Arizona republican., 1908-06-03
THE OLD SALERO
 ONCE FAMOUS MINES
There Are Signs That the New Owners Have Found Something Worth While

Patagonia, June l, Special cores
 pondence of The Republican.-There
 will be something doing at the Old
 Saleros mines in the near future
 Just now there is considerable doing
 in the preparatory line. The Saleros
 Mines company has been prospecting
 its properties for several years past,
 but has not pasted on the rocks on the
 hillsides any typewriter reports of re-
 suits attained. They have sunk sev-
 eral deep holes with diamond drills
 and are still doing that class of work.
 They have also done some prospect
 ing in the old way, by test shaft and tunnel.
 Just now they have between thirty and forty men at work grading the road between Patagonia and the camp. At places the work is done on the old road and at other places the road swings off from the old route, along the hillsides, where it is being graded by cutting down the rocky slopes of the hills, and ruts and small arroyos are being filled in, making gradual grades that every freshet will not damage. Several thousand dollars worth of work has been done and sev- eral thousand more will be expended before the road is graded to the camp. When the work is completed there will be an excellent road for freighting from Patagonia to that section of the Santa Ritas.
 While the Saleros Mines company has not made public the result of it's diamond drill work, it is hardly prob able that thousands of dollars would be spent in grading a road to the camp, through twelve miles of fairly rough country, to make the hauling of freight to and from the camp less diff ficult. The preparations for active mining now being made is sufficient proof that the diamond drill work and other prospecting done by the company has shown the results anticipated by those who have been investing many thousands of dollars every year for several years past.
 Lately the company has been pros pecting the big Montezuma vein. Part l of the big vein is covered by claims | owned by the Mccormick estate of ] Chicago (the Mccormick of aMcCor- | mick farm machinery fame) and part | of it by claims owned by George Clark l and Jens Peterson, two of the oldest | in the Santa Ritas. The | of Clark and Peterson are | bonded by the Saleros Mines comoany | md are being prospected by the com Dany. Several other claims in he same vicinity, owned by the company Ire being prospected and have been ,or several years past
 Considerable work has been done by | he company at the Darwin and nov are being made to sink he Darwin shaft 500 feet. Consider lble rich silver ore was taken out of Il he Darwin by its former owners, and II 'opper was also encountered at that II nine. People in this section expect to | lee the Saleros Mines company open ID big silver and copper mine and he road building and other prepara- ions now being made by the company liter its years of thorough prospecting if the properties, certainly go far to strengthening the belief and cause the that the prospecting done las disclosed the presence of ore bod es that warrant the expenditures be- ng made.
 At the Eureka also owned by the !. ompany, tunnel is being driven into [ he hill on a rich silver vein.
 The members of the Saleros Mines l' known in Patagonia are c. I. Ferry of New York, and Professor P. Blake of Tucson. MT. Ferry is .
 millionaire and has invested money berally in the work being done. Su-