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rs. Doroth~a enceslaw Bouse Arlz~ma

Dear irs. encesla :

January 16th, 1~36

First let me tank yo ror the v.ery lOaS nt vi 1t to your ranch and your Ducll appreciated spitallty. It Was e ~e8t pleasure to see y01 and Rosella after so man-' years and to talk over old t1mes an I also much enjoyed 1:1 eting "r5 . Perr/ unc1 Orai. ext t i ne I com tti tk" r sboult brIng wi th ,6 a laf 1'e s1lpply of L1mburger cheese.

r am sending you a copy of th poem hic ~e discussed but I 0 not ',liC; C!.. Y 'l1il1g ;:lLov'~ Dr. . to ' f'fr0Y S t the f!.ut.r.o , C1nd no other 'Doem..., 01' his seem ';'0 have been publi hud i. any of t e boo"" tr~at Clre in my pos·esaivn. In fu.t. I dld DO'v find

"this 0.1. e 1n a regular an thology b t in a bOOt~ of selected :!ioe s \ hi h htltl bel.:ln copi~d ant: c/ v n tn t: year ... · ;;.go . Apparently Hosella and I .ere both rleht in regard to some portions 01 the text .

HoW in ree&rd i,o your "Angel ' S lne, I '-1 sorry to say that "" .. he samples wbich 1 took gave d1sappo1n t1ng r sul ts. Craig iill re nBHbesr ·~Yhera 1. Ct t t 61 and tile Ol'e :rr oJi~" the raise on th a second leve 1 of tile 1ncline at aft carried . 6.65 in gold and l.98 copper, which~· s pI'etty [po~ .. The one hich I took in the short drift on the north-hand side of' tbe shaft about 80' down carried " 1.40 in gl.ld (~r1d 1.JJ~~; copr:;~, Ilnd the grab ' s pIe fr n the d\wp S 0 ed only a trace of copper and a traoe of gold .

Going over ~ y not s arr.d ' e S-:;v t~nents \ ich were made re~ar ing the sampli .g of on era , also lcXAnght's renort

the iUlg Ius No. 3 sho i gs, l "ii appears to fa,., tho.t up to date only small auto t of pay Ol~e has tic "t'ls11y Deen developed and this .seJS to oocur 1n lonses and pockat3 so~c of ~11ch conta:J.n undoubtedly very hlgl1 grade natcrlal but apparently no larg' tonnase.

I aill al'ra~11 tha" 11 of t ho Llinin' .. 60ple TI l tl. ;,horn r have contact ,ould feel tha t considerable additional deve1oD­L1ent or/( shoul b~ don(~ before 1 t Quld be inter btirtg t them or justil'y the construction of a ILlll or otber t..t.oatr ant plant and from h~'"lt I Kl'OW 01~ t L alit! tuJo J"f t 13 RGc1c:"al t10V'JT. ,1'3nt I fear

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1;:\1 Y w.ol.il.d taka a sim1lar pos1 t1on, although 1 t is poss1 ble that you m~ght be able to seoure a small loan for the purposes of development . but this ould-involve a great deal of red tape and make 1 t neoeasary for you to mortgage the Dlining olnius and perhaps some of your othor property as security.

I believe that there 1s B chanoo to find additional o.l."'e~ but tne best values seem to be !lear the surface and 11' it possible for you w1th the assiqtance of Craig nd others to open up the vein and prove up two or tbece other good sho 1ngs 01' ore the picture would look muoh Hore attraoti ve. leanwhl le I will certa1nly keep on the lookout for f>ome one ~ho would be interested in helping you, a.l·\i}tough I know thut 1 t VJould not at traot the . purti~s \110 1 had in mind and 10 want to take over pro. erties in vhich several thousand to~ s of ore is prett,y ell blooked o~t so h t they oan fae1 ju tifled in putting

up a mill .

I t:r:ica '0 1'1. In t~.e Pla et File some rQcord of tl a varter Inthe ~)!laft but only came aoross ·ne referenoe i 1 ViJ ioh 1 t was m~ntio'1eo. tht:.t in ~lnk1 ' e. t;;~ v rti (:-;.1 shEtf't tl e tIm; of wator .8. - 30 ;allons or 11l1Q'*t~€lar tr.l6 b om. rrhls, of COUl:'So, . ~ow.d be n tire y ir.k .. dB lU!.. '1; fOT a. c ~)nCentl·J.tor .and unless th~ £10 should p~ove to be very muoh greater ot present I a!11 afraid the I ip ... l1n;:-; ~i1ould n~ve to oe Ie: ld fl'om tlh:; Jill 'il11~1 Hlvar. I nope that I may be able to wr1te you again on tl.is matt r soms.h t 1, ter find 01"6 Oil -'one ma ... enoouraei l' na J t f'or I ahould oe talnl" 111<8 to se a good .in d~ve~oped on your pr "Oert·,- and 1,he "hm<1ne 1. clttraot1 vo in

many ways, but it looks 'sif the occurrences of pay ore ere more spott r tn', n 1 nad assl 19 ' .

