Arizona republican., 1899-05-18
Mount Turnbull Stands Guard
 Over the San Carlos Strip.
WONDERFUL MINING DISTRICT
Though Opened Only Four Months Much Ore Rich Enough 10 Ship Has Been Taken From inc Sur face The Republican CorreS- poudenfS Description ofPromis- ing Claims.

Mount Tu1lnbu-1. May 12.-(Specia1
 correspondence of The Republican-)- | Travellers in the Gila valley are at
 tracted by the great height of Mount
 Turnlbull, a reak which forms ! the
 southeastern border of the new min
 e-'al country which is known as the
 San Carlos strip The altitude Of this mountain reaches ten thousand feet,
 and the advance guards of civilization
 and development have already made | paths to its crest. At nine thousand | feet there is a tent which can be seen
 fucm the trail in Goodwin gulch and 1t | looks like a white Handkerchief placed
 in background of green foliage This
 is the camp Of a prospector who is ex- pio-ing the upper portion of the noun tain in search of mineral veins There
 is @ cCl,l spring of water there and the
 gre2G al1t.tudls makes the location a
 most desirable one at this time of the
 year. This is probably the highest camp in the southwest, and its occu-
 pant has cast his lot in one of the | richest fields for prospecting and min ing that I have seen in this territory
 or MexiocL His nIeighbors are all be- low him; in fact he has but one neigh
 Dor snd he is J. c. Chosen MT. C.osen
 owns a very gcod claim on the south.
 crn Slcpe of the mountain and has comfortable d2mp in deep canyon
 at the base of the mountain where a
 spring provides him with pure walter and tlssle walls of the canyon protect him from the rigcrs Of the winter months. Will T. Queensbury is the owner of the camp near the top of
 M1h1nt Turnbull. He has a claim
 which he calls the Blue Dick and the
 location work shows a rich body of copper ore. There is a we'll defined
 vein which outcrops for Icng dis tance and begins at a great dike on the crest of the mountain. The claims owned by Mir Chosen below are called the LCne Pine Group, and the property which he is opening up bears the mama Of Richard Stonewall. If the prospect continues to show the rich copper val ues .hhe surface work presents the name of Richard Stonewan will be On the lips of every mining man in the country. There is a fifty foot tunnel or this property, the vein being en- cased in foctwall of porphyry and hanging wall of lime. The ore is sul- phide of copper and the copper values are found in width of nine feet, Che greatest values being found i'll streaks Iir7or r7rrl, pregnating ithe whole with copper. The ore is matrixed in a soft grayish rock which contains talcous specks, and is called diorihe by the prospectors in this region.
 Professor Blake of the University of Arizona describes this rock as feld- spar porphyry, partly altered and im- pregnated with copper carbonate on the surface. AS depth is reached this same rock also carries the sulphide of copper, as has been demonstrated, in the development of the Richard Stone wall prospect. The vein which out crops for long distance has been stripped eighty feet and sulphide ore from near the surface has been secured for shipment to Silver City.
 Charles Thompson and C. G. Stew ems own the Black Hawk claims, which are on the southeastern slope of Mount Turnbull, and they are build- ing a wagon road from Fort Thomas to the mesa at the foot of the moun- tain in order to expedite ere ship ments which will soon begin. The ore is of the same character as that found in the Closen claims, but there seems to be greater body of it An open cut has been made and the ore comes from the surface which is now being dumped for shipment to the smelter. The lead takes a southeast erly course from a great dike at the top of the mountain and it can be fol- lowed for over a mile. The outcrop- pings show copper at different places on this lead from the dike to the hills Of the mesa below. The Black Hawk is about fifteen miles from Fort Thomas, and a mesa and gulch wagcn road can be made to reach the base of Mount Turnbul9
 There is scarcely any development in the great mineral zone contained in Mount nurnbull. A virgin field is pre- sented to the prospector and miner. It is said that over one hundred claims nave been located in this mountain of mineral. On the western slope are rich veins whose outcroppings show
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