El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-05-13
RAY To RIVAL
JEROME 8 BOOM
Ore of Surprising Richness
Being Uncovered; Old
Renfro Mine Opens.

J nay AriI, May 10.-hidAtS CIV
signs that Ray is on the verge OF JUST
such mining boom as Jerome Oat-
/ msn and Aho are experiencing. That
vast mineral belt lying between
/ Christmas on the east, and Superior
( or the west, is beginning to attrael
/ attention throughout the country
That there are other big mines IN
this belt besides the Christmas Ray
1 Consolidated and Magma, is not TO 90
| doubted. It includes some OF the most
| remarkable prospects in the state.
Specimens Of copper. gold ana sllNs-
I ore which would cause stampedeS II
some districts have been picked up d.
| dozens of points on the surface O.,
The Pinal Development company y
! developing the old Renfro m7ne, near
| Troy. The Troy Manhattan company
has been reorganized and Is resumlns
! operations A 1O0-ton mill is 70 %
J placed on the Sullivan property, whicss
has the biggest known desposit OF
vanadium ore in the United STATES.
The Ray Hercules. ground Is oeihs
proved by means Of churn drFIllng-
500 foot shaft Is TO be sunk on the
7 Ray Lode The Haley & Sourrein lead
group has been bonded and develop
ment is under way on big scale.
PinaI Development Feature.
More attention has been attracted
than any of the others It was Or
ganized only a few weeks ago anu q
block Of stock was sold IN PhoenlA
and Ray, where IL was greatly over
subscribed, for 25 cents a share. Now
that stock is being held at rs cents ana
81 a share.
John C. Devine. assistant superiten1-
dent OF the Ray Consolidated, IS presl-
dent OF the Pinai Development com
pany. Z. NJ Blake. of the ella Valley
Bank & Trust company, is a director
c. T. Carpenter, J. Il. Robinson r. Il.
BoXall. Charles HOllister ana +. {.
Norman are the other directors.
This company. which is capitalized
for s1,500,000, acquired from Robert
II. Renfro his group Of 43 claims, com
prising $50 acres, In the Dripping
Springs wash country, about a mile
east Of Troy. Renfro had held the
claims for II years. His nerve ap-
preached the sublime. Alone and un-
, aided. and practically without funds,
he started to drive "a 12O0-fOot tunnel
TO intersect his most promising sur
face showing at depth CT 900 rect.
With his own hands he drove the tun-
mel 500 feet In 1907 he bonded his
property 10 an eastern syndicate,
which drove 500 feet farther before its
FUNDS gave out. When the FINAL De-
velopment company took hold the tun-
mel was approximately 500 feet from
the goal. 1t is now in 1850 feet and
is going forward at the rate Of foot
day.
TrOy-AriAOna ActtNes
The Troy Arizona company Ras a
force doing preparatory work on its
property. which adjoin the Pfnal De
volOpment group on the west. It's
Rather shaft is to be sunk TO depth.
The vein on which this shaft mas been
started extends through bOta the
Pinal Development and Troy proper
ties.
Less than a mile southeast of Troy
is the biggest known deposit Of vana-
N r.
sullivan held the property ten years,
but II is now in the hands of the Z, &.
Nanadium Development company,
which is capitalized for $500 This
company is controlled entirely by
Phoenix men. II. H. Temple ~ presi-
dent; George J. Stoneman, secretary;
j. J. sullivan. treasurer: DR.. o. +.
Plath and Peter Mohn, directors.
Erection OF a l00-tOn mill rs to be
commenced as soon as possiO-e. This
mill will reduce three or four tons 70
one, and the concentrates, waich VIII
be worth approximately 80 cents a
pound, viii be freighted TO i-rman- II
is roughly estimated that the daily
product VIII be worth at least Stz.50e
and that the operating expenses Will
not exceed $1,000.
Tillmnn's Claims
The Ray Consolidated Copper COM
pany. at Ray. is producing $500 tons
Of ore a day and has enough stocked
ont to maintain this rate or produc-
ton at least 20 years. BuS II does
not own all the great Ray body OF
man owns seven claims adjoining and
intermingling with the Ray Con.
holding on the south. He aas held
these claims 20 years, and az various
times has shipped ore. There Is less
overburden on his claims tnan on most
Of the Ray Con. ground. and the gem
eral run OF the ore is higher IN grade.
Tilimans group Is now held under
hr~H nK nH e ]
pany, OF Ray.
Churn Drills on Ray Hercules.
-Four churn drills are operating "a
hour a day on the Ray Hercules es-
tate, lying, Just east Of Ray and /
being put down and II is reported that
rich ore was struck at 12G feet I'm
til The burning OF the sampling mill 1
at the Hayden smelter, the Ray Her
cules was a shipper TO thas point
The lead claims Of Thomas Haley |
and william Soufrein, four miles east !
of Ray have been bonded to eastern
investors represented b. Capt VIII
liam McDermott. of Tucson. Develop
ment is now under way under the d. |
rection Of superintendent scott os-
born.
Some OF the most. unusual. interest .
ing and promising surface showing 70
be found anywhere are along Mineral /
creek north of Ray. One OF these Is J
the Ray Lode, owned by the Mckee .
Investment company. 1t is only mile /
and a half from Rey. Eighteen con- /
tiguous claims are included I'm the |
group. Cutting across their fun /
Iength ,, is ,s 1so-io95 hm 1orD ql5e
dixie, with a heavy iron Gaping, at !,
least 500 feet wide. Open cuts show
ore heavily stained with copper and |
iron and also carrying gold and silver.
Samples that are 50 per cent copper !
can be picked up On the small /
dumps
The Mckee company Is now pre-
pairing to sink a 5O0-foot shaft and
do at least 500 feet of drifting.
Wilkins Unique Group.
Only half a mile from Ray, P. P.
Wilkins has a group Of 16 claims COW
ering one Of the strangest formations
In the district a blanket OF dacite, I
four OF five feet thick\ and so feet
y ide. extends down a hillside the full
length of three claims All this
dacite carries gold, silver and copper,