Williams news., 1907-10-26
HAS BRIGHT FUTURE

ing business pertaining to his mines in Grand Canyon. From the appearance of the copper ores he brought with him there will be something doing at Bass Camp in the near future.
 R. T. Barton has just finished contract for Mr. Bass. and in one of the tunnels he cut through more than fifty feet of high grade ore. consisting of copper glance and red oxides. The ore bodies are in we'll defined Assure veins, running
 parallel with the river, and are
 plainly visible for long distances.
 MT. Bass has expended much
 time and money on his. properties,
 and is deserving of rich returns for
 his persistent la bors. He has lived
 in and around the Grand Canyon
 for the past 25 years, and is con
 ceded to be the geological en- cyclopedia of the region. He was
 first to denonnce the Powell theory
 of the creation of the Canyon, and
 in an interview with MT. Bass he
 gave us his theory in a condensed
 form. He said:
 II am fully convinced that the
 primary factor in the creation of
 this great riff, in the earth's surface
 is what is commonly termed by
 geologists "crust revolution."
 In the cooling process the interior
 of the earth is constantly receding
 from the rigid exterior, and
 eventually, there must be folding or doubling up of the outside, to
 fit the core, thus forming anticlines, monoclines and all tke various
 faults and fexures so common in this region. It is the filling of these openings in the surface with
 mineraliZed matter from the igneous interior that forms what is
 commonly called true fisure veins. My discovery of what I con- slider the great mother lode of northern Arizona Is due to the fact that the entire surface on either side of the Canyon, for over 100
 miles, that I am familiar with, abounds in secondary forms of , copper, and my contention is that these minerals were forced to the surface through the lateral faults. either in solution or gasious fumes. l and deposited in the plastic bottoms
 of the surrounding sea or lake.
 "My first mineral locotines were , made in 1889. near where the Anita Q camp Is situated, but at that time g there was neither water or railroa q a facilities, and mining was uphill , business. especially in secondary
 ores of low grade, in blanket Q formations. But to me it was s evident that a great mineral zone l., existed in the immediate vicinity t and the Canyon offered the mos, promising field for exploration. I Il had already spent much time
 along the Canyon rim prospecting
 for trails and water, and had made
 my present locatio of Bass Camp as far back as 1884, but the Powell ;. theory of it's creation by erosion
 precluded any thought of mi ineral ' systems to explain it's origin. From
 that time until now have operated 0 on my own theory, and 1 fully
 believe that l am working on one 8 of the greatest systems of Assure
 veins in the southwest, and that i, e extends for hundreds of miles
 probab from the New Mexico - border. through Arizona, Nevada 1 and into California. Las Vegas
 Goldfed. Tonopah and all the n mineral region for hundreds o :, miles may be due to this grea,
 anticlinal rift in the primary rocks ]. My ores are found in micaciou. II schists, and the ma iority of the ort
 now being taken out will average r. above fifty per cent copper, with z g liberal amount of both gold anc l. silver.
 O "I am opposed to the plan for { n national park for the Canyon, anG n if the measure is presented at thu n next session of congress I shall d.
 all in my power to have all of tha'
 portion west of longitude 112 l;
 exclnded and I hone the com