Weekly journal-miner., 1911-05-24

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 the Sasco shelter will be blown in within a short time, probably before July 1, with the Saddle Mountain mine. at Christmas. as its principal source of ore supply, has been learn ed upon good authority. As soon as the shelter is ready to begin opera tions the shipment of 300 tons of ore a day from Christmas will begin. All this ore will pass through Mesa, Tempe and Maricopa.
 By reliable persons, it is said that prior to his recent departure for New York. President Frank NJ. Murphy, of the Development Company of America, which owns the Saddle Mountain. Tombstone Consolidated, Silverbell. Congress and other mines, as well as the SascO smelter, gave orders that the plant be put in shape for blowing in. The smelter has been closed down for nearly two years.
 President Murphy and other off cials of the company decided to start up the smelter after the recent dis eoveries on the lower levels of the Saddle Mountain assured a constant and ample supply of ore from that property. On the SO0-foOt level of the main works. ore has been found which proves the main body to be vastly richer, more massive and more permanent than had been supposed.
 Deta:ls of the discovery are lack ing. but it is understood that the sulphides encountered in the drifts and crosseuts driven on the S00-fOOt level. run much higher in copper than those above, although the Sad ale 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 aver ages less than two and carries no sulphide
 The ore of the Saddle Mountain lies in a formation known as "saw- tooth porphyry." The ground is un- slerlaid 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. Crittenden, took SsOO,OOO 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 Chan two years ago. The Gila Cop per Sulphide company, was organized 10 hold the Saddle Mountain prop ,erty.
 No mine in Arizona has a more interesting history. It was located nore than 9 years ago by Dr. James Douglas of Phelps, Dodge & Company. The surface showing was magnificent. Experts have since de ,-,lared that no copper mine in the world had a better showing on the surface.
 pr. Douglas immediately began de 'celopment work, sinking a shaft to a depth of 12O feet and erecting a small shelter That shaft is the roRs which has now been sunk to 800 feet and in which the rich ore has been discovered, thus proving the judgment of pr. Douglas and his experts to have been good. At the 120-fOot level a great quantity of good ore was taken from what was known as the Nagel stOpe and smelted at profit right on the ground.
 It was discovered that the mine was on an Indian reservation and Dr. Douglas was forced to give up the property, after hard fight. Several years later George B. Crit tenden, who was then working some claims southeast of the present town of Winkelman, saw the property and determined that it would be his. Ac- 'ecrdingly he began to use his in fluenee to have the boundaries of the reservation changed to throw the mine on the public domain. He made several trips to Washington and when ne had things lined up to suit him, returned to Arizona. Upon his ar rival he established relays of horses and riders between Tucson and his claims near Copper Creek. When the telegram came saying that the bill changing the reservatiOn's bounda- Ties had passed both houses of cong ress, his man in Tucson left on the run. No message was ever carried