The copper era., 1904-09-29
The SteepIe Rock and Mayflower Mining
 Dis{Iicts.

Odu-Gu It. tdI Al>4c. d> We all hUON . started up quite a camp over twenty years ago. looking for gold and silver. spending over half million dol lars. doing thOusand> of feet of work, putting in large machinery. etc. and failing to find what they were looking for gold and silver in paving quantities. the result was shutdown for good. And after quite q number Of years. the camp known d. Clear Lake. started up boom. putting Tn ten->tamp mill and dolng considerable amount of work. What are they looking for: Gold and silver Of course. But failing to find it the result was q shutdown. So. now, what are we going to do: Will We go over to Apache creek looking for what? Gold and silver. but d. there was no other eye to black the result was that there was nothing done. still there was quite a storm for while. but 1t soon blew over. Not that it was con sidered that there was no gold and silver to he found. but the parties who made the discovery were not able to do much. while We think that if there i, d gold mine anywhere in the two districts they have it. and what We would consider big one: but it's d company proposition not d poor mans. Now what i> this for: Gold and silver. Tb|s9f has never been q dou <-T>@ towards showing uP .rupprf mine haI ,y done. % and w,sk fknow that that could not be much: While they have far better prospects for d mine than any of their gold prospects. Miles and miles of country covered with copper right on the surface and nothing done with it only few pros pcct holes. which was done years ago by the old prospectorS. So we claim that if the money that has been spent in these districts trying to make gold camps had been spent on the copper prospects there would be d big mining camp running here to- day But no. They have ignored the copper proposition entirely and seem determined to try and make d quicksilver camp. Copper Is thing that takes time and money to show 1t up. and as d general thing. nine times out of ten proves q success, and thl> country being so close to railroad. about ten miles. and the same dis tanCe from the Gila river where there k plenty of water that never fails and d better millsite can not be found. which would be in easy reach of three rich mining districts. the Stceple Rock. Mavtower and Ash Peak districts. which are all rich in gold. silver and copper. The Steeple Rock and Ash Peak districts are principally gold and silver with some very high grade copper, the May flower being principally copper. but
 h hnt TnI6 l silver. So with these three dis tricts and the advantages of the water and railroad. We can't under stand why it is that some company does not take hold of it. Nearly the entire three districts could be brought up at what would be considered noth- ing. \ custom mill could also be put in that would be able to treat all the ore in the three districts, whiCh alone. would be. undoubtedly q pay inp proposition. Clifton and Morencl both offers to buy or treat custom ore. but refuse to allow anything for gold and silver. which is big item to the mine o~s o~soIu iEs.<.r, IadS...., .,I' being the case they sin hply refuse tc ship their ore to eithe1 place for the sim pie reason that ifjthey lose the gold and silver and htve to pay all expenses for mining. transportation, etc. they have nothing left: while if we had d custom mill within eight or ten miles of Us. we could take our ore in wagons to the mill and get our return the same day. While on the other hand it would take day and q half to get to Clifton and lay-over of one and probably two nights at q big expense of feeding teams which would all go towards cutting the proceeds down. when if they were al lowed for the gold and silver, which would amount to enough to pay all expenses and have the copper clear
 they probably would carry their ore there and have it treated or sell it And another great drawback is that We are informed that these com panies cannot handle ore that falls short of To or l2 per cent. It's not every prospeCtor that can tell ex- aCtlv what his ore will run. They are not able to have the necessary as says made to get an average of thelr ore, but simply have to guess at it. Some claim that if there was q Cus- tom mill in easy reach of Us that would treat all ores averaging from < per cent. up, it would only be a short time until we would have q booming Camp-all the prospects opened up and every body doing well. Try copper once in these districts and see whether or not it plays out. As we have said. there never has been dollar spent towards copper in the Steeple Rock and Mavtlower districts, and yet, you hear people say that there is nothing here. There is no country that has better prospect for a cop per mine than the Maytlower dis trict.
 $. D. Corley. F. NJ. Morris. Barklev & Cotey. Phillips X Tipton. Rogers Bros. Joe Berge. and Henry Thomp- son all have fine prospects. These parties are hol6iJg about forty some very high grad ore. ''''''-
 The new gold stf ike on Apache canyon is on standstill at present. but they are preparing to resume work about the first of November. They have some high grade gold ore. which we consider one of the best prospects for a gold mine than any thing in the country. kNOCkER.
 I. w. Harper is the acme of excel 1..,, l.,