The oasis., 1909-05-15
Santa Cruz Mines.

 be in operation again and shipping pre- Tha mine was recently sold to William Kamp and associates who are now put | tino it in shape for ore production. The | ,,ogon road from the Mansfield camp to the mine, about four miles, is being mt in shape for ore shipping. As soon as the road is in shape the equipment necessary for the unwatering of the mine will he hauled in and work commenced. The shaft is down something more than o00 feet and considerable drifting has been done already on both the l00-foot and 2O0-foot levels, opening up part of fine ore vein, so that stoping can be com menced as soon as the water is out of fine mine. Capt. J. NJ. Thomas, recent lv of Globe, is superintendent and has a for.e of about thirty men at work on the road. which will be in shape for hauling in very short time. The mine is in fine Santa Rita Mountains about twelve miles from Patagonia.
 Twenty men are now employed at the camp of the Saleros Mines Company, operating in the foothills of the oaata Ritas. ten miles from Patagonia. The main shalt is down 100 feet and the ledge k being prospected 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 400-ft level is from eighteen to twenty-two feet wide. and has some very high grade silver ore. The ore is in chutes cutting 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 knowledge so acquired the company knows where to sink where to drift and where to crosscut to strike the ore chutes already perforated by the drill. On the Eureka property a new tunnel has been started to cut the ledge l20 feet below where it is cut by the old tunnel. The upper tunnel showed the ledge to contain some fine gray copper 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 Montezuma ledge, where 1t 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 Saleros people spent sev- eral thousand dollars on the same road The company is also operating dia- mond drill on the old Bradford mine, near the Sanford ranch, five miles south of Patagonia. Some sulphide copper ore chacopyrite), was cut through between the sixty-ioot depth and the ll5-foot dopth. Rock carrying silver 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 California people, who have already paid part of the price agreed upon, after having done some prelimi nary prospecting, and who are now pre- pairing to resume operations
 Before this item is published the raise to connect the upper and lower tunnel; at the Red Hill mine of the Four Metals Mining Company, will have been com pleted, connecting tunnels run iron opposite sides of the mountain, making hole clear through the mountain anC '''''Niii- bilO NOihlllSo AlipiVuSllll The quarrel over the management ot tn, mine has retarded the work somewhat.
 A new camp will probably be started Tn the Patagonia mountains during tn, next couple of months. The Borde Copper Company, backed by easterl capital, and holding a large group o claims, covering the east extension O lne big Red Hill vein, will establish camp close to the Duquesne- Nogale road, on the Santa Cruz slope of th ratagonia mountains. $. Johnson i tne promoter of the new company an, !ne first work will be done on wha IS known as the Cardinal group O ggi5alms, just east of the Red Hill mine lhe claims were purchased some month ago rom F. o, Stowe and George Morris MI MI addition to the five Cardinal claims nr' Al Johnson has nine claims, adjoinin ne cardinal claims, which he purchase, n.o mon George Gross, making in all