Arizona republican., 1908-02-24

less the visitor desires to put in part
 of his time wading waist deep in wa
 ter
 No opening was made at the depth
 of 400 feet and it is all virgin ground
 between the 300 and 300 level. The de-
 velopment therefore is all on and
 above the 300 level, and most of it to
 the west of tire shaft, though there is
 75 foot drift to the east on the POD
 foot level. The 200 foot level was
 opened up first and extends from the shaft to the west about 800 feet There
 are occasional crosscuts to the south
 but on the north these run through the
 vein to the hanging wall only in a few
 instances and there has been consider able StOping on either side of the drift. Still there is ten times as much ore yet available for milling on this level, and between it and the surface, as has been taken out There is also one opening from the 200 level to the surface, sev eral hundred feet from the main shaft partly to follow the vein to the sur
 face but mainly for air. The stopes from the 300 level thus giving the mine the best of ventilation, as well as af- fording more than one means of egress in the event Of an accident or cave that would smut of escape through the shaft.
 On the 300 level the first 300 feet is run through formation carrying but small values and hardly worth while but at the end of that begins an ore to the end of the present working and ,f- lou. .F and on the surface. To the west of this yet. an ore shoot is traced on the surface put the levels have not yet been opened far enough to reach it.
 There are several lodges in the min eral zone between the walls which in some places are only four or five feet apart but which in other places widen out 10 twenty or thirty feet. The ma jor part of the ore is in a granite for nation which is found along the hang ing wall and which most of the way on both levels forms two-thirds of the vein matter. Along the foot wall the formation is frequently a sort of diorite or quartZite, according to which expert tells you about it. Anyhow it is a dark brown and often d perfectly black formation. Between these two forma-  tions clinging to the walls is what might be called the pay streak com posed of softer material. brohen up and filled with quartz, iron rust, dirt ard d variety of soft materials. The expression pay streak however is hard. ly apropos for while it can always be depended upon 10 carry values for much of the way there is greater val ue in the formations along the walls. It is unusual to find gold in any quan- tity in granite and yet the largest ton mage of ore in the Relief is granite This might lead to the fear that the gold was replaced and possibly would not be maintained were it not for the fact that the walls demonstrate beyond a doubt that the deposit is q true fis sure vein and it more than holds its own to the depth of 800 feet the ore shoot described above being d very large one to find in any kind of mine And so long as the value and tonnage has been demonstrated the manage ment don't care what the formation is or whether it is in accord with the ideas of experts or not. II is there and plenty of it and works free. That in outline is a description of the Relief ore bodies as far as explored and there is every reason to believe they con- tinue as deep as anyone cares to fol- low them and that the present ore shoot will be duplicated when the mine comes to open up the ground further west that has not been reached by the drifts. When the company shall have been sufficiently financed to develop more either in the shaft or by pipe line from the Agua F'ria river three or four miles away the mill will make a