Bisbee daily review., 1903-05-15
STANLEY BUTTE DISTRICT.
A Promising Mineral Field iT
 Graham County.

IA Promising Mineral Field in
 Graham County.
 John Blake, a prominent mining man of Graham county writes the fol lowing to the Pacific Coast Miner:
 The district situated in the extreme southwestern part of Graham County, is nine miles from San Carlos. on the .Gna Valley, Globe and Northern railway, connecting with the Southern Pacific at Bowie. It is a part of the strip segregated from the San Carlos or White Mountain Indian reservation in November, 1898. The district contains the Deer Creek coal-felds, consisting of three distinct basins. The coal is bituminous and Ignite, has been only very partially prospect ed, being rather inaccessible. but it is known three different coal leads from four to eight feet exists. Some of this coal is an excellent cokeing coal. and part is very suitable for blacksmith ing.
 The railroad now being constructed connecting at Phoenix with the Santa Fe. Phoenix, and Prescott. with the Arizona and Southwestern at Benson, will run up the San Pedro river few miles distant from these fields. and a branch line tapping this coal and the extensive and rich copper deposits ly- ing in this district to the north of the coal-felds. and thence connecting with the Globe copper mines. forty five miles distant. will undoubtedly be built at an early date, thus affording direct rail connection with all impor- tant points.
 The copper country in this district embraces an area fifteen miles long by about ten miles wide. The gener- al trend of the formation is east-north- east. The district embraces the Fri Bullion Mining and Development Com pany's Starlight group of twelve claims on Kelly Gulch, nine miles from San Carlos. from which two car loads of ore has been shipped. giving returns of gold. s5.20; silver, 5-S ounces; lead, AT per cent, and copper. 5.3 per cent. Some of these ores run in gold ST, and copper Is per cent. while others run over 100 ounces in silver and 50 per cent lead. The in dications are that extensive bodies exist, as there are ancient tunnels and caves from which ore has been extracted by the "antiguos." supposed to have ben the Jesuit fathers, during Spanish rule The company Is pre- pairing for active and extensive devel- opment, and is engaged in extracting ore for shipment The ore occurs in carboniferous limestone, traversed by quartsite and porphyry dikes. There is a good wagon road from the mnes to San Carlos. Kelly Gulch heads in Mount Turnbull (nine thousand feeS lhigh), and is a well mineralized sec ton, partly on the reservation and partly segregated.
 A spur of Mosnt TurnbIll running west-southwest divides Kelly Gulch section from Garden Gulch and the Stanley Butte basin. This spur shows carboniferous limestone, hay ling large quartzite dike near the sum mil, with heavy iron croppings. and on west side of range three grano- diorite dikes traverse the lime. Gar den Gulch heads at Crystal Peak, and there are located the Cold Spring claims of W. Mil Williams and MT Dempsey, of Globe. A shafs in car lboniferous limestone disclose a large lore body averaging four per cent cop lper Continuing west-southwesta along the range are eleven claims belonging to John Blake. of Stafford. These are located on the contacts of lime and porphyry and in garnetiferous ore and woliostonite. which also underlie and lcrop in the lime. These garnetifer ous belts, broad and traceable for four Tor five miles. are impregnated with cooper in the form of carbonates and ipyrites. T. F. MeCuiley has scne valuable claims. on which he has done four hundred to five hundred