The daily morning oasis., 1920-03-18
Development and Ores

In the California mine with which
this report has the most to do for
I that is where the most extensive work
ings lie, and where plans projected
give promise of making very valu-
able mining property with moderate
! expenditure of money. The distances
described for the Flux in the Schrad-
er report are about the same, or
trifle less; and it may be added here
that the road described traverses the
California property its entire length,
and reaches the Southern Pacific
Railway, Nogales-B Benson branch, in
distance of 21a miles where a side
track and platform twenty miles from
E,Nogales afford all necessary facili-
ties for shipment of ores and receipt
of: supplies. ~ u.
2''sf--; The Formation
Consists principally of the great
belt of rhyolite described by Prof.
.Schrader, while there are occurrences
Of limestone. The, entire length of
the claim extend a number of shear
zones along the crevices there being
an accumulation of rich ore deposits,
varying in extent from a few inches
to several feet; although the entire
belt Of rhyolite gives evidences of
naturalization. These occurrences sug-
gest that through some great seismic
convulsion the ryholite was split and
cracked (sheared), and that ascend
ing mineralized vapors from the
depths precipitated along the crevices
cooling there, forming the lodges,
veins and stringers of ore encounter
ed; and that the highly yolatilized
solutions penetrated the loose texture
of the ryholite, giving that min
eralization so noticeable; while in
places the shear zones widened and
became large crevices or chambers,
that filled in the same way with the
SooiiAAS ihilC1ol SOluIlOIlS, creating
the large ore bodies described by
Schrader in, the Flux mine, counter
parts to which may be, and very like
ly will be found with depth and de-
velopment in the California ground.
Development
Consists of the openings showing
ore, along the main ledge or lode,
described by Professor Schfader, with
several inclined shafts from which
good ores have been extracted and
shipped, and tunnel running to get
under the ore-bodies developed by
the work above in the inclined shafts,
and vertical shafts, of which there
are two of the latter and three of
the former.
Near the center monument is a.
shaft 81 feet deep, from which good
ores have been shipped. In the
canon below this shaft a tunnel has
been started for that point, continuing
on beyond to the three inclines men
toned. The tunnel, now at a depth
OF 200 feet from the entrance, has
reached the proximity of the shaft
mentioned, and is in the ore found
in that, ten feet above. In running
that distance there have been cut two
smaller shear zones, each giving ores
of the same general nature. Surveys
made demonstrate that 143 feet fur
ther will carry the tunnel to a point
below the ore body developed in the
three inclined shafts farther up the
side of the Flux Canon These in
cllnes which pitch westward at All
angle of about 35 degrees, are about
6O feet apart, and have gone down
on the orebody to depths of rs, and
70 and so feet respectively, and there
has been
Rich Shipping Ore
Stopped out and sent to smelter.
Returns show that the rock yielded
209o lead, 10 ounces silver, 5000
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