Arizona republican., 1916-07-30
ARIZONA MINING NEWS

have already cut a blind fissure which
horns well in free gold and all seem
enthusiastic over the certainty of get
ting body of high grade jewelry ore
when the main fissure is cut and fol-
lowed to its intersection with the main
ledge which is nearly two hundred
| feet in width and forms a conspicu-
Gus feature of the landscape being an
immense mass of quartz, spar and
/ iron of the same character as that in
the cross assures carrying the gold
and leading up into the main mass.
/ When the original discovery was made
ore was picked up on the surface and
| taken out of the ground that was al
most half gold, much of it running
over $1C0 "a pound just the way it was
dug out. The property is practically
as much of a prospect yet as it was
the week of discovery and the devel-
| opment of the main ledge VIII be
watched with interest, both on account
of the high grade ore bodies that may
be developed as well as the POSSIBLE
tiles of 1t proving up to be an i'm
mense body of milling ore of value
sufficient to yield big profits, not
counting the high grade possibilities
and probabilities
e. A. Bob" Montgomery, the ia
nous Nevada mining man who sold
the Montgomery Shoshone to Schwab
and associates for three million dol
lars, is working a force of men at sew
eral places on the Cuff property IN
der the supervision of Didrick Wiggers
near the Golden Eagle, about mile
from the Harqua Hala, and has just
opened up ore running well in gold.
The Cuff property covers a basin of
granite porphyry cut by numerous
roo I'M. rod
showing every evidence of extensive
naturalization, the main fractured
zone having the same trend as the
Harqua Hala ore body and possibly
being parallel vein or ore zone. The
ore is much the same character as the
Harqua Hala and the formation is
practically the same as that in which
the new strike has been made at the
Harqua Hala and the future posi-
bilities seem strong for a big ore
body being opened up by Montgomery
who recently expressed himself as be
ing surprised at the big undeVeloped
showings of the district and has al
ready taken over two properties here.
The Harqua Hala porphyry belt can
be followed on the surface from the
Harqua Hala northwest to the Glory
Hole and Griffin properties and has
really never been prospected yet. IN
less the building of occasional monu-
ments and the sinking of few ten
foot holes can be considered as devel-
opment work. The Cuff property
where Montgomery is making such
| good shOwings in less than a month
after starting work. is crossed by the
main travelled road and has been driv-
en- over by hundreds of people in years
past and lain there undeveloped I'M
| til a stranger comes in and recognizes
its value. but this seems to be the his
! tory Of all mining districts. There is
a big belt between the Harqua Hala
and the Glory Hole that shows extern
| siVe evidences of naturalization and
| numerous lodges and outcrops and It
viii probably all be located and pros
pected this fall and winter Many
new people are coming in and taking
up ground and the few old timers are
already beginning to sit up and take
notice and tell how they might have
had this piece of ground or that and
would have had it this summer if it
hadn't been so hot or something else
manana' hadn't happened.
W J. Gregg and NJ. L. HoZZard have
been over from California looking af-
ter the work at the Cobrita which has
just started to shipping ore running
better than 20 per cent copper and
and some gold. Some free gold run
ming from $65 up has also been found
on the property. on a nearby ledge
paralleling the main Cobrita ledge It
aas only bcsn two months since the
Cobrita was taken over. during which
time "A new road has been built
through Tank Pass and the shipping OF
20 per cent ore started. which GER
tainly speaks well for the district, as
well as for the property. The Tank
Pass and Cottonwood Pass sections
where the Cobrita and others are To-
Gated. is a veritable network of lodges
| all of the same character and showing
an outcrop of quartz and iron. which
seems to be a Gaping for high grade
"copper" gold ores wherever work has
been done. Several deals have already
been closed lately on properties there
and more are under way, the shippine
ores at or near the surface attractini
the attention of people who are look
ing for real mines with real ore il
sight.
Two new strikes are reported from
| | Cunningham Pass, north of Wenden
and just east of the Cobrita section
| Leasers working on the three and fou
| hundred foot levels at the Cunning
| ham property have both opened VI
| from one to three feet or more of higl
| grade ore. running high in sulphides
| glance and native copper Numerou
| other properties in that section ar
| taking out shipping ores and there il
| a general activity starting all through
| the Harcuvar range as well as in tn
| Harqua Halas. numerous outfits from
| Jerome, Oatman. Phoenix, Globe ant
| California points having recently TAX
| en- over properties and started devel
| opment work. For the amount of worI
4 being done there is no district in tn
II state producing the amount and char
i acter of ore of high value as the dis
Il tricts Immediately tributary to Salom'
II and il is a district where deep devel
II opment has been done at no point ye
II unless one considers the three hundre
Il feet attained by the Harqua Hala a
II being deep workings.