Arizona republican., 1909-05-17

ing company, with headquarters at
 Santa Paula, Cal, will be started again
 within a very short time. This news
 came to Winchester today in definite
 form when word was received to have
 the whim and shaft collar taken down
 from the old shaft and moved to the
 new shaft, and to have it done at once.
 About a week ago L. B. Hogue, presi-
 dent of the company, living at Ven
 tura, Cal. and pr. D. w. Mott. secre-
 tary of Santa Paula, were in camp and
 went all over the property thoroughly,
 and announced at that time that they
 would begin work soon. This Is most
 gladsome news for the camp, because
 the Yellow Bird is known as a good
 property. There was much develop
 ment work done in the old days, and
 thousands of tons of good ore taken
 out, but this company, as many other
 mining companies have done, work was
 stopped more through a disagreement
 than anything else, not but that the
 property itself was all right. The re-
 cent gold excitement got the officers
 of the company interested again, and
 they will now go to work with a good force of men and make mine.
 The Yellow Bird is on the extension of the great rhyolite dike, which runs directly in front of the town of Win chester, and on which the Desert mine is located. At the Yellow Bird the big dike is covered over on the surface, but underneath it is found, and it is on this dike that the naturalization is found In times gone by rich streaks of thousand dollar ore has been taken out, but the entire lege is good for thirty to fifty-d dollar ore. As soon as the mill is completed at Winchester, the Yellow Bird will begin hauling ore to the mill for treatment.
 Stafford Mine Is Mine.
 Of all the people who visited the district during the boom days, or, rath- CT, the first boom days, because the district will have another boom which will make the first one look like thirty cents with the three rubbed out, less than one per cent of them ever went to see the Stafford mine. This rich property is located about two miles due west of Winchester and down near the railroad track. that is, not more 
 sists of ten claims and is owned and operated by Fred Stafford, of Phoe- nix, and E. F. Jones, who claims the camp as his homes Stafford and Jones located on this property last summer, buying part of it from man named Adams and locating the balance them selves. The Stafford mine proved the district and proves furthermore that the flat, rolling hills on the south side of the range is where some of the big mines will vet be located. The Staff ford is on an antecline, and where the shaft is being sunk, the dip of the country rock and vein is to the north west instead of to the northeast, as most of the district dips. The main shaft is now down nearly one hundred feet, and the ore body Is fully live feet wide and widening with depth. At the surface, it was only about two feet wide. Two stringers have already come into the vein, and with each addition the vein becomes larger. The foot wall is gneiss and the hanging wall is quartz. but above the quartz, which is from five to ten feet thick, there is covering of schist It is the intention to run the shaft down until a big mine is proven. On the opposite of the hill they are sinking a perpendicular shaft to catch the ore shoot. This shaft will be used for air as well as for lifting the ore out. The ore itself is a very red iron oxide and quartz; some places it is stained with chloride of silver, and there are also stringers of tungsten, also some galena. Assays all show rich values in silver in addition to the gold. Assays have been taken running into the hundreds, but the entire body of ore will average in the neighborhood of $40 to the ton, which means a great, big mine. Recently q shipment was made to Fl Paso which samples for the entire shipment of some hundred sacks s39.40 per ton in gold. Samples taken from the ore as it was taken from the mine, that is. taking one handful to every bucketful, assayed a little over forty dollars.
 A well has recently been sunk to a depth of 102 feet and a fine supply of water found The water rises fifteen feet in the well This will be a great help to the operation because they have always had to haul their water from the Desert well at Winchester. In ad- dition to the incline shaft, there is an mother tunnel some half a mile north, where there are several tons of forty dollar and fifty dollar ore piled on the dump. Assessment holes all over the prove an immense body of high grade ore. There is absolutely no question but that the Stafford is mine and good one, too. It is close to transportation, close to water and easy of access. It is sure to make great big property, and if any one who comes into the district and wants to see whether the district can pro- 1uce anything, let him take a trip to the Stafford and look over the prop erty. He will find two as accommodat- ing gentlemen as he ever met, and he will see something well worth look ing at.