Arizona republican., 1916-12-24

The Critic was formerly owned by I the Cunningham Pass Copper Com pany, which stopped one of it's cross | cuts within twenty feet of the high grade. It is located just through Cunningham pass on the north side of the HarcuVars and about four miles east of the Cobrita, the mine where 30 per cent black Sulphide was struck | last summer at depth of 100 feet.
 George B. Layton of Boston is the present owner of the Critic. It is held | under lease by r. A. Stent of the Humboldt National Bank building. san Francisco. and George A. Easton, al so of the Golden Gate City. Easton is in charge of the property. Under him are four parties of sub -leasers. Five of the leasers have recently bought eX- pensiVe automobiles Four months ago 0tent and IIaston were 900 Tn the hole. Today they are little better than even and they expect to take several fortunes out of the Critic in the course of the three years their lease still has to run Since striking the high-grade they have shipped three carloads of ore that 1etted $2700 d ear. Their average shipments arc a carload a week. Easton examined the formation at the Critic carefully for many months before he became convinced that the ore lay to the northeast. He had the old crosscut on the 300-foot level eX- tended. When it had been driven ahead | twenty feet it broke through two feet of so per cent copper glance. On the 1 other side was a foot of sulphde aver 1 'ginS 5 per cent copper
 Four hundred feet of drifting has 5een done on the high grade shoot | e'or l50 feet of that distance the shoot l s>a mere stringer, but it has been proven that Easton did not break into ! little pocket A Winze has been | sunk B feet where the glance is two 1 eeet wide and the shoot maintains that l width all the way down Moreover, i he ore has been tapped on the 400
 nd 450. raise has been made from | the 400 to connect with the bottom of | he WinZe.
 Were the Critic owned by stock | company, even one with no stock on the market, the strike would have at 1 lracted no end of attention throughout the country As it is it has scarcely l been heard of outside the immediate 1 district
 i The Critic strike has greatly stimu- 1 'ated interest in nearby properties, notably the Wenden, Desert and Black l Reef. The Wenden, which adjoins the ! Critic on the north and west is con l rolled by Sidney P. Osborn, secretary
 # the state of Arizona; by A W. Syd-
 Tor and other Globe parties It is un- | Ter development, as are the Desert l md Black Reef, two miles away to the 1 southeast. Robert W. Hollis. the Ray | Consolidated engineer. has just made a favorable report on the Desert and | accepted a position as consulting en-
 gineer of that company. Had he known
 of the strike at the Critic in the di-
 rection of which the Desert ore body pitching, his report would prob | lbly have been more favorable
 Since Dick Wick Hall made the 1 Glory Hole company a Christmas 1 present of the Cobrita Paystreak, the
 extension of the now famous Cobrita,
 ten-foot hole has been put down. In
 The bottom is two feet of ore carrying
 rom five to six per cent copper some
 gold and great deal of iron There
 Ire strong evidences of teaching and
 nat so much copper remains in the
 ore is regarded as remarkable.
 This is far better showing than the
 1obrita had that near the surface To
 tart with the Cobrita had only two
 nches of ore but at 100 feet the shoot
 lad widened to eight feet. with two
 eet running above 9 per cent copper l md some of il as much as 30 Der cen. | Dick Hall almost made a present of
 the Cobrita to M L. Hazard and W
 l. Gregg in order to get some dcvelop-
 nent started in the district. Then he
 made the Glory Hole company an out
 1sht present of the CObrita Paystreak.
 with much the same object in view.
 Today 1t looks as though he gave away
 wo of the best copper mines in the
 whole state.
 A 50-fOOt winze has been sunk from
 the bottom of the Cobrita drift tunnel
 and there another eight-foot shoot of
 nlgh-gra black sulphide has been l opened. Now drift is being run from
 he bottom of the Winze. This drift is
 beside the high grade but is in ledge
 matter and now sulphide is shot all
 through the face. Indications are that
 an immense body of high grade will | soon be entered.
 Machinery for the sinking of a shaft
 has been ordered and paid for. It in
 dudes 60-horsepOwer West Coast
 gasoline engine and four drill com 1 pressor. In the meantime the shaft
 has been started by hand below the
 portal of the tunnel and is down some
 thirty feet. The plan is to sink the
 shaft to 300 feet. then drift under the
 ore to gain vertical depth of 500.
 After that the shaft will be sunk to 800
 feet and another drift run.
 Two carloads of high grade ore have
 llready been shipped from he Cobrita
 tnd another will go forward within
 sixty days.
 Heretofore the Cobrita company has
 used the Arizona camp. about a mile
 lway, but it is now to have a camp of
 ts own Four buildings, including d
 poarding house. are already up
 public boarding house is being con-
 iucted at the Arizona and the pro- prietor has more business than he can
 iandle, so great is the rush into the
 home of Shgrade." Last Monday no less than seven automobiles from )ther states were there.
 The Situation in the Silver Market The silver market has been swept nore clear Of supplies and further , advance in rates is predicted by Sam
 uel Montagu x Co., of London. This , increase of rates became unavoidable ! owing to continued strength of the \ China exchanges which led to pur- ehases i'll America and also in London E inquiries embraced mintage orders. or