The Parker post., 1912-06-15
PARKER GREAT
MINING CENTER
MANY GOLD AND COPPER PROP
ERTIES OF MERIT.
High Price of Metals Presages
Much Activity Here Coming
Fall and Winter.

Parker Is the center OF the great
est mineralized section of Arizona,
and that portion of San BernardinO
and Riverside counties, California
bordering the Colorado river. For
twenty-five miles in every direction
from Parker there are evidences that
Mother Nature has been extremely
lavish ir her deposition of the prec-
iClls metals as we'll as the baSer me-
tails, such as copper, zinc, lead, etc
metals, notably copper. assures great
er activity in the mining industry in
this section than ever before in the
history of the various districts sur
rounding Parker. Usually the sum-
mer season is devoid of much activ-
ity in mining in the desert, but al
ready Representatives of great min
ing corporations are securing the
country seeking desirable prospects
for development, and those who own
partly developed mines are planning
extensive operations for this coming
fall
The regeneration of Swansea the
biggest copper camp in this part of
Yuma county, has tended to inspire
confidence among claim owners, who
are now IN a position to work their
properties and ship to the Swansea
smeltei. Both mine and 8meIter will
be running full capacity within
short time, and this will mean the
starting up of a number of properties
in this section
Across the river, the Steece Copper
company. in the Riverside momtains3
The Horn mines, the D. & W., and
various other properties have deval
Oped large bodies of Gre Tho com.
ing fall will witness considerable
work in the districts in which the2e
nunea are located
Up the river on the California side,
there are at present two mills i'm pro
cess OF construction i'm the Copper
Basin and Whipple Wash districts.
Numerous prospects will thereby be
enabled to resume operations, having
reduction mills located i'm their very
midst. The Whipple Wash and Cop
per Basin sections are highly miner
allied, and there are many properties
there that can be put on a paying
basis with milling facilities located
so conveniently
On the Arizona side, about nine
miles from Parker the Arizona En-
plre has recently developed an i'm
mense ore body on the 200foot level
and it is the purpose of the company
TO continue developments ON a coed
scale. Until ore reduction works are
more conveniently located the pro
duct OF the mines will be treated by
outside Smelters
The Billy Mack mime is the pre-
mier gold mine of the Parker colm-
try, and during It's operation at var
lOuS periods during the past twenty
years it has produced largely in the
yellow metal. No great depth Was
indications are that with development
1t would compare favOrably with the
big gold mines Of the state. At
present there is considerable ore
blocked out and i'm sight i'm
the mime. AT no great future date
the Billy Mack will undoubtedly be
producing on large scale.
The old Planet mime. southeast of
Parker WAS worked i'm tho 7n'7 a,n5
it's ores were shipped 10 Swansea,
Wales. Last year the company pat
ented is group OF thirty-nine claims,
and now that the price of copper has
risen IL is reasonable to suppose that
this famous old mine Will not long
remain idle Ii is not far from Swan
sea, and by building a short spur
from the Swansea railroad, ore could
be shipped to the smeher at a very
small cost
The Sedimentary formation of the
great Parker Valley Astounding i'm
rich agricultural lands, is broken on
the north and east by the appearance
OF the pr1matiVe, which is known atS
the Whipple mountains on the Cal
1fornia side and the Planet range a.
cross the river in Arizona This
formation is highly impregnated
with minerals and assumes a north
west by southeast trend, and DIS trace
aEle clear through to Globe and Bis
bee and on into Mexico. There is
not property i'm amy of the dis
tricts surrounding Parker that lis
absolutely copper, but 20 the contrary
they all carry gold values In no in
stance has sufficient depth been at
tained to determine what lis below