Bisbee daily review., 1906-06-17
GOLD MINING IN
 CLIF TON DISTRICT
SCORE OF PROMISING GOLD PROPERTIES WHICH
 ARE PRODUCING

A staff correspondent of the Denver Mining Reporter recently spent some time in the Clifton Morenci district and wrote the following concerning the revival of gold mining in that sec tion of Arizona.
 Mining for gold in the Clifton Nor enci district of Graham county. Ari- zona, which district for the wear 1905 ranked second among the copper producing sections of the territory, has of late assumed noteworthy p-opor- lions. There are now under develop ment upwards of score of promis- ing properties from number of which gold production either has been or is being made. snIong ghe latter may ben mentioned the Clifton-King mine. situated about mile and a half east of Morenci. from which a carload lot of S100 gold ore was recently shipped. At a number of properties in the Greenlee section east of Chase Creek notably those of the Sierra de Orc Mining company. Crawford Gold Min ing company, Polaris M. & M. comp any and Arizona Gold Mining company there are developed sufficient ore bod ies to warrant the early erection of milling plants.
 Among the factors contributing to the present revival of gold mining throughout the region may be men, toned the recently published annual statement of the shannon Couuer com pany. which showed that in the pro- duction of 14,000,00O lbs. of bessemer copper. the gold and gilver concentrat- ed by-products amounted to approXi- mately 600 ounces of gold and 1000 ounces silver.
 In the district gold occurs native with galena in the Hormeyer mine, which is a Assure vein on the lime stone ridge between Chase creek and Morenci canyon; at the Stevens group in Garfield gulch northwest of Copper Mountain at the Lakenan group below Gold gulch and in portions of the Greenlee district: in small seams and well defined Assures in Gold Gulch and other portions of the copper min ing district to the north and west of Morenci and in the Greenlee or Cliff ton district and in placer gravels along Gold gulch and other portions of Gold creek basin, and in adjoining gulches to the north and south, as well as along the San Francisco river for a distance of about five miles above the town of Clifton.
 Prior to the inauguration of the eX- tensiye copper mining operations in the early eighties, the mining of the auriferous graveis along San Francisco river. Chase creen in Morenci canyon and Gold and Bonanza creeks to the west of Morenci. was quite extensive. ly carried on and to fair profit. At Oroville, several miles above Clifton, a town of several hundred people was built up at that time and hydraulic, as well as box and ground sluicing were carried on.
 The mining of the auriferous veins of the Gold creek basin area, and of the gulches to the north and south, which region includes the slopes to- ward Eagle creek from the Morenci divide embracing an area of approxi- mately four square miles, has also been intermittently carried on in a small way since the early eighties The Lakenon group, near the mouth of Gold creek, has been worked in a desultory fashion for the past IS years by it's owner, who has arrastred the high grade oxidized ores, and shipped the galena ores, the gold and silver The Lakenan group, near the mouth ol to s75 a ton.
 No depth was in any instance at. tained, and evidence of the quite ex, tensiVe shallow workings, which con,