Bisbee daily review., 1909-05-16
MINE
 TO START UP Ore VIII Soon Be Shipped From the leek Nc Donald Properly.
 M0WRY CAMP TO BE RESUSCiATED SOON

PATAGONIA, Ariz.. May 15.-The
 Leek-McDonald copper mine. once op-
 erated by the I. T. Hosey company,
 will soon be in operation again and
 shipping ore. The mine was recently
 sold to William Kemp and associates.
 who are now putting 1t in shape for
 ore production. The wagon road from the Mansfield camp to the mine. about four miles, Is being put in
 shape for ore shipping. As soon as
 the road is in shape the equipment
 necessary for the unwatering of the
 mine will be hauled in and work
 commenced. The shaft is down some
 thing more than POO feet. and consid-
 erable drifting has been done already on both the 100 and 200-foot levels.
 opening up part of the ore vein, so
 that stoping can be commenced as
 soon as the water is out of the mine. Capt. J. NJ. Thomas, recently of Globe, is superintendent, and has a
 force of about thirty men at work
 on the road. which will be in shape
 for hauling in very short time. The
 mine is in tho Santa Rita mountains.
 about twelve miles from Patagonia.
 Twenty men are now employed at
 the camp of the Saleros Mines com
 pany. operating in the foot hills of
 the Santa Ritas, ten miles from Pat
 agonia The main shaft is down 100
 feet and the ledge is being prospect
 ed at that depth by lateral drifts and crosscuts. Drifts are being run east
 and west along the foot wall, with crosscuts at intervals of twenty-five feet. The ledge at the four hundred VC frfap oil Oh n ryrn l~. ~.rN wide. and has some very high grade silver ore. The ore is in chutes cut | ting through the ledge which was
 pretty thoroughly prospected with a | diamond drill before the shaft was ! sunk to the depth now acquired. The | diamond drill work covered a period of many years, and with the knowl- edge so acquired the company knows l where to sink, where to drift and 1 where to crosscut to strike the ore
 chutes already perforated by the drill On the Eureka property a new tunnel l has been started to cut the ledge 120 I feet below where it is cut by the old
 tunnel. The upper tunnel showed the ledge to contain some fine gray cop
 per and galena. The company again
 has men at work on the wagon road between the camp and Patagonia. Most of the road work being done | is in the vicinity of the big Monte
 yuma ledge where it crosses the road. | It Is a county road. but funds seem
 to be scarce for road work in Santa
 Cruz county and last year also the | Salores people spent several thousand
 dollars on the same road. The com pany is iaiso operating a diamond drill on the old Bradford mine, near the Sanford ranch. five miles south of Patagonia Some sulphide copper ore ! tchalcopyrite) was cut through be | tween the sixty-foot depth and the 115-foot depth. Rock carrying silver l and gold was also encountered.
 The Castle Butte property, about
 four miles from Patagonia, will be prospected by a churn drill. which is
 now being put in place. The mine
 was bonded some time ago by Cali | fornia people. who have already paid
 part of the price agreed upon, after having done some preliminary pros
 ecting, and they are now preparing to resume operations.
 Before this item Is published the
 raise to connect the upper and lower tunnels at the Red Hill mine of the Four Metals Mining company. will
 have been completed, connecting tun-
 nels from opposite sides of the noun
 tain, making a hole clear through the
 mountain and ventilating the work