El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-10-11
TOMBSTONE
DISTRICT
Described FOrthe Chamber of
Commerce BY Mayor
Davis.
$40, 100000 OF SILVER
Has Been Produced BY This Camp,
and the County Is One Vast
Storehouse OF MineroIs.-The
Ores Increase With Depth.

Major S. NJ. Davis. mineral agent
of the chamber of commerce writes as
follows from Tombstone. Arizona:
The outlook for gold mining in Ari-
IONA is very bright. There is not a
shadow of doubt that Arizona in the
near future will take front rank as a
producer of gold. 1t is an indisputable
fact that gold is more widely distrib-
uted and more accessible in paying
quantities than in any other state or
territory in the United States. Every
range of mountains running through
the territory is scanned with veins,
carrying gold. silver and copper, and
her valleys are one mass OF placerS,
awaiting the development OF water.
AS for free milling propositions, Ari-
zont stands at the mead OF the list.
The mining world has heard for years
that the veins in Arizona do not go
down. / know it to be a fact that in
all attitudes above 5000 feet they do
go down. 1t has been teeSted in hun
bred districts that are working at the
1000 foot level today and growing rich
er as they go down. AriZona'S eli
matte conditions for mining are unex-
celled in any mining country in the
world-no winter, no aNalancheS. You
can eat your breakfast at your mine
and your supper in your orange grove.
Arizona is the ideal mining country
of the world, and the mining fraternity
will only have to Investigate it and be
convinced of the fact.
l have just looked over the old min
ing camp of Tombstone, Arizona,
which in years past has produced over
$40 900 900 worth of silver. The whole
county of Cochise is one vast store
house of minerals. In the Chiricahua
the Dragons Huachuca, Dos CabeZaS
and the SwiSShelm are fine fields for
the proSpector. The mountains are
ribbed with gold, silver and copper.
and the erosion has been so great that
the veins are easily discovered. You
must remember that these mountains
in Arizona were old mountains long
before the mountains of Colorado were
born. This county is the banner min
eral producing county IN the territory.
A. l.. Grow is working a good force
of men on the Tranquility and Head
Head Center group of mines. The
vein is one and three-quarter miles
in length and varies from swo to six
feet in width. Most of the ore is rich
in chlorides. Most of the ores above
water line are free milling. The big
flow of water in the camp at about $50
feet depth is the great drawback at
the present time. The whole camp
would be drained by putting in one
big pump. and if the mine owners
would go in together and do il. at least
a thousand men could be put to work
taking out rich ore running high in
gold and silver. The formation of the
camp is in porphyry and lime. Mr..
Grow will collect nice lot OF mineral
and ship TO the chamber of commerce
Mark my prediction: this old camp of
Tombstone which has been sleeping
for ten years. will awaken soon and
astonish the whole southwest. l find
ipif
/ expected to find.
The Water Vale Mining company is
working lot of claims, the Sidney
Silver Bell. Bon Ton and Rather, NJ
ID. Scribner is working the telephone
mine and shipping manganese ore to
Ell Paso. running well in silver. He has
a force of twelve to fifteen m,.l. W. j.
Young, five miles from Tombstone. is
working the Great Western and is a
regular shipper to Ell Paso. The Mid
dlemarch has sixty ton smelter on
the mine, smelling copper ore. The
Black Diamond has put in Burly drills
working about thirty-five men, and is
regular shipper to Ell Paso. new
company, called the Copper Crown
company. has just been formed and
will be a regular shipper tc the Ell
Paso smelter. The Copper Bullion
company is a regular shippe. but they
are putting in their own Smelter and
will treat their ore at the mine. The
Turquoise mine is doing a lot of de-
velopment work, and will in the near
future put in an up to date smelter.
The Easter and Montana mine is a
new company. They have put in con-
centrator, have plenty of water and
are making big success.
Ryan brothers, the cattle kings of
the west, have turned their attention
to mining and have several groups I'M
der bond. They are pushing develop
ment work and they also expect to
put in big plant as soon as enough
ore is in sight to justify it. The
Holmes group of claims is under bond
to Colorado parties. and is being de-
veloped, and the sale will undoubtedly
go through. Thomas Sorin has good
lot of miners developing his group of
claims. The Swain. the Wiser, the
Valid, the Wilks. the FOUR. the Bar
rett. and the Walker are all promising
copper claims. In the whole range
OF the Dragon mountains. from John
sonville on the north to Turquoise on
the south. hundreds of claims are now
being developed and considerable
number are running high in copper
and silver.
The Exposed Reef company lies
about twenty-five miles southwest of
tombstone. They are putting in
sixty-ton cyanide and plant and are
working about 40 men, These par
ties bought this large reef a few
months ago and commenced on Sc to
IS gold ore, and today they have open
ed up hundreds of tons of ore running
from SIS to $50 per ton in sold The
company is composed of people of
Akron. Ohio. and they have 4 bonan-
"a. A. III. Manuel is developing
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