The Parker post., 1917-01-20
MONEY AND PEOPLE INVADING
THE PARKER MINING DISTRICT
Copper Basin Shaft Is the First to Reach the
Sulphide Zone - Empire Arizona Is
Making Regular Shipments
(By Ralph R. Livingstone

Parker, long considered perhaps
the richest semi developed mining
district i'm Arizona, has experienced
mighty change within the past
thirty days. Rumors of strike on
the Copper Basin property have
spread rapidly Investors, proSpec-
tive investors and miners from al
most every camp in the state have
flocked to Parker to take advantage
of the resultant activity.
Claims that had lain dormant for
years have been relocated and be
came almost over night the scene of
operations. Increased activity has
been most noticeable during the past
ten days, during which time scores
of men have been turned away from
the already overflowing hotels and
have slept on verandas, in the depot
and even in the open.
The Copper Basin shaft is the first
to reach the sulphide zone and to
prove, it is believed. that the enor-
nous copper carbonate and oxide
deposits encountered ON the surface
of practically the entire district are
underlain by a sulphide deposit,
once the water level is reached.
Despite the efforts of the property
owners to keep the "strike" quiet an
to prevent sampling by outside per-
sons, interested mining men have
succeeded in securing samples and
information that verifies earlier re-
ports of a body of copper sulphide
encountered at a depth of less than
300 feet
Others are Active
So efforts to get down to water
level on nearly every property in
the immediate vicinity have been
redoubled. The Western Arizona
Copper Company, a recently incor-
porated organization owning twenty
seven claims footing ON the Colorado
river and controlled by a group of
capitalists and mining men of Miami,
has ordered additional machinery
and will start sinking vertical shaft
en- site selected by Gordon R.
Stewart, general manager and min
ing superintendent, during his visit
Do r11o.. AI,io xx,oo11
Mr.. Stewart states he expects to
begin shipping ore within the next
sixty days. Negotiations for the
purchase of the fifty-horse-power
stern-wheeler lola were instituted
and practically completed by the
company last week. AS soon as a
small amount of road work is done
and camp structures are cOmpl leted,
the ight-draft boat is to he put in
service. Ore has been shipped from
open cuts and shallow shafts at ir-
regular intervals during the past few
years. The property was known un-
til recently as the Brockman or
Gier claims.
The Western Arizona Copper
company's property is at practically
:he same elevation with reference
to the Colorado river as is that of
the Copper Basin. 1t is estimated
a 300-foot vertical shaft will open
up sulphide ore.
On the property of the Empire
Arizona Copper company the de-
velopments of the past month in
Guide the completion of an excel
lent system of roads, over which the
company's trucks are hauling from
twenty to thirty tons of ore per day.
The Empire covers thirty claims and
is, one OF the best developed prop
critics in the immediate vicinity. 1t
is about eleven miles northeast of
Parker, with which it is connected
by telephone.
About fifty men are working on
the property, not including a crew
worked by the leasing company,
operating the Grey Eagle claim. Re-
cent developments have shown that
claim and the Eagles Nest to con-
tain better values than the Carna-
tion and the major part of the work
is now being done on the northern
part of the property.
Ready to Ship.
Although but two months old, the
Arizona McGinnis, adjoining the EN-