Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-31
MASCOT TO WORK
/. ON LARGE SCALE
OWNS VALUABLE PROPERTIES
IN ARIZONA
TO TAKE RANK WITH GREATEST
MINES OF TERRITORY
Controls Thirty-eight Rich Copper
Claims at Dos cabezos, Equalins
In Area Producing Section
of Butte


The Mascot Copper company, operat-
ing at Dos Cabezos. Ariz.. and which
maintains offices in Chicago, Salt Lake
City and Los Angeles, will shortly COM
mence the operation Of its valuable
properties upon large scale. 7. N.
McCauley, formerly of Chicago, who is
the controlling factor of the orgamza-
ton, left for San Francisco and Sait
Lake yesterday and 1t is expected that
ARRANGEMENTS almost perfected In those
cities will result in the raising of suffi-
cient capital to carry out the compre-
hensiye plans under consideration.
The Mascot, considering the amount
OF development accomplished, Is one OF
the most valuable copper properties in
the territory, an opinion which Is shared
nv half a dozen of the leading mining
engineers of the country who nave
made thorough examinations. Ihe
company controls thirty-eight claims,
or 500 acres, as great an area as the
total producing section of the camp of
Butte. Mr. McCauley has spent no
less than three years in acquiring the
interests of many former owners and
during that time has also expended
close to 100000 in exploration work.
With the latter amount immense re-
serves have been placed in sight and IT
is only a question of the installation of
thorough quipment before the property
will become one of the great producers
of Arizona.
Is Easy of Access
The property is reached by way Of
WILCOX, on the Southern Pacific rail-
road. over an excellent wagon road
Fourteen miles in length. The main
workings are situate at an elevation
of $500 feet, where the climatic condi-
fions are of the best for the economical
prosecution of development work
throughout the entire year. There IS
none of the extreme heat so prevalent
in the lower attitudes and the snow
and rainfalls insure a perennial supply
of good water.
THE Dos Cabezos district has an in
4eresting history and dates back to the
days of Apache atrocities before Ge-
roni1no was finally carried into exile
Nv General Miles. General Adna r.
Chaffee now one of the most prominent
citizens of Los Angeles and member or
the auueduct commission, took part IN
the serious skirmishes preceding that
date, and suffered many or the naro-
ships that struck terror into the hearts
Of the United States soldiers. Even In
those days the Mascot property was
under location and some spasmodic
work was being done. Early settlers IN
the district say that g. fabulously Fich
Immediate vicinity and it was to TINS
property that the Indians frequently
came in the early days to accumulate
treasure.
No Depredations in Vicinity
No depredations we're attempted in
the vicinity and it is said that this is
accounted for by an evident wish on
the part of the Indians to be allowed to
visit the district In peace. Geronlno'
who Is still incarcerated at Leaven-
worth, now feeble old man, has otten
tried TO gain his freedom by Offering TO
show the location of the mine. Whether
slch a property exists or not 1t Is GER
tain that the hope of calculating the
mystery has drawn many prospectors
to the Dos Cabezos mountains Wltnln ~
the last twenty years, and that none OF
them have found gold values OF any
consequence.
THE original Mascot property was To-
Gated and owned for many years Dy an
eccentric old character named Ernmers"
lev who claimed to receive guidance
from God in all the mining operations
he undertook. The existence of sundry
and diver gopher holes and tunnels
seems to suggest that his adviser, Who
ever he may have beer was not thor
ougly cognizant of the mining business
Nmmersley's assessment notices were
filed In the trees on the property ano
IN so doing he believed he was givine
notice to God. Many years ago he
passed away to the bourne from whence
no prospector returns, and now lies
with his forefathers in the pretty littlt
hillside cemetery of picturesque Doi
Cabezos in the valley below.
Is Like other Great Camps
The geology of the Dos Cabezos dis.
trict is very similar to that on many
of the GREAT producing camps OF tht
territory, and consists of porphyritic'
granite. trayersed by fourteen distinct
copper, gold and silver bearing veins o.
quartz -porphyry, varying In widtf
from three to 220 feet. These vein.
workings and surface CUTS fol
from 800 to 5000 feet. Almost all va.
rieties Of copper ore have been found
including azurite, malachite, cuprite
tetrahedrite, chalcocite, chalcopyrtte
bornite and black sulphide.
AS said before, close to $2OOIOOO hai
been expended in exploration work ant
nearly 5000 feet of underground worl
has been accomplished. There are two
series of veins exposed on the ground
one known as the north series and tbs
other as the south. The north series
consists Of six veins, running In {
northwest and southeast course, witt
an approximate dip of forty-five de
grees to the northeast. Five OF these
have been well exposed on the surface
Tor a distance OF zUuU IeeL
Towards the southern end of the ex
piored area the veins are disclosed by {
series of diorite faults running almos
north and south. Work of former own
ers, who started what is known as thu
Consolidated tunnel, was done In ont
of these faults, with the consequence
that work was discontinued after {
great deal of money had been expended
in running nearly 1000 feet of tunnel.
Picks Up All Five Veins
The present management, represente,
by Captain Ben libby, one of the mos
capable mining men in the United
States and for seventeen years il
charge of the great Parrot mine a
Butte, Needed the story so plainly tolt
by the faults and, after a comparativel.
short time. picked up all five veins a
a depth of over 300 feet. -Four of thes
are said to show nearly ninety feet o
solid sulphide ore, while the fifth is nov
exposed in the face Of the drift ant
viii bring the total ore showing wei
up over 100 feet.
Work is going on to the north of tn
main fault, and within the nast few
weeks the westernmost vein Of tn
series has been encountered, showing