Arizona republican., 1916-09-07
ROOSEVELT LAKE CO.
 LOCATES 4 NUMBER
 IF COPPER CLAIMS


 Officials of the Roosevelt Lake Copper Company were in Phoenix yesterday transacting business con-
 nected with their mining develop ments. General Manager R. H. Will
 Hams has just returned from a stay of several days at the mines at Reno
 Pass during which time a number of rev locations were made which eX- tend the property to include suitable
 town site and mill site ground on each side of the mountain.
 Since the formation of the com
 panY ir July with eleven claims grouped around the rich copper strike near the top of the mountain, exploration work and locations have
 been systematically extended. prin-
 cipally along the line of the great
 Humdinger ledge where excellent sur
 face showings have been developed for a distance of four miles, the ends
 being determined only by the deep valley of Sycamore creek on the west and the Tonto Basin on the east. Naturally these valleys afford ideal tunnel sites from which the immense ore bodies of the ledge can be most economically worked.
 While the property was located on 1 the strength of the high grade ore
 
 tons of glance and chalco- -pyrites
 were taken from the discovery pit. tho later extended surface explorations which the company has been carry i ing on indicate that the ground now covered by the company's locations
 contain also immense bodies of me dium and low grade ore.
 About eight hundred feet to the
 soatlward of the great Humdinger ledge and practically paralleling it, ! is a similar letlge of almost equal magnitude though overburdened to a considerable extent by the adjacent country rock. This ledge is also covered hv the companys locations,
 and has been styled the Big Brother. Numerous other veins and dykes of quartz and of porphyry cut the mountain inevery direction, some of which are being worked on adjacent claims for their good values. The Casey group which immedi1tely abuts the original Humdinger e"oup
 on the north. have developed g. me very promising geld values at a
 depth of eighteen feet. To the so"tG-
 east, Wm. Irwin has located mn her of interesting gold claims me Smith group about three miles to the northwest is again shipping this h- ten tons of rich glance. which when it has been carried over the mountain | on burros and fFeighted to Glooe i will net. according to estimates. at least S16O per" ton.
 The Hyde claims on the east side of the Pass rave long been produe- | ing sufficient gold to justly con- | tinuous work even under the great handicap of the previous bad roads With the advent of good roads of which there are now prospects all the
 mines in the district are expected to | take on q new period of activity No ] district in the Southwest would better justify railroad than the Tonto | Basin country. Whenever the con tinued prosperity of the country leads 70 a new era or railOrad construc- Iticn, a naturlal result will be the revlval in some form of the old Santa Fe survey down the Tonto and past the Lake to Globe. Yet even without railroad. where freight or ! ore and concentrates does not ex- ceed twenty dollars per ton, as Is the case with the Reno Pass and Sun
 flower country. profitable mining car
 be carried on, the difference in faNol of the railorad camps, being not SC
 great as is popularly supposed. or | cooper # should amount to only two
 or three cents ger pound out of prices that it seems quite generallv agreed can hardly fall below twenty -fiNf cents.