Arizona republican., 1908-08-30
PATAGONIA.

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 Patagonia, Aug 2S.-(Special corres- pondence of The Republican, About
 three carloads of high grade copper ore from the Three R mine will be hauled
 to town in a few days for shipment. | The ore was mined from a crrsscut
 in the Collosal tunnel in about 140 i feet. The rock is a quartz pCrphyry, 1 impreSnated with and liberally streal.- ed with copper glance. The Three R has all the ear marks of a mine of great magnitude. It IS about nine miles from Patagonia. in the Patagonia noun i tains, southeast of town. Through that section passes a great mineralized zone of quartz -porphyry. about twelve hundred feet wide and extending clear
 across the Patagonia range. On this
 zone the Three R group of claims $ ! located. The Colossal tunnel was driven into the quartz-porphyry 1G0 | feet, the greater part of that distance 1 being in rock carrying good values. ! Numerous drifts were run from either ! side of the tunnel, all in rock carrying | good values, sometimes in high grade strcaked with copper glance. COnsid- erdble work has also been lone on the ! Three k claim of the group, a tunnel : having been run into the hill 70 feet 1 (crosscuD, in ore nearly all the way ' About ninety feet of it is a good grade of ore. The Three R seems to have
 the one great requisite nf d big mine plenty or ore to insure a heavy ton mage aud of a quality to pay good d!v- | idends When fully deveiope1 and opened up to it's capacity, it promises l to occupy a place in the same class
 with the mines of Bisbee and Cananea. The claims are owned by R. R. Rich ardson and Frederick Olspr of aPt1-
 gonia, Mir Richardson owning thir-
 teen n-sixteenths and MT. Olsen three
 sixteenth.
 Adjoining the Three R group on the
 south is the Bonanza group of twelve
 claims. owned by E. G. R. Manwarring, F. F. Bohlinger and Fielder Slocum
 The latter is master mechanic at
 Leadville camp, in CGchise county and the other two are prospecting the
 claims. The Bonanza group is nn the
 same zone as the Three R. They
 have not vet commenced any perman-
 ent work. but are putting in few
 shots here and there on the surface,
 prospecting for a tunnel site. The
 rock is all impregnated with white
 iron and shows copper in the form of
 black sulphides. All the surface rock
 shows the result of leaching.
 West of the Three R group and ad-
 joining, is the Wild Horse group. six claims owned by Henry Grey. w. D. Grey and Frederick olsen. They have a tunnel in fifty feet and are now sink
 ing a winze, which is down twenty five feet. Here, too, is the same quartz -porphyry encountered on the other claims mentioned, all showing copper.
 The Buena Vista group. fifteen claims owned by Richard Fleischer of NogaIes. adjoin the Bonanza group on the west. These claims are justs off the quartz-porphyIy zone on which | the others are located and cover a | couple of cross lodges from which l some high grade ore has been taken | Through these clamis ruTIss large | dyke of quartZ-pOrphyry, in which a | shallow tunnel has been run, showing | the rock to be streaked with copper. | From a tunnel on a ledge further up | the hillside some high grade OIe has | been taken. Last year two car loads | of ore taken from the latter tunnel | were shipped to Fl Paso. and returned | two thousand dollars. the values being | in copper, gold and silver. Between | the two tunnels a shaft is now being | sunk to prospect another ledge. When | down one hundred feet drift will he | run on the vein. As the drift will fol- low the vein into the hill, additional | depth vii be acquired in drifting.
 The mlll at the Gringe gold mine, | four miles west of town, has stopped | grinding out gold long enough to lef the working force put in five more | stamps It will be in operation again in about three weeks. At a meeting | of directors to be held next month, ar | rangemnts will be made for the pur- chase of twenty additional stamps for the mill. =s