El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-30
A GREAT DYKE OF RICH ORE
All the Ground Taken Up--Earl!
Miners Secured Some of the
Gold But Were Baked by
Copper in Working It.

shafts and drifts. and the lowest yet
made was 1923 in gold to the ton. Inc
last assay gave returns OF $1,000 u
the ton Three hundred and nifty tons
of rock on the dump is valued at more
that 500. 900. so that it is apparent that
there are great deposits of free milling
ore carrying from three to five ounces
of gold. Although not many tons oil
rock have been actually blocked out.
there is a showing of rock surrounding
the shafts which. unless all signs OF
mining fail. will net the owners in the
neighborhood of 81 100000. and this
body as outlined is bagatelle in COM
parison with the almost fabulous treas
ures apparently in store.
Copper at Depth.
The theory is that when the work.
ines reach a depth of between $50 and
$50 feet base of sulphurets will be en-
countered and the property eventually
will be converted into copper-gold
proposition. Diorite vertical walls are
expected and beyond the walls no sur
prise will be afforded il copper is dis
covered, beginning almost with the
grass roots. In the matrix matter the
red oxides and crystallized quartz car
ry the greatest values. Several holes
sunk along the outcrOppings, and in
GLIDING what is now the main shaft,
penetrated 10 or 12-foot layer OF car
climates of copper and more or less pea
cock ore appeared. The Gaping is OF
hematite of iron.
The history of the prospect is similar
to that of the early record OF all great
mines. and follows out the traditional
theory that great mines. even in well
prospected districts. are overlooked Tor
years, though they may have been
tramped over by thousands of expert
enced prospectors. There is no doubt
that in early days a certain amount or
free gold was removed from the surface
Where the small hole was first put
down the prospectors took out a GER
tain amount of gold and operated a
primitive arastra before they ran into
the strata of copper strains which was
safe against their antiuuated imple-
ments. Gravel. laden with free gold.
was scraped OFF the surface of the dyke
and many nuggets were discovered IN
early days. much in the same manner
that nuggets were removed in profusion
from Rich Hill. only a few miles away
Rich Hill since has been acquired by
wealthy syndicate which is developing
a great gold mine. On that property
the Octave-there is a surface showing
but little free gold has appeared since
the nuggets were picked out of rocks by
there is a vast amount of free gold that
seems to increase in profusion, down to
water level and after that there is more
reason to presume that there is gold
mine left than there was at Ruch Hill
when the Octave was . " 'spect.
Goodness of Natnre.
Nature. which supplied this Orc
Grande hill with an interminable
amount of the yellow metal. has pro-
videde easy methods for its removal A
mile and a quarter away is the Hasa
yampa river. with a perennial flow
The mine owners are planning pipe
line for feeding a stamp mill when the
property is better developed. 1t is To-
Gated only four miles from the Santa
Fe, Prescott and Phoenix railroad. and
all conditions combine to make the
cost OF mining and ore treatment small.
The Orc Grande today. aside from the
small amount of digging-practically
scraping the surface-consists merely
of two tents and two small bunk nous
es Work commenced last December,
ana a small force of men has been en-
gagged night and day ever since, but
there has been little necessity OF erect
ing buildings. Three carloads OF lum-
Der has Just been received and other
preparations are being made to estab-
liSh more permanent CAMP ne
within. which has been employed for
sinking. will soon be replaced by
gasoline hoist, but few other improve
ments will be made until water level is
reached and mored rifting is perform
ed, when large hosting works. operated
by steam will be put in. A few tents
and shacks will give rise to lively
camp destined to grow in size and pop
ulation from year to year. Wicken-
burg has fond dreams OF rehabflita-
ton through the influence of this new
bonanza and the opening of the Vul-
ture. Phoenix may also welcome the
new discovery unless immense crop
pings of ore lie as they have never
| been known to lie before. 1t will not
be many months until this camp begins
to draw heavily on Phoenix for sup
plies.
Views of Prospectors.
] The prospectors and miners who have
visited this camp. many of whom are
! lingering in the vicinity. declare that
in all their years of experience they
never saw a prospect that would APP
proach it, Many of them are former
| employees of the Vulture mine. They
assert. with confidence. that it will
| eclipse in production the famous Nul-
ture. Tie character of rock and the
formation according to them. is very
similar to that of the Vulture and the
surface showings and formation
though identical in appearance. are
more extensive. They are already cal
culating the amount of water that can
be ;mpounded in Box canyon and con-