Bisbee daily review., 1909-01-09
OLD P|CACHO
 IN PROGRESS 0F OPENING
Vein Running 5000 Ounces To Ton Said To Be At Bottom Of Workings-Mine An Old Indian Property.

Word comes that Tots of work" is
 being done in the Comobabi mount
 aims. Ten separate outfits are busy
 some doing annual development work
 and others digging deep for the pur-
 pose of mine making The ores of the
 district are gold, silver and copper,
 no stinted measure of either, but great mineralized bodies that within a few
 years will have a visible effect on the
 worlds supply of the precious as well
 as the baser metals.
 A bold bid is being made to re open the old Picacho, a mine with a
 history, and not dug out one either
 if lengendary stor es be but half true
 The mine is said to have been dis | covered by an Indian in the employ | of "Old man Jaeger" father of Louis | Jaeger proprietor of the Santa Rita hotel, away back in the early fifties, probably about 1854. It was worked | successfully for several years prior | to the breaking out of the civil war when work was temporarily suspend .d under fear of federal interference Iaeger himself is said not to have | worked the mine, but to have leased t to an enterprising Mexican by the name of Francisco Padres. This Padres had many men working in
 d 'ffereHt sections of Arizona and So nora and was. at the time. accounted a very rich man. Finding tae prop eTty temporarily abandoned 1t w< entered by bambusteros"-min rob bers- and the rich ore left in the Len EFv.r- -.Ef i. packed away. This caused the prop erty to cave in and render the old workings practically useless. This was the cOnd tion of affairs at the time Padre returned to resume work sub aaquCnt to the close of the civil Wal In the old shaft the ore body hau been followed down by the then GUS tCTnary process Of ten foot levels, til a depth of 330 feet had been I reached. To undercut this Cepth a shaft is now being sunk by the pres ent proprietors, under the supeFin- | tendence of Mir. Richey, father of o. | T. and Tom Richey. If reports aIe
 to be believed there is a vein of ore 3i inches thick and valued at some thousands of dollars to the ton, or I to be more exact "cincO mt onees
 cada tonalado." Granting the story
 tO be but half true the present Owners will have neck hold on their share ! of this worlds goods, if they can only ! reach t.
 There Is, however, another story ! to be told c. R. Wores, in conneC- ton with California parties, put up machinery, drained the m'ne clean out and retlmber the old workings, but | found nothing in the way of compen- sating material. Mir. Wores informed the writer of this article that he nau broken ore from the recovered ledge and found 1t to be too lean to handle with profit. The mine has been bo- Danza and had been worked out either by the "bambusteres" who are saIu to have succeeded Padres or by Padres himself prior to it's abandon
 ment. The truth or falsity of this
 statement will be determined later.
 Twenty men are employed and the se- crets of the old Picacho mine VIII ere long be told.
 The Pieacho is not in the Comoba- bis proper. but in the Cababi range, Ia small detached spur lying at the north end of the Comobabis, and sep
 arated by a narrow depression from the main body.