Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-03-30

depth still maintains its extraordinary richness. Samples taken this morn ing across thess vein at the bottom of | the shaft yielded on the average $592 | gold and $S silver. It is the most wonderful mine I have ever beheld for | the quantity and quality of it's ore. The Golden Eagle mine, one mile north of the Golden Mountain, has an open cut of about ten feet showing a five-foot vein of free milling ore that | will average $40 per ton. This vein occurs in diosite and porphyry and is true Assure vein, standing at an an gle of about eighty-five degrees. l consider this mine one of the most promising mines in the camp. The Crown Point and others owned by the Quinn Brothers & Company, are equal ly as promising as the above named mines, at a depth of thirty-fve feet. On the Crown Point the ore averages forty-tive dollars per ton in free gold. I The Jenny Lind, owned by Hiram A. Owens, formerly called "ChEoride- F5aek,s IS q promising carbonate mine that runs high in gold, silver and lead. The Silver Glance owned by Frank Wells, of your city, is one of the most promising mining properties of this district. This mine is an extension of the Jenny Lind, and bids fair, with de yelopment, to rival anything in the district, both as to quantity and qual ity. The formation of these mines are porphyry and clay slate, alternating towards the apex of the mountain, with argillaceoas schist and mountain limestone. sThe fornation for rich gold and silver ores is one of the best in Arizona The Magnolia, rich sil- yer discovery three miles south of the Gold Mountain, is owned by Jos. Por- terie, of your city and others, shows a two-foot vein of 500-ounce silver ore. 1 The formation is limestone, associated with schist and crystalline rocks, al ternating with 8 marly bitulninous schist, more recent than the carbon ferrous tiratas below. It is valuable property.
 The Seelig, State of Maine and oth- CT mines owned by T. H. Seelig < Co.,, of your city, show large bodies of car bonate ore which, with proper exploita- tion will no doubt show large bodies of rich ore.
 New discoveries of merit are of daily occurrence in our immediate vicini
 ty. 1 have no hesitation in saying that 1 believe this camp will prove to be one of the best ever discovered in Arizona, Capital to develop the great mining interests of this district is all that is needed to prove the truth of my assertion. In the mountain rang es three miles east of the Golden Noun tain mine, important and extensive
 beds of grey and other ores of copper occur. Some of these discoveries have been developed to considerable ex- tent and show veins of argentiferous copper, native copper, oxides of cop per, malachite, chalcopyrite and tet- rehedrite, or grey copper. Some of these copper ores carry from one to two per cent. silver and from thirty to fifty T per cent. copper The Hibernia mine, one of the best developed mines in this mountain range, shows a 12-footz vein
 of solid grey copper ore, that will yield
 at least thirty-fiye per cent. copper,
 and from eighty to ninety ounces of
 silver. The State of Maine mine is an extension of the Hibernia. Unfortu-
 nately, this camp has been cursed with
 self-styled mining experts, who have
 written to papers they claim to repre-
 sent, outrageous falsehoods, denying
 the richness of the discoveries recent
 ly made i'll this di tr.c'. A person
 calling himself L. B. Durnil, of the
 "Lordsburg Liberal" visited this camp
 and because Whatton &s Co.,, would
 not show him the nuggets taken from
 the Gold Mountain mine, this Mir. D
 tried to give the camp black eye, by
 publishing under date of January 12 glaring mistatement, by saying "the
 limestone cap was there and the hole through it; the lime was some two , feet thick and immediately under it : it was said, the nuggets were found : and then an iron ore, which may con tain gold, but it dosen't show it to the naked eye" The limestone occurs in } stratas of about three inches thick } with iron stratas between, to a depth of at least eighteen inches. Under heath this cap large bed of oxide O. } manganese, or manganblende, occurs r in which the gold nuggets were found : Your correspondent saw several mug 7 gets weighing from five ounces tC } twenty pounds in virgin gold. Ii , would be very imprudent in the own
 CTS of this great find to show thei
 treasure to every tramp who visited
 camp, hence Mir. Durnils inability tC f see the nuggets. Some of those ex
 perts actually found "babbit metal
 and "brass" mines; others also claim
 ed that the men were suffering iron
 want of provisions. Such is not the
 case, nor has it been the case sine,
 the rich find in November last. Ever, : one here has an abundance to eat anC ', drink.
 : This camp will come out on its mer s its and that very soon. A townsite o : eighty acres has been laid out by See f liz, Hamilton and McCasey, of Phe :, nix, and Robt Coulter, of Signal. Tn, ! ground is level, with pitch of abou l thirty feet to the mile towards tn, Q south, thus insuring perfect drainage
 Water can be obtained by digging a I depth of from 15 to 20 feet; it i e perfectly free from all saline and aka y line matter. We have four stores . thren saloons q hutnbar cbor, blocl,