Arizona republican., 1899-02-25
GREAT VEINS OF ORE
Wonderful LedqeS DiSCOV,
 cred in Grand Canyon.
1 BlII" HuIL inc CatfIeman. and Three Companions Have liar. veIouS Experience in inc f1ighfY Current 0f Inc Colorado.


 Special correspondence for The Re pubiican.)-The gloomy mysteries O
 the Grand Canyon have again been in
 vaded by party of daring explorers and contrary to the prophecies of those who knew of their proposed adventure they have returned none the worse for the difficult and dangerous trip.
 Yesterday evening four battered and weather-beaten travellers arrived al one of the Williams hosJe:r-es: theiI clothes in rags, their boots barely clinging to their feet. and their bronz- ed faces giving evidence of unknown dangers and hardships endured and surmounted. They had not much in- formation for the crowd of curiosity seekers that quickly surrounded them; but they said they were tired ana hungry, and wanted a bath and a good feed" After a reluctant delay with enthusiastic friends who insisted on curing that tired feeling" with copious liquid refreshments, they at last succeeded in making their escape; and it was not until near midnight that your correspondent was fortunate enough to button-hOle w. F. Hull, the guide and leader of the expedition.
 Up i'll this section everyone seems to know Bill Hull, as he is familiarly call ed He has been a prominent stock man of this county for years; his stock range over the great Colorado Plateau which stretches from the line Of the A. & P. railroad to the dizzy brink ot Arizona's World-renowned canyon. It was tn revisit an immense copper de- Dosit years ago discovered by him Tn one of his numerous solitary eXplo- rations, that the party left Williams last month; and they not only found the great copper ledge, but saw seF- eral other things that will leave lasting impression on their memorles-
 The party consisted Of M. C- Sharp- neck of Council Bluffs, la, Ga mining expert and promoter, well known on on the Pacific coast,) Frank c. Randall of Kansas City, Ga civil engineer, who is at present engaged in determing the route for the proposed railroad to the Grand canyon,) w. F. Hull and Frank Lee: the two latter well known resi- dents of this county.
 Yes" said Bill Hull, in response to my question, it was pretty tougn trip; but we were well repaid for all our trouble. We went down into the canyon. by the Bright Angel Trail,
  about sixty-five miles north of Will Hams. We packed our effects, includ- ing our boat, on the horses that had hauled our blackboard out from Will Hams. The boat was a good one and did us good service. It had been made to order for MT. Sharpneck, and could be taken apart and packed in very small bulk, though it was fourteen feet long. On getting to the river, at the bottom of the steep inner gorge, we put it in shape and two of us en- parked. taking our places at the DOW and stern. To navigate those terrific rapids, where the river runs at the rate of 16 miles an hour and the water churns itself to a froth among thou sand hidden boulders, it is not safe, in a boat of that size, to take more than two men; and we did not find it partic- ularly safe at that. In order to cross all our party to the north side, where the copper ledge was. it required three trips.
 with that frail, canvas-coverad boat it took all our nerve and every faculty on a strain to keep adoat and avoid the constant whirlpools and mad countercurrents on every side; and more than once we thought for an in- stant that our time had come. When we had all landed safely at the big copper ledge which was the real object of our trip I was tickled to see the surprise of Sharpneck and Randall 1 had only promised them a ledge 100 feet in width, as I did not wish to be accused of eXaggeration; and besides. l was not very sure myself. as 1 had never examined the deposit very close | ly. But we found three separate veins i of copper, each nearly 100 feet wide | that started at the summit of the ] granite cliffs. some 800 or 1000 feet | above the river, and converged like the | sticks of a fan as they descended the l steep pitch, until they joined in one | tremendous dyke detween 500 and 600 | feet across and cropping in some | places as high as mans head. Why! | there are thousands of tons of ore in | sight-enough to keep 100-ton smelt- | CT bnsy for a generation. And with | unlimited water power close by, to move dynamos, it is no difficult prob | lem to raise any number of tons of | ore to the summit of the plateau.
 '"The ore is mostly heavy sulphate; | though there are carbOnateS enough tO | stain every rock in the vicinity as green | as grass. I'd like to bet that when that | mine gets to working it will throw 1 enough copper on the market to se- riously reduce the price of that much | Sou6HI 1OI metdl. t1lhh dloo, Inet our assays. especially of the red oxide | samples, will show a good percentage | of gold
 After we had looked our fill at the copper deposit, we spent an hour or so trying to pick out good specimens of garnets from a wall of metamor- phic shist near by, in which garnets of all sizes are sticking as thick as plums in pudding. It was difficult to get them out without shattering them, as we did not have the proper tools. There are thousands of them there, and some are the size of a mans fist. I call them garnets, but it is hy no means certain that they are not some more valuable stone. Several years ago I had some of them cut by a lapidist at Denver, and some of these stones are still being worn by citizens Williams set in Scarfnin,c rEIni,. 1