The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1903-10-14
A Letter From G N. Copeland.
Tuscon, A. T. 1860;
FRIEND E. F. TUCKER,

Tuscon, A. T. 10-6-03
FRIEND e. F.. TUCKER,
Publisher Dsnison Review.
Dear Sir;
From what | have seen and heard
from reliable source l give you the
following:
The climate of Southern Arizona is
unsurpassed any where in the world.
Mining can be conducted with COM
fort the entire year, In Colorado when
the miner and prospector is often
shut up for months at time, by the
heavy storms until he is thoroughly
bacon fed and has the scurvy from
this salt dirt, in southern Arizona a
man can work every day in the year
and almost every day climb out of his
mining shaft to a perpetual sunshine
and comfort in the open air or lie
down and enjoy nights rest under
the open canopy Of heaven knowing
that he will arise in the morning with
an invigorated mind and physique
1 ouUseiNloul W UuS SIdGelul dCIlOu VI
nature.
Within SO miles of the Tuscon (which
has 10000 people) there is oil to compare
favorably with the best in Pennsylvan-
ia
1 There is both quartz and placer gold
carried in ferruginous prosphyta en-
cased by bastrodized granite, decom-
posed near the surface presenting a
porous appearance. these holes to be
filled with iron when water level is
struck. When the sulphides fill the
pores, after decomposed parphyne you
have a concentrating proposition on
willing concentrators or a cyaniting
proposition. When the gold is accom-
panied by too large per cent Of copper
and this cyaniting marking alone has
displaced all others in South Africa
and is at the present moment making
great Roadway
Arizona in saving very high per-
centum of gold from over oxidised and
} sulphide ores. The old Vulture mine
near the Hargua Holes with its sc
stamps produced (by its books
S9000,000, but it produced in reality
: over $40, 100000. Two hills were RACED
to the ground and the vast excavations
that have been made by the years the
mill worked, anyone could have turned
a the hills upside down and lost them
: then the deep shafts after nature fol
: lowed. Beyond that was the famous
Bonanza Harqua Hula mountain tina
: was sold in England for million
G and quarter dollars by one Hubbard
Beyond that is the king of Arizon;
y throwing into the trades market
i veritable mint of gold. These mine
: marked the course of the great golt
belt of California where it crosses tn
Colorado and pursues its course to tn
gulf of California at the Point Of Rock
passing through sand hills that change
e base of location at every heavy storm
;, but never changing the great gold belt
e that underlies their certain whereabout
e The mines formerly owned by Surge
, are only 30 miles from the gulf of Cal
i ifornia and are in The combination o
i the gold belt crossing the Avsolo
e river below Wickenburg and meetin
q water at the gulf of California. Ate
. passing unbroken through Arizon
e aud Sonora Mexico the Territory ha
|, inherited the gold after the days o
Q 1S49 The Toritilitas. the Saul;
!. Catatinas, the Rinaous. the SAINT
ii Ritas, the Sierrtss the Tuscan
II and the Silver Bell Mts. are full o
y prospectors who have awakened to tn
;. fact that they are surrounded by vas
n wealth in the metals and who hav,
o gone forth to try and get their share @
it. Thirtyeight miles from Tuscan i
d a southerly direction are the great gol
Il placiers Greaterv;!'e with is 10000
% holes, Bed ro.k If forne,
- at 20 to 25'ft when often nuggets [
is beautiful native gold is Iound value
a at from $1V 70 $lo0. All the sand t
lie Bed Rock full of course gold ave.
,s aging 80 cents par cubic yard. Larg
l. operations under a hydraulic syste
have beer commenced and are at pre-
= ent in operation
Surrounding this Placier country IL
the bearing rock -Xtst, in hundreds
places and qudelZ veins The same ca
be said of the Southern Belt section ii
Mammoth an'l the Antelope section a
~ on the great Gold belt that crosses tt
10 Colorado from California in its cour
If tothe Gulf, In the neighborhood
lly Tuscon the silver and copper deposi
d. have been too well proven to admit c
q. .a argument. Their output is too we
he known to need any reccommen
of alton. The Olive camp al
lat old San Xavier, Tombstone Silv
-, King. the Stonewall Jackson, IL