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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-03-20
Power of Utilities Commission
Over Railway Merger De-
fined by Board Chairman.
STATEMENT is IN REPLY
TO CITIZENS FEDERATION
Request Made for the Amalgamation
of Street Car Lines in
the District.

That the public utilities COM
mission has power to authorize.
but not to order, a merger OF
Washingtons street railway lines
was the statement today OF Engl-
neer Commissioner kutz, chair
man of the commission, in answer
to the action Saturday night OF
the Federation of Citizens Asso-
Citations in calling on the utilities
board to amalganate the Wash
inston Railway and Electric and
Capital Traction companies.
Believing that the proposed merger
would lead to universal transfers, re-
routing of trackage to relieve congestion
and other improvements, the federation.
in the resolution adopted, pointed to an
opinion given by Corporation Counsel
Railway Company case, last week. as
establishing precedent under which the
commission could sanction the combining
of the capitals two principal railway
systems.
In lieu of asking Congress for the nee
essary authority, the federation will ask
the utilities commission to give a public
hearing on the advisabiiity of merging
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-03-20
SPIRITUALISM.

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shaft to greater depth and to crosscut
to the north through what was sup
posed to be the footwall. On the other
side he found the ore, unbroken and as
rich as ever. :
The vertical depth Of the shaft is now
only 800 feet, though its actual length
is nearly 500 feet The ore discovered
under the Martin regime is being
blocked out on the three lower levels
On the lowest level a drift is being
run on sixteen feet of solid ore. Next
to the hanging wall the ore is sulphide
averaging 81 ton in gold and five and
a half per cent copper, the remainder of
the ore is oxide which runs above $40
gold. Streaks of it are fabulously rich.
AS depth is attained the sulphide in
creases in width and richness Event
ually the Harqua Hala must be
equipped with flotation plant to
handle the sulphide. At present twen-
ty of the forty stamps in the mill are
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will be built along "hogback" lead
ing to Salome. The present road is
badly washed out and is very sandy
Though the Cobrita company is con-
structing this road primarily with the
object of using trucks to freight ore
to the railroad station at Salome, many
other companies and mine owners will
benefit. One of the mines that will be
made more accessible is the we'll known
Tank pass property. The Tank pass
lies in the limestone-schistb belt and is
cut by the same dikes that carry the
ore in the. main range. It's principal
showing is seventy feet of copper
gold-silver ores in a limestone replace
ment. Sulphides have been opened and
the mine appears to be an ideal big con-
centrating proposition.
Moneyed interests have recently in
spected the Tank pass and it is possible
that they will take it over at an early
date.
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the ore again would be waste of time
and money, the English concern quit
Some time later the fsarqua Hala was
sold at sheriff's sale. 1t was bought
in by John B. Martin, DR.. Ancil Martin
of Phoenix, and a capitalist of Buffalo,
New York for $1,000.
John B. Martin, who is a practical
mining man, has been in charge of op-
erations at the Harqua Hala ever since.
The property is now held under bond by
the Yuma Warrior Mining company, a
New York syndicate represented on
the ground by H William Stevens.
Martin had ideas of his own about
the Harqua Hala ore body. When he
took charge he proceeded to sink the
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their mines are now producing, more
ore than comes out of the southern
range. Both are dotted with prospects
that need only development to place
them in the productive class. Capital
has been slow to take advantage of the
opportunities they offer but now, when
there is buyer for every prospect that
really shows indications of being a
mine, moneyed interests are beginning
to look toward thet"Home of the High
Grade"
1t isn't an unknown country by any
means. In fact, quite little boom was
started out in that section in 1906, just
after the Parker cutoff was completed.
Then the slump of 1907 came along and
the boom was over, not only there but
everywhere else in the state.
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operated eight hours a day on the free
milling oxide ore taken out in the
course Of development. These twenty
stamps reduce about 25 tons in a shift
Another battery of ten stemps will be
placed in operation within a few days.
Twenty -one men are employed
A mine that has produced $5,OO0,0O0
above the 2O0-foot level and has such
a showing as has recently been opened
at the Harqua Hala cannot be regarded
as worked out. When the writer Wis
tied the camp Mr.. Martin had just
come up from his daily inspection Of
the mine and was at the blacksmith
shop panning some grab samples of
"dirt" that he had brought up in the
pockets OF his jumper. Without any
crushing whatever and with but few
The Arizona copper camp., 1916-06-02

