Arizona republican., 1917-07-15
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productive and nearly productive stages of development. Taken in TO- tation from Jerome southward, the list of such properties reads as fol- lows:
 Blue Monster, Copper Lode mines, Loma, Verde Copper, Big Reef Copper, and Arizona Copper Queen. Any or all of these properties possess copper yielding possibilities similar to prop critics in a like stage of development al Jerome, while the roster of pro- ducing mines exceeds in number the lest of shipping properties at Jerome.
 Record of Accomplishment
 Less than two, years ago there was not regularly productive copper property to the south of Jerome, de- velopment work was scant and spor- adic and the section in general was in the mining discard Then M. ". De Camp opened old and new bodies of copper ore at increasing depth iii the Blue Bell and De Soto mines, and investors again took q hand in the mining game there. Since that time the Arizona Binghamton, Copper Queen Gold, Henrietta. Butternut and Sterling have passed through the successive stages of- development lead ing prom a mining prospect to d productive mine.
 Mining history is repeating itself along this belt of mineralized schist with the result that what has been accomplished in the Blue Bell De Soto, Arizona Binghamton, Copper Queen Gold. Henrietta and Butternut mines is now by way of being ac complshed elsewhere along it's amor phous length. The Copper Lode Mines company, for instance, is min ing and milling s2O per ton gold silver-copper ore to an incline depth of 400 feet, and below that level, to O depth of $40 feet, is opening and blocking out copper ore that samples as high as g per cent copper per ton-ayeraging about per cent per ton. The Blue Monster, located near by, has an enormous tonnage of low grade copper ore in sight much Of which could be steam -shoveled at a profit.
 lona Verde and Big Reef
 The Loma Verde Copper company has upwards of 500 tons of sorted ore on dump that holds an average cop per content of 15 per cent per ton Development work is aggressive and
 
 erful machinery Near by the Loma Verde estate the Jerome Copper com pany. owner of the valuable Ewins and Hooker group at Jerome, is pre- pairing to develop a large acreage on an eXtensnve scale. This acreage ad- joins the Arizona Binghamton mine, and at surface and nominal depth presents mineral conditions similar to those which have at depth proven so remunerative for the company last mentioned.
 At depth of 75 feet for the main working shaft recently started on the acreage of the Big Reef company, is in ore that carries<stringers of bornite and chalcopyrite assaying from 15 to 20 per cent copper. A plant of ma chinery and power drills are aiding materially in the work of depth get ting. The Big Reef estates carries 6 series of ledges of demonstrated value. At surface and nominal depth they hold large tonnage of very valuable flux ore This ore is being mined and is to be shipped to the smelter at Mayer.
 { shipment of 22 per cent copper ore will go out July 15 from the lease workings on the Sunshine claim Of i the Arizona Copper Queen Mining company. The property is located near Cordes and is considered one of the most promising partially developed mines to the south of Jerome. It is equipped with $30,000 plant of ma chlnery and camp buildings. The main shaft at a depth of 210 feet Is filled with ore that samples an aver age of 6.5 per cent copper. The rocl shows chalcopyrite, copper glance ant oornite in uantity. The shaft is be- ing sunk to a depth of 300 feet under contract Neurological conditions in dicate that at that depth a large ant valuable body of copper will b, found.
 Magnate May Take Over Comobab |, Dr. Walter Harvey Weed consult
 ing engineer of the Magnate Coppe company, has just finished exanlina
 tion of the Comobabi mine for tn Magnate Copper company It is 10 cated in Pima county, Arizona, abou
 midway between the Magnate and tn New Cornelia mines, 53 miles west O Tucson and the Comobabi range o mountains. Dr. Weed says: My crit ical inspection of all the mine work 1ngS and the ore outcrops makes m confident that this property is of al unusual merit, and that it has tn making of a large tonnage. low grad copper; that the great size of the or deposit and the outcrop itself is com mercially workable copper. I am yer, confident that this oxidized coppe ore will change at the water leve into an equally large body of sulphid
 ore; that the ore zones of copper ar in evidence for a distance of 400 feet, or nearly a mile in the property that the most important ore body i cliff of ore POO feet long. 25 fee wide, and stands up about 100 fee