Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1908-06-04
Mining, SneIterS and Stock Quotations

from the Wandering Jew. embraces
one of the antigua mines of the dis
trict. worked by Mexicans long be
fore the American Mexican boundary
line was moved south of Arizona. 1T
was also worked by Americans be-
fore and during the early days of
Geronimo's bloody raids, when the
men who worked the mines were criv-
en- out by the Indians and never re-
turned to the district. On the mines
is an old shaft. 200 feet deep, from
which the workers took the high
grade silver ore and shipped it. The
timbers are now partly rotted and
the shaft is not in condition to enter
but ali about the old dump is rich sill
yer ore, in the form of bromides, chic
rides and sulphides. The present
owner, Mr. Josiah Bond, has never
been to the bottom of the old shaft
and will make no effort TO do any
work in it for the present. He has
started a tunnel on a vein in the
gulch below, that will cut under the
old shaft at depth of three hundred
feet The tunnel viii have to be
driven about eight hundred feet, but
as 1t win follow the vein in Mr.. Bond
expects to make the ore taken QUO
help pay for the driving of the tun-
mel. Across the gulch he has started
a new shaft on another claim OF the
group, which is now down lis feet,
on silver lead. I'm which there is also
copper and leau. Ilhs shaft he says
he will sink one 66Du Il l feet The
first three hundred feet will be sunk
with a wn- N. after which a hoist will
be put in. He has done considerable
prospecting in test shafts and tunnels
on the group, with encouraging results.
Mr.. Bond is an experienced miner who
has travelled through many of the big
mining districts of the United States
and Mexico, managing and inspecting
mines for mining companies. He
came to Santa Cruz county about
three years ago and after spending
some time in the Santa Ritas decided
10 locate here. He has built large
and comfortable residence on his
property, where he makes his home
with Mrs. Bond and the children. He
has a group of twelve claims.
Another one of the antiguas visited
by the writer during the week is the
Rosario, now owned by Mr.. ]. NJ. Hack
EFT. Mr.. Hackett has group of nine
claims. He has a shaft down one hun
dred feet on rich silver vein and is
now about to put in a whim to sinh
the shaft another hundred feet. Al
the one hundred foot level drifts were
PUN about twenty feet east and %esi
from the shaft, on the vein, Showing
good results. In the yeIn at tina
depth there is a pay steak about one
foot wide, containing silver in its ma
tive form and in the form of sulphides
The ore taken from the shaft anc
from the drifts has been shipped Z
Ell Paso. but on both sides OF the shaft
all the way down can be seen the ricl
nav streak. with chIorides, bromIuei
and native silver, that seem TO ooz'
out of the quartz. some NAIVE coppe
also is encountered in the pay streak
some of the sinking nd drifting don't
at the 100 foot level was done by Alr
Thomas c. Fraser and Others WHIT
had a lease on the property and tool
ont and shipped the high grade ore
There are several smaller shafts OF
the group, mad one tunnel IN aoou
$50 feet
Between the Saleros and the Wan
dering Jew Mr.. George E. Lopez ha'
. fDEdLtu d group VI t4H44AA2Ss '~A-N-A
| cover some of tie old Mexican work
ings. He is prospecting his claim
and has encountered some rich silye
and copper ore and some native ST
yer.
In that section there are claim
that were patented years ago and ael'
for speculation, the owners dom
nothing in the line Of development
work, but waiting till others open u
mines in their vicinity when they vii
be able TO sell their holdings at a goo
price. The present indications arr
that they will not have to wait muc
Ionge-. The strikes made in the Sar
ia Ritas during the past year b
those who have persisted in the wor
! and have gone to some depth, wi
soon bring capital into the disric
that will develop mines and fortune
will be made as rapidly in the minin
districts of Santa Cruz county as the
have been made in other great minin
, districts throughout the world.