In the immediate vicinity is the
Black Bonanza group, which shows
some immense outcrops of iron gossan
where the diabase dikes intersect the
limestone and schist belt, but no de-
velopment work has been done.
Cunningham Pass
Cunningham pass is about eight
miles northeast of Wenden, which is
five miles east of Salome, and is best
reached from that place. More devel-
opment work has been accomplished
than around Tank pass and several
properties are now shipping.
Just south of the pass lies the Rob-
inson and Briggs group of nineteen
claims which was recently taken over
by the Desert Mining and Milling COM
pany, a Jerome corporation. Thomas
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whirls of the pan he exposed a long
string of coarse gold that would make
any high grader sit up and bat his
eyes,. Half handful from another
pocket gave even better. results, esti-
mated by some of the miners around as
being at least $sOoto $1,000 ton. Mr..
Martin, when questioned, smiled and
said that it would pay to mill"
An immense caves above the mill
shows where body of ore sixty feet
wide was stopped out and half an acre
of surface ground dropped to the 100
foot level. That was in the old days
when no timbering was done and the
miners carried out hundred dollar mug
gets under their .armpits.
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How far down it extends. no one
knows.
Equipment at the Critic includes a
twelve horsepower hoist and six-drill
compressor. The hoist is soon to be
replaced with one Of thirty horsepower
and then a steady production Of four
carloads a month will be maintained.
Billiards. Mine
East of the Critic is the Dick Bullard
mine, which was an important and
regular shipper until recently, when it
was closed down pending the outcome
of DEAL Some Of the Bullard ore has
run as high as $4,000 a car in gold and
copper
Osborn and Burson
Sidney p. Osborn, secretary of the
Continued on page -
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force of men taking out high grade
shipping ore. A shipment recently
made went above fifteen per cent cop
per and the values are increasing
steadily with depth some of the ore
running as high as $65 in gold. This
company is preparing to install hoist
and other machinery.
Fifteen men, employed by the Cobrita
company, are now rebuilding the road
through Tank pass, which has ever been
a terror for automobilists and freight
ers. Some of the kinks are being
Strengthened out and the heavy grade
on the north side is being made more
even. When the work in the pass it
self is finished an entirely new road
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Nagle, formerly of Jerome, is in charge
employed in development work. This
force will be materially increased soon
for a 25-horsepoweE hoist and 25-
horsepower compressor have been re-
ceived and are now being installed at
what is to be made the main working
shaft. A Packard truck is used in
freighting to Wenden the ore taken
out in the course of development. Sew
eral shipments that averaged nine per
cent copper and $3.50 in gold, have
been made.
Several strong leads cross the Desert
claims and copper ore shows at many
points ON the surface.
Two shafts have been sunk. One,
which is down 200 feet, is near the
intersection of two veins. The main
shaft is down rs feet on forty foot
ledge and is all in ore. Some of the
ore that was shipped was taken right
off the surface about ten feet from the
collar of this shaft.
1t is planned to timber the main
shaft while the hoist and compressor
are being installed. All this will be
done in about two weeks and then the
work of sinking to depth will be rushed.
Shipments are to be continued.
Mckee Claims
A new company the Black Reef
Copper headed by H. e. Willhalm as
president and superintendent, has taxi
en- over the c. w. Mckee group of eight
claims adjoining the Desert property on
the south. A twelve horsepower hoist
and other equipment have been ordered
by the Black Reef company and will
be in place within a month
Five of the claims are crossed by a
strong iron-capped ledge. One shaft is
down 120 feet on the vein and another,
800 feet east, has been sunk to a depth
of twenty feet. On the surface the
vein is two feet wide but at 100 feet
it has widened out to six feet The
gold values at that depth range from
So to $42, and the copper runs from 3.6
per cent to 35 per cent. The ore is
ideal for smelling, being free of zinc
or silica. The gangue in the vein is
porphyry and lime, while the walls are
porphyry and altered granite with a
good gouge.
shaft and part of the way up the
mountain disclose the ledge. South of
this ledge is another strong ledge, run
ing parallel, but it has never been ex-
plored. A quartz vein shows free gold
on the surface but is also undeveloped.
The only water struck on the south
side of the pass in that immediate vi
cinity is in the main shaft of the Black
Reef group. That shaft makes about
35 barrels of good water in "a hours,
and the flow will doubtless increase
with depth. This is distinct asset as
water for the other claims thereabouts
must be hauled from Wenden.
X. s. e. w.
Just a. little farther west and still on
the south slope of the Harcuvars is the
old Edna May group. This group was
recently acquired by j. e. Kleindienst
of Winslow, Enoch Selberg and Francis
Wood, Though they did not incorpor-
ate they styled their partnership the
K. S. & w. Mining company.
Kleindienst, Selberg and Wood took
in as a fourth partner Joe Torres, who
has discovered several good mines,
sold them for handsome fortunes and
The Arizona copper camp., 1916-06-02
(BY ERNEST DOUGLASS.

