Bisbee daily review., 1916-05-21

T lA4C OAC ho A40 10 WI n | ing l6 ment, too.
 The location of the RenfrO groul is most advantageous. Erman siding on the Phoenix & Eastern railroad, il less than six miles away by road. II an air line the siding is only fou miles distant. An aerial tram iron the mine to Erman is among the possi | bilities.
 Vanadium. : Less than a mile southeast of TrO, is the biggest deposit of vanadium or' in the United States. J. J. Sullivan held the property ten years but it i: now in the hands of the U. s. Vana dium development company, capital ized for S75,000. This company is con trolled entirely by Phoenix men. H H. Temple is president; George J Stoneman, secretary; J. J. Sullivan treasurer; Dr. O. E. Plath and Peter Mohn, directors.
 The main group includes thirteer claims, but the company holds ten out lying locations. Across the main grouI cuts a zone of lime and quartz 800 tC 1900 feet wide and traceable for al least mile. This zone is practically all ore that averages 2.60 per cent va nadium. What this will be better understood when it is explained .i,d' ferro-yanadium. which is 25 per cent metallic vanadium, is now quoted al S2.50 pound.
 There are 20 different openings or the ore zone One tunnel, POO feet long, is all in ore. It is estimated that the ore is worth $125 a ton on the ground Geologists say that the total tonnage can only be guessed at and is beyond human comprehension.
 Erection of a 100 ton mil is to be commenced as soon as possible. This mill will reduce three or four tons to one and the concentrates should be worth at least 50 cents pound, will be freighted to Erman, two and hall miles away.
 It is roughly estimated that the dai ly product of the concentrator will be worth S12,500, or more, at the present price of ferro-vamadium, and that the operating expenses will not exceed s1, 900.
 Vanadium is used in the manufac ture of special iron and steel alloys and for many other purposes.
 North of Ray.
 Some of the most unusual, interest ing and promising surface showings tc be found anywhere are along mineral creek, mort of Ray. One of these is known as the Ray Lode, which is only mile and a half from the big camp It has been known for 40 years but until recently was in the hands of mer financially unable to develop it. A short time ago it was purchased from L. L. Lakel by the Mckee Investment company, of which C. W. Mckee is manager.
 Eighteen contiguous claims are in cluded in the group. Cutting across their full length is a 250 foot lime dike -Paralleling this is quartZ-porphyry dike, with a heavy iron capping, al least 300 feet wide. Open cuts show ore heavily stained with copper ano iron, and also carrying gold and sil yer. Samples that are 50 per cent cop per can be picked up on the smal dumps. One shaft was sunk 120 feet a number of years ago, beside a sur face cropping of copperstained quarti The operators did not sink on the ore because of it's extreme hardness. Many who have seen the property believe that had they followed the ore they would have opened high grade enough to make them rich.
 The Mckee company is now prepar ing to sink 500-foot shaft few feet away from this working, and to dc at least 800 feet of drifting.
 LakeIs Claims.
 A deal is pending for the sale of L. L. Lake's group of ten claims half a mile nearer Ray. These claims in clude some promising gold-copper veins, townsite and a damsite. The damsite is an interesting proposition. Mineral creek flows through 20-foot neck, eroded in solid rock. An mex pensive dam would reate lake half a mile wide and a mile long. Many think that the Lakel townsite will some day be fashionable residence dis trict of Ray
 The Wilkins Blowout.
 Still nearer Ray P. P Wilkins has a group of sixteen claims covering one of the strangest formations found in the district A blanket of dacite, four or five feet thick and sixty feet wide, extends down a hillside the full length of three claims All this dacite car ries gold, silver and copper. and much of it running as high as 15 per cent in the red metal.
 It is believed that the dacite came from a blowout and simply flowed down hill. Wilkins is now preparing to sink shaft near the upper end of the deposit, where indications point to the existence of great chimney of ore.
 TiIIman's Group.
 The Ray Consolidated company does not own all the great Ray Deposit of copper. The deposit ex- tends over seven claims which adjoin and intermingle with the Ray Consoli- dated property on the south. John Tillman has been the owner for at least twenty years, but tehy are now held under option by the Mckee In vestment company. Ore can be found anywhere on Tillman's property and there seems to be less overburden than on Ray Con. ground. One small hill is solid ore. Tillman has made a of shipments.
 A leaser's Luck.
 After James McSherry had held his property, hal ia mile west of Kelvin. for 26 years, under conditions as dis-