Bisbee daily review., 1908-05-17
That Is the Situation in the Patagonia District and Ores Without
 Shelters.
CAPITAL ALL NEEDED
 TO MAKE RICH COUNTRY
ProSpectors of Limited Means Unable to Accomplish
 Much in Santa RitaS.

PATAGONlA, May Io--MIneS Wltn out money to operate them; ore with out smelters or mills to treat it. That outlines the general situation in the mining district in the Santa Rita mountains, just west of Patagonia, as nearly as so few words can outline any situation.
 The writer spent the past two weeks riding in the Santa Ritas and was shown veins of ore the presence there of which is unknown to people out side of those hills. Even in Nogales the county seat of Santa Cruz county the people. generally speaking, are ig norant of the great mineral wealth lying so close to their doors and the people of other Arizona towns per haps have no idea of what is here except that some prospecting may be going on in the vicinity.
 But the prospector has toiled on in these mountains year after year, sink ing shafts as deep as he could go with. out machinery, then resorting to tun. nel york. He has proved that there are mines in the Santa Ritas. He has proved that there are not only rich lead, silver and gold ore, such as crops out all over the hills, but th2i there are great bodies of copper ore below the richer metals tb2t crop out of the surface
 Few of those prospects are fitted out even with a a~small hoist. One of the fortunate Lew to have a hoist and steazI pump is the Mcdonald property, twelve miles from town. This property can no longer be called a prospect. It is a mine. At a depth nf 200 feet there is a vein of high grade copper ore the width of which is not yet known. Drifts running east and west on the vein. under the hang ing wall, show no foot wall, and where the foot wall side was cut into, show ing clean ore for a distance of eight feet, there Is still no sign of footwall. crosscut north, toward the foot, will now be driven to ascertain the width. On vein about thirty feet north of the vein On which they are now work ing, shaft is down ninety feet, bot toned in ore wider than the shaft, which will also be cut by the crosscut from the 200-foot level. And the own CTS of the property are prospectors who have not the money to work and develop their mine. However, it is said there are now pending negotia- tons for sale but nothing definite ha5 DtSu 0OuS SO
 Another mine equipped with a hoist and little five stamp mill is the Grin go. a gold mine, five miles from Pata- gonia- Here more than a thousand feet of drifting has been done on a large vein of gold ore. The main body of the ore is a low grade, but it is in- tersected with extensive chutes of high grade. The mine is equipped only with mi hTgf iG now on the road from Denver to in- crease this to a ten stamp mill. Even the ten stamp mill is inadequate for the treatment of the large body of low grade, but can treat profitably the product of the high grade chutes. The owners will mine and treat the ore in the high grade chutes to raise the money to increase the capacity of the mill, as forty or fifty stamp mill will be necessary to profitably treat the large body of low grade ore This condition necessarily retards the de- velopment of the mine to its capacity, but the plan of operation Is a winner and in time the Gringo will have a mill.
 Among those not equipped with ma chinery are the Bland, the Happy Jack and the Viceroy. Years ago high grade lead and silver ore was shipped from the Bland The ore was taken from a shaft that can be classed as nothing more than test pits, as no great depth was ever acquired, because Of lack of machinery. But the present owners of the property are not sinking test pits on the hillsides. Low down in the gulcb they are tunneling in to strike the veins at a good depth, and now they are being rewarded. A crosscur tunnel into the hill cut three good leads in a distance of three hundred feet. Besides lead, silver and copper, these lands run high in gold. On the center of the three leads a tunnel Is now being run lower in the. gulch giv- ing an additional depth of 125 feet. The copper values decreased with depth, gradually crowdfng out the ga. lena. and now, with the tunnel in 459 feet there are four and a half feet of copper ore, showing that the Bland is not silver mine, but copper mine, though the ore also carries silver ana lead values.
 The Happy Jack is another striking exalple of faith and determination of the prospector. With no machinery for hofstfng. the task of running tun- peI twelve hundred feet to strike the vein is under way. This tunnel Is now in $50 feet, and through Its en- tire length is a streak of high grade lead, fIlver and copper ore. at places widening out to such an extent that it was stoped out and shipped from the workings, though the tunnel Is stiu three hundred feet from the point aimed at where it will cut into the main vein of the mine. The manage