Bisbee daily review., 1904-03-13
Facts Concerning
 FIND OF Coal Near Clifton
ERA REFRESHMENTS VISITS
 THE PROPERTY.
Reports That the Field Seems Quite Extensive-AlI Ground in Vicinity of Discovery Has Been Located. Surveying Party Now Busy Running Lines and Erecting Corners.

| kluCS anu SStHSsS. Under the guidance of Frank Gar
 rett, of Morenci. a representative of
 the Era this week visited the new coal
 fields of Silver Basin, recently discov-
 cred by that tireless prospector, John
 Molder.
 The writer knows but little about
 coal, but from the immense croppings
 of shale and coal bossom, the wonder
 is that the coal was not discovered I long ago. The shale occurs under : layers of sandstone and is from twenty 10 thirty feet in width, with a dip to the southwest. The shale bed
 has been exposed for considerable
 distance by the eroding of the canyon, dong which the discoveries have been
 made. Up to the present time but title development work has been one, the discoverers having been usy surveying and monumenting heir claims A sufficient amount of york has been done, however, 10 show !, .hree strattas of coal in place one Of which is fully four feet in width. The coal is found near the surface. but it has a considerable degree of hard ness and carries a luster of the genu- inc article. It is pronounced first-class by judges of coal, and also by those who have been using it for black smithing, etc. Its quality will of course improve with depth, as the at mosperic action has had tendency to leteriorate it quality. The coal
 field seems to be quite extensive, but at the present time the ground is all located, and a surveying party under Lamar Cobb, of Clifton, is busily en- gagged running lines and erecting cor
 lers, etc. The original discovery was llmost immediately purchased by the Detroit Copper Mining company. after having had the ground carefully ex- amined by well known experts. The purchase price is said to have been
 35.060. upon which a cash payment fers have been made for adjacent ground, which were not accepted by owners, who will soon proceed to de velop their property.
 A good wagon road can be built to Che field from the old Micawber mine in Silver Basin, or from the Detroit Copper company pump house on the Frisco river, for a small amount of money. In fact, lumber and supplies have already been hauled in via the pump station, over a hastily construct ed wagon road. It would be an easy matter to extend the railroad from the pump station to the coal fields, but as the distance is not over two miles, coal could be hauled by wagons to the pump at a nominal cost, from which point it could be conveyed by rail to either Morenci or Clifton.
 As the Era has previously stated, the fact that good coal has been dis covered is of the greatest possible i'm portance Development Is a matter of detail only, which cannot long be delayed.
 John Molder. the discoverer, after selling his original location, secured other holdings, and also remembered many of his friends by locating claims in their names. He will lay out a town, to be called Molder, and will soon open a small store to accommo- date the traveling public.
 Water has not yet been discovered in the camp, but it can be hauled in from the pump station on the Frisco. As soon as the camp takes on any de- gree of activity, a pipe line will be extended from the main line of the Morenci Water company to supply the needs of the place.
 Frank Garrett. representing himself and associates of Detroit Copper com pany employees, was first on the ground and secured 2,O00 acres adjoining the original discovery, which would seem to be about the choicest land in the district.
 Many Clifton people also got good locations, and if the field develops as well as is expected, large amount of easy money will soon be in circulation throughout the entire camp. While 1t is yet too early to predict great future for the camp, there seems to be no good reason why many
 hundred miners should not be em- ployed in a year or two in mining and