Five dollars a ton gold? And six or
seven per cent copper Yes, a pretty
fair indication.
Twenty dollars gold? And fifteen to
eighteen per cent copper? Why, that1l
be a mine yet!
Five hundred dollars gold? And
thirty to forty per cent copper? A
few ounces of silver, too? Well, that
old prospect hole must have something
down in it after ALL
That's the way they look at things
out in the Harcuvars and Harqua
Halas, thanking Mineral valley, along
the Arizona & California railroad.
High grade assays = assays that
would start stampedes in, Oatman,
Goldfield, Tonopah or Cripple Creek
are accepted with amazing calmness
that there in the country tributary to
Salome and Wenden, the country that
Dick Wick Hall, secretary of the Min
eral Valley Commercial Club, calls the
Home of High Grade"
Truly it is a high grade country out
there on the A. & c., but lonesome
country. neglected country. 1t is
just beginning to feel the first faint
pulsations of the prosperity that has
caused every other mining section in
Arizona to TEEN with activity.
1t takes a tremendously big assay to
create any excitement in the Harcuvars
and Harqua Halas. The desert rats
and "burro whackers" who have To-
Gated a few of the most promising sur
not in the least excitable. They are
accustomed to high grade but are also
accustomed to having their country ne
elected. Indications are, however, that
their peace and quiet is soon to be dis
turbed, for the Mineral Valley Com
mercial Club has been formed for the
purpose Of advertising the Home of
High Grade" to the world. Oatman,
Los Angeles and Jerome people are
pouring into the country in steadily
growing stream. Big things are COM
ing. Such country cannot long re-
main unnoticed, neglected and unde-
veloped in this era of mining prosper
ity
Joe Kleindienst, president of the
Commercial club, says that one cannot
stand anywhere in the Harcuvars and
fail to find surface ore within radius
of a thousand feet. Now Joe is one
of the most emphatic and superlative
persons who ever swung pick, but
this statement is not exaggerated very
much if at all. Both the Harcuvars and
Harqua Halas are scanned and criss-
crossed with veins. dikes and lodges
that carry ore.
Roughly speaking, Mineral valley.
formerly known as Cuttings valley is
about twelve miles wide, and it runs
due east and west. On the south lie
the Harqua Halas and on the north the
Harcuvars. From the standpoint of
a mining man there is little to choose
between them. The Harqua Halas have
the Harqua Hala mine but the Harcu-
vars boast the famous Glory Hole and
The Arizona copper camp., 1916-06-02

then 'blown in" the money in record
time. Torres had located several new
claims adjoining the Edna May on the
west, which he was convinced far out
classed any of his previous discoveries.
The property now consists of fourteen
full claims and development work is be-
ing confined to the Torres end, al
though several shipments of high-grade
ore have been made from the old Edna
May shaft. Specimens of gold ore
running above $4,000 ton have been
taken from the Edna May ledge.
The shaft that is now being sunk is
down sixty feet in a soft altered for
nation which averages SAT a ton in the
bottom and carries a trace of silver.
There are evidences that copper has
.leached out of the ore and prospects
The Arizona copper camp., 1916-06-02
BIC GOLD AND COPPER MINES
ALONG THE A. & c. RAILROAD
The Glory Hole

