The border vidette., 1913-12-06
The Flux Mine Makes a Phenomenal
 Strike.

T IO. Richardson is the O Tner. Three assays were made at the local assay office Thursday, the 27th. and showed results as follows: No. 1-4. 2S; No. ?, 1892; No. 3 -8C8. At the time of going to press the result of the lead sil- yer test had not been deter mined
 The Flux mine is located about four miles from Patagonia, in the Patagonia range of noun tainS
 Ed. Bohlinger, who has been some time, and who has discov- cred many of the rich ore de .posits of the district, is highly regarded by the owner of the mine, and it is due, greatly to his knowledge of ground. that the recent strike was made.
 The magnitude of the strike is as yet undetermined. but it Is to be hoped that history will re- peat itself and that the results of Colonel RichardsOn's cease less and untiring efforts on the Three R property will be du- plicated or surpassed in devalop ment work now iE progress at the FluX.
 The ore encountered at the FluX is on the 13O-fOOt level and is entirely different from any thing previously opened up. -
 LFhe drift was started on a small bunch of ore occurring on the footwall of the main ledge.
 A fair grade of lead silver ore, in some places seven feet wide, showed up the entire length of the drift. Recently. within the last couple of days, the face of the drift opened up into copper, showing a sprinkling of native copper all through the rock, be- sides the lead-silver values
 The old Flux mine was discov- cred sometime about 1856. An old 'dobe Mexican shelter yet stands in the Con Ryau canyon, supposed to have smeited ore from the Flux mine and also from the Ivanhoe, as the same character of ore is still scatter ed around the old smelter.
 In 1882, when the railroad was built down the Sonoita canyon, a switch was run from the rail road to a point in the mouth of Con Ryan canyon, where ore bins were built and ore from the FluX mine loaded and shipped to smelter at Benson, 65 miles north of Patagonia. After a few years the mine was again abandoned and about 1890 was located by three different parties, Colonel R. R. Richardson buying them all out little later on. Colonel Richardson bonded it to a New York company about 1898 who built shelter at Patagonia and took out several thousand tons of ore and smelted it. Four men of this company built the smelt- CT for $35. .OOO and turned it over to the company for $125, ,OOO, cleaning up $90,OOO, making a good turn, and in short time shut down the smelter Said companies also had a bond on the HardShell mine and shipped several thousand tons from that Colonel Richardson received $1O,OOO in cash on the two bends. Later on Colonel shipped quite a num- Der of carloads of ore to the Ell Paso smelter from the Flux mine. In 1905 he bonded the property to Ben Heney and as who did about 1000 feet of work on the mine during the following four or five years and threw up the bond. Col. then went to work on the property and opened up quite lot of ore in the lower workings, though the ore was not rich enough to ship, carry ing some zinc. The mine has large body of low grade lead and silver. From the surface to the 1sO foot level it is from 40 to 50 feet wide. carrying S8 in silver and lead. Colonel Richardson also sunk 50 foot shaft about 1 ,OOO feet north of the present workings which shows high grade copper ore.
 In this connection it may not be amiss to call attention to the fact that Colonel Richardson is a progressive among prOgres- SiveS and that he stands in the front rank as one of the leading