Arizona republican., 1910-11-21
SAYS THE hACOzARI
IS GOOD PROPERTY
James B. Johnston Writes interesting
Letter on the Outlook.

AS rhave received quite a number of
letters from Bisbee and Douglas pea
pie asking me what / think of the
NacOzari Consolidated Copper company
/ thought il would be a good idea TO
answer them through the columns of
the Bisbee Review, as the bulk of the
stock is held by Douglas and Bisbee
people, and in a short time these local
stockholders will be reaping a harvest
like the Bisbee people are doing with
the Shattuck.
After making a trip over the surface
of all the claims and careful study of
the underground workings | can truly
say that the Nacozari Consolidated
Copper company will prove to be one of
the most wonderful producers of wealth
in a very short time from now
To show what the mining men i'm
this locality think of it, I'll give an il
lustration. There are twenty eight
Americans employed by the Phelps
Dodge interests here in the mines, and
there has been sold more than 1000
shares to these men, who are here and
in Pilares, close by and who bought
after close inspection of the property.
The Nacozari Consolidated Copper
company owns 165 acres of ground, 14O
acres being mineralized and % acres
being for tunnel site and wagon road
purposes. The property is in two
groups and is separated by strip of
the Tharsis York company property,
this company owning considerable
acreage in this vicinity. The group is
known as the Galera or lower claims
and the Copper King block or upper
claims
The Galera group lies between the
Pilares and the San Pedro, both prop
critics are owned and operated by the
Phelps-D Dodge people. Besides these
neighbOrs they have the Moody, the
San Pablo, the Sonora and some TWEEN
ty others surrounding them. The prop
erty lies three fourths OF a mile from
the Pilares shaft in very mountain
Gus country. the lower end of the Ga
lera claims being about 100 feet below
the upper end of the Copper King block.
giving this company an ideal tunnel
proposition.
The president of the company, Mr..
John Alexander, was working the ia
nous old San Pedro under lease from
the Phelps Dodge interests for a num-
property which at present is the y. c.
c. company in going to and from
work he naturally began studying how
to get the different owners together and |
work the entire group through a tun-
mel instead of having to maintain a |
number of shafts and pumping plants. |
As the various properties have been |
developed on the surface down to water |
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the continuation of the ore bodies he
soon came to the conclusion that the |
only thing needed was a consolidation
of all the small owners and this was
elected through Mr. Alexander and Je
sus Carteleon, the two principal hold |
ers and the Nacozari Consolidated Cop |
per company was organized under the
laws of Arizona with a capitalization
of $4,000, 900 divided into 600, 900 shares
of the par value of $500 each, Douglas
being chosen as the chief office of the /
company.
The original plan of the company was
to make it a strictly home affair, but
on account of the sudden drop in cop
per followed by the financial stringency
the directors have, thought it advisable
to change their plans and get limited
The Galera group shows nine strong
gold, silver, copper and lead veins on
the surface and six of these have been
developed down to the water level
which is very close to the surface. In
three of the tunnels quite a number of
tons of high grade ore has been taken
out and shipped to Ell Paso and Colora-
do smelters. This was done twenty Il
VIC q
pack up to Fairbanks by animals.
On-the main or foot wall vein which
is more than 10 feet wide. there are
number of ancient Spanish diggings N
showing that the hardy and ever adj
venturous Spaniards even in those days
without transportation facilities though
enough of their property to stop and
develop it to some extent
The geology of the Galera group is a
layer of andesite followed by layer of
brecciated rhyolite for width of al
most two miles In this brecciated rhy-
olite or broken up rhyolite is where the
veins run through. The footwall is
andesite lying on a barren layer of rhy-
olite some 500 feet thick; this foot wall
is being penetrated at the present time
bv a tunnel which will give a depth of
$50 feet on the foot wall vein and this
same tunnel should be through the foot II
wall and into ore in a very few weeks,
800 feet above where this main tunnel
will cut the ore is one vein or ore four
feet wide of tetrahedite or grey cop
per. This vein has been opened up for
a distance of las feet and is breasted in Il
ore samples of which run 600 ozs. sill
yer; 8 ozs. gold and II per cent cop