Arizona weekly citizen., 1895-05-18
The Mechanism Mines In Gro Blanco Distinguished Presid-
 ential Properties.
The Gold Rock Group Worked by the Jesuit Padres in the Long Ago Now in Processs of Devel-
 opment by Dr. A. H.
 Noon and Sons.
GOLD ROCK GROUP.

|, Within a mile of the Mexican border, , taking in the croppings of one of the most clearly defined lodges of the dis
 trict. three claims long, or 45O0 feet, is a group that indicate the scene of future
 big operations. The claims are the
 Gold Bug, Forty-n;De, and Gold Rock
 and are owned by Dr. A. H. Noon and
 sons, Alonzo and Arthur Noon. These
 claims are veri6catlon of the scriptural
 declaration that the first shall be last.
 The claims are among the latest to be
 developed in Gro Blanco, and they were
 among the first to be discovered. The
 Gold Bug has history going back in
 the dim centuries that can never be told
 It may have been an early Jesuit work ing. At any rate 1t was worked in some
 crude manner from an open cut, and | that cut has almost filled up eince by | the shifting and settling of the country
 rock. Then it had another era of
 desultory work by Mexicans with ar.s-
 tras. This too was from au open cut. along the same ledge. Here was taken
 as much of the lore" as could be thrown from below with @ long handled shovel. Then tue MexicaDs were up and away. That was years ago. Since then the claims have been under location. But ID those days of no railroads milling cost, with machinery to be hauled d hundreds of miles, s25 or $50 @ ton. And properties were "no good" except for hand work that did not average $50 rock. "Big things" of the district today
 were known than but not considered
 worth the developing. So with these cisIms
 No pretension is made for them that they are mines. They are only prospects but mighty good ones. A line of crop pings third of @ mile long means that they must go under the ground too. And st the site of the Gold Bug there is gold and god. The formation here is peculiar. In addition to paying quartz ledge, of three to four feet, clearly defined, it is impregnated with al whitish cemant like stuff, high in free gold. This feature is similar to the Grubstake mine, its neighbor and parallel property, crossing the same canyon. This sloEe will pay for develop ment. The soil on the hillside below the ledge is good for free gold to the extent of two or three cents a pound. While the cement stuff is much richer. | Some of the cement left by the Mexic- | ans banned out and left a beautiful l string of gold in the bottom of the pan. Assays of ledge matter have shown from s7 to s75.
 The only lack here is development. Work will soon be instituted CD the | claim by the Messrs Noon, and that a l paying mine will be the result there is | every reason to believe. The course of l the ledge is portherly and southerly, | and the dip is to the westward. Along | the same belt, with assessment work done l IS the Forty nine, with portions ehow- ing free gold and other parts lead and | silver. Satisfactory spoon tests have | been made. The Gold Rock is virgin | claim, with croppings of we'll defined | gold bearing ledge.
 On the Gold Rock is spring of water | and good millsite. which will be utiliz- | ed with the working of the property.
 THE McCLANAHAN GROUP.
 Gro Blanco being as it used to be. 8 | silver district, snd for the matter of | that, as all precious metal miners are, the citizens of the district are not zen. erally to be classified among the ardent | admirers of MT. Cleveland's policy, and | therefore, MT. Cleveland. Yet, here in the heart of the district is to be found a | man, who might be classified among what is termed in the west "the gold. bugs" No other inference can be drawn here than that MT. J. B. McClansbap | is s"gold- bug" Has he not named his | mines the Grover Cleveland, the Frankie | Cleveland and the Baby Ruth? A gold | bug? Of course be is!
 However, the Cleveland family mines | are good gold properties, they make DO pretensions to silver and it is possible | thsts why "Mao" called them such | names.
 The group brings out one fact of iu- | terest in the era of gold workings ID the | Gro Blanco district. The Frankie Oleve- | land is the first mine located from the | fact that the ore was in a porphyry | ledge, rather than quartz ledge Hith- | erto the features of the gold properties | of the district had been huge bodies of | balf-decomposed quartz at the surface, | harder than the country rock and there 1 fore ID reefs, or as 1t is sometimes called |! "blow-outs" on the surface.
 In this case however, the surface of | the ledge was not raised over the sur roundings, and no quartz was visible | Instead was the porphyry vein, dull of | hue, and softer than quartz, carrying | perfectly free gold, in a contact vein be- l tween two diorite lodges, carrying stains | of iron. The vein runs about north and | south. Ore on the dump from a sample | taken by Denver man. named Ferris, 1 went Sl6 ton. The Denver man spent | two days examining the property, and | now has in view the bonding of the | same.
 Some months ago it was bonded by | the Old Glory people, and a road built l by them to the mine. Then came the | vicissitudes of the early days of the Old | Glory, they having their hands more 1 than full with their own property, and l the expiration of the bond.
 The mine is now down 45 feet, with 30 l feet of water therein Ia matter of small import few hours b. ling or a few minutes pumpinR.) Watsr for a mill | here could be obtained ID plenty from | the Calaveras, neIghboring property | owped by MT. Mechanism. For months the Calaveras supplied the old Espersn- ga with water.
 When MT. Mechanism discovered porphyry contacts running SO rich, he located every indication of that kind in his vicinity, and has developed to some extent. other claims. The group com prise, besides the Frances Cleveland, the Grover Cleveland, the Baby Ruth, fho c c Uaot tho Nool,aroI oo5 tho