Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-09-01
DENvER's SHOW.
The Mining Exposition Assuming a
National Aspect.
A Few os hrizona's Good Points-Tomb
. stone and s0res-Ths Celebrated Black
Range Of New Mexico-How the
Country Was Cleared
b. g., gar' of Indians.
HOW SPECIMEN BRICKS ARE OBTAINED
Special Conespondenee Of the Reqister.

all quarters OF the world are beginning 70
take in the exposition and the whole affair
begins to assume something of a "nation-
all' aspect, there being now exhibits from
Arizona, Nevada, Idaho, Montana, the Car
olinas, Texas, Nebraska, Kansas, Utah,
Wyoming and Dakota, with the promise OF
others from California. Maine, Missouri
and Mexico. California's action has been
.-secent, snd Be4 4shlhit has tesn- - Sse 90
tually sent from the 66sde6 Of the
Argonauts. A Coloradoan, in National
politics, night or two since said that he
accounted for the leading traits of these
same 49ers, as these Argonauts are called,
by the idea that those who were disappoint-
ed in their search after the golden fleece.
had since accommodated themselves to any
fleece they could find, not scoruing that Of
lambs, even,
The Mass OF Minerals
to be exhibited is now fairly in place, and
some comparative idea may be formed of
them. The Utah exhibit seems still the
most completely representative of all the
mineral resources of the Territory. The
Arizona exhibit is extremely interesting
and makes handsome display. The New
Mexico cases are ample and we'll filled, and
present elements of novelty which are
found in neither of the others. These three
deserve first mention. As to the others
enumerated, ii may be remembered that
Governor Hoyt, of Wyoming, is represent
ing his own Territory here, working like
4 A. St,Na alrn
its exhibit through the Atchison, Topeka
and Santa Fe railroad company
Arizona and Tombstone.
Bare and bleared as the interior deserts
of Africa in many wide expanseS which are
comparatively well known. Arizona's good
points arc less widely celebrated. Her
tarantulas scorpions, sand Apaches and
"Gila Monsters" have been much written
about. Tombstone, the most important
point in the territory as center for capital
as we'll as for the operations OF mining
companies whose stocks, are widely known
and widely owned in the East, is still
regarded BY the world at large as deserving
the gloomy adherence inseparable from
the suggestion of such name. In reality,
it is the most unhealthy place in Arizona;
but its mines are marvellous and make
full exhibit here. Ready reduction for Gus
tom ores is furnished by the extensive
works of the Boston and Arizona Smelling
Company, while the Tombstone NJ. and NJ.
Company and other large companies have
Queen" of B;sbee, A. T., make more con-
spicuous display than any other single
mine from the territory, but the Tomb
stone companies show and
Prove Pr0digious Results.
a party of English capitalists left for a
visit to The Copper Queen last week, with
Professor Benjamin Williams, a well
known mining expert, whose father and
brother have made regulations in connec-
tion with the famous Calumet and Hecla
Company of Lake Superior and the great
English copper receivers, Vivien Co, OF
Swansea. Mr.. Fairbanks, of Philadelphia,
is the largest stakeholder in the Contention
mine of the Tombstone district which sim
gle mine is said to have made daily ont.
put of more than S. 900 for q consecutive
period of twenty months. The ores OF the
Copper Queen are low grade, averaging not
more than l3 per cent. copper for the entire
quantity worked last year, but OF this Is
per cent. all over 5 per cent. was clear
profit. There is nothing particularly re-
markable about the appearance Of the Ari-
zona ores, which are silver and copper
principally-showing native and dendritic
Silver, chlorides, sulphurets, silver glace
and gray copper.
The Black Range Of New Mexico.
Part of the Continental divide and run.
ming from q point about l40 miles south OF
Albuquerque southwest into old Mexico
in the celebrated Black Range, part OF the
"Membras'' Mountains. This range has
been the location for the stories of the
Mayne Reids Of Apache Land. Until 1850
white men could not live in it on account
of the Apsches whose predatory raids cut
down prospecters as fast as they went into
what was supposed to be an Eldorado. In
1881 the whites established foothold, and
there are five mining districts and seven
camps in this range. They send com.
missioner to the mining exposition, and
their ores are reunquestionably the cleanest
looking, most attractive in appearance, and
for the depth the most valuable of any ex-
hibits vet made. Here are hard compact
masses of quartz taken from the grass roots
down, showingsilyer sulphurets, chlorides
and bromo-chIorides, and assaying hand
somely in
Copper and Gold.
One noticeably fine mass of this quartz
showing azeirete and bromo chloride Of sill
yer on the surface, assays s., ,000 to the ton
in gold and IL, 900 ounces silver. This may
fairly be said 10 be the most interesting
mining camp in the Southwest. 1t is l25
miles from a railroad. which in the eyes OF
miners is q great recommendation, and IS
about 6. 800 feet above the sea level. The
prospector lies down with a romantic sem
sation that he may be Apache meat or tar
antula meat before morning, but his pick
digs out for him next day quartz as beauti-
fully yariegated as the lizards and scorpi-
ons which bask in its fragments. Timber
60 ho rnlo ~ nd
camps in the Black Range, and since the
congregation of several hundred miners in
one camp there is no longer real danger
from the Apaches. A miner from there
informed me very frankly this morning
that he belonged to a society OF white men
in that country who sent a bullet into ey-
cry Indian they saw, under any circum-
stances.
Specimen Bricks.
The case with which handsome "speci-
mems" can be gotten from poor mines IS
notorious. There are some oil them on eX-
hibition here however, which deserve the
attention they attract. One is piece OF
dull, gray rock, larger than q miners hand,
and OF oblong, irregular shape, from the
Poorman mine, in Boulder county, Colora-
do. Any other than a miner would pass it
by without notice. There is no surface in
dication Of any value, yet il is almost pure
silver, containing more than 800 worth Of
the metal. In The case from the Silver
King mine, A. T., are irregular masses Of
quartz with pure silver fused, blown and
mechanically mixed with the rock In
wonderful fashion. Free" gold, as the
metal is generally found, peers in yellow
points or tiny yellow wires from the cor
ners of blocks Of white quartz, sometimes
projecting in angular masses OF the un-
mistakable gold hue, which, to tender
foot" is not nearly 30 attractive as copper
pyrites or mica. I.
From the Rams Horn Mine, OF Idaho,
comes the section OF q tree trunk, cut at
about eight feet above the ground, showing
the skull and horns OF full-grown ram,
firmly imbedded in and projecting from the
wood. The trunk is here about thirteen
inches in diameter. and the horns several
inches thick, curying hack until they again
grow into the wood, or rather until the
wood again grows around them
A High Bridge About Completes.
BRADFORD, Pa, August 3l.-The kinzua
yiaduct on the line of the New YORK,
Lake Erie & Western road, the highest In
,ba yrorld has beeu COMPLETED sud trains