Arizona republican., 1899-06-19

property is not producing gold unless
 it be that the owner like so many oth-
 CT men one meets in the mining dis
 tricts of Arizona who own mines, is
 too poor to carry on mining opera
 tons. In4 nay travels I do not recall
 a brighter prospect than is
 found in the Gold Cord, and some day
 it will take its place among the gold
 producers of Arizona. This property is
 located in the foothills of the Graham
 mountains and the vein, like all those
 Bound in the low lying country of this
 dist.ict, is small. There are several
 other openings on the vein showing
 the strike of the mineral lode, but r1
 vealing nowheres a greater width Of
 the vein than is found in the develop
 ment of the shaft of the Gold Cord.
 The vein runs northeast and south
 west, contrary to the most of the
 veins n the district which have gen.
 eral course of almost east and west
 
 A deep gulch divides Yuba Dam camp from the new home of the Spen- azunla outfit which they have given the heavenly appellatiOn of Celestia, and the two camps are no more than four hundred yards apart. Celestia be- ing to the northwest on the mesa hills at the pinctirg out of the Assure and on the porphyry= ccntact MT Morris has a claim called the Little Puck which is located on the ether side os the gulch and which has an eighteen inch vein which has been followed down ten feet in two places. The Spenazuma people are chl0riding upon a stringer which is located in the midst of the camp, but there is a sign up there which says, Notice You are not wanted here" and I did not have the pleasure of examining the vein. The signs at the old SpenazUma camp simply said, No miners aI- Icwed,' and as I am not a miner I was not committing an offense against the law when I went into the workings there
 MT. Morris owns eleven developed prospects in the Clark district He owned many more, but when he found that some of them gave 10 signs Of promise he abandoned them, and there arc shafts scattered all over the hills which he sunk during the ter, years he has operated in this district The | most of MT Morris claims are in the i granite contact, which lies on the { east of the district and the porphyry i on the west. In the shafts there is | Hs1ally fou1d~what is called bull gran | ite by Pc CT Monaghan, one of the old l time prOspectors Of the district. and this forms the walls with a stringer Of | porphyTy following the quartz vein i on the hanging wall The veins On the mesa vary from two inches to eighteen inches, and tn 3 ffty-foot shaft on one claim I could not find any evidence that the vein was eating rn.o the porphyIy to add to it's own importance. These stringers are sometimes rich, but the width of them brings down their value whan the great amcunt of dead work in mining IS taken into consideration. I do not think that | the mesa hills will furnish any profit able workings aside from the Gold Cord, which is the largest gash of the great Assure which stn,kes down from the high mountain
 
 Two thousand fret above Yuba Dam camp close to the pine timber line is one Of the greatest quartz lOdes to be foUud in any mining district in the southwest. It consumes peak of the mountain and at the apex the width is over 100 feet. Where the vein is pen etrated at the base of the peak which contains it the width is over six feet and in the length of a s-xty-foot tu1- nel the vein takes the course of widening Assure, as though tt would extend it's width the full 1GO feet when the tunnel is driven to where this width shows on the surface. Samples taken From this great vein returned an average value eff over $1O, and from ] the character of the surface outcrop- pings 100 feet farther on from the : face of tho tunnel there is every indi- ! cation that richer ore will be encoun- ! tered From the apex of the hill the vein goes on down the, other side of the peak and crops again on the s.cpe Of another peak. Then there is ssc- ond vein which strikes into the main ve:1, giving the appearance of true Assure, but this will not be determ ned | until further work is dGne. At any | rate, there is ore enough here to make a second Mammoth mine, and the q greatest wealth of the vein, in my !, judgment, is yet to be developed. Rubi- 4 con is the name of this property and it v IS located three miles from the camp D There is an abundance of wood, and a : short distance down Q canyon from ' the tunnel mill site has been To- | cated' by MT. Morris which provides II !, plenty of water for milling purposes U This prospect aIcnc will be the making :, of the Clark district when mining men . spread its fame to the ETor.d. :. The formation of the portion Of <, Clark district which contains the f Fubicon is granite. Farther down the :, mountain side is the President, which 4 $ in granite and porpnyry. Here there s sixty-1oot shaft which follows the sharp pitch of the vein Tn the bot s om of this shaft the vein widens from l width Of four feet which is the uni iOTm width Of the vein from the sur 'ace. There is also a ten-foot open C ng and the outcroppings show 9 con inuous vein for a long distance. On he Lucre;ia M. there is forty feet Of york and the vein is smaller than the 0 President. The, Defender. being high r up the mountain, has six-foot vein c nd tba Grand Rc-ubIic c4-11 f,fo,+,o- II