Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1901-10-23

as ore running as high as S3,0C0 per
 ton in gold is reported to have been
 encountered in the Midnight Test
 mine which is being operated by Geo.
 Wood. It is said that S1 1,0O0 worth
 of ore was taken from the bottom of
 the 300 foot shaft in one day recently.
 This is the mine which sold last win
 ter for S30,0O0 and which could not be
 bought today for less than S1,0O0O00.
 It is located only about eight or ten
 miles from Prescott. The ore body
 is said to be five feet wide, and it in
 creases in richness with depth.
 The Jerome Mining News is au-
 thority for the statement that man
 named Wallace is in the employ of
 Senator Clark around Jerome locating
 ore bodies by means of so called
 magnetic ore locator The machine is said to be very a remarkable one as
 it indicates the existence of valuable
 minerals beneath the surface. MT.
 Wallace claims to be able to locate
 gold silver or copper, having differ
 ent machines for the three different
 metals. As test of the accuracy of
 his instruments he offers to wager any amount within his personal means that any person or number of persons may take him to a twenty-acre lot which is barren of ore bodies, put him in secluded place, blind fold him, put him under guard, and then | go anywhere in the twenty acre lot and push SEQ gold piece into the ground where it cannot be seen, and | he will forfeit the wager if with his instrument he cannot find it within | ten minutes from the timo his blind | is removed and he turned loose to | search for the coin. In addition to Mir. Walkers operations there an other man named Geo. W. Wilson is also prospecting that section with | Browns electro geodetic instrument | for the discovery of ore bodies through the agency of electricity. The News says that if the different | alleged ore bodies located by MT. Wilson through his instrument are uncovered, there will be much work for 1t there.
 Dick Hall has sent to the board of trade some specimens of the rich sil yer ore recently discovered on the Sahuaro property, two miles from Wickenberg. The ore at first sight would not attract attention, but car ful investigation of it arouses dreams of untold wealth at once. It is heavily copper stained, but that sig nifes nothing. as a good part of the ore in this country has the copper color, and in the specimens on exhi- bition the color is not particularly al- turing. But all parts of the rock not showing a copper color are dark brown, almost black. There is noth- ing shiny about it and nothing that looks like silver to the ordinary mortal. But when a knife blade is brought into action the black surface is found to be coating of horn silver, so rich it can be shaved of like lead from piece of lead pipe. Hall says in his letter that the ore runs from ten to forty per cent in copper, and some of it as high as $500 ounces of silver. The specimens sent in, he declares, are not picked specimens, as there is an unknown quantity of the same sort of rock. The ledge at the surface exposure, after clearing of the dirt and loose ground, is sixty feet wide, and the specimens on exhibition came from about a foot below the surface. It is understood the owners have refused cash offer of S60,OO0 for it. The specimens shown are cer- tainly the real thing, and if the ore body maintains its richness as it goes down, it is beyond question one of the biggest things in any country. As it is but two miles from Wicken- berg, it means everything to the fu- ture of that camp.