Bisbee daily review., 1911-07-26
ARAvAPAI DISTRICT
tBy Chas. A. Dinsmorel

eftleS naNlhg many lnOuSdndS OA dollars of development. and showing good ore bodies. with every prospect for trOducting and prOfit-Daying cop per mines, the district is practically unknown. This is principally due to the fact that no road of any kind goes further than this postOffices there being a trail connecting with the San Carlos road into Globe and thus the only people learning of the prospects here were those occasional ly passing through with pack trains Or an occasional engineer who might have been sent in by parties hearing of it through the owners. There are several good properties here-the Royal Tinto, the Arayapai, the Cobre Grande, etc, and each of these has considerable development. The Royal Tinto, H. T. Firth manager and prin- cipal owner. has 22 patented proper ties, and more than S60,0O0 worth or excellent work has been done on it. The Araaipa, with large patented area, has also spent in the neighb0r- hood of $1O0,000, while the Cobre Grande has large amount of devel- opment In each instance this work has developed properties o. sre2
 promise. The country is thorous-
 mineralized for many miles, and ledge traceable for to 9 miles is not unusual. These great dykes are not high grade. ol course; but it il workable ore, and there is a pay streak or so. During thS past week l have been on three different veins within 30 miles of this place--one, the Rattlesnake reef, one could make a wagon road on for 12 miles; one, the Grand Reef. is from 15 to 100 feet wide for more than seven miles; and one, the Royal Tinto, is from 10 to 50 feet for more than six miles. Now, on these sreat ledges through the country, there is ore always-and searching has never failed to find a pay shoot, if not more. The trouble has been death and lack of means. John W. Mackey spent half a million on the Grand Reef, and just when he had begun operations to complete with the in stallation of a 200-ton concentration plant, he died: the Arayaipa com pany spent large sums in develop ment, and when it was in shape for paying operations. MT. Goddard died; ths Rattlesnake has been owned by two miners for years. and without the means for making a big mine; the Royal Tinto' is owned by two men who have spent practically Sl0o.- 600 in all on the property, and now they have it in shape to operate to depth where the ore bodies lie. l have never seen, in fact, such country as this is, beginning with the Rattlesnake, 30 miles away, and ending, so far as development is concerned, here on the Royal Tinto. At this end of this district the ore is absolutely copper: at the other end it is gold, and between there is gold, silver, lead, copper-bnt this section, will probably develop into copper mines. In the central section, too, General Jno. L. 3ullis, who died a few weeks ago at his home in San Antonio. has a large holding or the Grand Reef outcrop, and he, too, has spent possibly S75.OOO in develop ment, with good results. There is ample wood in this whole area for all purposes, and water is available generally, though in some places 1t would have to be developed further for very considerable operations There are goods roads as a rule, and where these have not been made, trails are available for examination purposes. The climate is ideal-eyen Tor Arizona. The country is precip- itous, and yet a little engineering will bring a road to any of the properties on not more than a 6 per cent grade, and for two-thirds of the way to any mine the grade needs not to be more than per cent. The country is stable In the Rattlesnake country it is andesite, rhyolitic DOT phyriy, limestone. quartzite, the veins being creciated quartz-porphy- " as a rule. These are deep-seated rocks, and ore-making methods may be employed because of ruggedness of the country making tunnels feas- ible to say 400 feet of depth. Near the surface the ore was high grade, but with really meager depth the sulphides come in so that even lower grade is not detrimental The section is one of the greatest promise. where all that is needed is money. This x
 not similar to many districts have visited this season. where prac- ticaIly every property is under bond or option about all the time, and where all this activity amounts to nothlng-the properties of this dis trict have never been on the mar ket in any way. The Aravaipa com pany had plenty of money till the chief owner died; the Grand Reef had all money necessary till Mfr. Aackey died; the Imperial had plenty of money till Gen. Bullis died; and the Royal Tinto owners planned a certain amount of work for which they had ample means. Therefore. one looks upon the whole section as exceptionally stable, without any boom element at all. believe that there will be a number of large mines here within a short time, and among the biggest will be the Royal Tinto. This property being owned by two men-H. T. Firth and Never Goodfriend- is absolutely unknown, for it has never been offered for sale or option. and the work has been done without any noise whatever, under direction of Mr. Firth.
 Several Veins.
 There are several veins within the Royal Tinto ground. The ore s .orrar Thara are approximately