Bisbee daily review., 1905-07-04
GREENE GOLD GROUND
 DISARMS CRITICISM
e ALLEGED EXPERT WHO SUB MtTTED AN ADVERSE RE
 PORT ON PROPERTY.
S. 4. Q. Upton Tells of Visit to Placer Country and of What He Found in Company With Others Who Recent iy Examined Property.
Tombstone. Ariz., July 3. 1905.

Tombstone, Ariz., July 9. 1905. Editor Review:
 With reference to the reports that have been circulated throughout the country, based upon the statement, or alleged report. of a self-styled mining expert who has called himself by diff fsrent names. according to the yari ous hotel registers where he has tenn porarily stopped. but who finally call ed himself Glover, that the property owned by the Greene Consolidated Co { ompany. known as La Brisca, anc S. aated in the State of Sonora, wal Orthless, that not more than five h ndred dollars worth of gold h31 z Ter been extracted from said pl ss J, and that the total value of the holdings of the company were not worth more than Sf75,000. which rep resented the largest sum that the ma chinuery and improvements could have cost, permit me to give to the readers of the Review some facts; and I wish to call the attention of those readers to another fact that the ob- servations I shall speak of the data obtained, are compared with and de duced from an experience. in practical mining, in all it's branches. extending over a period of more than twenty five years. and from the Black Hills of Dakota to the Argentine Republic. that without arrogance I may claim to speak with something of authority on such matters, as many of your readers can testify.
 Qn the twenty-flfth instant. at the . Igi 5tion of Colonel Greene, formed ,Ec { a party of gentlemen composed TS thing engineers, geologists and l-- slurgists all of eminence and iSl standing for reliability and in. tegrity, who visited the famous plac- CTS of La Brisca," and made an ex- hausdve and careful test of the ground the full and complete report of which will be published and to which the attention of all who desire 10 know the truth, is called
 We arrived at Magdalena, on the Sonora railway, at i o'clock in the morning. and after a refreshing break fast, took carriages for the rest of the trip. arriving at La Brisca," a dis tance of fifty miles. before noon. Af- ter lunch and resting Q hit, we pro ceeded to take charge of the enure plant. and Colonel Kcsterlitzky, wno accompanied us with twenty rurales, kindly placed his soldiers at our sery- ice. and thereafter, while making our investigations. a guard was placed over every part of the plant and plac- CTS, which permitted no one but our selves to approach near enough to throw salt"
 Ts first removed the rifles from th- l. usand-foot sluices. and had tsf m arefully cleaned and swept - 3f broom and running water. after Etr,. Ee went to the pit from whence
 vel is taken to be washed. and -r seIected from such places as pre- cluded the possibility of being de ceiyed by -salted" ground or any oth- CT means of deception, eleven skips oI gravel, the amount being approximate 1y one and one-half cubic yards to the skip, and passed the gravel through the sIuice with one hundred inches of water with a fall of five inches to ev- cry twelve feet in length of the sluice Afterward we cleaned up the first two rifles and Prof. Searle and DocJol
 
 of national reputation in the metaJiur gicai and mineralogical world. banned the concentrated sands and the result showed a value of one dollar to tho cubic yard of gravel.
 The next experiment was to ascer tain if the lower strata of gravel were as much richer as the difference ir depth would lead one to expect Al the bottom of the pit and supposedly near bedrock, one pan of gravel yield ed three ounces of gold. One gentle nar of the party. from New York a subsequently acknowledged thai sE faith in the value of the placerl Ei5l formerly mixed a little with the R of doubt. carried away with him ss U trophy of discovery, a nine ounce --sgget-
 The entire course of experiment. and the results will be given by those of the committee to whom was assign ed that part of the investigation; bu 1 want to refer here to somethin: that would interest and fully repa, any one for the trouble of going t. see #, and that is a beautiful volcani, formation on the road to La Brisca. and near the place of operation of tn, Cerro Prieto" Mining Company. Tn, entire country shows evidence of vic lent eruptive action. and that that ac ton has extended over or rather rep resents, several distinct epochS. Il one place the lower stratum Is a fin, grained. red colored bTeccia with super-imposition of white Tufa. eacI meeting the other at a line as cIearI, marked as # lined by the hand of painter. At another place the vol canic flow seems to represent the plsy full mood Of those plutonic forces tha
 ago changed the face of man,
 apes and marked the pages O
 dcal history. Here the surginl
 :. Jf eruptlve matter becomes sin
 and regular, with intercalation
 ferent colors, until at a poin
 .s~.e an obstacle fnterposes it rise 10 a greater height, still preserving it