Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1912-09-29
NEW MEXICO
MINE DISTRICT
NOW ACTIVE
Twin Peaches and Apache
Box Country is Show
ing Wealth Under
Development
MUCH RICH MINERAL
BEING UNCOVERED
Ell PaSo Visitor Tells Of
Various Properties Now
Being Worked With
Good Success

New and rich strikes Of gold =al
OF copper are getting numerous "a
the Twin Peaks and Apache Box {
trict Of western Grant county. NC#
Mexico" says F. W Wagner, who as
in III Paso last week. lie was III
Paso for some tools for the n a-S.
He is foreman on the hoist and the
blacksmith at the Twin Peaks mine.
He was arranging some very rich
copper glance samples for ASSAYS.
which were an ayerase 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 wallis
and the rich naystreak is over two
feet wife and is rapidly widening wih
depth We only found il recently and
have already gone down to a depth OF
10 feet The vein runs nearly north
and south. The eastern wall is diOrits
and the other is pOrphyry. The beau.
" of il is that the diorite wall goes
down peTpendiculaTly while the pIr
phyry wall goes with a dip 70 the
west, so that accounts for the vein
widening with depth. The rich copper
ore occurs in parallel streaks sepa-
rated by soft streaks OF talCOse or
soft vein matter. IL 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 fur
Bull Moose claims. Cur 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 aad
theirs assays S2i5.44 in copper, gold
and silver values. The ores are chal-
cocite or copper glance, We are sack
ing all the ore as fast as we extract
il and will bEgin shipping 20 the
smelter as sOOH as the new wagon
road is completed which viii be this
week.
The ore has just been asssyed and
gives the following results: Copper.
4G.j per cent, gold, 80 ounce; silver,
ll.6 ounce, total value per ton, Sl46.j.
The Isabel Gold Mine
About a mile southeast OF the Bun
Moose SAYS Wagner, another rich
strike has been made OF exceeding
richness which is creating consider.
able excitement in the camp. II bios
fair to create a bigger furJr than
did the famous Apache Box. 1t was
discovered recently by lin FraZe-,
who is the pioneer uisCOyeTeT of gold
at Twin Peaks. The discovery con.
sists of a big ledge Of quartz OF
quartz-poTphyry on which he has in-
Gated several claims, the principal one
on which the discovery was made
being called the Isabel. The owner
is sinking as rapidly as possible and
had got down about 10 feet The DAY
] left The shaft is eight feet wide
and he is in solid ore all the way
down. all around the shaft, aud is
sacking all the ore as fast as IL Is
raised. without sorting. He had al
ready sacked 20 sacks of this ore the
day ! left and was having $50 more
sacks brought over to the mine 10 %
filed. The ore runs about 800 pc!
ton, mostly gold values. There is g
rich streak Of iron on the hanging
wall about two inches thick that runs
over $500 per ton and pans The
coarsesJ kind OF free gold. As a0Oz
as the new wagon road is CORY te-
he will increase his working .JTci
and begin shipping the ore as fast a
teams can be had.
The vein has not been cTossCut ye'
at the bottom 10 see how wide II Is
but at the surface it Outcrops abou
is feet wide and pans gold all tht
way across.
i have seen lots OF rich prospects
but | regard this as the biggest .hIhs
ever saw. For years Frazer had
noticed the big ledge but never srs
pected &c to carry any workable val
ues. In planning a shallow trench o.
crosscut under a high cropping h
found the dirt PANIED gold, and thi
led to his discovery that the big ven
was rich. Il all goes 20 show that tn
camp needs close prospecting an,