Bisbee daily review., 1904-10-06
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CLIFTON -M0RENCI DISTRICT
sTEEpLE ROCK MAYFLowER COUNTRY CONTIGUOUS IS COMING INTO REVIVAL OF LARGE INTEREST OF SEVERAL 

These districts have both been siI- enwhat is termed a black eve" The point is row to find out what caused it. Carlisle, as is known, started quite a camp over twenty years ago. look ing for gold and silver. spending over a half million dollars. doing thousanos of feet of work, putting in large ma chinery.. etc and failing to find what they were looking for in paying quan- titles. the result was shutdown for good. And after quite a number Of years. the camp known a sCieaT Lake started cn boom, putting in a ten stamp mill and doing a considerable amount of work. What were they looking for? Gold and silver Of course But failing to find it the re mhat are We going to dordlu rdlu rduI suit was a shutdown. So. now. what are We going to do? Will we ever go to Apache creek looking TOT what? Gold and silver. but as there was no other eye toblack the result was that there was nothing done, still there was quite storm for while but it soon blew over. Not that II was considered there was TO gold and silver 10 be found. but the parties who mace the discovery were not able 10 do much. while We think that if there is a gold mine anywhere, in the two districts they have it, and what We would consider a big one; but it is a company proposition. not a pocr mans Now what is this for? Gold and silver. There has never been a dollar spent towards showing up a copper mine. Only what the poor old prospector has done. and we all know that that could not be much; while they have far better prospects for a mine than any of their gold prospects. Miles and miles of coun- try with copper right on the surface and nothing done with it only a few prospect holes which was done years ago by the old Droscectors.
 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 big mining camp. running there today But mo- They have ignored the copper proposition entire y and seem determined to try and make a gould silver camp. Copper is thing that takes time and money to show it up. and as a general thing nine times out of ten proves a success, and this country being so close to a railroad. only about ten miles. and the same distance from the Gila river where there is plenty of water that never fails and a better millsite canot be found, which would be in easy reach cf three rich min ing districts. the Steeple Rock, May flower ard Ash Peak districts. which are all rich in gold silver and copper The Steeple Rock and Ash Peak cis- tricts are principally gold and silver with some very high grade copper, the Mayflower being principally copper. outcarries high values in both gold and silver.
 So with these three districts and the advantages of the water and rail road. we can't understand 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 nothing
 A custom mill could be put in that would be able to treat all the ore in the three districts. which alone. would undoubtedly be a paying proposition. Clifton and Morenci both offer to treat custom ore. but refuse to allow anything for gold and silver, which IS big item to the mine owners here, as their ore goes well in golc and sil- yer This being the case they simply refuse to ship their ore to either place for the simple reason that if they lose the =old and silver and have 10 pay all the expenses of mining milling, and transportation. etc, they nave nothing left; while if we had custmo mill within eight or ten miles of us, We coul take our ore in wagons to the mill and get oul return the. same day.
 While on the other hand 1t would