There was a revival of interest in
March, 1909. On Friday, the thirteenth
day of that month, two prospectors
named Alger and Barker discovered the
now famous Glory Hole, eight miles
northwest of Salome in the Harcuvars
In less than a week more than 100000
worth of gold ore, some of it worth $100
a pound, was taken out of a twelve-foot
hole. A sackful of the ore was brought
to Phoenix by Dick Hall and displayed
prominently in downtown window
The staid old capital of Arizona came
as near being stampeded as ever in it's
history. A company was hurriedly
formed and hundreds bought stock in
what they supposed was the Glory
Hole.N 1t developed that they were re-
ally buying stock in prospect some
distance away Though the deception
was unintentional, the district suffered
severely therefrom and Hall has been
kept busy ever since explaining that he
had nothing to do with it.
This is one of the reasons that the
Glory Hole was never developed. Now,
however, all the conflicting interests
have been bought out and the Glory
Hole Bonanza Mines company has been
formed to start development work.
Today there is nothing to show for
the Glory Hole discovery except that
twelve-foot hole out of which the rich
ore found by Alger and Barker was
taken. That the country Immediately
around such a rich discovery has re-
manned so long undeveloped and unex-
plored is one of the most astounding
and unbelievable facts of Arizona's
mining history. Had the Glory Hole
been discovered in Nevada or Colorado
the whole country would soon have
been honeycombed, on the theory that
where there was some gold there must
be more.
The naturalization of the Glory Hole
follows the contact of an immense
ahdesite dixie forced up through schist
The high grade occurred in little cross
seams of quartz and lion running out
from the main ledge. Immense outcrops
of this same quartz and iron indicate
that more high grade may be found
when some digging is done. The main
ledge, which has not been scratched
yet, looms up above the little pit like
ten-story office building. If size of
ledge is any criterion, there is room
at the Glory Hole for a dozen mines.
If any more high grade like the orr
ginal strike is found, Salome will be
on the map with a rush. Such strike
could not pass practically unnoticed to-
day as it did in 1909, when the public
was little interested in mining and the
country was valiantly struggling to re-
cover from a panic.
Harqua HaIa
The one big developed mine of the
A. & @. country is the Harqua Hala,
eight miles south Of Salome 1t has
produced in the neighborhood of $5,000,-
600, worth of gold and is a. bigger mine
today than it ever was, though it was
thought several times to be worked out
Were the Harqua Hala not in the
The Arizona copper camp., 1916-06-02
Glory Hole Ledge

Porphyry
ON a big flat just north of the
Harqua Eala is a large area of min
eralized porphyry, the same formation
that forms the Harqua.. Hala footwall.
Mexicans have placered over the flat
for years and recovered much gold. L.
is now held by the Martin brothers
Churn drilling is necessary to prove the
extent and character of the ore. A
shaft sunk in the middle of the flat
shows disseminated ore in the porphyry
that carries from one to five per cent
copper and from 81 to 3$25 a ton in gold.
Tank Pass
Tank pass, through the Harcuvars, is
some seven miles northwest Of Salome.
To the west, on the south side of the
mountains, is the Glory Hole. Through
the pass, on the north side, is one of
the most remarkable mineral conditions
to be found in the state.
Here is great limestone-s -schist belt,
crosscut by a regular series of diabase
and diorite dikes running in a north
west southeast direction. These dikes
show up bold and strong and can be
seen miles away with the naked eye.
They area from 100 to 200 feet thick
this series of dil1es extends all the way
from Tank Pass to Cunningham, fif-
teen miles eastward
The diabase and diorite dhxes, in
some places merging into andesite,
seem to have been the principal min
eralizing factor. High grade gold and
copper ores are found on the contacts
with the dikes or in close relation to
them. Dozens Of prospects and mines
are being opened up between the two
passes and in all cases they are either
on or near one of the dark basic dikes
the range. Surface indications of pay
ore usually, consist of either quartz and
iron groupings, or iron stains. Some
times there is copper stain but in the
vicinity of Tank pass the ground is
generally barren right on the surface.
A few feet of work usually is suffi-
cient to open ore showing values rang
ing from few dollars a ton up to sew
eral hundred. The ores of the Harcu
var range as a rule average from five
to 35 per cent copper. and from 81 or
SIS to $100 ton in gold. The general
character of the ore is the same all
along the range, except in the lime
stone and schist requirements. Many
large iron outcrops remain untouched
and the development for the most part
has been confined to lodges and dikes
where shipping ore has been found
within few feet of the surface.
Several properties In Cottonwood
pass, which lies between Tank and
Cunningham passes have changed
hands recently. The Cobrita Mines
company, a Los Angeles concern, rep
resented on the ground by D. w. Hall,
has taken over fourteen ciaims be-
tween Tank and Cottonwood and has
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hands of close corporation that cares
nothing for publicity, its fame would be
spread far and wide. For the good of
the country, however the management
has agreed to furnish some facts re-
garding the mine for inclusion in forth
coming publications of the Commercial
Club.
The Harqua Hala was discovered in
1888 and after a considerable tonnage
of rich ore had been taken out it was
bought by an English syndicate for
$5,OO0O0O. 1t is said that the English
company took about $4,OO0,OOO, all
above the 2OO-foot level. around
was badly broken and at thas fepth
the ore seemed to pinch out. Decid,
ing that the mine was worked out. or
so badly faulted that to attempt to find
The Arizona copper camp., 1916-06-02
fiarcuvars and Harqua Halas--Home of Higf-Grade

