Arizona republican., 1917-01-28

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 Early the next morning we were on the trail. passing the once rici. silver mine Of the old Rawhide, which is still working. We climbed up a tortuous and rocky trail to the first claim to be inspected. (The ledge bearing silver and copper is con- tinuance of the celebrated McCraken Mine that lies ahout ten miles to the north, in which today the owners are blocking out thousands of tons ot low grade silver ore).
 The body of ore is principally iron Of a hemitite nature and is firm. about ten to fifteen feet wide, pitching into the hill with q capping of mneralized lime. concluded that the prospect for a silver mine was as good as any l have seen for some time.
 We passed on and over the trail which lead us oyer fine croppings of mineralized prophyry. which ranged from four to fifty feet wide, all bear ing a small percentage Of copper ana gold.
 What amazed me more than anything else was that very nearly all of these lodges ran directly southeast and into gigantic hill capped with great dykes of fine mineralized lime We
 
 found what appeared to me. with a few exceptions. a combination of all the lodges into one which is aDproxi- mately 25e feet wide. Here we found a number uf cuts and shallow shafts. all showing copper and iron. I was told they carried gold and silver too. Over this huge body of porphNry crop ping. we travelled south upon which we found other numerous cuts and prospect holes on it's surface, also showing cooper and iron.
 On the southern end of the com pauy's holding We came to the claim known as the Iron Clad upon which there has heen dore only about 350 feet of work at hardly any depth. but in all my experiences as a miner have never seen but few prospects that ever eQualled this particular claim. The body of iron ore as I re- member it. IS about E feet wide and contains rich streaks of copper. some of which assay 70 per cent. also car rying gold The direction of the vein pitches north and west ana towards the great bod of porphyry mentioned above. all being capped by huge dyke of lime.
 The next day We went to the north end of the property and passed by great dykes of porphyry that cropped out 50 feet or more. The greater part of this body is permeated with iron showing rich white quartz in places. This dyke runs east and west. The western end plunGes into another huge lime-capped hill.
 At the northern end of the com pany's holdings. we came to the rich deposits of what is known as the Main Mine. Here are quite a number of tons of ore tat run high in gold and in copper taken from as fine {, body of mineral bearing lime as l have ever seen. The rich veins of copper and gold in these deposits in- cline toward the southwest into the large lime capped hill mentioned above as does the ore body of the Iron Clad incline towards she lime capped hills on the southwestern part of the claims
 In 1882 I saw tho old Globe Mine onw known as the Old Dominion Cop per company and I never saw in its early stages such q showing as that which is to be seen today on what is called the Maine Mining Claims of the Cactus Queen Mining company. or in fact. in any other place or in any other mining camn where I have worked in the past.
 Space forbids Te going further into detail to describe this immense prop erty. Ii would take a week to do so but from my experience and knowl- edge, gained by twenty-five years working in the mines and prospecting in the southwest and Mexico, I have never seen such a huge combination of mineral formations as that whicf | lies within the boundaries of tho Cactus Queen Mining companys hold inSs IL has possibility known to tht mineral world to make a great mine It has the porphyry, lime and iron parents of copper silver and gold The acreage is vast-3,000 in all will venture to say two-thirds of thi: is composed of mineral bearing for | nation.
 l Too much credit cannot be givel ] MT. H. H. Barbee, of Colorado Spring. and his associates in this huge enter prise, and also Mir F.. A. Ritter, min. ! ing engineer, Colorado Springs, who's, | faith in this great prospect has stim Hated and convinced the above gentle men to a great extent, to that ex 1 tent at least that they have interested a group of men whose keen bushes. sense has told them they have prop 1 osition worthy of their great business 1 capacity and they are going to see i | through Men who do things, and q, l them right, the kind of men that hai ! built up this great west, and the kin, of men that Arizona wants righ now.