I h~d a very pleasant drive back to _hoenix tho I may be coming out your ay aeain before long. not fail to 1 ok me u~ 11' you CClr.10 t}1ic, W~ • 21.d once many thanks nd best wishl;s to you all for a pleasant 1n ihieh .rs . Colvo would jOln.

GMC: D" ENe:

Sinoerely,

Eay 17th , 1 934 .

The mine I wrote you about is not ~.e nrcus , it is on tle Ki mball Claim and belonGs to the I 'l anet , they branted us a l ease , and ue have eiGht nen em:r;J loyed . ',Ie have bo Jh the foot and hanging wall , and Cet very hi gh grade are , it is aJ.l iLll ense l e dge and a veru fine willing are , concentrates beautifully . - e have been concentratin~ only the screenin~ s of are that we consider too 10J to wip, and the:;r _0 over '13500 t hirty - five hundr d dollars , the coarse rock we are saving for a mi ll . ~he vein is shot th rouGh with seams and vugs of h i gh grade are and appears to be going dmm with the 'llieins , it certainly is inlJcrestine; . The Kimball is located up by "L 1e Crompton and the Allf,us 'o i ns on the CnOI.lpton •

• S . I 81Jl enclosing assay sheets , tllOuuht you mi gh t li ke ' to look them over , IJO . 7 i s concentrat~s , and lJO . 5 is a correction . We. ge t as h i gh as a } ton at times , TheJ started t o sink an incl i ne shaft in the fo ot wall t oday .

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Note ) Assays of s ven sam l es of are averaGe c lose to 50 , 00 per ton but may no t mean IllUCh ) G. J.d. . C.

November 14th , 1934 .

Vie are not worki ng the gold roperty I wro te you about , it belonDs to the l anet Can any, they would not give u s a mill contract, i n other wor ds, they wanted us to make a mine for them •

. We shipped ui te a lot of hi gh grade , and Llade a li tt1e money . fe are no ~ working the "Angeles , " have a larGe are body , it rlms

10% copper ahd 62 one - hundreds of an ounze of eold , by sorting t he are v·/e can br ine; the gold conten ts up . It is a larc;;e fissure vein , and also carr ies low grade eo l d are Y~ it hout much copper .

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De cember 29th , 1935 .

We still have the mine , and stil l have are, T e f ound that t 1e dUIJj.p whic h we thou~'ht was waBte is goo d millin-.; are , would like to sell the m.ine to reli able pe ople . .ve are just at the stage of develo:men t where it takes nore tha J. one Han to handl e it , up to now we have been ab l e to Illake a goo d li ving out o f i t , Ho uld li ke t o hel.ve you see the property .

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~ ).~G NOTES RE ANGELES GROUP OF CLAIMS, near B111 W1lltams River, Arizona.

~ . //tt/ 17J& The group consists ten unpatented mining claims located

south of the Planet Mine in the district south of the Bill Williams

River in Yuma Oounty, Arizona.

The claims are recor4ed in Yuma ~ounty Hecords at Yuma

as follows: BOOK OF MI NES PAGE

Angeles til 21 609 fl2 21 610 #3 21 611 1/4 21 612 115 21 615 1f6 21 &14 117 21 615 tl8 2J 12 119 23 13 tllO 23 14

Possesso~ ti tle to these claims is vested in Mrs.

Dorothea M. Wenceslaw of Planet (via Bouse) Arizona, add associates.

This property is reached from the Parker Branch of the

Santa ]'e Railway at Bouse by following an excellent road leading

to Swansea for a di stanoe of 18 miles and then by a fair branch

road for a further distance of 9 miles.

tithe country is rough and very barren, ranges of rocky to

desert hills and cliffs separated by gulches leading dQwn/the

Billi Williams Hiver. The elevation at the Angeles work1ngs is

about 900' above sea level. There is no timber and only desert

shrubs and grasses for vegetation. The ~limate is .~ hot and very

dry •

GEOLOGY

The country is mainly schist varying from a lilbt colored

sericite variety to darker ohlorite and horneblende schist, and

2-~

overlying ~a ~l

intruded by a type

-------and granite. The schist/has been 0- ditu:b.. j I'r I

of diorite whichft ther with the schist has A

'been vonsiderably metamorphosed in places.. '1'0 the east of this

property is found the ~-Of iron oxide and 'limestone charaoteristios

of the Planet Mine-8fta while in and near the gulches a oonglomerate

of iron, lime, and country rock has been formed in irregular bands

and patches. \

~ The ore oocurrenoe is found in cga'P.I~"~ or fissure,;'lYing

in the schist or between the sohist as a foot wall and the iron-lime

oongomerate as the hanging wall, the valuable minerals, oopper in the

form of silioate and oarbonate and fine free gold was propably

derived from the intrusive diorite and deposited from oirculating

solutions followed by a oertain amount of redeposition and seoondary

/J I I a. . ~----in the upper portions of the veins as the original

surfaoe was eroded away.