for the discovery of big body of cop
per at depth are excellent Machinery
is to be installed at an early date.
Bonanza
One of the oldest properties in the
district is that of the Bonanza I'M
provement company, which adjoins the
K. S. & w. holdings on the west r.
r.. Mcdonald is superintendent and
the principal owner. New York cap
italists are interested with him and
work has been progressing slowly but
steadily for years.
The principal working is an incline
shaft that is down 100 feet in gold
copper ore. A ninety foot crosscut from
the bottom of the shaft passes through
three-foot streak of ore that aver
ages 14.6 per cent copper and $3.50 in
gold. One carload of this ore has been
shipped and another is to be marketed
soon. Sinking is to be continued. The
twelve horsepower hoist at this prop
erty will eventually be placed with one
of greater capacity.
On the other end of the property is
the Roy shaft, which is down sixty
feet. A 65-foot crosscut from the bot
tom of this shaft passes through six
teen feet of ore that is three per cent
copper and runs SO ton in gold
Adjoining the Bonanza on the west is
a property known as the Torres group
because it was discovered by Joe
Torres. 1t is now in the hands of Jer-
ONE people who are starting develop
ment
Belle Crown
Still farther west is the property
known as the Belle Crown. 1t is owned
by the Victor and Belle Crown Mining
company. j. e. Matteson, merchant
of Wenden, is the president but ma
jority of the stockholders and directors
live in the east
1t is because Of internal affairs of
the company and not because Of any
lack of merit on the part of the prop
erty that the Belle Crown is now idle
1t has been idle since last October
Just before operations were suspended,
four carloads of ore were shipped
There are ten claims in the Belle
Crown group. The main shaft is down
400 feet. At 235 feet drift was run
to the intersection of a cross lead with
the main ledge. The ore was struck
just before the suspension. Two feet
of the pay streak runs $3.50 ton In
gold and on each side is foot of 81
ore
Critic
Just through the pass and to the
west is the Critic which, although IT
consists of only one full claim, is the
heaviest producer of the district at this
time. George B. Layton, of New York,
is the owner but G.. A. Easton, of San
Francisco, holds 1t under lease. Ore Is
being taken out and shipped by two
parties of sub-leasers.
The main shaft is down 400 feet 1t
is timbered down to 300 feet and is
now being timbered to the bottom.
Three carloads of ore shipped re-
Gently from the Critic averaged twen-
ty per cent copper and $40 in gold
Part of this ore came from the sur
face, a hundred feet or so above the
shaft. This surface showing lay un-
discovered so long simply because no
one took the trouble to remove the
overburden till leaser came along
and began picking around. He found
a shoot of ore two and a half feet wide.
Evening star., 1916-03-17
URGES ENCOURAGEMENT
OF MUNITIONS PLANTS
Pamphlet Written by Hudson Max
i'm Circulated Among Mem
bers Of Congress.

Government ancouraosr.,, sh,,,,s
oe given 10 'he private munitions rae
tories, but they should not be put under
governmental ownerrhin accord,np IN
..,.. -
p~'"p"iee "rieteh oy hudsoh Maxim
and circulated among members of Con-
gress by the American Defense Soeietv
Mr. Naxi,, ,s r,.uh - ~ "a
1nr aaAi'h ID fhemoer OF the ad-
Nisory board OF the Navy Department
and of the advisory board of the de-
,x,.. .o.;.,
Evening star., 1916-03-17

LOt 10 SOmDs. SET
with effective white
and colored stones.
Regular $500 val
ues. Choice,