Bisbee daily review., 1908-10-25
ABANDONED
 SILVER MINE
 PROVES RICH
Silver King Has Produced Nineteen Millions, But There Are Still Vast Quantities of Good Ore In It.
lPhoenix Republlcan.l

CPhoenix Republican,
 One of the finest mineral exhibits ever displayed in the city of Phoenix from a single group of mines. can now be seen ih the west window of the Bear drug store. The ore all comes from the holdings of the Sin Rival
 Milling and Mining company, of which John McCabe is the chief owner and promoter. The company owns group of fifteen mining claims in Pi- nal county, of which one claim is the old Silver King mine that in its for mer workings has produced S19,00o,- 900. but which until this summer has not been worked for a long time and is now being operated only in small way. McCabe has owned some of the claims for long time, but se- cured the Silver King claim about a year ago, and organized the company which has capital stock of $S,000.- 000. par value of stock, S10 McCabe is president and s. H. Mitchell of this city is the secretary. The company has sold no stock, but proposes to dispose of thirty or forty thusand shares of the 10000 in the treasury at S2 per share. This it believes to be a bargain for stock in the old Silver King alone never sold for less than $100 per share.
 The display in the window includes a contour map, two framed pictures of the old Silver King mine and mill. number of piles of ore from the King and adjoining claims, and some washed samples of high grade silver ore full of wire and native silver, on a box in the rear of the window.
 There is also an old iron brake shoe that formerly did service on one of the freight wagons of the early days. It is supposed this. brake shoe was made by John A. Marshall, a Phoe- nix blacksmith, or under his firec- tions, in the old days when he was in charge of the blacksmithing shops of the Silver King. The story of the Silver King mine and the rise and the fall of the town of Pinal nearby the site of the King reduction works, is an old and interesting one. No effort will be made to repeat it now, but those interested can ask any resident of twenty years ago and it will be told to him
 The Silver King or rather the Sin Rival properties are 15lR miles north 'of Prices station on the Phoenix &
 Eastern railroad, where Mir McCabe has a small sampler and where he eventually proposes to build a large reduction plant. One of the units of his big projected enterprise is an aerial tramway from the mines to this reduction sight and in illustration thereof is the big map that hangs over the ore displays In the window The tramway is to be operated by gravity and the map saows nearly all the properties intervening between Prices station and Silver King, over or near which the tramway will pass, the old town of Pinal, the new town Of Su- perior. the Cope property with the Silver adjoining the Superior on the north, which properties Mir. McCabe sold for Joe Cope last year for s150.- 900. and other claims sold adjoining them for $50,000. It Is a birds eye picture of that whole section. of the country.
 The deepest workings on the old Sil- yer King mine are 1G50 feet and lots of people have an idea that the mine is worked out. Mir McCabe says there is more money in it now than was ever taken from it, only waiting for it's proper development and recov- cry. When Mir. McCabe secured it he went into the old Aaron Mason shaft and at the 100 foot level he drifted east 65 feet, then made an upraise to connect with what is known as the Dr. Jones prospect shaft secur- ing ventilation. In the course of this upraise he followed for 8 feet a fine vein with pay streak two feet wide and nine inches of which carried 1000 ounces in silver and 12 per cent cop per according to returns from the Selby smelting works in San Francis co. This streak was scanned with wire silver wLich brought the silver values up to $500 per ton. He nas been occupied with this work and the shipping of the ore since last May, demonstrating that the Silver King not only has been but still is a mine 1 from the grass roots down. The rest of the nine inches carries 13 per cent ] copper and from 315 to 565 ounces in 1 silver.
 The old dumps of the Silver King are also rich with a vast quantity of 1 ore discarded in the early days be 1 cause 1t was of a refractory nature | the silver and copper being so mixed It could not be worked by the mill. l The only reason for closing down the | mine. he says, was because the cop per and silver could not be handled | together and the wagon haul to Casa | Grande and railrod haul to smeIteT | were forbidding. He recently made | a shipment of ore from these dumps | to Fl Paso that returned 61G per cent | copper and 365 ounces in silver. There | are several old and deep shafts on | the property and he believes the same 1 -ir.A n.l l-..-..l1.-...l L.. ..l