The copper era., 1901-09-19
STEEPLE ROCK
 MAYFLOWER DIST.
Much Activity in Mining Along the
 East Line of Graham County.
1 Correspondence to the ERA


 Creek. The writer is in receipt of a letter from Col. Carl Wedsten, Rosita, Colorado, a California gold miner of i, the days of 49, and a civil and mining engineer since 1880, in which that
 opinion is concurred in. Here is a
 synopsis of his letter: 'fhe Steeple
 Rock district ie a volcanic center,
 with at least five .eraters of tercerean
 geological age, surrounded by gran ite (shist, amphyboIe and greiss) rim bordered to the northeast and east by
 the sand stone, lime stone mesozoic
 geolozical period. The whole Steeple Rock district is great mineralized one
 The different vOlcanos, geyserous era
 other by veins of mineralized bearing
 porphyry All evidences I found when at Steeple Rock district, go to show that the district is bound to become a great center of mining activity if Yankee enterprise will take hold of it and conclusively Oust the British who unaccountably hold the district back for, in my opinion, no other purpose than to scare every miner and pros pector out of the district, by laying idle upon their big and good proper. ties, so that they can gobble up every thing. Soon. very soon, capital will take hold of the district and prove it up as good as Cripple Creek is. All l hot and Cripple Creek is that Cripple Cree ks surface porphyretic debris was secured down by the ice glacial action to the solid andeside granite, while Steeple Rock had no glacial action, hence the depth nature mined away at Cripple Creek you men at Steeple Rock have to do with pick and drill"
 Baker, the former assayer and mill man for the Clear Lake mining com pany, has secured a lease on the tail- ings at the old Carlisle mill from the l English company. He has just erected | an engine and other machinery for the | establishment of q caynidc plant. Mir. l Baker has been applying all the latest scientific tests to determ inc the most successful method of saving the values and he feels confident that he has hit | -nnan- a-nE E>~AAS- by which the values J can be recovered dtHa profit. II sucn-r should be the case, it will solve many i a knotty problem.
 The Clear Lake Mining company have suspended operations temporarily nD nf no trap pt n1 nf Col. A. w. Tennis. and from the fur ther fact that MT. Roos is rushing the installment of a big plant near Bowie station, Arizona. They expect to re- sume operations at the National Bank mine in short time.
 As James T. Tong has purchased ranch near Duncan and contemplates building new house and doing other extensive Improvements, he will sus- pend development work on his group near the Crow.
 Wood X Kelley still continue to dig away on their various groups of mines north east and north Of the National Bank group.
 There has been considerable stir in the neighborhood of the Mayhower cOmpany's property and the Tumbs mountains during the past few weeks,
 The country is full of prospectors and many new locations arc being made daily. Some rich strikes will be reported later.
 Billy Roach and Steve Coyle are over from ";lver City looking after their mining interests in the May flower. They expect to do some ex- tensive development work in the near future. Roach expects to increase his crew of men and push development work. Earny Childers is his foreman. He commenced work on a streak of glance two inches wide. At less than twenty-five feet the hanging wall showed up in place exposing a lead four feet in widtE-Eiith fine body of concentrating ore. The shaft has now reached a depth Of about 90 feet.
 C.. w. Phillips reports that he has found considerable native copper just east of Parks corral on Sycamore, two miles northeast of Cooley's camp. Be- tween Apache creek and Sycamore is where Colonel Kelley found the asbes- tos some few weeks ago. From recent discoveries the copper belt is far wider than has formerly been supposed. Just few days ago Col. Jas. F. Kelley dis covered a we'll defined vein or lode of copper between the "box" on Apache creek, above Joe Berger's, and Win chester Peak. The vein can be traced for long distance by the formation or dyke every few hundred yards, there being heavy oLtcrop of high-grade copper. Samples taken from these surface Out-croppings range from 3S to 40 per cent. copper, to 30 per cent. silver, and g to S5.50 gold. A large group of claims have been staked out on this new discovery, and the dls- covery work is being pushed as rapidly as possible. The showing so far is very encouraging indeed. This new field has been christened
 COPPER BASIN"