Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1908-06-04
IN SANTA CRUZ
RICH MINES
WILL DEVELOP
Money Is Being Spent In Pata-
sonia District That viii At
tract Attention Before Long.
Seine Properties.

PATAGONIA, June 3s--Aoney. with
out which no mining district was ever
sufficiently developed TO attain and
maintain a prominent and permanent
place among the mining eenterS of tae
word. now seems to be heading, to
certain extent, towat DIS the mini1s
districts adjacent 10 Patagonia, IN
Santa Cruz county. It is not heaGed
this way in million dollar rolls, bat III
rolls sufficiently large to insure =
goodly amount or work during the en-
suing year; work that viii no doubt
open up a few rich mines in Santa
Rita mountains and finally bring this
section TO the attention of the Invest
ing public.
The Saieros Mines company. afues
several years of prospecting. is now
making extensive preparations for &C
tive mining. For some years past
they have been prospecting about
twelve miles from Patagonia. They
have used diamond drill aud have
bored deep holes on the famous Mon
tezuma vein, one of the biggest and
most prominent land marks of this
section. On other veins as well they
have bored holes. sunk test shafts
and tunnels. What they have found
in TIE depths reached by the diamond
drill they have not placed on exhibi
ton. SO FAR as the writer knows, oup
the preparations now being made for
active mining, and the amount or
money being expended in the prepare
lions has been sufficient proof that
their efforts have not been fraitless
The shaft at Darwin viii be sunk five
hundred feet and at present tunrei
is being driven into the hill on the
Eureka claim. Surface work at these
properties show high grade silver ore
and copper ore. The determination on
the company to put in mining machin.
cry and sink the Darwin shaft five
hundred feet certainly gives ground
for the belief that the diamond drill
work has disclosed tAe presence of
a good ore body below as well as near
the surface, at the old Saleros.
Part of the big Montezuma vein,
which is between the old Saleros,
where the camp is located, and Pat
agonia, is owned by the Mccormick
estate of Chicago (the Mccormick of
Mccormick farm machinery fame)
and part of it is covered by claims
owned by George Clark nd Jens Peter
son. two pioneer prospectors of this
section. The Clark and Peterson
claims are under bond to the Saleros
Mines company and are being pros
pected.
The company is now grading the
road from Patagonia to the camp. The
old road is being graded in places
and in other places the new rOao
leaves the old route and swings in
along the hillsides, where the 8.ade
is being cut down and made more
gradual, by cutting into the solid rock
of the hillsides, filling in the deep
ruts and small aTroyos, making a road
bed of rock that win not be damaged
by every freshet. Several thousand
dollars have already been spent on
the work, of which Santa Cruz county
in general and the various mines and
prospects in the Santa Ritas in par
ticular, will reap the benefit in years
to come. Between thirty and forty
men are employed on the road and
several thousand dollars more will be
spent by the company before the grad
ing is completed.
The road now in use between Pata
gonia and the camp is poorly graded
and the wrk of hauling machinery
and other freight over it would be :
difficult task. However. the GRADING
of the new road will probably be com
pIeted IN another month. The mem
hers of the Saleros Mines compan!
known here are Mr.. II. G. Ferry.
New York Millionaire and Prof. w. P
Blake OF Tucson, Mr. W. z. Balloon i
superintendent.
At tae G-ingo gold mine, five mile
from Patagonia, where the manage
ment had planned TO treat high grad
ore in a ten stamp mill to earn none,
with which to put in a fifty stam
mill for the treatment of the larg
body of low grade ore, there has bee
a. decided change of plans. The min
will soon have q thirty stamp mill II
stead of a ten stamp mill. Last wee
several of the officers and stockhoit
ers az the company visited the MIN
and after viewing the work done an
the ore in sight, decided to advanc
the money necessary for twenty NOR
stamps for the mill and authorize
the management TO order the machl
ery necessary for such plant. lac
also ordered the work shaft, whic
il now only I20 feet, sunk to dept
Of 500 feet. Tfis win Hecessitate %
INSTALLATION of new plant of machli
err all around and a Corliss eng1n
and new hoist will be put in IT
Tic stamps already ordered by u
management for the mill viii 500
arrive and viii be put in at once an
viii be opeated until the additions
twenty stamps ordered by tAe direc
ors arrive. The ore now being mine
ct the Gringo is from the sixty-Io'
level and another level will be openf
Iowt.- down. while the shaft is oeir
SINK TO the five hundred-foot leve
with a thirty stamp mill with Whlt
"a treat the higher grade ores OF u
rhine. the Gringo should soon eal
tire money necessary to increase Il
min to a fifty or sixty stamp pia'
and work the mine to its capacit
The officers and stockholders OF Il
cornnany who visited the mine la
vseeF were: Mr.. and Mrs. Fred &c
arr Mr.. and Mrs. r. Schiefersei
Wrs. Schmidt and Mr.. Frank Fax
Fort WAYNE. Indiana; Mrs. Obar, "
caeo. Mr.. Mcpherson, Pasadena q
ifcrnia. Mr.. Fake is president, y
Eckart is vice president and MT N
Pherson is secretary Fhe work
the mine is in charge OF MI Graz
Tev,ia mine suDerintende1t VIC
known IN Arizona and Nevada J.
wyatt is general manager Oh tne col
uany