The copper era and Morenci leader., 1912-10-04
APACHE BOX MINES ARE MAKING FINE
 SHOWING
The Mines in the District Near Cliff ton Showing Much Good Mineral and DeveIopmpent Being Hur- ried Along-Severai Prop
 critics Proved

New and rich strikes of gold and of copper are getting numerous in the Twin Peaks and Apache Box dis trict of western Grant county, New Mexico" says F. w Wagner, who was in Fl Paso last week. He was in Fl Paso for some tools for the mines. He is foreman on the hoist and ths blacksmith at the Twin Peaks mine He was arranging some very rich copper glance samples for assays, which were an average of the vein of the Bull Moose claim in that district, owned by him and partner, which they recently discovered
 These samples,'' he said, ''repre- sent a general average of the pay streak of the vein that runs through the Bull Moose group. The vein is about five feet wide between walls and the rich paystreak is over two feet wide and is rapidly widening with depth. We only found it recently and have already gone down to a depth of 15 feet. The vein runs nearly north
 
 and the other is porphyry The beau ty of it is that the diorite wall goes down perpendicularly while the DOT phyry wall goes with a dip to the west, so that accounts for the vein widening with depth. The rich copper ated by soft streaks of talcose or soft vein matter. It is much like the copper occurrence in the Santa Rita veins, where the sheets of native cop per occur in similar streaks through the talcoSe material. The same rich copper shows up throughout the four Bull Moose claims. Our mine is about a mile southeast of the Twin Peaks mine. On the same lode as ours is another property called the Oxide King owned by other parties, whose ore is of the same quality as ours and theirs assays $245.44 in copper, gold and silver values. The ores are cha,- cocite or copper glance. We are sack ing all the ore as fast as we extract it and will begin shipping( to the shelter as soon as the new wagon road is completed, which will be this week
 The ore has just been assayed and gives the following results: Copper a6.5 per cent, gold 92 ounces; siIve;,, l16 ounces; total value per ton, ,S146.5. |
 The IsabeII Gold Mine.
 About mile southeast of the Bull says Wagner, another rich strike has been made of exceeding richness which is creating consider | able excitement in the camp. It bids | fair to create bigger furore than lid the famous Apache Box. It was discovered recently by Jim Fraser, ! who is the pioneer discoverer of gold 1t Twin Peaks. The discovery con sists of a big ledge of quartz or on which he has To ! ;a ted several claims. the principal one on which the discovery was made being called the Isabell The owner S sinking as rapidly as possible and lad got down abort 15 feet the day
 left. The shaft is eight feet wide md he is in solid ore all the way Town, all around the shaft, and is ,acking all the ore as fast as it is ,aised without sorting. He had al 'eady sacked 20 sacks of this ore tEe lay left and was having $50 more sacks brought over to the mine to be filed The ore ruIs about $100 pc: on, mostly gold vtlues. There is 'ich streak of iron on the hanging wall about two inches thick that runs ,ver $200 per ton and pans the oarsest kind of free gold. As soon IS the new wagon road is completed Ie will increase his working force nd begin shipping the ore as fast as cams can be had.
 The vein has not been croSscut yet t the bottom to see how wdie it is ut at the surface it outcrops about 8 feet wide and pans gold all the 7ay across.
 T have seen lots of rich prospects, ut 1 regard this as the biggest thing
 ever saw. For years Frazer had oticed the big ledge but never sus- ected it to carry any workable val es. In banning shallow trench or rosscut under a high cropping he ound the dirt banned gold, and this ed to his discovery that the big vein as rich. It all goes to show that the amp needs close prospecting and nat it has hardly been scratched, as i ct. {
 Rich Strike in Dark Thunder. {
 The lesses of 1he Dark Thunder S 2pper mine northeast of Twin Peaks, ( claim of that company, have eli-