Bisbee daily review., 1911-05-23
Sparkling News From
 Nacozari District


 river. He interested Thos Pattison and Wn- A. Clark of Boston in the enterprise.
 A company l.ns been formed. money has been set aside for a large amount of development work and for a milling plant if conditions jus | tify. so that as soon as condItions have settled down operations win begin on a large scale. The property Is well situated. with abundance cf water and wood at all times. and with other conditions exceptionally good. The vein varies from 2 to Q feet in width. The ore is quartz, the minerals being chaicopyrite. bornite gold and silver, and the assays are from to IS per cent copper, 50 to 1900 ounces silver and If to 1 ounce gold per ton. This is an old property, formerly operated by Mexi- can highgraders, who brought to Ma cozari some of the handsomest orc ever seen here, and the shipments to the Copper Queen smelter were ex- ceptionally high grade. Development consists of a tunnel on the vein 140 feet, which connects with a shaft which was sunk by the old owners to a depth of 70 feet. Several short drifts have been run on the vein from this shaft, and good ore was rounu. The vein Is a Assure, and has been traced on the surface for more than & mile. The country is andesite. The property has a most excellent reputa. ton. and the engineer who passed on 1t stated to me that 1t was one Of the most favorable properties he had seen, for small one. in the section The company being amply lnanced, and with money in bank, the developments during the next few months will be interesting.
 The Tharsis-York property, a mile cast of the Pilares mine. Is now oDer- ating by electricity, the juice hay ing been turned on last evening. The power line has been built from Pilares to the Tharsis shaft of the company by the T. Y. people, bat the Moctezuma Copper comranv furnishes it. The transformers will take a e600 volt current and deliver zzU. Inc electrical equipment ts altogether hrst class and the development work IS 10 be pushed with all possible rapidity. C. F. Nourse of San Fran cisco is the manager. l spent some time on this property. and shall at a later date give a full description of what may develop into a very large copper property.
 The Nacozari Consolidated prop critics are in shape now for the ex. tensive development campaign to be forwarded. The King Nos. l and claims are Vin the Pilares fault dis trict and have exceptional show ings. A short tunnel was driven in the ground. giving good results, but as 1t was through leached ground and 10 timbering done it has caved very badly. A new tunnel was then started some distance away, which when completed will tap the ore bod ics at 800 feet Machine drills are being installed. and every modern method inaugurated The property IS under management of w. 4. Alex ander, the principal owner, and has indications for good things. A more complete description will be given later on.
 c. B. Bell and five associates are operating the Agua Buena mine, r. miles southeast of Naoozari. ~A.s property has developed d continuous ore chute of 800 feet. an unusual thing anywhere but especially n a silver-gcld property in Sonora. A 35- ton car Of ore is shipped weekly to the Copper Queen smelter at Doug ias, averaging over SfOO per ton. The vein is small, averaging IS Inches. but it is rich.
 The Los Angeles company has been re-organized. It is a copper-silver gold property about 1-2 miles from the Agua Buena. This is a fair sized deposit Of shipping orc, and profit ably operated. Machinery is to be installed