Arizona republican., 1916-08-27

cated this week. Several good show ings have been made already on ground located during the last ten days and high grade copper gold ore opened up on claims both north and east of the Cobrita ground on parallel ledges and dikes, within few feet Of the surface. Wherever any work has been done on any of the quartz, iron and spar lodges copper stain and corbon- ate ores have been found within few feet of the surface and the success of the Cobrita in opening up high grade | black Sulphides bornite, glance and solid chalcopyrites at such shallow | depth under similar surface showings | is encouraging others to prospect the | hundreds of parallel lodges so num- erous for a distance of two or three | miles east and west of the Cobrita.
 The strike on the Cobrita was made | 215 feet in tunnel running on the | Seattle ledge and the day after the solid | sulphldes wereNencountered in the tun- | nel, an eight foot vein was crosscut at | the bottom of a 50-foot winze sunk | from the tunnel level 100 feet in from the portal The eight foot ledge in the winZe crosscut shows good values its entire width, with streaks and punches of solid chalcopyrite and black sul- phides disseminated through it. In the tunnel the ore was encountered on the left side and has been exposed now for a distance of nearly thirty feet along the side of the tunnel, showing about eighteen inches of ore averaging about thirty per cent or over and several feet of lower grade ore. The ledge has not been crosscut yet, but inasmuch as the
 main dike is to the right of the tunnel and the high grade ore shoot now ex- posed is on the left and making to-
 wards the main dike, much larger showing are expected when the tunnel is in about sixty feet further, where the two come together on the surface l The ore in the face of the tunnel all | most doubles it's width between the roof and floor and from it's looks is ap- | parently the top of big shoot of high | grade ore, widening out both as it goes ahead and as it goes down. For the 1 past hundred feet the tunnel has been l going through a break or twisted DOT
 tion of the vein and is just now enter | ing under a surface cropping which
 extends for distance of over a thous-
 and feet ahead of the face of the tun-
 nel without break, widening out to | over ten feet on the surface about three | hundred feet ahead of the present tun-
 nel face, which has a vertical depth of
 about 135 feet beneath the surface. 1 The eight foot vein in the winze cross
 cut was tapped between two ore shoots
 and drifting will be started both ways
 on this level, to cut the high grade ore
 to the south now exposed in the tunnel
 and north to cut the ore shoot which
 the tunnel was started on from which
 shipments of 21 per cent ore have been
 made. An engine and blower are being
 installed this week to enable two
 shifts to be worked in the tunnel and
 drifts from the bottom of the winze
 and the Cobrita company is now
 figuring on installing hoist and con- pressor to sink a vertical shaft on-the main ledge just below the tunnel dump
 to open up the ledge below the tunnel , and winze levels.
 The Cobrita property was taken ovel as a prospect in May of this year b, Dick Wick Hall of Glory Hole fame
 who interested W. J. Gregg of Sar Dimas and M. L. Hazard of Whittier California, two ranchers and orange
 growers, who are now getting theil first experience in mining. MT. Hall i: the pioneer of the district, having dis. covered the Daisy May and Big Blacl Bonanza groups about twelve year. ago, since which time he has gon, through the usual ups and downs anC Vlclssitudes common to mining, vainll trying to convince someone that tn, big iron capped lodges so numerou, there were the croppings of bodies O copper sulphide ores, which would b,
 found whenever sufficient depth wa.
 reached. Part of the Cobrita ground ee was once located and owned by miner employed by Hall, and Hall nov 5 frankly admits that his main reason il interesting capital in the Cobrita wa n crntT hot J IT..
 properties and to get someone to 2,
 down on one of the parallel lodges ant
 show it up in order to convince peopl , that the iron cappings would mak i copper ores with depth. He also ad
 mits that he never expected to ge
 such high grade ores at such shalloy : 1 depths as found on the Cobrita.
 . ;. The Arizota company of South Da kota owns patented ground on bot ? sides of the Cobrita, embracing tn Seth Bullock, Nevins, Doctor Jone . and other patented claims. The ol o Jones claim is of considerable histori 7 cal interest having been located in tn T T early '70's. according to local tradi :. a tion, by Doctor Jones, who took ou z considerable high grade copper-g gol {. ore from surface cuts and trenches o u a ledge paralleling the Cobrita, an
 
 !. packing on burros to the Colorad = river and shipping down the river t
 Yuma on flat boats. On returning | - the property with several Mexicans i, continue the work, the entire part d was killed by the Indians and it is lc V cally said that the body of DoctC = Jones yet remains in the bottom of D thirty-foo shaft or drift. which is no = caved in. Considerable high grade oi
 yet lies around on the dumps at tn q property, which has a big strong ire II capped ledge showing shipping value a on the surface in many places. IT Y; deepest hole on the property is onl ;; about thirty feet and this is the ol . caved shaft said to have been sunk |
 Jones. A deal is now pending for tn ,s claim and extensions and it is also rr n mored that the Arizota people will r, " sume operations next month, aft, ;s having been closed down almost sin, ID taking over the claims several yea
 ago. Little work has been done as ye M, except numerous ten foot holes sur ~ to obtain patent.
 ,t H. c. Reedall of Salt Lake has ol - tained claims on a ledge paralleling u Jones and Cobrita property and expec 70 to start up work very shortly. Suber ,e Reedall. Sanor and Kennedy also ha- ,S secured ground between the extensiC ", W. of the Cobrita and the extension of tl ,5J Jones ledge. D. w. Hall has secur ,a ,a an option on the Paystreak group. u ee north extension of the Cobrita, al sd having the main Cobrita ledge al u , parallel ones just below the Cobri ca tunnel. MT. Hall has also secur