Arizona republican., 1909-05-23
THEY BUY TWO PROPERTIES
A. Mathews and J. D. Mitch ell Prepare to Dig a For tune Out of a Hill Over looking Winchester---Fine Ore Bodies in Place.

Winchester, Ariz, May 20.-(Special correspondence of The Repubilcan.)- Winchester is again all excitement over another rich gold strike which excitement is added to by two big sales of mining property which were consummated today. The Barney Quinn property, known as the Sitting Bull mine, and which is one Of the very best properties in the district, was sold by Barney Quinn to J. D. Mitchell of Salt Lake and A. Mathews of Marquette, Mich, who bought the property for big eastern syndicate who have had men in the district looking over the situation. The sec ond sale was that made by D. F. Put nam and P. Pfeiffer selling their three claims called the Oversight group to the same parties. The consideration in, either sale has not been made public but it is understood good, stiff prices were paid in. both cases, although the Quinn property sold for considerable more than the Oversight.
 Both of these properties are located within shouting distance of the town of Winchester, in fact theN are on the high mountain right back of the town and are in plain sight of the town and the railroad station at Vicksburg. The Oversight is on the north line of the Sitting Bull and Mitchell and Mathews took the two of four claims.
 The Sitting Bull Is one of the old est properties of the district and has Hsa.- ing been originally located by MT. Quinn's father many years ago. The claim has been allowed to lapse two or three times,- but on account of the great mineral showing on the surface it has been relocated again and again. While much work has been done yet the work for the most part has only been in assessment work, although in ths early days many tons of rich ore wefe worked by arastra and much gold taken away.
 The work done on the Sitting Bull constitutes a tunnel of 125 feet, two open cuts in about fifteen feet each and a series of open cuts along the east side of the hill for a distance of some two hundred feet, and it was in these cuts that the first rich ore was taken out. Assays made all over the property run high, from s10 to thousands of dollars per ton, but tiJ general average will run along about $50 per ton The formation of this claim is certainly interesting, and if formations count for anything, the Sitting Bull will some day-and it now. looks as if that day is near at handmade one of the great big gold mines of the world. The south end of the claim runs along the great white dike so plainly seen from the McMullen valley for miles. This dike is either rhyolite or alaskite, eminent geologists differ as co the name, al- though the U. s. geological survey have. called it alaskile. No matter which it is it has had great effect on the n1ineraIization of the district and beyond any question great bodies of rich ore will be found alongside of the dike and in the dike itself will be found imbedded rich values in gold and silver. The property extends fif- teen hundred feet north from the dike and this fifteen hundred feet is. certainly mighty interesting coun- try to mining man and one who knows anything about rich ore and where it is found.
 Crossing the claim crosswfse or from east to west, there are two dis. tinct diorite dikes and two great dikes of basalt. The Dasalt dikes are heav- fly mineralized and in fact much of the ore all over the property is mixed with basalt This indication in itself is the very best indication of perman- ency and richness Intervening be-