The border vidette., 1908-12-26
PATAGONIA.
Splendid showing Being Made on Min
 Ing Property.

mountains, IS now down almost two hundred feet. From the 16Ofeet level a crossout was run north, cut ting the ledge eighteen feet from the shaft and cutting through eight feet of good concentrating copper orc. Sinking was continued and the shaft is now bottomed in ore of very good grade, much higher grade than that encountered in the ledge north of the shaft. Cutting the ledge and again cutting into ore in the bottom of the sha it. also increased the flow of water into the shaft, the inflow being great CT than the small pump in use could conveniently handle. The showing, however, is so good, that T. A. Cox. general manager of the Arizona Pitts burg company, owning the property, has gone to Pittsburg to talk matters ever with the directors of the company in regard to putting in heavier ma chinery.
 At the Saleros mine the main shaft is now down over three hundred feet and still going down. Crosscuttlng to penetrate the ledge will be done at a depth of five hundred feet. This property has been prospeoted to a depth of about five hundred feet with a diamond drill and general presump- tion is that the Saleros Mines Com pany knows already what will be cut at that depth.
 Murk Lulley, (most people living be- tween the Mexican line and Wash ington, D. O, have heard of Luck ? Mark Lulley of Nogales) was out in the Santa Rita mountains last week. with an automobile 10 d of eastern capitalists, showing them his Wander ing Jew mine, fifteen miles from Pa tagonia. The Wandering Jew is a lead silver copper proposition, and the ore is high grade.
 Superintendent Rutledge. of the Anaconda mine, in the Santa Rlta mountains, nine miles from Pata go- mia, was in town a few days age. He says with the work now done at the Anaconda there is enough copper ore in sight to prove that the company has a good mine and big one. Kan sas City capital is interested in the Anaconda. The writer has not yet visited the Anaconda Company's prop erty and does not know what worl has been done.
 Native copper, the first to be en- countered in the ore body in the Ret Hill of the Four Metals Mining Dom pany, was found in the north tunne last week. This tunnel, run for tn purpose of ventilation, cut into tn ore body last week, when in abou
 2S5 feet. The ore encountered was
 chalcopyrite, having very much tn
 appearance of ore burnt in a black
 smith forge, something frequentl.
 done by prospectors in testing fo
 metal. The ore shot cut by the miner
 next day, while of the same character
 was plentitully sprinkled with nativ 2 copper. But the point most clearl :, demonstrated by cu:ting into ore II that point in the north tunnel, IS ths II 1t gives some definite idea of the widt II of the ore body. It shows body { M concentrating copper ore in the Re m Hill six hundred feet wide, which about tie width of the eutcroppir III on the hill The main tunnel, run HI from the south side of the hill, some U thing over seven hundred feet, has c = (crosscut) into the ore body about 2l Us feet, but is not being driven al \. further at the prerent time, the ope II ations in that tunnel now being coI ] fined to drifting cast and west in t II ore, because the tunnel from the nor II side will cut throu gh the same grou ]! 40 feet higher up. As soon as t " north tunnel is in far enough to II connected by raise with the main tu VI mel, letting Q current of air throu " the hill, the working force will be 'ff creased and the ore body proper i1Y shown up In the lower tunnel Fff wipze will be sunk two hundred f,