Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1879-07-24
ARIZONA.
The Principal Silver Mines
in the Tombstone District.
A Mineral Belt from One and Half
TO Two Miles Wfde, and Ten
Miles Long.
WORK Done on Various Lodes--Richness OF
the ores-stsmp MiiIs-Nfines Bondedto
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Chicagoaas.
Special correspondence to the Chicago Tribune
TOMBSTONE, Ari. Ter, July LIST
just one year ago to-day / first stalk
ed my tent in Tombstone. AT that
time nothing more favorable could
have been said of tho district than
that there was more rich ore in sight
on the surface than had ever been
found in any mining camp. The con-
tention and Grand Central Mines had
been sold /; and the mines belonging
TO Messrs. Scheffin and Grid, viz !:
Tough Nut, Lucky Cuss, West.Side,
and seven others, were bonded for
100000. This bond was not taken
up, and Scheffin and Grid went to
work in good earnest on their own &C.
count. 1t frequently is the case that,
where mines are bonded for a large
amount, and the sale does not come
off, the camp thereby receives heavy
set,b back. But in this case it was Just
the reverse. For every dollar ex-
pended in these mines, SO was left
in sight. At this same time the Con-
tention Company were rafting away
at their great mines, and trying to
lind bottom to it, it it had one.
BUT THEY FAILED TO FIND IT.;
and, in my opinion, they might as
well try to find the bottom of the
Comstock. 4s
Ever since mining for gold and sill
yer became branch ofindustry, men
have tried to find the bottom of mines.
Where one has failed Ito find bottom)
twenty-yes, titty--have succeeded.
Tombstone will be no exception to
the rule, but Tombstone will b. an
exception to some other rules.
In most mining districts through
out the West, the permanent silver or
gold. bearing veins are confined to one
ledge or vein, or to narrow belt of
formation only This theory will not
do here, unless we call belt from one
and half to two miles wide narrow
belt. Work enough has been done
to prove that there is quite number
of permanent mines here; and, in the
course of six months more, several
more, which are now called prospects,
will be pronounced
TRUE FIssURE VEINS. 59
This may be looked upon by some
as in open defiance to established
laws, and consequently set aside as a
puff" But, for the formation of these
silver-bearing veins, the cause Of all
their spurs, the pockets, top.deposits,
chimneys, etc., found in all mining
camps outside Of the principal or
"mother- vein," what have we to in
form us except the theories of others?
And these theories are continually,be-
ing upset.
In Tombstone there are three quite
distant formations, running parallel
with each other as far as traceable on
the surface,-a distance of about ten
miles. The course is from northeast
to southwest. The southerly side is
quartzite, the northerly side is por-
phyry, and the centre syenite. South
of the quartzite nothing has been
found, and north of the porphyry
ditto. But, in each of these three
formations, good mineral, in separate.
distinct, well-defined lodges, has been
found, the full length and width of
the belt. And it seems to me more
logical to suppose that more than one
of these veins are deep seated in the
bowels of the earth than to suppose
them only shallow surface deposits,
formed, as a noted mining engineer
and geologist, Clarence King, once
said, by little Angel Gabriel going
around with a big pitcher filing open
croviees.
TUE CONTENTION COMPANY
are now down on their mine about
ITO feet, and have also done about
$50 feet of drifting. For the money
expended they are amply recon-
pensed by finding a solid vein OF
good ore in the bottom of the shaft,
and the same in all their levels and
drifts. Their ore dump is the largest
single dump in the camp, and the ore
in it is high grade.
IN THE LUCKY-CUss MINE
everything is being done in system
attic shape. Their principal shaft is
now down to a depth. of about l6O
feet Quite extensive work has been
done at two other places of the ledge,
with very satisfactory results in each
locality. Large bodies of ore, and a
good solid vein of it at the bottom OF
their works, and large dumps of ore
as rich as any in the district, are the
reward of merit in this case.
THE ToUGH-NUT
tombstone Mill and Mining Com
pany's Mine) has more work done on
it than any nine in the district. This
work has been on or near the sur.
face, principally on account of
wishing to develop or extract ore
expeditiously, so as to have a goodly
supply on hand or accessible when
the mill commenced running. The
principal works known as West
Shaft by shaft and incline are down
about 800 feet A vertical shaft sunk
from the surface would strike tho bot
tom Of these works at about 100 feet.
AT the bottom of the incline, the
ledge is about fiye feet in width Of
fine carbonate ore, which, when
worked out, leaves the hanging wall
standing perfectly smooth, like a
Gothic roof of slate. Notwithstand-
ing the heavy pull which has been
made on the dumps during the month
efJune, there has only one dump
out of five been tapped yet.
In the southwesterly portion of
the district, and in the quartzite belt,
are some more mines which look very
favorable. CHIEF amongst, these is
THE BURLEIGn LODE.
It shows good ore on the surface for
more than the length of one claim,
in a well defined ledge from one to
four feet wide. Two shafts have
been sunk, about /, 500 feet apart
one forty and the other thirty feet
deep. In the West Shaft the ledge
is about the same size on top, as at
tho bottom, and quite good dump
of ore was extracted in sinking it. At