Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-20
SULPHIDE BODY
AT DAGGER WELL
DISCOVERY MAY DEVELOP INTO
BIG CAMP
CAPITALISTS EXPECT TO MAKE A
SECOND BisBEE
Owners of Claims Work Quietly Over
Year Opening Rich Carbonate
and sulphide Ores Near
Surface, Close to Water

DAGGER WELL CAMP, Pinal Coun-
ty, Ariz., Sept. 19.-Sulphide ore bodies
of gigantic proportions have recently
been discovered and located out three
miles east of Dagger Well by Kansas
City capitalists who are reported to
own and control millions of dollars and
who expect to begin operations out
here on a scale that will eventually
equal If not excel Globe, Bisbee or Je-
rome.
That the vast bodies of ore are here
as described above there is now no
doubt. Work has been going on very
quietly now for over a year, and, with
what has been done in past years when
the Ripsey mine was running and since
1t closed down. there are now over 200
openings that show up not only rich
carbonate ores near the surface but
also sulphides near the surface as it is
only few feet to water level, where
the carbonates are altered into sui
phides. The field is thus practically
three miles around Dagger Well.
1t is a continuation of the great
Globe mineral zone south of Globe. The
same Big Lime dixie that is the cap
ping over the Old Dominion mines at
Globe passes through this country but
three miles east of Dagger Well camp.
1t averages $50 feet wide out here.
Erosion has in ages past taken away
all the softer material that was once
above it and left the Big Lime dixie
high and dry with its black edges and
over $50 feet wide standing there like
a grim sentinel alone.
Impossible to Describe
1t almost battles description and has
to be seen to be appreciated. From the
top of this vast lime dixie dipping south
at about 40 per cent there are deep
chasmS away down an abrupt declivity
that, If it was not at one time pre-
historic hell, it certainly looks like it.
Deep down in those chasms vast bod
les of sulphide ores mixed with eroded
lime are exposed. Nature has done the
work down there that man could not
have done with millions. Diamond
drills will not be needed there, for
there are millions of tons of rich sui
phide ores in sight.
There is water in abundance over
here only a few feet beneath the sur
face. There are several cattle ranches
in the neighborhood of Dagger Well,
which is also a cattle and horse ranch,
1t is a country of rolling mesas, or ta-
blelands, one of the finest grazing sec
tions in Arizona, and will eventually
become somewhat of an agricultural
and fruit country, as water can be
pumped into tanks for irrigation pur-
poses. Most of the land is smooth and
rich in it's soil, and there are evidences
of its once having been occupied by
some prehistoric race.
Pieces of ancient pottery are found in
many places, and numerous graves so
we'll marked with mounds and oblong
stones as to indicate that they were in
all probability Identical with the same
race of people that lived near the Casa
Grande ruins.
Relics of the Past
still be traced around the bodies Of
rich mesa or tablelands that abound In
all this neighborhood.
This will certainly be a most desira-
BILE place for a big mining camp, not to
speak of possibly great city of Ari-
zona in the not very far distant future,
as the conditions are certainly placed
here by nature to make 1t such.
Several prominent citizens of Kelvin
have large interests here and have
done considerable work and are still at
it with great confidence in the future
of the camp. Among them are mem
toned w. j. Beebe. postmaster at Kel-
vim; John A. Tillman, Judge HERMAN,
w. j. Thomas, Joseph Mulhattan,
Charles Saeger and others. Tom Hall
at the Woolsey station has also some
big interests out here and is doing some
extensive work. Wooley station is the
nearest railroad point to Dagger Well,
which is twelve miles south of 1t.
The altitude at Dagger Well is about
$500 feet, which. with the other condi-
tlons just described, will certainly COM
bine to make it one OF the most ideal
mining towns in Arizona, If not in the
world. 1t is only eighty miles from
Phoenix, with railroad to Wooley sta
tion on the Phoenix & Eastern railroad.
and will thus add somewhat to the fu-
ture of Arizona in general. The ores
here run not only high In copper but
also in gold and silver.