The Arizona copper camp. [volume] (Ray, Ariz.) 1910-1920, 1917-01-06
Eminent Geologist Makes Report of His
Examination of Property in Which
Ray and Hayden Men Are Interested
Excellent prospects for Finding Ore


Ray and Hayden Men Are Interested
Excellent prospects for Finding Ore
DR.. Walter Harvey Weed, the emf
nent geologist, has reported favorably
on the property of the Magma Chief
Copper company, which lies a mile
north of Superior, adjacent to the ia
nous Magma mine. Following a COM
plete report of the property, DR.. Weed
makes the recommendation that de-
velopment work be begun on the Wat
son claim by the sinking of an explor-
atory tunnel and shaft at or near the
open cut work which now exposes the
vein In closing his recommends tions
he says, I'm view of the facts stated
of the favorable geologic conditions and
of the similarity of the cross fissures
to that of the Magma mine, l believe
the development of the property is
warranted and that there is a reason
able expectation of finding profitable
OICDOoy III LIlO w olSOIi WE'LL
The complete report follows:
"The property owned by this COM
Queen Creek mining district, Pfnal
county, Arizona The tract is but a
mile from the town of Superior, twelve
miles northwest of Ray and twenty
miles southwest of Globe. Superior is
the terminus of the Magma Arizona
railroad, an eighteen mile narrow
Arizona Eastern (Southern Pacific)
near Florence, the county seat. The
district lies within the Crook National
Forest, but like most of the southern
Arizona reserves, is devoid of timber.
The nearest copper smelling plants are
at Hayden, ,eighsy miles by rail, Sasco,
lean Smelling and Refining plants, and
the Humboldt smelter of the Consoli-
dated Arizona Smelling company
"The Queen Creek, or Pioneer district,
long famous as the location of the
Silver King mine, which until 1888 was
Arizona's premier silver mine, is again
rich ore bodies cut in the Magma, the
chief producing mine of the camp.
"The district extends north and
south along the front of a bald noun
tain escarpment, facing west, that in
cludes Kings Crown and Apache Leap
SUBMITS. 1t extends from two miles
ward across Queen Creek for a total
distance of ten or twelve miles and is
mineralized throughout and though the
only extensive development is on the
Silver King, Magma (Queen) and Lake
Superior and Arizona properties, pay
able ore has been mined at several
points.
Property
The company's holdings embrace
fourteen contiguous claims extending
north and south for nearly a mile along
the mountain front The claims are as
follows: Hub, New Year, Palace, Wat
son, Picket Post Eagles Nest, Pine
Tree, Pomroy, Kraus, Moscow, Knause,
Maryland, Baltimore, Laurel. The
northermost claims are but few hun
dred feet from the holdings of the Sill
yer King Mining company. The south
ermost are but 1900 feet from the
Magma line.
Throughout the entire district the
general geologic features are similar.
The high pinnacled peaks and fantasti-
cally carved walls of Apache Leap and
the SUBMITS to the north are formed
of dacit1c lava flows resting on lime
stone beds.
These white, well bedded limestones,
are steeply uplifted, dipping eastward
into the mountain, the harder beds
forming long lines of cliffs that girdle
the slopes. There are also many thin
beds Of shale, mostly buff or red in
color, but these rocks are seldom seen,
as they are soft, weathering down, and
their outcrop concealed by limestone
debris. An exception is the red, earthly
rock, a mottled, deep red, silicious,
argillaceous rock without pronounced
shaly structure, known as the Red
Ledge. In places this rock is b1eacheu
along fractures and has a superficial
resemblance to porphyry 1t is a nor
NAL sediment and is characteristic of
this horizon, the upper part of the car
boniferous, in many parts of the Rocky
mountains and Great Basin regions
The limestone rests on quartzite
some 200 feet in thickness, which In
turn rests upon diabase of typical tex
ture and habit, making a footslope of
the mountain. All the beds of the
series are as we'll exposed as the leaves
of a book in the walls of Queen Creek