Arizona republican., 1916-06-19

build an excellent wagon road through Tank pass. This road will be carried along a hogback to Salome, some eight miles away. It will afford easy access not only to the Cobrita but to num- Der of other properties which lie through Tank pass. New claims are being located there and work is being started on a number of old ones.
 When the. road, is finished, which will be in about two weeks, the Cobrita will become a regular shipper The main tunnel at the Cobrita is now in I40 feet with the face in ore that is from S5 to 45 per cent copper and carries s65 ton in gold. Stoping above the tunnel level has been commenced and d winze is being sunk on the ore. When the winze is down 50 feet an other level will be run and the ore blocked out A contract has just been let for the driving of the tunnel an other, 100 feet.
 At 100 feet in the tunnel short crosscut was run. showing the width of the ledge at that point to be nine feet. Some 2000 feet farther up the side of the mountain the surface crop pings are three times as wide as at the mouth of the tunnel.
 Los Angeles and Whittier people are behind the Cobrita. They were inter- ested in the property by D. w. Hall. who is now in charge. MT. Hall is a pioneer of this section. He discovered the limestone belt and iron capped lodges of the Tank pass section and built the first semblance of a trail through the pass ten years ago. He is also interested in the Black Bonanza, Black Bear, Daisy May and Black Dike groups.
 One carload of ore shipped from the mine owned by Sidney P osborn and James Burson. in Cunningham passi north of Wenden, to the Selby smell ter at San Francisco, netted more than $3700. The ore averaged 9.77 per cent copper and sl750 ton in gold. z Globe parties have become interest ed with Osborn and Burson and cor poration will be formed this week to develop the property. A hoist, com pressor and pump will be installed and the main shaft, now down 54 feet, sunk to depth. The ore is over two feet wide in ten-foot drift west from the bottom of the shaft, so it is ex- pected that regular shipments can be ! made.
 A carload of ore is shortly to be | shipped from. the sNindicator mine, q short distance east of the Osborn and l Burson claims. Arrangements had beer
 made to ship it to Humboldt but the | -sampling mill burned down there SC sthe ore will probably be marketed 1T
 the southern part of the state. l. The Black Reef Copper company which owns a group of promising
 calms south of Cunningham pass, ad- ] joining the Desert property has pur- l chased a twelve e-horsepower hois
 which will soon be on the ground. Thi. l equipment is to be used in sinking
 the main shaft, which is now down 12, ] feet in ore that runs $3 to S42 in gol( ] and 3.6 to 35 per cent copper. On thu lsurface this ledge is only two fee wide. but it increases in width rapidl, and at loo feet is six feet from wal to wall. This shaft has the only wate 4 that has been struck in that immediate vicinity. It makes about 35 barrels 0 good water every "A hours.
 I Sulphide ore has been struck at depth of 250 feet in the No shaf
 of the Desert. A hoisr and compresso
 are being installed at the main shafi
 some distance east. which is down onl
 sixty feed. Several carloads of goo \,
 the Desert, which is owned by a Jerom
 company. The ore is freighted to Wen
 den by motor truck.