Bisbee daily review., 1911-09-06
MINING MATTERS
 NORTHERN SONORA
Especial Attention Being Given to Gold, Silver Lead and
 Zinc Properties
Joseph I. cohnl


 extent than in other states, the pros ! pector and mining man are giving
 most of their attention to gold, sil- ! yer, lead and zinc properties, copper | being passed up at present more on ' account of the unfavorable locations J Of copper deposits than the price Of l the metal Gold seems to be the lode ] stone which is attracting the mining
 man more than ever in Sonora and at [ present there are many pTCspectors in I the hills, more than for years, and the number of denouncements which are being made these days seems to bear
 out the above more yividly than any | argument that can be brought forth. 1 Most of the Announcements are for | gold and silver, while quite a number 1 of properties are being denounced for ! lead and zine.
 | During the past few weeks there 1 has been considerable gold excite
 ment in the old Klondyke district, To- ! eated about fifty miles east by south from Magdalena and about ten or | twelve miles south by west from the i Santa Rosalia mine. Reports from | the properties in that district are to
 the effect that bonanza ore has been encountered on several of the proper ties. The Patsy claim. owned by o. ! P. Blover, was the scene of a rich strike of free gold and at a depth
 of 150 feet in the shaft the ore aver
 ages sl000 to the ton, while on the surface free gold can be seen in the
 rhyolite ore in many places.
 The Maytorena Announcement, own ed by Guadaloupe Sanchez, Ramon Maldonado and Jesus Villalve, shows | considerable free gold on the surface and assays have run from $40 to S2 % l per ton in gold contents. The vein ! Is rhyolite with andesite foot and l porphyry hanging walls. Holdt Bros. of Magdalena are also located in the
 district, having recently denounced the Juan Cabral" claim, consisting
 of twenty-one pertenencias, which
 also shows up well as a gold prop erty.
 There is also in the nelghborhood some valuable placer ground which
 was at one time owned by the La Bris- ca company, a Cananea Notation in
 which Cananeans were the heaviest | stockholders. The property reverted
 to the government on account of the non-payment of taxes.
 The news of the rich gold deposits in the district has attracted a large number of mining men to the neigh | borhood and it is predicted that there ! will be more valuable deposits dis. covered. A number Of the properties
 have already changed hands and good. ly prices are being placed on the properties by the owners. Several have been bonded to customers. The report to the effect that the Chispas camp of the Minas Pedraz- zini Gold and Silver Mining company l had been robbed by bandits has prov en to be 8 myth. Hurdles who werr sent 10 the camp wired Colonel Juan | CabTal to the effect that there was no truth to the report The authorities are at present taking steps to protect the company from the wholesale op. erations of highgraders.
 George Mclean, who has been in charge of the Cubana mine for the past two or three years, has resigned i the superintendency and returned to l Cananea. He has been succeeded by
 c. P. BOydston and J. NJ. Craig, who
 are new at the property.
 The property Is in excellent shape | and considerable ore has been opened i up recently below the 1OO-foot level ! One winze is in ore for 95 feet and is still bottomed copper ore. Two other
 winzes from the 100-foot level are ! also in ore.
 The Cananea-Boston property, To- | cated between the Calumet and So- | nora and Greene-Cananea properties. | now has two shifts al work in sinking | the shaft to the 200-foot level and he work will be rushed to completion. | The majority of the stockholders are | Cananea people and they are very op- ! umistic regarding the future of the | property, which. to say the least, is < very promising. The property will eventually be developed into , silver lead-zinc producer. It's close proxim-
 ity to the Catalina shaft Of the Calu-
 met and Sonora company bears out this prediction At a depth of seventy feet the shaft is bottomed in ore
 which will average 79 ounces silver
 and 55.5 per cent lead.
 l The Cerro Gordo mine, located near
 Cumpas, has installed it's reduction | piant and given it trial run. The | plant is a reverberatory wood-burn.
 ing furnace of a type suitable for To-
 cal conditions and the ore. O. L. Neer
 Is in charge Of the property.
 Word has been received from the
 lower country to the effect that the
 Riehfield Copper company is install
 ing a smelter at it's property, located eighteen miles southwest of the Santa
 kosaiia mine. The property consists 1 of two groups, including the Dos Ma
 clones, consisting of 3S2 pertenencias, l twelve miles east of Tuape, down the San Miguel river. and over 26,5O0 i acres of timber lands in the Ures
 district The company is controlled 0y Scranton, Pa, capitalists. The
 company was organized in 1901 as the Richheld Mining company and capi-
 talized at S5.000.O00. Reorganization
 took place in 1908.
 ] A cyanide plant IS being installed at
 the Guerigrite silver mine, located o1 the sherman ranch, between Cumpas
 and NaeozarL The plant will be of a pattern which will handle the ores i direct. The main vein on the prop erty is 100 feet in width and carries trafs