Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-09-12
Doing Indians and Catching Silver.

Another sensational mInlBg discovery
 was made in 1875 ID ArizOuH, but thls
 was a pure silver production. IL Was
 one of the most interesting finds ever
 made ou the coast. Three prUspectOrs, Copeland, Mason and another, were one
 day dodging Indians m the neighbOr-
 hood of Queen creek, PInal county,
 about fifty mics from Florence. The
 Indians had been very bad that year m
 that region, and no prospectOr felt safe
 8 moment One evening Copeland and
 party were looking for place tO camp,
 when all a: once one of tLeir pack mules
 gave U sport. and with ears pointed for
 ward stood stock still. X mule scent for an Indian Is keener than that of any dog for game, and the party knew there
 was danger ahead. They dismountei and reconnoltered.
 While Copeland prepared to scout on the side of htile rise, he tied his mule to @ clump of ssge-brush which grew in the cleft O! ridge of float rock
 While he was gone something Fcared the mule. and the latter ierked the sage brush up and started down the cHilOn.
 The party located a rancheria of Indi- sus mile of. and wisely beat retreat undiscovered. 4 half mile away they picked up the mule, the sage brush still hanging to his bride. Copeland de- tached 1t and WAS about throwing II away when something clinging to the roots attracted his attention. IL Was Q piece of shattered white quartz, AS big us a walnut. the disin.ergrated mass be- ing held together by perfect network of pure white silver threads the size of r.l. Al roots of the bush ran through the quartz and firmly attached it. The party were greatly excited, but they did not then daIe go back on account of the Indians. They staked the locality, aEd Copeland fairly cudgeled his brsIn 10 impress upon 1t the e1uct spot he had tied his mule.
 Two weeks after they ventured back -nd to their j@r s~.-S .L- SJost CIear For several hours they searched among the rocks and scoria of the Vi cinity, and at last Copeland found the place where the sage brush had been torn up. 4 few minutes digging re- vesled the crown of the most beautiful silver quartz ledge any of the prospe: :t- ors had ever seen. They dug for sever al days on the spot and laid bare c sec tlOn twenty feet long and ten feet wide. The vein WAS without foot or hanging wall, was of pure white quartz, with streaks of native silver (Iure white Sil ver) and bloiches of black sulphurets running all through 1t.
 This was the discovery of the famous Silver King mine cf to day. This mine has peculiar interest, from the fact that SO many publis men of note invest ed in 1t.
 Unlike most silver mines, the Silver l King has yielded for q number of years. It Is not 60 profitable as of old, however | The mine has paid since 1870 Sl, 5000 | ID dividends, and has produced some | thing like S3. .4OOOO ID silver. Strange | to say, the ledge stands alone by itself. | Scores of locations have been made | around 1t, but nothing has ever been l found in either of them. If any other | evidence were needed tO prove that min' ing for the precious metals is n game of | chance, the history of the Silver King | deposit alone would prove It.-Chicago | Herald.