The border vidette., 1908-06-27
PATAGONIA MINES
Work on the Rcd Cloud and Other
 Claims Being Pushed.

pondence of The Republican his
 week 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 prcspected 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 O. II. Ferry, the New York millionaire min
 ing man, who is prospecting the Dar-
 wIn, Eureka and other properties. As
 soon as the hoist is in place sinking
 will 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 Daly, Frank I Nugent, John Brown and Samuel Greenwood Most of the work on the latter group has been done Tn Alum gulch, where they have an incline shaft 35 feet deep on one of the claims and tunnel in 100 feet on another claim. From the tunnel they are now running a crosscut to strike another lead, forty feet north. A surface sample taken on one of the claims gave gold assay of over forty dollars, 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 cross cut tunnel was driven in to cut the vein we'll up on the mountain side, Tn which considerable work was done. The workers, apparently, got lost for 2 while when the tunnel got into the hill some distance, and ran wild. For sume distance the tunnel "wiggles" about, than finally makes half loop and buts into the vein, cutting through A feet of quartz, streaked with cop per ore. It 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 63O 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 a two hundred | foot ore chute at the sixty foot level, | to stepping out the ore at that place. The water is being pump. | ed from the shaft, which is 120 feet deep. the lower part being under wat CT. When the water Is out, a second | level will be opened for oping at that depth, where there is already a 1OO- foot drift. In East stope No. l, on the first level, some twelve dollar ore has been encount tered, but how much of 1t there Is has not been determined. The shaft on the Independence claim is now down fifty feet, in ore that as- says &S g. When the shaft has ac- luired sufficient depth it will be con nected by crosscut with the l20 foot evel of the main work shaft. The mill is now working two shifts.
 The tunnel at the American Boy is now in 250 feet, with about twenty i've feet yet to gc to cut the vein. If .he owners, Clark, Cane and Back are lucky enough to strike the same class of ore as they have in the bottom of he eighteen foot shaft. under which he tunnel is being run, they will have omething of a bonanza. They expect o cut the vein about the first of the month. They have a large American lag to raise on the mountain peak the lay the vein is cut. The American Soy is on the east extension of the ] ,eiu on which the Leek- Mcdonald nine is located.