Daily Arizona silver belt. (Globe, Gila County, Ariz.) 1906-1929, 1908-09-26
ANDERsON-APACHE
A GROWING MINE
LARGE ORE BODIES ON THE
$50 AND 800 FOOT LEVELS
CRossCUT SHOWS q FEET OF 10
PEP CENT ORE.

The interest in copper at Hachita, n,
NJ. eenters about the Apache group Of
claims of which the Anderson Apache
mine, now being operated by Douglas
people, is the best known. This proper
~ lies southeast of iIachita station
about five and half miles 1t is a
country of pronounced faults, and is
pretty thoroughly mineralized. While
operations a re being carried on more
extensively at the Anderson pache
property than elsewhere in the district
at is not the only one where work is
being done. Robert Anderson, the pio
neer of the district, who, off and on for
twenty years, worked the Anderson
Apache, taking out in that time with
out any working capital more than
100000 worth of ore, is still mining in
the district. His American property,
a silver, lead and zinc proposition. is
a promising prospect from which some
fine silver ore has been mined He has
a shaft down 200 feet and is working
about dozen men
seeding along the lines projected some
time since, or Immediately after big
strike of ore was encountered on the
$50 level A crosscut run from this
level is now in twenty seven feet of
ore by actual measurement. which runs
around 10 per cent copper fro grab sam
pies. As announced some time ago, this
ore body on the 300. from which the
shipping ore had to the time of the
strike been extracted. Superintendent
Houlton is now engaged in making
connection between the $50 and the 300,
and he * doing this my means OF a
raise from the 800. Thus far he is in
ore with nothing to indicate that the
body does not continue into the $50 as
expected. He expects to have the con-
nection made by October ] at the out
side, and when that has been completed
the output of ore will probably be tire
bled as it will be an easy matter to mill
it out in great quantities. To date, nine
carloads have been shipped from the
station at Hachita to the Copper Queen
smelter and there are several other ear.
loads ready for hauling.
In the meantime. while work is be-
ing prosecuted more actively where il
is known there is plenty of shipping
ore, development work is not being run
and old ones extended.
A trip through the Anderson Apache
will amaze any one not familiar with
the workings. Their bigness astounds
one. While Slopes in some other mines
may be as large, it is rare that one finds
them so big and at the same time so
open. One creeps around for hundreds
and hundreds of feet in immense big
opening and never sees piece of tim
Der. Timbering is almost unknown in
the mine, and there has never been a
cave-in. In addition to the rich ore en-
eountered there is a vast amount of
low grade stuff running through the
lime. This and all the ore is self-fux-
ing, which, as is well known, enhances
its value considerably.
The Anderson-Apache is peculiarly
well located. A good wagon road on
practically level country rms from the
station out to the mine, the main shaft
of which is at the foot of hill which
rises from the mesa. Already there is
a railroad spur in mind and the COM
pany, when this comes about, will face
no expensive construction due TO a
rough country.