Arizona republican., 1909-02-01

five claims and the recent purchaser, John w. Leddy of Pasadena, Cal, purchased four other claims from J. c. Denton adjoining the Dutchman, which makes the Dutchman group consist of nine claims. The Woods properties, owned by H. E. Woods of Los Angeles and Frank Woods of | Colorado Springs, are composed of twenty-seven claims, nine of which are patented, and the Bouse & Me Mahan are numbered twenty. In addition to this J. C. Denton has several fractions and outlying claims in the zone about which this article treats.
 This district, which Is located in the extreme north end of the Plo- mosa range, in fact in the low foot l hills of the range-that is, where the mountains come down into the valley lis six miles from Bouse, to the south and west of the city. While the formation of this group of claims Is largely different from other for nations in the greater district, yet the general character Is much the same, and. there is just as rich ore found elsewhere The indications, ac- cording to prominent geologists. are that this district was at one time a small volcano, the crater of which was in the middle of the district and the lava rolled out and spread in nearly all directions; more, however, away from the high mountains than towards them, thus making the min eralized zone in the shape of a horse shoe. At any rate, the main mineral ized zone is traceable for a distance of five miles running in the shape of horse shoe and dipping from the center or crater. The zone Is from one half to one mile wide, and from all surface indications and prospect holes, the naturalization seems to be about equally distributed. The entire plat is covered with a capping of iron gossan and lime with dikes of iron and lime sticking out at various points and sometimes running for some distance. These dikes do not run parallel. Interspersed all through the zone are found stringers of cop per ore, carbonate of copper in iron and lime. At some places these stringers or cracks are narrow and then they will open out in lenses several feet wide. These stringers do not run regular but some places they are three or four feet apart while in others they will be fifty to one hundred feet apart. Some places they run east and west and others north and south. but still keeping the general anticlinal direction. At only one place does the apparent main vein come to the surface and
 
 the vein sticks out of the surface fully ten feet thick and enters the hill on a slight dip but at a depth of forty feet it turns and indicates that it will eventually run perpen- dicular. In many places the string CTS are perpendicular. while others they are on the anticline.
 In a fifty-foot shaft on the Jack rabbit claim one of the Dutchman group. the vein widens out with depth with every indication that a great deposit will be found even above water level On the Dutchman claim proper there are several shafts. some of which are in iron oxide with rich stringers of free gold. In fact all of the ore carries rich gold values
 The Bullion shaft of the Woods properties, to the south of the Dutch man, has a shaft down 125 feet and it struck high sulphide ore at seventy feet At the 125-foot level a cross cut was run each ninety feet and another forty feet west, cutting the zone crossways. The cross-cut cut stringers every rod or so, some of them several feet wide. but in be- tween the lenses the entire space is filled with monzanite carrying a val uation of 2 per cent copper. This shaft will strike water in about 15O feet more. at which point it is ex- pected to find the main body Of ore The sulphide lenses at the 125-foot level are very rich in copper with good gold values.
 Some time ago John Finch, the geologist, made a careful examina- ton of this district and stated that this was the largest deposit of mon zinite ore in Arizona and the mine should prove a very valuable one At other places in the large miperal- ized zone, where shafts have been sunk any depth, the monzonite shows up. In fact. every prominent geolo- gist and mineralogist who has ever examined this district and mineral ized zone have stated that it has every indication that immense bodies of ore will be discovered. The ore, too. is purely self-fluxing. as it carries large quantities of iron and lime. and the Bullion shows the sul- phides.
 In the core of the district. or what may be called in the crater, that is the center around which the zone lies, there are two large granite dikes with quartz deposits running into the granite. This quartz contains good values in the form of free gold. What little prospecting has been done in this core has shown pay ore but none has ever been worked yet ex- cepting the Sunshine claims, one of the Woods claims. Here a shaft has been sunk sixty feet and gold ore taken out running about s6O per ton. The vein is faulty, however. On the Blue Slate claim, also in the core and near one of the granite dikes, large bodies of blue slate is found which is filled with flake gold. This blue slate and gold formation is found alongside of a rich vein of copper and the copper ore carried rich gold values.
 1T. F. Woods, of the Woods Bros, was in Bouse this week and stated that Frank Woods of Colorado Springs and John Finch would be here in a short time and that they