Bisbee daily review., 1919-05-04
KAY COPPER MINE j BEING DEVELOPED
 AT 6OO-FT. LEVEL
Most Important Find Since Verde Extension, Makes
 Rapid Progress

MAYER, Ariz May 3.-Speaking in
 the terms of the oil fraternity, the Kay copper mine is a "gusher." The
 Kay is located in the southern portion I of the Black canyon district, about | 45 miles north of Phoenix. It is an
 old property, formerly owned and op- erated by s. J. Tribolet of Phoenix and later taken over by F. R. Ross and
 associates of New York and George W. Long, who was the principal or
 ganizer of the United Eastern com pany of Oatman. The Kay Copper company is the name of the organiza-
 tion.
 The mine was developed to the 950- | foot level by Tribolet and associates and number of carloads of high
 grade ore were shipped by them. l Under the new management the shaft
 was sunk first to the 500-foot level, where considerable development work
 was carried on which opened up very large bodies of ore; in fact, the ore body in the south drift at the 500 level proved to be better than 75 feet
 in width running from good milling l grade in value to p per cent copper and some gold and silver. The north i crosscut on the same level showed ] 62 feet of milling ore, this apparently i being a seperate Tense from the south ] ore body.
 After thoroughly exploring the 800 | foot level the shaft was continued to the 600 and in the past few weeks | development has been in progress on
 a large scale in drifts and crosscuts
 north and south of the shaft and the findings of ore have been on the sen sational order. Not only have the ore leses opened and developed on the
 500-foot level been found to be in i place on the 600 level, and to have widened out considerably, but the main fault on the west has been pen ! etrated and the south ore Tense has ! been encountered on the other side bigger than ever. The grade of ore in the workings on the 6OO-foot level | is about the same as that on the
 500.
 | The mine map of the workings
 shows the ore lenses to be continuous from the 50-foot level where the first l high grade ore was mined and ship ! ped by Tribolet to the present 600 level. They have widened out regu- larly and uniformly.
 l No strike of ore of such importance 1 as the Kay has been made in Yavapaf county since that of the United Verde Extension at Jerome. The mine is To- cated in the Yavapai schist formation, quite similar to that of the Jerome district and the determination of the permanency of the ore bodies in the i Kay to the present depth sets aside all doubts as to the future of the mine : and to this particular schist formation ! which predominates in the Block can i yon district. The Kay mine is about | 50 miles south of Jerome.
 l It is known that the Kay company ! has definite plans as to it's own re- | duction works which will be built not
 so very far from the mine at the
 proper time It is also a stetled fact i that railroad will be built to the
 mine, through the canyon although
 the details are not ready for public i announcement. The development of
 the Kay shows ore reserves that will
 warrant the building of the contem- plated reduction works and the rail-
 road.
 A number of other mining compan.
 ies with properties in that same Black i canyon district, which have been ! holding back until the Kay proved the district will now commence de-
 velopment work. The Big Copper I Chief, with headquarters at Phoenix,
 has had several prominent business men from the east on the property in the past few weeks and plans have
 been announced of starting extensive
 work on the property.
 The force of miners had been in | creased at the United Arizona Cop per company's mine, east of Cordes. The winez on the 800 level is in splen- did ore, indicating that the values are
 becoming better as the water level Is
 reached. The ore is a chalcopyrite
 similar to the Kay ore. A new 80 horsepower hoist is to be installed.
 There is much new activity in the
 different nearby camps. In the Cop
 per mountain district the Big Bug !, Copper company has the making of a
 remarkably rich mine. The Victory : Copper company has a 1000-foot shaft
 we'll under way on a promising prop
 erty west of the Ringhampton mine; excellent progress is being made on l, the new three-compartment shaft at the Binghampton, and the Copper
 Queen company has commenced the
 erection of a 50-ton Notation mill. Local parties have taken options on several of the old silver-lead proper ties in the Turkey creek district, the } plan being to install central reduc- . tion plant number of the old silver
 properties west of this place have
 been examined and reported on re-
 gently.
 The most important development of ' the district, however, is that of the r Kay mine. It brings into the proven i district of the schist belt a remark
 ably promising section; in fact, all