Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-10
YOUNG CoUNTYS BONANZA.
No Question About There Being Silver but
it Remains to be Dem onstrate,l if
it viii Pay to Work 1t.
Correspondence of the Gazette.

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GRAHAM, Young COUNTY. Ten, Oct. =
! The following is taken from the Graham
| Leader:
| nearest Twin Mountain. The metal seems TO
| be more generally distributed in the concrete
! strata i'll this shaft than in any heretofore
| opened, and II also seems to be richer than any
| OF the others. The strata was struck in
| this shaft at forty-fve feet below the surface
| and appearances seem to indicate that it ex-
| tends under the mountain. The workmen are
| still going down upon il.
| Messrs. John Taylor and G. A. Graham have
been dcyoting good deal of time to prospect
| ing i'll the hills directly west Of Graham, ana
| last week they discovered an old shaft, sup
| posed TO have been worked many years
| ago by the Mexicans. The shaft is walled
with rock and from all outside appearances it is
| judged to be at least century old So IL seems
that people of forgotten age We're working
here for precious metals. The recent discovery
here. taken IN connection with this old shaft
and the discoveries of early settlers here. seem
TO indicate TO a certainty that there exists I'M
der and in the immediate neighborhood OF Ora
ham mines OF immense wealth. We feel conf
dent now that the gold and silver of Graham
Will yet amount to bonanza 70 our people
The assayers say il is here, and the shafts al
ready sunk proves that the ore exists in i'm
menSe quantities. There is no further room for
SkepticiSm on the subject.
With these prospects added to our immense
coal fields, and our agricultural facilities. there
is no reason why Young county should not soon
become the banner county OF the Northwest
and Graham the leading city OF this district.
Col. Graham has commenced two more shafts
on the north side of East Twin mountain.
Your correspondent has carefully exam
incG the so-called walls. inscription etc,
and has found nothing to induce him to be-
lieve that the work was done longer than
ten or twelve years ago, and that by men
who camped on the ground while at work
about town. If we have valuable minerals
here as | firmly believe, we have no need
of mystery or the medicine man. But we
cannot too often remember that all is not
gold that glitterS. So far these are the
facts: In Joe Norris well, and in three
separate shafts sunk by Z. S. Graham. sill
YER ore has been found in the conglomerate
rock. The ore is in the shape of crystals of
sulphuret of lead and silver and is found
frosting the f1inty pebbles in the conglom-
crate rock. In Norris well ore was struck
at about twenty five feet, at Graham's shaft
on the side of Twin mountain at about FORTY
six feet. and in the other two intervening
at about thirty-tive feet. These different
diggings are say six hundred yards in ex-
IRENE from east TO west.
Much FOOLS gold or iron pyrites has also
been found in all of these openings. Whether
the pyrites contain anything of value only
assays will tell. Mr.. Graham is now sink
ing two other shafts on the north side of
east Twin mountain. His first three
shafts stopped at good ore. When the last
two are finished he proposes to ship ton
from each shaft, covering 4 distance of half |
mile from east TO west, and if the smelling
is satisfactory, works will be constructed |
for smelling ore on the ground. So far we !
nave no evidence of fissure veins. What !
we have is a mineral deposit in 4 very hard |
conglomerate in the coal measures. Proba- |
bly, the average thickness of this conglom- |
crate underlying the town is fifteen feet |
perhaps twenty-but l do not know that it |
is all mineral bearing. 1t is generally over |
laid by sandstone and underlaid by clay