Weekly journal-miner., 1912-03-06
MINING
 FUTURE MARVELLOUS
Copper Creek People Plan Railroad To Open up Wonderful Resources
 Of Rich Mineral Zone
(From Wednesdays Daily)

(From Wednesdays Daily)
 Any one doubting the coming great
 ness of Yavapai county as a mining
 ection should have been with a repre-. tentative of the Journal Miner who
 has just returned from a trip into several mining districts of the county FThe first point touched upon was the Hopper Basin district where the Phelps Dodge interests have opened up n body of high grade shipping copper ore.
 Copper Basin is formation pccul. iarly its own. From surface indiea. tions one would not expect to find the character of ores found there in such great varieties. The rich cup. rite ores of the Commercial Mining company were cut in tunnel run into small hill known as Garbarino Hill, and the rich ores extend to very near the surface. Aside from the high grade ores large body of ores running down to about per cent copper has also been opened up. The shipping ore should run at least 10 per cent in carload lots, and it is now claimed that shipping will be begun. The ores will naturally be sent to the company's big smelling plant at Douglas.
 Copper Creek was the next objective point and there one sees the most spectacular display of copper bearing porphyry out of doors. Copper Greek has washed . gorge through the coun. try to n depth of many hundred feet, opening up vast bodies of low grade copper ores, said to average on the surface nearly 9 per cent in copper, with of course much ore of . better grade than that. Native copper is seen in many places, together with malaehite, azurite and copper car. bonates, in all making a very pretty picture. The water in Copper Creek is % impregnated with copper that it is entirely unfit for domestic pur. poses.
 The largest operating company there is the Arizona. Nevada Copper com pany owning 70 patented claims. De. velopments have been done by tun. neling, shafts and churn drilling. In all it is estimated that this company has in sight at least twelve million dollars worth of ore in net value. The distance from railroad is 2s miles and until this needed accessory is built no reduction plant will be con sidered. However, it is strongly as serted that this company In connec- tion with the owners of the famous Hillside Gold mine, which Is located very near, will build a railway into the section in the near future.
 The Hillside mill is in operation and concentrates are being hauled regularly to the railway by ten. borss team. Aside from the gold ores of the Hillside company, 1t has large bodies of lead and zine ores which can not be handled until the railroad is constructed. It is we'll understood that these people have been planning on . road for some time, but have been waiting for some other strong interests to take up other propositions in the section, and 1t is now we'll understood that this has been aeeomp. lished.
 The most remarkable strike made in Copper Creek section recently is that on the Niagara Copper eompany's ground. In . tunnel on the Niagara claim there is . showing of copper glance and massive cuprite that can not be duplicated in the district. The better samples of the euprite assay as high as 75 per cent copper and the copper glance runs over 50 per cent copper and all carries silver values. Aside from these copper values, is a cross vein of broken ferruginous quartz which carries values Of sl2 per ton in gold. This company has arranged to take over enough ad- joining ground to increase its holdings to 300 acres, and survey for patent will be made at once. Some new pco- pie of strength have taken an interest in this company and it is stated will finance the enterprise for thorough development. Work is being con tinued on the high grade ores cut, with the hope of developing the 75 per cent ore in sufficient quantity to ship.
 The Santa Maria district is also attracting some attention. The opera ton of the Crosby mill goes on and