Bisbee daily review., 1907-08-25
ID OPEN SILVER
 MINE FOR COPPER
Famous Silver King Property That Has Yielded Fifteen Millions of White Metal, Also Contains Copper.

A writer in the American Mineral Review has the following to say of the great Silver King mine of Pinal county, Arizona:
 No mine in Arizona was of greater importance in promoting the early wei fare of the southwestern part of that territory than the Silver King. situ- ated among towering crags in a lone ly basin in Pinal county. The Silver King. like some other great mines,
 has an interesting history. General
 Stoneman, afterward governor of Cal | ifornia, was in the Pinal region with
 a command of troopers, the main ob-
 ject being the subjugation of the
 Apaches, who at that time. about 1S7O- O3, were murderously aggressive General Stoneman, to facilitate mill | tary movements and to get in sup plies, cut road over the Pinal noun
 tains close to where the Silver King 1 mine was afterward discovered.
 1 One day a soldier named Sullivan,
 returning to camp from the moun- l tain trail (Stoneman grade) sat down on a projecting rock, and amused him. | self by picking up rocks and tossing
 them at the sprightly swifts which darted hither and thither among the
 DOulders. Among the fragments of rock Sullivan noticed some that were i remarkably heavy and which would
 not break when pounded on boulder. i He thought them Jumps of lead, and picked up a number of the pieces of
 the metallic-looking Jumps, put them
 in his pocket and said nothing. Soon 1 thereafter his term of service expired
 and he was discharged from the army, l going to a ranch on Salt river near
 where the city of Phoenix is now sit
 uated. He carried along the sOuve-
 nirs of his visit to Pinal. the Jumps
 of metal Sullivan never hesitated to
 show his new employer his metal mug gets, but always carefully neglected
 to say where he found them. One day Sullivan disappeared. MT. Mason, his former employer had recognized the
 metal as native silver and was curious
 enough about them to desire to visit
 the place but he had no clew which
 would place him within fifty miles of
 the place where Sullivan had found
 them, though he shrewdIy believed
 that they came from the Pinal region
 in the heart of the Apache country.
 
 ties made excursions into the dan gerous Apache stronghold in quest
 of Sullivan's silver mine, and although
 some of them passed near the spot it remained undisturbed for several
 years. One party located a claim
 within a mile and a half from the
 Silver King outcrop. and some of
 this party went into the Globe country
 nA
 About this time Sullivan's ranch
 boss, Mason, organized a party that
 penetrated the Pinal mountains, and
 in a skirmish with Apaches one of
 their number was killed Returning
 to camp below the Stoneman grade,
 one member of the party named Isaac l. Copeland. left the trail to examine
 some outcroppings, while the remain
 der of the party moved on down the trail. Copeland soon hurried after, overriding his comrades out of breath. He held out a handful of black metal , and his pockets bulgad with more of the same sort. i've found it, he fin. : ally found breath to say The little . party went on down to the Gila river re-supplied their outfit with ammu. , milton and provisions, and the next day hastened back to the place where Copeland had found the nuggets. They had no trouble in finding it. The ground was strewn with nuggets of solid, tarnished silver, and the quartz . outcrop was stained red. brown, black r green and blue, with carbonates of OK
 ide of iron and copper. This was or March P, 1875. They staked the Sil } yer King location. forming the Pic . neer mining district. The four part ners held an equal interest in the property, which afterward became the property of the Silver King Mining l, Company, organized May 5th, 1877. One day several years later, an olC : man, roughly dressed. evidently { ' prospector, and not a very prosperou: one, arrived in camp and strolleC !, about the mine His face was drawn
 his eyes bore a wistful, almost hope 2 less look, though everything about in f terested him intensely-the machin o cry, tAe mill the town. It was Sulli , 1 van, came at last to see the famou f mine he had never been able to re :. turn to seek until it was too late. H. n was given a good job at the mine :. hard luck or good luck, as you choose ,- The Silver King was we'll named
 
 side the rich chloride and sulphid' |. silver ore, there were tons of nativ' n metal in wire, ropes and tangle' n masses. Over s15,0O0,0O0 came iron ]. the single ore body, which like hug n subterranean chimney extended iron e the surface downward for more thai e 1000 feet.
 f The ore deposit occurs in forms 1T ton of schist and gneisses, assignee e by Prof W. P. Blake to the Archaean r. These rocks are cut by a hugs dix l. of quartz-parphyry and it Is with thi
 latter rock that the Silver King oT I2 body is directly associated.
 ,5 The Silver King was worked con ,5 tinuously and profitably for years bu ,4 finally the ore became low grade | Ia silver and base, and the price of tn ;7 metal fell until 1t was not longer q profitable enterprise under the the fl existing conditions. From the surfac ,5 outcrop to the lowest level in the min 75 more than 1900 feet. copper show = throughout the ore. Often coppe
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