Mohave County miner., 1911-05-27
Sasco Shelter to Be
 Blown In Soon.

That the Sasco shelter will be blown in within a short time, prob ably before July 1, with the Saddle Mountain mine, at Christmas, as its principal source of ore supply, has been learned upon good authority. As soon as the shelter is ready to be- gin operations the shipment of 300 tons of ore day from Christmas will begin. All this ore will pass through Mesa, Tempe and Maricopa.
 By reliable persons, the Democrat has been informed that prior to his recent departure for New York, Pres ident Frank M. Murphy of the de- veloument Company of America, which owns the Saddle Mountain, Tombstone Consolidated, Silverbell, Congress and other mines, as well as the Sasco shelter, gave orders that the plant be put in shape for blowing in. The shelter has been closed down for nearly two years.
 President Murphy and other officers  of the company decided to start up the shelter after the recent discover ies on the lower levels of the Saddle Mountain assured a constant and ample supply of ore from that prop erty. On the S0O-foot level of the main works, ore has been found which proves the main body to be vastly richer, more massive and more perma- nent than had been supposed.
 Details of the discovery are lacking, but it is understood that the sul lphides encountered in the drifts and cross cuts driven on the S00-foot level, run much higher in copper than those above, although the Saddle Mountain ore already averaged higher in copper content than most of the other big mines of Arizona. It ran over three per cent, while the Ray Consolidated porphyry averages less than two and carries no srlphide.
 The ore of the Saddle Mountain lie in formation known as "saw-tooth porphyry." The ground is underlaid with porphyry, the surface of which is uneven, like a range of mountains. Between these ''teeth' or mountains the ore lies in great kidneys.
 Although the old Saddle Mountain Mining company, organized by George B. Chittenden, took S00,OOOS worth of ore from the mine in one year, through mismanagement the company became involved in debt and it was in a bad way when the Development Company of America took hold, more than two years ago. The Gila Copper Sulphide company, was organized to hold the Saddle Mountain property.
 No mine in Arizona has a more in- teresting history. It was located more than 9 years ago by Dr. James Douglas of Phelps, Dodge & Co. The surface showing was magnificent. Experts have since declared that no copper mine in the world had a better showing on the surface.
 Dr. Douglas immediately began de. velopment work, sinking a shaft to a depth of l2O feet and erecting 8 small shelter. That shaft is the one which has now been sunk to 800 feet and in which the rich ore has beer discovered, thus proving the judg ment of Dr. Douglas and his experts to have been good. At the l2O-foot level great quantity of good ore wa: taken from what was known as the Nagel stope and smelted at a prof right on the ground.
 It was discovered that the mine wa. on an Indian reservation and Dr Douglas was forced to give up the property, after hard fight. Severa years later George B. Chittenden, whC was then working some claims south east of the present town of Winkel man, saw the property and determined that it would be his. Accordingly ht began to use his influence to have tht boundaries of the reservation changed to throw the mine on the public do main. He made several trips tt Washington and when he had thing lined up to suit him, returned to Ari zona. Upon hIs arrival he established relays of horses and riders betweel Tucson and his claims near Coppe Creek. When the telegram came say ing that the bill changing the reserva tion's boundaries had passed botl