The Arizona copper camp., 1916-05-12

all that ore averages $50 per cent
vanadium. What this means will be
better understood when it Is explained
that ferro- -vanadium, which is only 25
per cent metallic vanadium. is now
quoted at $3.50 a pound.
There are twenty different openings
feet long, Is all In ore. The dump
at the mouth of this tunnel, known
as the Gray Horse, averages 2.65 per
cent vanadium.
1t is estimated that the ore is worth
no less than 1925 ton on the ground,
and no one can say how much of it
there is. Biologists say that there is
every reason to believe that it goes
down, that 1t is not a mere surface
deposit.
The concentration of the ore is
simple and inexpensive. Erection of
a 100-ton mill is to be commenced
as soon as possible. This mill will
concentrate three or four tons of ore
into one and the concentrates, which
should be worth at least fifty cents
a pound, will be freighted to Erman
siding, two and half miles away.
1t is roughly estimated that daily
product of the coneentrator will be
worth $12.500, at the present prices
of ferro -vanadium, and that the op-
Grating expenses will not exceed
$1,000.
Ninety per cent of the worlds sup
ply of vanadium comes from Peru
and Spain.s the remaining ten per
cent from Utah and Colorado. There
is vanadium at the Mammoth mine,
between Winkelman and Tucson, and
trated. The concentrates remain
stored at Tucson, so it can be said
that Arizona has added nothing to
the country's vanadium supply.
North of Ray
Some of the most unusual, inter-
esting and promising surface show
ings to be found anywhere are along
Mineral creek, north of Ray. The
most astounding feature of all is that
they have lain so long undeveloped
But it is now apparent that they are
not to remain undeveloped much
longer. With the whole country hunt
ing for copper. gold and silver, such
indications as lie along Mineral creek
cannot be ignored
If the Ray lode, which lies on the
west side of Mineral creek mile
and half from Ray, does not prove
to be big mine, every mining man
and mineralogist who was ever on
the ground has been deceived 1t is
hard to conceive how there can be
such surface showing without ore
underneath.
The Ray lode has been known for
forty years but until lately it has
been in the hands of men financially
unable to develop it. Recently the
Mckee Investment company. of which
c.. w. Mckee is manager acquired
the group from L. L. Lakel and a
man named Carr. That it will be
explored in systematic manner is
now assured.
Eighteen contiguous claims are in
cluded in the group. Cutting across
the full length of these claims, from
northeast to southwest, is a lime dixie
averaging $50 feet in width. This
dixie can be traced for miles beyond.
Paralleling this is -porphyry
dixie with heavy iron Gaping, at
least 800 feet wide.
Open cuts show ore heavily stained
with copper and iron, and also carry
ing gold and silver. Samples that
are fifty per cent copper can be
picked up on the small dumps.
One shaft was sunk 120 feet a
number of years ago, beside a sur
face cropping of copper-stained
quartz. The operators did not sink
in the ore because of it's extreme
hardness. Many who have seen the
Property believe that if they had not
been afraid of hard work they would
have found high-grade enough to
make them rich.
The Mckee company is now prepar-
ing to sink a 500-foot shaft on the
ore few feet away from this work.
ing, and to do at least 500 feet of
drifting. This should go a long way
toward demonstrating the real value
Of the Ray lode.
The LakeI Holdings
A deal is pending for the sale of
L. L. Lakeps valuable holdings, lying
south of the Ray Lode, but not ad-
joining that property. Lakel holds
ten claims and a damsite. His claims
cover an excellent townsite on the
west side of the creek, and it is pre-
dicted that the fashionable residence
section of Ray will some day be To-
Gated there. AS it is only mile and
a quarter from the present camp, this
is quite possible.
The damsite Is an interesting propo-
sition. Mineral creek flows through
q narrow neck, eroded in the solid
rock. This neck is only twenty feet
wide and bedrock is only few feet
below the surface An Inexpensive
dam would create lake a mile long
and half mile wide. Not only
would such lake be most attract
i've resort for the people of the dis
trict, but the dam would check and
impound the floods which now men
ace the business section of Ray in
rainy seasons.
There are several promising show
ings of gold, silver and copper on
Lakeps claims. The mineral all oc-
ours in vein formation and not in
blanket deposits, as at the Ray Con-
solidated. He believes that much of
the copper at Ray was leached from
the veins on his ground Single
handed. Mr.. Lakel has accomplished
a great deal of development work
STRONG EVIDENCE