Arizona sentinel., 1917-01-04
PARKER, ARIZONA.

prisingly prolific in large bodies of gold and copper ore, opened up in large quantities by shafts and tunnels in dozens of properties that have been developed and partially developed dur ing the past twenty years.
 Today the recognition that Parker has so long deserved is bringing that district rapidly into the vision of min ing men, investors and mining capital ists who have been engaged during the past few months in grabbing many of the promising properties, equip ping them and preparing for extensive development and heavy production.
 At the far eastern end of the district is located the Swansea shelter and the properties of the Clara Consoli- dated Mining Company From this property which today is producer of several carloads of copper and gold ore daily, proceeding north and west are found the principal producers of the district. At the rate of about $60,- 900 per month it is stated that there is enough ore in sight in the Clara to last for twenty-five years while the larger portion of the ground is as yet undeveloped and the ore is coming from above the 400 foot level. The de posit apepars to be big blanket vein which has been crosscut for a dis tance of 800 feet without finding any walls or diminution in values. There are a number of working shafts from which more or less drifting has been done but, as will be seen, the work ings are not yet deep enough to de- yelop the tremendous ore bodies be- low the present workings which are known to exist. The Clara Consoll- dated undoubtedly has the makings Of vastly bigger mine than at present has been shown up.
 The Swansea shelter, which has capacity for handling from 75O to lO0O tons of ore daily has been idle for some time for various financial req sons and not from lack of ore, but It is rumored that the shelter will soon be put into operation again either py the owners or lessees and this will give a close at hand market for several thousand tons of ore.
 Immediately adjoining the Clara property and covering the same torma- tion which extends westward with slightly northern trend, and cover ing a distance of close to four miles, consolidation of a number of proper ties has just been consumated, giving total of about 400 acres, and organ ized into the Arizona Revenue Copper Company. These properties include 72 claims, covering the groups pre- yiously known as the Echo, Stanoaro' Crescent Copper, Fl Moline, Cecil, Ele- phant and Hottentot, every one ol which combinations have sulflclent sbowings at surface and at consider able depth to warrant extensive deVei- opment work.
 The Swansea belt cuts through the Echo, Crescent and Fl Moline, turning north up through the Empire mines while the Planet belt runs through the Elephant. Revenue and Cecil, ap- parently forming junction with the Swansea belt on the Crescent group and indicating the assembling ot mass of ore that may prove extraordl- narilv large and rich, geological con- dition that is usually looked for under such conditions.
 The Swansea formation consists principally of lime, porpyry and schlsI with an immense iron capping over the ore bodies which are found ln both blanket and dike formation underly- ing the belt, widely disseminated cop per and gold values being pre-domln- ant. On the Echo group about loOO feet of work has been done, which ln- cludes a shaft 1855 feet in depth show ing gold and copper values running between $9O and $40 per ton not ln- cluding copper glance ore that runs as high as 60 per cent in copper which is found in several places in the tun- nels and crosscuts that constitute the development work. The surface snow ing between the Echo and the ReVe- nue group is said to be continuous as shown by a number of openings rom 30 to 40 feet in depth. The shalt on the Revenue group, down 2lO rect deep, with crosscut 15O feet at the bottom of the shaft, is said to be III good ore while a quarry that has been opened at the surface only has pro duced shipping ore running per cent copper with high gold values. On the Elephant group carbonate or cop nor ore has been disclosed running as