Bisbee daily review., 1910-05-29
'DRACOON DISTRICT E SCENE
 IF RENEWED ACTIVITY WITH
 VERY SATISFACTORY RESULTS

twhich has been in litigation for six years) the Bassett camp. Gleeson.
 Courtland and LeadviIle, win Tomb stone on one side and the great , and productive Commonwealth
 on another side. one can trace |. sixty miles of mineralized ground !, without a break
 ! Then with a break of a few miles toward the southwest we again take
 up the belt containing the mines of Bisbee, Cananea, and Nacozari then with another break from the north ,least, and we take up the mineral belt containing Globe. Miami and other nu- : merous copper mines, showing that the i Dragon Mining District is located in
 the ceuter Of the great mineral belt
 which is paying more dividends in one month than all of California's
 oil wells combined pay in an entire iyear.
 This belt is a regular treasure vault. lonly awaiting the coming Of the miner to opel it's doors, which must be done
 with hammer, steel and powder.
 In the Johnson camp. which is lreached by the Dragoon and Northern.
 are situated the following mines and Q shafts:
 The Johnson Development. Co. the Keystone. the Peabody, the Peacock. the Black Prince. the Republic. the
 Arizona United. which has 125-ton
 smelter. and several smaller concerns
 who are shipping wolframin:te which
 they take from open cuts on the sur. face
 In the DTagoon district is the . Texas & Arizonta, owned by Ben
 Williams and associates, who struck a
 good body Of ore at a depth of seventy Y live feet with an incline shaft. This ore sampled at the Fl Paso shelter
 sf per cent lead and 46O ounces in silver. -Old Ben with six men. was
 working Ih the ,bo3tom of his in- !, cline shaft when was there. feel u ing very good over his strike. and he
 had a face of this solid ore fourteen
 feet high by eight feet wide and ore on
 all sides of him
 While l was there an automobile . came in with a party of four mining - men, who offered $40.o0a cash for ,- four-fifths interest in the Texas .. < Arizona property This was refused - D. NIT. Williams as he says he vii h stay by his partners in the property no Some of this stock was sold in Bisbee er and Fl Paso at twenty-five and for, or cents share. do not think VOL m can buy a share today at any reason as able price. In this same locality is m the Cleveland < Arizona. owned and n ioperated by Stroudd Bros, also some m good claims owned by Jesse Vein. mn About two miles from the Texas X n Arizona and over one and one-half
 miles from Dragoon station. is lo- .b eated the Centurion. which is man. m aged by J. P. Richardson who worked 1a - Bisbee mines up 10 six years ago bl When Mfr Richardson first staked out m the Centurion property Of eleven
 claims, he was without capital. which at he needed to develop and prospect O with Being then 0S99l man K passed the majority of years allowed ar Co one on this earth. he toiled faith. ,u fully and by struggling against odds. OH he oyercame his difficulties and made ,u a mine out of the Centurion In 1900 on when he reached a depth Of forty pr feet. and had his shaft botomed in ore. on he had to cease operations (Which
 looked so promising at thar timel st and go back 10 the Bisbee mines. te where he worked until be paid of ca S7oo, which sum he then owed on the 'u Centurion. Today he Centurion iu stands up above the prospects. and is lt truly mine with shaft down 350 c feet and four levels developed. all sh showing a blue carbonate ore averag
 grade ore and ran 2 3-4 per cent copper fh There is on the dump i.e00 tons of .ai .ai ore which was taken from the shaft lth the drifts and crosscuts. There have
 been two cars shipped to the Dougla. h's smelter. The first car was first 10 grade ore and ran 2.4 per cent copper i s2 gold and six oz. silver while the u second was second grade ore and
 ran 5.S per cent There is blocked ou ready for stopilg 2O0,000 tons of Or' that will average seven per cent an'
 
 3.5 per cent The highest assay mad'
 was 39.6 per cent The shaft is al
 incliniBg one. where the owner fol
 lowed one of the numerous string
 iers which abound in this district -. Al a depth of forty feet the first lev -. el was cut. and a drift was run il .sa, about forty fec. all in ore. = On the 125-foot level there .s n . feet of drifts and forty feet of crosi
 T cuts. On the 225-foot level there
 13O feet of drifts and sixty feet (
 tcrosscuts. On the :2yfoot lev' To l-here is forty feet of drifts and l' .,,o feet Of crosscuts.
 ,.f There are numerous caves on a
 q. levels. and these are lined with bll ,,a carbonates of copper. making a bea ots- tifuI sight as well as giving go' a,ns ventilation from one level to anoth' ,,. The Centurion owns free from [
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