Los Angeles herald., 1909-03-01
ARIZONA COPPER
WILL OPEN MINE
LOS ANGELES PERSONS LEASE
PROPERTY
McNuLTY PREPARES TO PACK
SMELLING ORE
Four Claims in Copper Creek Section
of Hassayampa District Pay All
Expenses from Grass
Roots

PRESCOTT, Feb. 2S.-Beginning OF
active development on the properties
of the Arizona Copper corporation, the
title Of which passed under bond to
Los Angeles and eastern capitalists, Is
set for May /.
A tunnel will be started to tap one OF
the principal veins of the group at
depth of 450 feet. 1t is estimated that
the ledge will be reached in the tunnel
at a distance of 500 feet. The six loca-
lions of the group cover a series of
porphyry, schist and diorite dikes In
which ore is exposed by several shallow
shafts. The principal values are cop
per, gold and silver. Some samples
taken assay as high as 10 per cent in
copper and an ounce in gold.
The claims are on the divide between
the Thumb Butte and Copper Basin
districts, six miles west of the city.
Five of the locations are on the Copper
Basin slope and one on the Thumb
Butte slope.
The properties are considered very
promising although yet in the prospect
stage.
F. e. Small, the Boston mining en-
gineer and general manager of the
Rosalie Copper company, recently ex-
amined the ground and made very
fiattering report of it's possibilities.
Near the Derby Mine
The group is located in the Immediate
vicinity of the Derby mine, opened to a
depth of several hundred feet, in which
a very promising ore body was opened
recently on the 300-foot level.
1t is also adjacent to the bearing
group. another promising gold and cop
per property, owned by w. A. bearing
and associates.
One carload of the ore on the dump is
ready for shipment and three carloads
in sight are blocked out ready for stop
ing is the record made in the r.. A. M.
mine by c. j. McNulty and one miner
in two months and two weeks. Me-
NuIty arrived from the mine last week
to purchase sacks to make the carload
shipment and to employ a pack train
to pack the ore across the mountains
to Jersey Lily road from where it Will
be hauled TO the railroad here by
wagon.
Samples of the carload which will be
shipped to the NeeCles smelter gave
returns of two ounces in gold, ten
ounces in silver and nine ounces lead.
The shipment is the first made from
the 15O-foot level of the mine where the
other three carloads are ready for stop
ing. The length of the ore shoot has
not been determined as the ore body is
as large in the face of the drift as in
any part opened.
Ships Several Carloads
Several carloads of ore have been
shipped to the FL Paso and Pueblo
smelters in the last ten years, while
thu property was being operated from
time to time. The product, which was
taken from shallow workings, Melted
handsome profits after mining, ship
ping and smelling expenses and charges
were deducted.
McNulty also reports the discovery of
very promising ore body in cave
in and open cut recently. The ore
shoot is Ave feet in thickness and car
ries good gold values, part being rich
enough to ship TO the smelter. He i'm
tends to develop the new find as soon
as he makes the shipment of the ore on
the dump and the ore blocked out in
the 150-foot level
The r. A. M. group, comprising four
claims, is located in the Copper Creek
section of the Hassayampa district.
nine miles south of this CITY, The
property was discovered by McNulty
fifteen years ago, after his arrival here
from Colorado. After making several
carload shipments he stopped work to
devote his entire time to merchandise
ing. Three months age he disposed OF
his business interests here and returned
to the mine. He is enthusiastic over
recent developments and intends to
push the opening of the mine as fast
as possible. 1t is one of the very few
mining properties in the district that
has paid all development expenses from
the grass roots down.