Arizona republican., 1916-09-07
SALOME DISTRICT |S
 SMILING THESE DAYS

Salcme is smiling these days, whenever she has time to stop and wipe the sweat out of her eyeS-for Salome is busy locating claims these days and doing new work on those that have been neglected during the past few years when mining has been quiet Last Sunday only one person was left in town during the day, and that was a woman who had to stay home and iron because she was out locating claims the day before and neglected her usual Saturday laundry work Everyone has got the fever. not orly the new people coming in. who say they have never seen so much ore on or near the surface or so many lodges with fine showings. but the old timers even are waking from their sleep and already are telling each other how they could have had this claim or that ledge that some newcomer has secured-if they had wanted it last spring or if the white hnrro hadn't been lame or some other such excuse.
 The coming back of the famous old Harqua Hala bonanza this sum- mer and the opening up of it's big and rich ore bodies on the sixth. sev- enth and eighth levels, after 1t had
 
 years and was thought by many to have been worked out started a gen. cral revival and a renewed interest in this section which has been growing daily. The Hafqua Hala has already produced about $5,000,O00 above a yer tical depth of less than POO feet and has now opened up high grade gold copper sulphides below the old work ings, particularly under the famous old Castle Garden stope, where a rich ore body over sixty feet wide was stopped out in the early days of the mine, much of 1t being high grade bo- nanza ore. The new workings are now under the old Castle Garden mp on three levels beneath the old workings, much of it being sulphide ore carrying good copper values in addition to the gold
 The striking of high grade black sulphide copper ores running from 25 10 over 40 per cent copper in the CObrita mine about two weeks ago caused a rush to that section, just northwest of Salome through Tank Pass and probably two hundred or more claims have been located or re- newed during the past two weeks, some by old timers but probably the hest of them having been secured hy strangers who heard of the Cobrita strike and were quick to take ad- vantage of the showings when they got here and saw them. The Cobrita is now in about 250 feet in a tunnel following the old Seattle vein and with the next hundred feet will come to its intersection with the Hampton vein, where large bodies of high grada copper ore are eXpeceed.. In the tun- mel about two feet of solid suIphides are exposed, chalcopyrite bonrite and black sulphides in addition to the lower grade ores, while in the bot tom of the winze. sunk fifty rect be- low the tunnel. an eight foot vein of the same character has been exposed showing punches and streaks of solid sulphides. in addition to the average ore. high grade concentrating ore An engine and blower has just been installed and development will be pushed on this property. The Cobrita company is now contemplating run ming another tunnel below the pres ent Cne, to gain as much depth as possible under the hill Two ship ments have already beer made from the 'CObrita property. which is con- trolled hv w. J. Gregg of San Dimas and M. L. Hazard of Whittier Calf. who were interested in it in Nav of this year; since which time they have built a truck and auto road through Tank Pass to the property. ten miles from Salome and have done several hundred feet of development work.
 4 number of deals have heen made In the Tank Pass district during the nast ten days. notable among them being the acquiring of the Black Bear group. joining the Cobrita, by W L. Wilson & Co. of los Angeles and oatnan. where Mir. Wilson has been handling the Oatman Gold Monster. title Jim and others. being associat- ed with such men as Jim and Jack .Ieffries. Barney Oldfield. Fred Har- low. the Ruechs and others The Black Bear is generally considered one of the best properties in the district, being particularly well known on ac- count of the many ledses running thror~h the nronerty over twenty well defined leads travereing tlo length of the oroun narallelino each other and the Cobrita ledge and some