Arizona republican., 1899-06-19
Mines and MininQ

truest in the district, it's course being
 but few degrees from vertical, and the white quartz does not vary in
 width until it hears the ibo5tCm of the
 shaft when there seems to be widen
 ing as though it would soon break out
 into a great chute Of ore. The Little
 Maudie is about 1, 1000 fleet higher than
 Yuba Dam camp. giving it an altitude
 Of something over 900 feet. Here is 2 found one Of fne most promising prop
 critics of the Morris gronp. Begin
 nlng at the opening Of the shaIJ ,ne
 vein is nearly three feet, and I doubt
 if 1t varies an inch from th.s width iu
 the entire depth of thirty-five feet.
 The value of the ore taken from the
 Little Maud.e averages $20 a ton. Some
 Of the ore taken from this shaft ran
 near the s100 mark, and shipments
 were made from the dump to the SmelteTs at Fl Paso when the property
 was undergoing development.
 
 There are number of other claims i owned by MT. Morris in the district, some of them showing promise of ba, coming profitable properties and oth- CTS having small stringers of ore which may never widen enough to make their development worth the out lay of the money Ieqrired.. h the claims of the higher hills MT Morris has some valuable properties and the Rubicon, President and Little Maud:e will probably becclIre great gold pro- duceIs when they are moro thoroughly developed. In the Rubicon alone unere is r-ch promise of reward, and all the claims taken in group furnish an oD- portunity for prof table investment VI T -047 .ic- cnIH developed. country like Arizona.
 Peter W. Monaghan came to the Clark district soon after Mir Morris To- cated here. He owns some properties which are opened by by small shafts, and where these claims are b. cated above the mesa and Foothills. he has some good veins The names of his claims are the War Horse, Rattle snake, Mar:dona, Sampson, Iron Mask, Western Star, Great Wonder. Geld Lining and Tuba Dam. If Pete is as successful in his mining operations as he is in cooking 2 pot of triples he will be known in a few years beyond the borders of Clark district and the surrounding mining country as a gold king. Today he is only prince of good fellows, but when he has wealth the world will look more kindly upon him.
 The pitch of the mineral in the Clark c strict is almost vertical. The strike of the granite and poTphyry $ east and west, and the quartz veins gre held closely in place. It is strictly a gold district. Some Of the quartz shows a stain of copper. and as there is-no cop per for miles about this camp it Is probable that copper VIII become a by | product of some of the claims when | greater depth is attained In search | ing the territory for profitable claims l capital seems to have overlooked this | distIict. Mir Morris informs me that l am the first newspaper correspondent | to examine this district Like many | other remote mining districts in Ari- zona, The Republican IS the first to | bring attention to this promising gold ] camp. As other districts have been opened up and producing mines made | through the medium of this papers mining correspondence, the Clark | district will be benefited and Arizona will number in the Clark district few more gold producers among the grow lg list of producers Of the yellow metal.
 I met Professor M. Baugh, super ntendent of the Spenazuma company's operations. He was packing a gun when I was introduced to him. and le was not in 2 frame of mind to be in eTviewed. That he had read The Re- report of the Spenazuma :Iaims a Black Rock was apparent we pay cur deb,s," said the .'pra- essor," and it is none of anybody's business what we are doing here" This is where MT NJ. Baugh lays him. elf open to criticism. It IS the busi- tess of every man interested in mining T Arizona whether confidence in he territory is shaken through un- operators. The treasurs -aults of the east must be looked to or developing the mines in Arizona, nd one fraud like thei Spenazuma works a greater injury to the inning Interests of the entire territ91y than a tundred legitimate failures. I have card of threats made, by Spenazuma's s ttaches that The Republican cor would be done up'' in true | Arizona style. If their operations Tere legitimate they would invite fn- peetion oi] their properties instead of uaICing the boundaries. of their laims with g gun in the hands of heir superintendent. I visited tne loSt of their ciams which are III locations of poEqhyry dikes ( rith no Ign of mineral In the Mock S lgbird up in the mountain they have i
 good prospect, bun the most Of i dirty claims located by this company $ re abandoned location shafts whose s ei1s show what I have already said, nat the mesa hills are but the piach- lg cut of the great Assure which has S s beginning in the high mountains. c
 GEORGE H. SMILEY $