Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1908-06-20
PATAGONIA.
PATAGONIA MINES,

Patagonia, June 17-Special cores
pondence of The Republican-Thi
week Il boiler and hoist were hauled
to the Red Cloud group Of claims and
are now being put in place. The Red
Cloud is owned by Dan Hampton. who
has prospected the. property for the
past two years. A number of test
shafts and tunnels have been sunk
and driven at different places along
the outcropping. which is a large one.
walled on either side with diorite. The
ledge matter is pretty thoroughly cop
per stained and there are streaks Of
copper ore running through it. The
property has been bonded by c. H
Ferry, the New York millionaire min
ing man, who is prospecting the Oar
win, Eureka and other properties As
soon as the hoist is in place sinking
win be commenced. with two shifts,
The Red Cloud is in the vicinity of
the Worlds Fair and the FluX mines.
Another interesting group of claims
in that vicinity is the White Oaks
group, owned by Robert DAILY. Frank
Nugent. John Brown and Samuel
Greenwood Most OF the work on the
latter group has been done in Alum
gIlch, where they have an incline
shaft IS set deep on one Of the claims
and a tunnel il. 100 feet on another
claim From the tunnel they are now
running crosscut to strike another
lead, forty feet north. A surface
sample taken on one of the claims
gave Il gold assay of over forty dol
lars. but the leads where the work is |
being done are copper.
The owners of the Elevation group |
of claims about three and half miles |
east of town, expect to cut the vein |
in tunnel they are running, in a |
week or so. There are six claims in |
the group, owned BY F. r McAlister. |
John Johnson and Peter Hanson A |
crCsscut tunnel was driven in to cut |
the vein well up on the mountain side |
in which considerable work was done
The workers, apparently. got lost for 1
awhile when the tunnel got into the |
hill some distance. and ran wild For |
sorne distance the tunnel "wiggles''
about, then finally makes a half loop /
and butts into the vein, cutting |
through "A feet of quartz. streaked /
with copper ore. IL is good looking |
rock, such as would tempt almost any |
man to go deeper. They are now |
working in tunnel further down the |
hillside. The latter tunnel is now in /
$50 feet, and the prospectors expect |
to strike the vein in a short time. |
This tunnel will give them a depth of |
400 feet at the vein.
At the Gringo three raises were |
started this week on two hundred |
foot ore chute at the sixty foot level. |
preparatory to stopping out the ore at |
that place. The water is being pump |
ed from the shaft, which is 12O feet !
deep. the lower part being under wat |
er. When the water is out, a second |
level will be opened for stopping at |
that depth. where there is already a |
1O0-foot drift. In East stope No l. on /
the first level, some twelve dollar ore |
has been encountered, but how much |
of it there is has not been determined. |
The shaft on the independence claim |
Is now down fifty feet, in ore that as
says 1892. When the shaft has ac- |
quired sufficient depth it viii be con- |
nected by crosscut with the 120-foot |
level of the main work shaft The |
mill is now working two shifts.
The tunnel at the American Boy is |
now in $50 feet. with about twenty |
five feet yet to go to cut the vein |
If the owners. Clark, Cane and Back |
are lucky enough to strike the same |
class of ore as they have in the bottom |
of the eighteen foot shaft. under which |
the tunnel is being rum they will have |
something of a bonanza. They expect |
to cut the vein about the first of the |
month. They have a large American |
flag to raise on the mountain peak |
the day the vein is cut. The Ameri- |
can Boy is on the east extension of |
the vein on which the Leek- Mcdonald |
mine is located.
A. L. Cane and Harold Cane, who |
have been prospecting the Bonanza |
King, adjoining the American Boy, |
now have the shaft down thirty feet |
and have good lead of lead silver |
and copper ore.
SULLIVAN