Weekly journal-miner., 1916-05-24

the small dumps. One snaft was sunk l20 feet number of years ago, beside surface cropping of copper stained quartz. The operators did not sink On the orc because of its ex- treme 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 pre- pairing to sink a 500-foot shaft a few feet away from this working. and to do at least 500 feet of drifting.
 Lakeps Claims.
 A deal is pending for the sale of L. l.. Lackel's group of ten claims half a mile nearer Ray. These claims include some promising gold-copper veins. townsite and a damsite. The damsite IS an interesting proposition. Mineral creek flows through a 20- foot neck. eroded in solid rock. An inexpensive dam would create a lake half a mile wide and a mile long. Many think that the Lakel townsite will some day be the fashionable resi- dence district Of Ray.
 The Wilkins Blowout.
 Still nearer Ray P. P. Wilkins has q group of l6 claims covering one of the strangest formations found in the district. A blanket of dacite. four Or five feet thick and 60 feet wide. ex tends down hillside the full length of three claims. All this dacite car ries gold, silver and copper, much of it running as high as Is 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 a shaft near the upper end of the deposit. where indications point to the existence of great chimney of ore.
 Tillman's Group.
 The Ray Consolidated Company does not own all the great Ray de Posit of disseminated copper The deposit extends over seven claims which adjoin and intermingle with the Ray Con. property on the south. John Tillman has been the owner for at least 20 years but they 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 smal, ( iill is solid orc Tillman has made | number of shipments. 1
 A Leaser's Luck. V After James McSherry had held his property. half a mile vest of Kelvin. ; or 20 years. under conditions as dis t as those which failed to launt Bob Renfro. Mexican leaser ook hold and opened up a showing nore encouraging than he had been lblc to find.
 Ten strong lodges cut across Me 'herry's group of Is claims. There 5 heavy iron capping and high -rade ore is, exposed in a number O; laces on the surface. Some 5000 eet of work. mostly tunneling, has cen done. and there are five small umps of shipping ore. All the ere rom these dumps pans gold
 Recently w. T. Crawford, of Ray. ook an option on the McSherry prop rty. A Mexican obtained a lease or F portion of the ground and began tc ink on a ten-foot quartz-porphyry dge. The ledge averages per cen, opper but what attracted the leaser as an inch streak of high grade.
 The streak widened steadily anC a day or two the Mexican knew lat he had something worth while. ow he IS down about Is feet and " le ore is a foot wide. It runs 2 p CT cent copper and native silver is t 'rinkled through it. while free gold tr m be seen with the aid of a glass re Three men arc now employed by oi Ie leaser, digging out ard sackinp co Ie high grade for shipment. His di ase has less than 30 days to run and sT i'll not be renewed The shaft is W ever left unguarded for moment. T There is not a property in the coun al y more advantageously situated in an McSherry's. It is right on tnc tn ia river and Phoenix & Eastern IS ilroad. A 4.000-foot tunnel, started ph fly few feet from the railroad. tn ould cut the ten lodges at depths WI nging up to 1900 feet. The high pr ade ore on which the Mexican is orking would be cut within POO feet da the tunnels portal, at vertical tel pth of 100 feet. Wa
 Kelvin-Sultara. on It is probable that the Kelvin-Sul- Of 1a mine and mill. across the Gila ex om Ray Junction. will be revived wi on. The mill was operated only TT ort time late in 1914, when opera ms were suspended because of the V price of copper. VO PRISONERS ARE the
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