Weekly journal-miner., 1911-07-26
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the Annie mine, another shoot on its east end showing continuously in the new tunnel being pushed ahead, now in a distance of 220 feet, and ore bodies of good milling grade exposed l in two places, in cuts of the Poland branch of the Bradshaw Mountain railroad. the Wizard mine offers, per haps, the most inviting indueement from the standpoint of economic de- velopment and operation in the en- tire Big Bug district. Cutting through and across the country formation, the vein can be easily traced for over a mile through the Annie, Wizard and Lucky Cuss claims, with the boldest outerOp on the Wizard. It passes in | an easterly and westerly trend, dip | ping about seventy degrees to the north | and under the mountain excessively | through three formations of the l granite family showing in place through porphyry, schist and shale reefs running with the country rock | and associated with a dyke resemb- | ling in turn a quartz diabase and diorite and a porphyry filling. In the dyke and filling the mineraliza- | ton has been proven wide, in places, | on the surface, the richest ore beIng | invariably along the dyke which is recognized as the foOtwall. From | the tunnel on the west end over one | hundred tons of ore have been taken, | that is now on the dump, samples of which assay as high as S20 to the ] ton in gold with small values in sil- | yer. Samples of the ore shoot on the | west end. give higher values in gold. l
 That the mine was one of the early | q nG sCAr aA hot its surface ores yielded handsome | profits to the pioneer miners is at ! tested by the fact that it has been | found opened by a shaft to a depth | of 125 feet from which considerable stoping was done. This shaft is in | the west end ore shoot and dates back | over thirty years, or beyond the mem Orv of the oldest inhabitant now re- siding in that section of the county | Only the richest of the ores were treated and there is a considerable tonnage of milling grade available | in the ground worked out by the early owners that can be treated profit ably in a mill with the ground re- opened. The same may be said of the east end ore shoot where the bottom of an old shaft. filled in by the railroad grade and not known to exist, was cut by the tunnel two weeks ago. Considerable stOping was done from the bottom of this shaft | and some ore of high grade was found above the roof of the tunnel ! in the face of an old underhand | stope
 In the railroad cut immediately | above and a little farther ahead of | the face of the tunnel an eighteen | inch streak of ore shows in the | forty foot cut above the grade | This is also true in a second rail ! road cut farther west where an almost i similar ore streak is exposed. asso- ciated with a pOrphyry swell in the i vein which continues considerable | distance. The latter is believed to | be the outcrop of a third and unex- plored shoot, if not continuation of | the west shoot. Judging from the ! Outcrop for the entire length of the claim, miners, familiar with the ground and district, assert that with | development they will not be sur { prised if the three shoots show al ' most continuously the entire length of i the claim, fifteen hundred feet.
 In the Annie mine, adjoining on | the west, an ore shoot was exploited | into the Wizard ground to an ap- ! proximate depth of 250 feet. This | was over fifteen years ago and that | the Providence Gold Mining Company, | owning the Annie, valued the Wizard | claim very highly, is attested from the fact that the company jumped the Wizard claim and applied for a | patent on it. This was contested by i J. P. Dillon, owner of the Wizard. | who established his rights in the ! district court and supreme court of | the territory and who later secured | letters patent from the United | States on the Wizard. W. W Lewis. | former superintendent of the Annie | mine, is authority for the statement | that the Annie ore shoot is a con tinuatiOn of that in the west end of ! the Wizard, and that the last five ! weeks he had charge of the property, | that part of the shoot adjoining the ! Wizard supported a crew of fifty on | the Annie and fifteen on the Great | Belcher, treated in the ten stamp | mill, which has since been destroyed | by fire. Forty per cent of the values Tn the ore at this point was saved on the plates, the remainder being recovered | in concentrates of good grade that | were shipped to the smelter.
 Adding further to the desirability
 and value of the property from the
 view of economic development is the
 fact that a water supply sufficient | for any sized reduction plant that | may be desired can be piped by gray
 ity to the millsite below the mouth
 Of the east end tunnel The water | can be piped from Big Bug creek | which parallels the mine to the south ! or from the mouth of the Lottie tun-
 mel about 4,00O feet distant. Water | sufficient for a plant will also be ] developed in the mine as it is open en by shafts to depth.
 The transmission line Of the Ari- | zona Power Company. from Fossil ! creek to Prescott, passes within a mile of the ground and the Humboldt | shelter is less than eight miles dis | tant over the Poland branch of the | Bradshaw Mountain railroad, afford | ing cheap transpOrtation for the pro- |