Arizona republican., 1908-09-06
PATAGONIA.

Patagonia Sept. Especial cores pondence to the Republican.)-H J. Cunningham has commenced work on his group of claims near MOwry. A shaft four feet by eight feet. inside the timber, has been started and will be sunk to a depth of 200 feet. The shaft is now down about forty feet and a whim is being put up to take the place of the windlas. Where the shaft is being sunk a shallow test pit had been sunk some time ago and from it was taken some very high grade cop per ore. The ledge upon which the work is being done is heavy with iron and lies between lime and porphyry. There are five claims in the group, through which run other lodges besides the one now being prospected
 Adjoining the Cunningham claims is the Augusta group, seven claims. own cd by Fred Miller M. Marsteller. Ed Burke and Mir. Simms. The latter is a civil engineer. who is employed in the survey of-the railroad route from Pat agonia and Mowry He bought an in- terest in the group at the time he was making the survey. They have a nine- ty foot shaft on ledge of iron stain ed. decomposed porphyry. At the bot tom of the shaft the ledge is six feet wide, with a sixteen inch ore streak From the shaft a drift has been run fifty feet on the vein and some good ore taken out. The ore is copper, sil- yer, gold. lead and zinc There are
 
 crosscut tunnel has been started to prospect one of them. The tunnel is now fifty feet
 At the Four Metals mine. which the writer visited Friday. they seemed to have cut through the ore body in which they have been working for the past ten weeks or more, in the Red | Hill, but whether or not the granite l in which the tunnel was breasted that l day is the hanging wall of the ore body. the writer is not expert enough to say. However. after cutting through about four feet of clean, hard granite, the tunnel cut into ore again. If the | intruding granite is the hanging wall l of the ore body in which they have ! been working. the body in which the tunnel is now being driven must be the one to cut which the tunnel was originally started, before the presence of the ore first encountered was sus- pected. When the tunnel was started it was estimated that it would have to be driven over 600 feet to cut the ledge which crops out so strongly on the top of the Red Hill. However. when in 400 feet the foot wall of an ore body was cut. an occurrence that agreeably surprised the management. though for some time previous to that the rock taken out was streaked with copper sulphides. From the time of cutting into the ore body, till the mar row wall of granite was cut late last week, the tunnel ran through 149 feet of ore. If the ore in which they are now working. after having cut through the narrow dividing wall, is that of the ledge outcropping on the hilltop. it must have widened out to such an extent that it is not unlikely they will have another 150 feet of ore to cut through. The air tunnel started on the north side of the hill is now in about eighty feet. The rock so far is rusty, decomposed porphyry, with lots of white iron, which is also brittle and rotten. Copper stains already have been encountered. During the past few weeks Manager s. F. Johnson has added fourteen claims to the original group of seventeen. and Homer Santee of Patagonia is at the camp surveying for patent to the entire group of thir ty-one claims.
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