Bisbee daily review., 1906-10-16
B|G LEDGE GOLD ORE FOUND AT
 BENSON
Samples Taken From Five Palces Across the Surface Groupings and Found to Pan Good ColorS.

Last Tuesday, Col. I. B. Stone. of Stones Mining Investment company. and Mining Engineer Wm. Fraesdorf, of Benson, went out to the Whetstone mountains to examine galena and cop per property of Mir. Frank Trask, but the discovery which Mir. Fraesdoff's geological knowledge led up to on the trip is a great dyke of free milling gold quartz, which may result in establish ing stamp mill some nine miles from Benson, where the yellow metal will be produced in large quantity, and a new and unexpected mining and mill ing industry spring up, says the Ben son Press.
 The discovery transpired when MT. Trask escorted his visitors to where he has located on Wulfenite ore. Wul- fenite was here. all right. but Mr. FraesdcIf took notice that it was run ming along through 8 dyke Of what looked to him like au-iferous quartz. Thereupon he concluded to stay over night with Mir. Trask and make care ful examination for gold.
 The ledge, or dyke. in which is found the Wulfenite, crops out 4,500 feet. running in a northwesterly and north easte1ly direction. At the northeast ern end it shows gaiena, Wulfenite and silver. As it extends northerly change occurs after about 2,e00 feet, to a grayish quartz. stained a light purple with flour. Samples were taken from five places of ore all across the sur face eroppings of the ledge. and found to pan good coIocs of gold in each case
 Near the southeast end two sam plings were made from places about 300 feet apart. put together. broken up and euartered 6own to suitable sam pie for banning, sThicl showed lead and silver concentrates, with about SI to the ton of gold.
 From the middle an average sample across the ledge, quarte-ed down and banned showed gold and silver, the gold value being about fourteen or if teen dollars.
 At the north end 3 sample was taken across the ledge, and another about .000 feec southeFly on the same ledge. mixed and reduced as were the first two. giving at least forty dollars to the ton in gold. The ledge iron: where the last two samples were taken was twelve feet vile in one place and eight feet wide at tha other. Where the samples of Wulfenite, lead, silver and gold were taken, the ledge was from four to five feet thick.
 The country rock is granite.
 MT. Fraesdorf says if this entire ledge which runs through the three claims located by MT. Trask will only average SC per ton in gold, It is 2 big paying proposition, and would iusti fy erecting a large stamp mill nearby where there is plenty of water. His advice is to take mill run samples across the ledge every ten feet fol the entire 4,500 feet, and have a thor ough test made.
 IL dips apparently about a5 degree! toward the east, while another. ledg' of the same appearance running par allel about feet west, dips at ar angle of degrees, which would make a junction of the two lodges abou 200 feet beneath the surface if eacl continues to dip the same as the. start from the surface
 Engineer Fraesdorf recommend! sinking to where they unite. He say! it has been long time since he ha' seen such a promising prospect for great gold mine.
 Mir, Trask at once decided to star sinking on the ledge where it is rich est in gold Col. Stone expects t' close a deal by which this great dyk of gold quartz will be listed witl Stones Mining Investment compan. for development proposition.
 
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