Weekly journal-miner., 1909-01-06
PATAGONIA REGION HAS
 MANY BUSY PROPERTIES


 crosscut was run north, cutting the ledge eighteen feet from the shaft and cutting through eight feet of good concentrating copper ore Sinking was continued and the shaft is now bot toned in ore of q very good grade, much higher than that encountered in the ledge north of the shaft. Cutting the ledge and again cutting into ore in the bottom of the shaft, also increased the flow of water into the shaft, the inflow being greater than the small pump in use could conveniently han. dle. The showing, however, is SO good, that T. A. Cox, general manager of the Arizona.Pittsburg company, owning the property, has gone Co Pittsburg to talk matters over with the directors of the company in regard to putting in heavier machinery.
 At the Saleros mine the main shaft is now over three hundred feet deep and still going down. Crosscutting to penetrate the ledge will he done at a depth of five hundred feet. This prop. erty has been prospeeted to a depth of about five hundred feet with a dia. mond drill and the general presump- tion is that the Saleros Mines Company knows already what will be cut at that depth.
 Mark Lulley (most people living be. tween the Mexican line and Washing ton. D. C., have heard of Lucky Mark Lulley of Nogales) was out in the Santa Rita mountains last week, with an automobile load of eastern capital. ists, showing them his Wandering Jew mine, fifteen miles from Patagonia. The Wandering Jew is lead.silver. copper proposition, and the ore is high grade.
 aconda mine, in the Santa Rita noun. tains, nine miles from Patagonia, was in town few days ago. He says with ! the work now done at the Ansconda there is enough copepr ore in sight to prove that the company has good mine and big one. Kansas City cap ital is interested in the Anaconda. The writer has not yet visited the Anaeon- da company's property and does not know what work has been done.
 Native copper, the first to be en. countered in the ore body in tae Red Hill of the Four Metals Mining Com. pany, was found in the north tunnel las. week. This tunnel, run for tho purpose of ventilation, cut into the orc body last week, when in about 2sj feet. The oreencountered was a chal copyritc, having very much the ap pearance of ore burnt in a blacksmith forge, something frequently done by prospectors in testing for metal. Ta' ore shot out by the miners next day while of the same character, was plen ,ifully sprinkled with native copper But the point most clearly demonstrat cd by cutting into ore at that point ir the north tunnel, is that it gives some definite idea of the width of the or' body. IL shows a body of concentrat ing copper ore in tae Red Hill six hun dred feet wide, which is about th' width of the ore body. T. shows body of concentrating copper ore II the Red Hill six hundred feet wide which is about the width of the out cropping on the hill. The main tun nel run in from the south of the hill something over seven hundred feet has cut (crosscu) into the ore bod. about 275 feet, but is not being driveI any further at the present time, tn operations in that tunnel now bein confined to drifting east and west Il the ore, because the tunnel from th north side will cut through the sam ground l40 feet higher up. As 500 as the north tunnel is in far enough { be connected by raise with the mai . tunnel, letting current of air throug the nil, the working force will be 1T creased and the ore body properl shown up. In the lower tunnel wing will be sunk two hundred feet in th ore body and drifts driven east, yves north and south through the ore . that depth. As that will bring th workings below water level, high' grade ore is expected.
 The Four Metals is attracting col
 siderable attention in the minin
 world, judging from the number of vi
 itors al the camp during the past co' 2 pie of months. Scarcely a week pass' r in which the mine is not visited b s from one to three mining men and mil y ing experts from different parts of tf C United states, all of whom are show c through the mine. Some of them nav n tried to talk sale, but there seems s he nothing doing in that line. Ti