The copper era., 1905-10-12
LOCAL MINES AND MINING.
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 men out looking at the prospects with the view of taking hold of some thing here, but none of them came to stay long enough to give it thorough examination. They come out and go back the same day-only have an hour or so to look over five miles square of country which does not give justice to the district. This kind of work, we claim, does a coun- try more injury than good, as there is no man-doesn't make any differ ence how well he's posted on mining that can go right to a new district and tell what's there just in a few hours time. It will take days, and some times months, to tell anything about it, and in some cases it takes years. Look at Globe, for instance; one among the best camps in the territory. It took years and years, and thousands on top of thousands of dollars spent before they ever found out what they had. And no doubt expert after expert went there and pronounced it mo good" I don't territory today but that this has been done, and by men that claim to know. So we claim that this goes to prove that there is nothing better to make a mine than the pick and shovel with lots of money and energy behind it. This is what we need in the Mayiower. All the experts in the country couldn't make it better than what it is. They go of and say that there's nothing here, when we all know that there is no two districts alike. Some have one kind of caprock and some another. Some are blowouts and others are ledge matter. This being demonstrated between this district and the Clifton district, both being on the same min eral belt and only about 20 miles apart. One-is granite and quartz ite formation, the other a porphyrv formation mixed with iron. The croppings of copper show about five miles Tn width and eight miles in length in the district So any one might know that it would be utterly impossible for any one to go over this scope of countryiu day or so and give it justice. We kn0w--w1at takes us five years to go over and then not see half of it, that there's no expert going to come out and see it all in one day. What we want is for some one that knows a thing when he sees it to come out and take a general look over the country, note the different croppings of copper and the general forma tion, examine the different prospect holes, as we don't claim to nave anything but prospect work on the ground. We are not able to develop a mine. It seems that the mining people of the coun- try generally think that there is no show to ,-=,she mine outside of Cliff ton or Bisbee. They go from one place to the other and in case they fail to get hold of something in one or the other place they go off dissat- isfied. Some jump into Mexico and try there. They never stop to think that there is just as good prospects as ever Bisbee had, laying idle for want of capital to make it what it should be. Thousands of croppings of rich ore on the surface in this dis trict waiting for capital to come and open them up. No prospector is go- ing to do it. All they can do is to find these places and put down a To- foot hole. Sometimes they manage to get 20 or 30 feet and sell for a few few hundred or few thousand, when the purchaser makes millions out of it, which we are willing for him to do. If we get our price we want the party who buys to gain by it. If they didn't there would be but few camps started up. We don't want man to come here and pay a dol lar down. All we want is to have them spend the money in going down after it. Dont't come expecting to find tunnel sites, for we have none. We have croppings of rich ore on the surface and in the low foothills. So it will be necessary to sink, as this country is just the reverse to what Clifton is. They have mine turned bottom side up, the low grade ore on the surface. We have rich ore on the surface and low grade at depth. They have big body on the surface, while we claim to have the same at depth, with fine water and any quan- tity of fuel within easy reach, and only 10 miles from the railroad. Good way to make wagon roads from any point on the railroad direct to the mines, so it does seem that people
 To are looking for mining property would give this country trial. There has never been a dollar spent in the district towards making a copper mine. It's all been for gold and sill yer, and the demand has never been so great for copper as it is today. More calls for it and better prices than ever before. That being the case, it looks as though they would want to get hold of anything that |. oF