Bisbee daily review., 1912-01-26
SOLID SILVER
 IS REPORTED
Monte CristO Ore Is Said to Run 75 Per Cent
 in Silver in
 Big Deposits
NO SHIPMENTS AS YET

l just returned to Phoenix, declares | that he saw pieces of ore weighing | 206 pounds and as much as three , fourth silver. lying around the mine office.
 1 It became known about a year ago that a rich strike had been made in ' the Monte Cristo. but the owners re- fused to divulge any information re- 1 garding Che matter They have con sistently followed q policy of silence and only they and the actual em- ployes know what the extent of the ] developed ore body is.
 Native silver exists in surprising | quantities ip all the ore now-lying on the Monte Cristo dump. There are thousands of tons there but the | owners have not sold a pound, pre- ! ferring to wait until their ore body ! is more fully developed before plac- | ing the Monte Cristo in the produc- ! Ing column. They have purchased a i number of adjoining claims since the strike was made and ar, in the mar | ket for more.
 l At present thirty men ar< .em- | ployed at the Monte Cristo. Several ] shafts have tsen sunk and numerous i drifts and cross-cuts have been run i The main shaft is 456 feet in depth and from the bottom a fifty foot drift 1 has been run along the ore. It is from this drift that the rich ore is being taken, although ore Of paying quantity has been taken from prac- .ically all the workings. 4 steam hoist is to be installed aG tho> main shaft The present ' equipment will be moved 1,500 or ! 1000 feet farther up the hill, where another deep shaft will be sunk on the vein.
 Some of the ore, it is said, runs as high as slo.000 a ton. Doubtless the rich ore occurs in kidneys, but they must be large kidneys, judging from the size of the chunks lying about | the Monte Cristo office.
 The Monte Cristo was discovered more than twenty-five years ago by the Salido brothers, prospectors. ] They located tR'o claims. on one of which was an outcrop Of ore rich in horn silver. Dr. ". w. Jones of Tempe and Breciano Ruiz became interested in the find. Dr. Jones finally became disgusted and gave | his interest to Joe Porterie, telling him that he might go there and chloride when he had the time ! Porterie worked with the Saiidos and . Ruiz for a time. They minei am shipped out about $25,00O wortn ot ore. taking everything that Nas iu sight.
 Fortune Spent On Mine In 1890 Ed Gonzales of Phoenix jumped the claim. Gonzales iatLer- i in-law, Jesus Otero, spent a small fotune on the property, stopplngl only when he was practically a bank rupt. Gonzales later sold t5e mine ' to Ezra w Thayer and associates. who formed the present cOmuapy ana have developed a mine that may grove a bonanza.
 : Adjoining the Monte Csisto {, is the property, of the Arizora Copper Belt mining company. This prop rty b7s been idle for a long time, put Nimam J. Dilthey of New York, rr' side1t of the corpor iiiOn, has just completed an examination and returned to the east to make ar rangements for resumption of op- erations. This is develored minC the OlE nay llE BtNh lAVNFAA ete HCNA ends of the group. While copper was low. however. the stockholders did not care to advance the money necessary for reduction plant. It is understood that their present plan is to erect a small shelter, and, per haps, to treat custom ores. If they carry out this plan, copper mining in that region will be given a great impetus.
 Driving for Contact
 Steve Loncar has q group of eight claims southeast Of the Monte Cristo comprising the dike contact. He has driven a tunnel 900 feet toward the contact. which he will reach after 1J0 feet more work. At the contact he will have attained 6 depth of be tween 500 and 600 feet. On the other side of the hill h. has run a Z5O-foot tunnel in on ore. A shallow shaft has been sunk on a rick streak, from three to four feet wide, and all the ore taken out runs well in gold and silver.
 Southeast Of the Monte Cristo Is the O'Brien E. Camp mines. on which a small force is working. Sey- eral shafts, from 150 10 800 feet in depth, have been sunk, and no less than 10000 tons of shipping ore is on the dump. Preparations are be ing made to sink main working shaft, flor a general trend Of the ore has been determined pretty thoroughly.
 4 party of the stockholders of the Unida Mining company, which owns the old George Margaritch mine neal tlle Monte Cristo, is now on Inc ground making an examination. II their examination is SatisfactoFy
 work will be resumed at an early date. lt is also thought that before long something will be done with , the King Solomon, owned by th' Hite Gold Mining Co.--Arizona Demo
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