Bisbee daily review., 1908-04-05
COUNTY
MINE INDUSTRY
FLOURISH|NC
Recently Located Gold Group
Near Florence Sold To Pitts
burg Capitalists. & A.
Work Attracting Attention.
Florence BIade.)

(Florenee Blade.)
w. v. Lander, vice president of the
Newbury Mining company, which has
22 claims in Superstition mountains,
in the Pioneer district, Pinal county,
and located about four miles from
Cochran station ON the P. & E. rail-
road, is in Phoenix for few days Oh
mining business and will leave short
ly for Boston and other eastern points
to make purchases of machinery for
the mine. He reports that the work
on the claim is showing up a fine
grade of ore and there appears to be
tons of IL IN sight The Newbury
property is one of the few in the de-
velopment stage which has been
steadily operated in that district
through the panicky times. About
30 men are now employed On the
property.
1t was first located in 1882 and at
the time was considered a coming
silver proposition but later the silver
petered out and copper and gold val
ues were discovered in encouraging
quantities 1t is a reformed or self
fiuxing ore and runs according to con-
sentative estimates about Sc in gold
and A per cent. copper. There are
four distinct and parallel veins on
the property and some of the ore can
be quarried on the surface Concern
ing the development work, Mr.. Lam
der says that at least five miles of
tunnelling, prosecuting and other
workings have been completed. There
are four shafts down from 2S5 to $50
feet. An S09foot tunnel is being run
into the side of the mountain which
will cross-cut the vein at the 300
foot level.
J. K. Mccarthy and John Bodder,
who located sixteen gold claims Is
miles northwest of Florence a few
months ago. have sold the group to
Pittsburg capitalists, headed by a
gentleman named Toles. Messrs.
Mccarthy and Bodder retained an IL
terest in the property and. Mr.. Bodder
will probably be superintendent of
the mines. The company will be a
close corporation and no stock viii
be placed on the market. The sell
ing price of the group was 100000
Development work on the property
will be started at once, and the first
work planned is a cToSS-cut tunnel
which will be 1000 feet in length.
This tunnel will cross-cut five veins
at a depth of 500 feet below their sur
face out-crop. One of these veins
shows a surface width of two and one
half feet and they are now taking out
of the surface works on it ore which
carries 500 gold per ton. This is
the richest vein so far discovered on
the group. Another of the veins
that will be cross-cut by the tunnel
Is seven feet wide on the surface and
out crops continuously for a length of
5000 feet A sample taken from II
recently assayed 81 gold and 80 ounces
silver per ton and also showed a high
percentage of lead. Another of the
veins that will be cross-cut by ths
tunnel, is six feet wide and runs weA
IN gold from wall to wall. The plan
Of development also includes several
shorter tunnels driven In favorable
points on the group.
These claims lie only about three
and one-half miles from the Queen
Greek station on the P. & E railroad.
There is a first-class wagon road lead
ing to them from Florence, distant,
as above stated, is miles.
These claims were sold about three
months after their discovery and 10
cation by Messrs. Mccarthy and Bod
der. This breaks the record for quick
action in Pinal county mining sales.
F. C. Chamberlin returned Tuesday
from the San Pedro Valley. While
at Mammoth he took a run over to
the c. & A. camp and the Mckenzie
camp, distant from Mammoth about
T. g., IT,
prospect work at both camps. At the
G. & A. mine two gasoline hoists
were in operation He did not ascer-
tain the depths Of the shafts, but one
of them is yielding fine copper sui
phides and the local management in
formed him that the mines are look
ing very promising. At the McKen
zie mines the ore bodies have not
been reached but a good force of min
ers are at work in the prospect shafts
and should soon demonstrate the val
ne of the property. Work at the Sib-
" group, situated on the Copper
Greek a short distanc east Of the G.
& A. is also in progress with good
force of men, but Mr.. Chamberlin did
not visit that property, hence does
not know what the outlook for pay
ing ore bodies is. Mr.. Sibly still has
a force of about 100 Apaches working
on the automobile road he is con-
between Mammoth and his
mines. About four miles of this road.
remains uncompleted. It is fine
piece of work The c. & A. people
have built branch road from this
line over to their capm. 1t win be
fine freight road when completed.
About three hundred men are en-
ployed at the three camps above
named.