Bisbee daily review., 1909-03-14
RICH SULPH|DE ORE BODIES
 IN WORKINGS
Mascot Company in Chirica- hua Mountains Has Fne Showing in Its Extension Tunnel
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COURTIAND. Ariz,. Mar. i3.-Up to the present time there has never been a highly productive mine worked In the Chiricaaua mountains. but this record of baroness in the past bids fair now to go out of history. The Mascot Copper company. capitalized at ten millions of dollars, with T. N. McCauley Of Chicago at the head. has taken up fifty-nine claims in the Chiricahua mountains directly oppe site the rich new camp Of Courtland. and for a month three big tunnels have been driving through solid cop per suiphide of a high grade. FUi many years the little village of Dos Cabezos, comprising about fifty peo- pie. has subsisted op the struggling copper industry surrounding the town. which is located on top of the mount aims, eighteen miles southeast Of Will COX. But the Mascot Copper company aas now entered the field and has Goaa Srtough work to demonstrate that the district has bright prospects. The ore body was found on the top Of the mountains. and after shafts had been sunk on top deep enough to demonstrate that the vein was contin- uCus. the Mascot company started three teunncls from the east slope Of the mountain. directly towards the in- terseeting ore body. One utnnel is now driven into the mountain dis tance Of fourteen hundred feet, an- other eleven hundred feet and a third q little over one thousand feet. All Of these tunnels have been in the ore for more than a month, and every shot is blasting out ore of q high grade
 The company conteDplatCs the building Of g. branch railroad from Wilcox. and the erection of new smeIter ct the base of the mountain near tho mines. The work has been carried on for four years, without any publicity, and in all this time tlo mining has been in dry rock and ore bodies. The ore is copper sulphiGe the same as is found in the Leadyille shaft and other mines across the val Icy in the detached groups Of the Ora goon mountains.
 On the east slope Of the same ridge of the Chiricahuas the Overland Gold and Copper company has nineteen claims. The over Sad company is largely controlled by George Pence of Fl Paso, who not long ago incor- porated 8 stock company. with Fl PasOzns as the minority stockholders also. When the company saw that the. Mascot company was drifting tun- uels directly towards their property from the other side of the mountain, they decided to suspend operations till the stronger company had demon strated the value of the ore beds as the Mascot tunnels are separated only eighteen hundred feet from the claims of the Overland company, and both arc on the same ledge. The ledge dips toward the base of the mountain. in the form of a tilted slab, and once the tunnels have been driven through the mountain, .crosScutting and drift ing will be carried on.
 Pence is now diverting his energies towards the development Of the Cow boy, or SnOwstOrm group, about six miles south of Wiucox. IJ will be re- membered that this month a year ago Theodore and Ted Waffle, two CoW-pUnchers. discovered free gold on the top of 8 detached ridge at this point The latter vas killed by @ bolt Of lightning soon after, and Pence bought out the claims in June. A shalt was driven down on the ore from tho top of the mountain, and later a tunnel was started into the mountain side This tunnel will go directly through the range, and will be twelve hundred and fifty feet IOng- Pence is now taking out ore, and has contracted with q band of Mexican 8 from Pima Co carry the ore on burTos b ths base of the mountains whence a carload wiH be shipped in few days te the Douglas sraelters. being hauled frcn the base of the producing -IOuutain to Wilcox in wagons. The vein of gold quartz Is eighteen inches on top of the mountain, ana it's widest known width at this time is four and One-half feet
 eEight other outfits have been estab- Hshed in this little gold district. Two Of the camps are from Texas. at what Is known as Mineral Wells, and all these claims show good grades of gold ore.
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