Arizona republican., 1898-02-13
THE METAL MARKET.

THE METAL MARKET.
 New York, Feb. 12-Silver certif1- cates, 56h@571z; silver bars, 56ss; government bonds, firm.
 THE CASTLE CREEK DISTRICT. A. w. Warwick, a Mining Expert,
 Talks About the Mineral Wealth.
 q was not surprised when l heard of the big strike in the Erode mine in the Castle Creek mining district" said A. w. Warwick of Butte, who is at the Ford hotel T have talked with great many mining men in regard to that district, and I was favorably i'm pressed with it before l had visited 1t personally. Since my visit to the district I am prepared to hear of rich strikes being made there. The fofma- tion of the country is granite and porphyry, and there are rich mineral belts which will some day produce good mines I could not help com pare the district with a rich mineral section in Montana which has had remarkable history. There are many rich gold bearing ledges and Assure copper deposits, which will no doubt develop fine mines. My examination of the district was not thorough enough to give you an idea of the extent of the mineral belts, but I saw fn iS a field there Of wonderful richness.
 MT Warwick is a mining expert and his visit to Phoenix at this time is to examine some promising prospects mt far from the city. Although he has been but short time in Arizona he has secured group of promising gold claims near the Santa Maria river in the upper part of Yuma county which he is developing. He is developing his claims by tunnels and shafts and the outlook as far as the work has gone is very favorable. Speaking of the Santa Maria district MT. Warwick said:
 "The Santa Maria is practically a new district. There are a number of prospectors working there, but capi- tai has just begun to reach that iso- lated section to develop mines. 1 have investigated the district pretty thor oughly and my researches have con- vinced me that there are opportuni- ties for making big mines there. There is copper as well as gold, and have seen many promising prospects. It is a district in which the MeXicans worked many years ago. 1 have seen many old vassars, or Mexican smelt- CTS, as they are commonly called, and there are many evidences of their early operations in copper and gold ledges there. I have great deal of admir- ation for the Mexican since 1 have come to know how thoroughly he works. He gets all the values out of ore, and can separate gold from cop per with the skill of an expert ] heard of a Mexican in that district who smelted copper ore which carried some gold and took his remuneration in the gold values, giving the copper to the owner of the ore.
 "The prospectors in that section make the placer beds furnish their STuDSldh0S, u. They have their dry washers and when they run out of grub they go out to the Colorado river where there are some good placer beds and there they run throuch enough rich gray el to give them a good stake. Then they take to the hills and prospect their quartz claims or look for new mineral leads. I believe Arizona has the best placer ground in the United States There is good placer ground in Montana, but it is not as rich as it is here. There are some bars out in the Santa Maria district that are worth from 30 to 40 cents a cubic yard. If there was water for working these placer bars there would be a great field in that branch of mining. The great trouble lies in the condition of the rivers. and the unfavorable topog- raphy of the placer sections. The rivers have but slight fall, and it is in most cases impossible to get watei onto the bars Then the land slopes at a great pitch towards the river bed where the water runs in deep chan nels, making the water practically use less without the expenditure of large sums of money.
 Arizona is the greatest copper country in the world" said he. There is copper everywhere, and I am sur prised to find such great produce: here like the United Verde, Bisbee Clifton and Globe And there art hundreds of good prospects over ths territory that only need capital tt make them good producers. Tn, Castle Creek district has some bi: copper deposits, but their Assure na ture does not give one a chance t estimate their richness where they ar not opened up. This territory i practically the only new mineral coun try left in the United States and capi tai is looking this way and sendin
 it's experts out to investigate the min eral resources of the territory.
 T am a firm believer in the deser
 as affording the best field for tn
 prospector. I visited the La Forum
 mine in Yuma county, which is one c
 the products of the desert and ther
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