Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1904-07-13
4 RICH STRIKE
IN OLD TUNNEL
On Property Of Climax
Gold Company.
The Property Was Visited by Pres
colt People, Who Say the
Showing Is Splendid,

Early in the sixties, when the first
mining was done in this section, one
of the properties that was worked by
the MeXican5 in a very crude manner
was the old Quartz Mountain property
now being operated by the Climax
Gold company. These MeXicans took
out the ore from the surface workings
a nd packed it on burros to an arastra
at Walnut Grove where it was reduced
by that crude method, and even
under all these disadvantages they
took out thousands of dollars, and
many of them were killed by the
blood thirsty Apaches, who swarmed
through the hills at that time. Finally
the ore became so broken up in It's
formation and the dangers we're so
great that the property was abandoned
by them. Several years later COM
pany was organized to work the prop
erty and DIR. W. W. Lewis had charge
of this work. He decided to run a
tunnel into the side of the noun ain
which would tap the ore body at
depth of several hundred feet, and
hoped b. that to get below where the
ore was so badly broken up and find
it in solid body. He drove the tun-
mel in for about 150 feet when he en-
countered ore and then drifted about
100 feet more, but the vein still show
ed evidences of terrible upheaval
having taken place at some time aud
was still more or less broken up by
the volcanic action. When the ore
was first encountered in the tunnel it
is reported on good authority that six
sacks of it was sold in Prescott for
81, 500, but for some reason work in
the tunnel was suddenly stopped, the
timbers we're removed from the mouth
of the tunnel and it caved in and no
work has ever been done there since,
until few weeks ago the present man
agement of the Climax Gold company
decided to clean these old workings
ont and see what was in there. A
contract for this work was let to Fred
Rowe aud another man, and last Sat
urday Lewis Wolfley, the general man
ager of the company, received tele-
phone message that the tunnel had
been sufficiently cleared to allow one
to reach the ore body, and that things
looked mighty good. Accordingly
Messrs. WoIfiey, Spaulding and Tai
b3t. all officers of the company, went
out to the property the next day to
inspect it.
Upon their return a Journal Miner
man interviewed them and learned
that the reports that were circulated
at the time the workings were aban-
doned that there was a lot of good ore
there we're fully justified.
On account of the broken up condi-
ton of the ore vein it could not be
determined how extensive it was but
there were places where it showed
strong three feet in thickness. The
party took seven samples from the
tunnel, the samples being taken with
out the least knowledge of where the
values we're, and out Of the sever
samples taken two pauned $40, one
$50, one S15, one $50 and one 1925,
there being one out Of the seven that
went below S15.
As the tunnel had not been thor
oughly cleaned out and the timber:
in some placse being very rotten anC
not considered safe, complete exam
ination could not be made until i
has been retimbered and the balanc,
of the debris taken cut, but from
present indications the fiud is a YER!
important one and the management o
the company is very enthusiastic owe
it.