limestone belt
 in the vicinity of Tank Pass, but ,alI-
 merOuS other owners have promiSfhg
 claims located on the cross dies all around these groups, showing copper
 sulphides carrying good gold and silver
 values, prominent among whom may be
 mentioned the Genung & Nevins, Spen-
 cer, Hampton, Whitehouse & Snapp.
 Rogers & Geer, Jones & Hall. Marks,
 Graham Bros, Shull & Han Dolaii's
 Young's, Palmers and others, all of
 which are in the vicinity of Tank Pass and Cottonwood Springs and can be
 reached by a good wagon road from
 Salome through Tank Pass.
 The Ironwood g. Arizona property
 formerly known as the Griffin-Linn group, located ten miles northwest of Salome. is about to change hands, and notices have been sent the stockholders to meet at Harcua Hala on Dec. 2Sth, to consider the proposition of the Butte & Arizona Copper Mining Co, which offers $150O0O in stock for the l. & A and will assume the indebtedness of $73,000 yet due to Griffin Bros. and Capt Linn. The Butte I& Arizona Cop per Mining Co. is a company originally organized by F. A. HaggOtt to work the claims lying east of the well known Blue Bell mine, near Mayer Yavapai county, before the closing of the Hum boldt shelter. MT Haggott has been to secure the l. & A. prop erty for the part year, and it is to be hoped that the proposed deal will meet with the approvel of the stockholders of the IronWood X Arizona Develop ment Co. and that the delayed develop ment will proceed rapidly under the Butte & Arizona company regime, as the I. & A. is one of the best proper ties nthis section. About one thou sand feet of development work has been done on the property, but the recent fi- nancial stringency prevented the Iron wood & Arizona Development Co from going ahead as they originally intend ed.
 The Harqua Hala has started up again and is working a force of about twenty men on the old Bonanza, under the supervision of B. J. Quinn, formerly in charge of the Hercules Mining Co The old shaft on the Bonanza is being and exploration and devel- opment work will proceed from the bottom of this shaft. After spending two years and in the neighborhood of | S2O0,000 in @ vain effort to probably | work the filings of old stopes and low | grade ores left by former owners, the | has wisely decided to attempt | to open up new ore bodies such as | formerly existed and has closed the | mill down and gone to mining. The | old Bonanza produced in the neiphhor-