The prinoipal workings are in the Angelas #1 and #3 as

desoribed below.

On Angeles #1 a vein outorops for a length of about 100'

and has been traoed by pits at intervals for a total distanoe of

about 300' where it runs under thw wash. ,

The strike , of this vein is N. 25 degrees E. and the dip,

is about 48 degrees from the verti cal to the east. The footwall

is schist much metamorphossd and the hanging wall is mostly

oongt~merate and breochia with fragments of quartz, quart.ite)

aabd:st an.d diorite cemented together with iron oxide and lime as

on the Planet.

Width of the vein varies from 4' to 6' but the best values

in oopper and probably also in gold seem to lie olose to the

hanging wall in a streak not over 2 ar 3' wide, and also to OQour in

pockets. It seems that the best and probably the only pay values are

confined to the shoot which is developed by the south drifts for a

length of only about 50' opened up also by the two winzes from the 70'

level and the raise from the 120' level where my sample over a width of

4 ft. showed Au--0.19 oz, CU. 1.98%, value say i8.00 per ton.

My sample #2 taken in the north drift on the 80' level,

also over a width of 4' show·ed Au.--O .04 0Z., and copper 1418% value

about $2.70 per ton which is not pay ore.

My grab sample from the shaft dump which e~tains about

1000 tons showed only a trace of gold and a trace of copper which

indicates that much of the vein must have been practically waste though

nearly all of it is stained with copper to a greater or less extent.

The work on this claim was started by A. B. Jones about.

1905 and continued at intervals until 19l? · when three oars of ore were

sorted out fro~ the best material which had probably been piled

separately on the dump and one of these cars carried one oz. in gold,

per ton, the other & about 0.6 oz. per ton. ·All b carried

around l6~ copper.

Recent samples of screenings from dump are said to have

shown Au. 0.610, Ag--0.3 and Gu.~~lO.6~

The last lot of screeningssh1pped to Midvale in ~uly, 1935,

carried Au--1~t6 oz. per ton. , Ag--O.2 oz. and Cu. 7.87"/0, weight 4.113 tons.

(This must have been very carefully sorted and screened from the best

portions of the dump)

In this last shipment the Insol was 71.4%, Fe 5.6%, S.0.4~

and ~a O. ~.9 i The gola is in ·fine grains and coarse oolors and

should concentrate well by flotation but it might be difficult

to save the copper (unless by sulpha&iZlng) as nearly all of it oocq.~

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as a silioate.

An engineer named Van Nest sampled the hanging Vi alls and

got Au--i2.35 and fran the vein on the 70' level he got Au.-ts.06:..'

and a low value in copper.

The develop~ent completed to date appears to indicate the eXistence of only about 2000 tons ~f pay ore and can hardly be considered

encouraging, although it might pay to deepen the shaft or to extend the

south drifts in the hope of proving an extension of the ore shoot or

finding similar shoots at other points in the vein.

ANGELUS #3

This is a' similar vein to that on the Angelus el, but

strikes North 25 degrees west and dips 28 Degrees to the Northwest

The footwall is schist and the hanging wall oonglomerate,

the vein has a width of from 4' to 6 and the filling is largely

quartz and silicified schist with ver~ little copper stain.

Acoording to Mc.Knigbt's sampling in ~anuary, '23, the

vein in the upper 20' of the 80' shaft 8~says about $11.00 per ton but

values deorease to i4.00 in the next 20' and are only $0.35 near the

bottom.

Sampling of the long open-cut trench along the vein

to the west of this shaft showed only a trace of gold but further west

pockets of higher grade ore were found in test pits and at a depth ot

20' in a 35' shaft. The 40' shaft located some 400' northwest of the main

t80'} shaft .howed no pay ore.

It is said that Neilly sampled the main shaft and got

an average of about ~~.OO per ton and that Chas. Diehl obtained an \

average of over i12.00. Jamiesons samples averaged ~6.00 and those of

Hardwick 114.00. MCEnmght~ ayerage was only $4.50

The Angelus workings are located 3.2 miles by road ~

from the Planet Ranch or about lt miles in air line from the Bill Williams

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.River. They are about 3000 ft. south of t .~e Planet vertical shaft from

which it was thought- that water for a mill could be obtained but the

only .ote that I have on this point indicates that the said shaft only

makes about 300 gallons of water per day so that a pipe line might have

to be run to the river. I./>

The Planet Ranch is just 29 miles by road from Bouse~ My conclusion is that the Angel us veins contain very

little pay ore and that it is unl1kel~ that even a small production

of mill ore could be mad~ steadily and at a profit. On the other hand

there are pockets and small shoots of rich material which are found at

very irregular intervals and might yield wages to a miner with good a

nose for ore.