Arizona republican., 1910-07-02

good body of ore, but ii probably vii
not average higher than SO to the tor
and ten stamp mill treating such or
cannot pay for development 1t is lit
tie more than a sampling plant. Witt
sixty to seventy-five ton plant the.
might work SO ore. There are severa
good gold bearing lodges on the prop
erty and they widen with depth.
Out in the Santa Rita mountain.
there is a big property that has all tn,
ear marks of a big copper mine. on
the top of a mountain there is a $50
foot shaft. Away up on the mountain
side there is tunnel that was driver
in several hundred feet to tap-What
To tap the bottom of that 250-foo
shaft. Other work has been done
enough to show that there is a gOot
copper mine there, but this aerial tun-
mel had to be paid for just the same.
The FluX, owned by r. r. Richard
son, is a good property, but has not
been developed to any great depth. II
is a lead, silver and zinc proposition
with some gold and copper. Occasion
ally a little ore is taken out and
shipped, but there is no systematic
mining being done. The owner also
has other properties and is often re
ferred to as a mining man. But he
is not a miner. Mr.. Richardson is a
cattleman. He owns the properties be-
cause he happened to monument the
claims, and manages to have enough
work done each year to retain posses
sion. He also owns some good look
N in he hi hac in
but the work done from time to time
is not such as must be done to develop
mines.
The Three r property, one of the
best looking copper properties in the
county, also in the Patagonia noun
tains, is owned by a number of differ
ent men. Frank Olsen, Douglas Gray
and Ben Heney are all interested in it
and unless the writer is mistaken Mr..
Richardson is also part owner. Both
Olsen and Gray are prospectCrs and
everyone in Arizona knows that Ben
Heney was mayor of Tucson. But none
of them is a capitalist and the big min
eral dyke that runs through the prop
erty is not being very rapidly or sys-
tematically developed. There has been
work done, with remark
able showing. but it is more noticeable
for altitude than depth.
Most people in this section of the
world have heard of the Four Metals
linois bought stock in the Four Metals
company some years ago, believing
they were getting in on the ground
floor of gold mine. A tunnel was run
into 4 big body of low grade copper ore.
out on top. The tunnel butted
intoa big body of low grade copper ore.
A second tunnel was started on the
side of the butte and they
finally connected. but in a manner
more ac-Obatic than systematic. The
was made by guess work
But the hole through the butte
showed a ledge OF low grade copper
pre- 500 feet wide. Then came a quar-
rel oyer the management. The board
IF directors were Illinois men, a farm
er, a meat dealer, a brooder of fancy
stock, real estate dealer, and some
others None of them with knoWl-
edge of mining sufficient to direct the
work. The man in charge was stock
broker. Through litigation all work
vas stopped That was more than a
year ago. A short time ago a couple
If men with money and some knowl-
edge of mines and mining were induced
)y outsiders to visit the mine. They
saw what was there and went after
[. They have closed a deal whereby
hey will have control of the property
md hax-n o1
Indebtedness Of the company. Checks
ire now being distributed among the
'reditors. Fifteen or twenty thousand
dollars will pay off all the indebtedness
md the new men will be free TO de-
'elop the mine.
But the Four Metals mine does not
over all the big ledge. 1t can be traced
IN the surface for a distance of about
hree miles, and is all covered .by
laims held by different prospectors
Who can do no more toward develop
nent than the surface work necessary
or each years assessment work
A few miles from the Four Metals is
he Duquesne property, owned by
ieorge Westinghouse. He has invest
d perhaps a million dollars in buy
ng up and patenting claims and had
ust fairly commenced development
york when the financial crash tied
i'm up. 1t was his plan to erect re-
uction works on the Santa Cruz river
{ the foot of the Patagonias, and one
arload Of smelter machinery had al |
eady arrived in Nogales when the |
rash came. Nothing has been done |
here since.
The Worlds Fair mine powers |
ank) is bonanza, but is not worked |
Frank Powers was a |
rospector and struck it rich Early |
1 the game he was induced to invest !
cavity in a mill. which when installed |
roved to be not what was wanted. |
ince then he has worked the mine in |
is own way-the way of a prospector
nd chlorider. There is seldom n
igger force than a half dozen men
mployed. The ore is shipped to FL
aso and brings him $4,000 TO $4,000
carload. What a mining company
light do with such a mine can only
e guessed at 1t is silver mine
There are a number of big silver
lines in Santa Cruz county, but they
re owned by men who lack the capital
} work on small scale and ship the
re. There is the Hardshell, from which
'veral good stakes were taken by diff
rent operators. There are the Trench,
lie Josephine and the Hermosa, all of
hich have made different operators
Idependently rich in other days. but