Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-11-20
GROWING CAMP
 0F SYLVAN|TE
 IN NEW MEXICO
NEW ELDORADo IS ATTRACTING WIDE NOTICE AND SEEMS
 TO HAVE MERIT
People Are Flocking There From All Quarters-Arizoua Because of Its Proximity Furnishing the Greatest Number-Has Newspaper.

l One of the mining surprises of the year has been the discovery of gold in the Haehita mountains, New Mexico, n section which up to nine months ago was but little known and nd~indifferently regarded as mining country. It was in February last that the Clark broth CTS, who with their father, J. T. Clark, had followed ranching and the cattle business in that section for number of years, discovered some placer gold, and after patient" prospecting located a mineral ledge carrying some free | gold and a whitish metal of the nature of which they were profoundly ignor- | ant.
 Samples of the ore were sent to Bis l bee, Fl Paso and other places to have ! tested and the assay returns were in every instance encouraging, indicating good values in gold, but the opinions of the chemists and experts as to what | the white mineral really was showed ! great variance, and the question is still in dispute. Burlingame of Denver pfonounees it alvarite, form of tel lurium ore richer than sylyanite. F. I C. Earle, manager of the Fl Paso smell ! ter, made an assay, the sample going l5 ounces in gold and over one ounce I of silver to the ton. Mr. Earle says the silvery looking ore is tellurium. A. w. l Houck of Fl Paso, having tested a | sample of ore from Sylvanite, said it was not telluride of gold and silver or in other words not sylvanite. John A. Rice, engineer, geologist and chem | ist, and O. A. Critchett of the custom assay office, agree that, "The white metal is not sylvanite; it contains no gold or silver, but is tetradymite, telluride of bismuth Native gold | in a free state occurs with the miner al. Such is expert opinion, but the 1 important fact is that the ore from nearly all the locations in the district carry gold in paying quantities.
 J. T. Clark, father of the-Clark broth i CTS, who made the. original discoveries at Sylvanite, is in Globe and called at the Silver Belt office Monday Mr. Clark stated that Sylvanite was grow ing quite rapidly and now has a popu- lation of nearly 500. Many people have gone there from Bisbee. Douglas and other towns of southeastern Ari- zona. while Nevada, Colorado, Montana, Idaho. and other western states are well represented. New people are arriv. ing every day. There are now in the camp several general stores. a drug store, two hotels and several lodging houses, restaurants, butcher shops. bar. Der shop, blacksmith shops. mining en- ginecrs and surveyors. doe tors, lawyers and eight or ten saloons; and a neces sity in every live mining camp--a newspaper, the Sylvanite Sun. pub lished weekly by Newton Trenham. Old timers here will be interested to learn that Mart Moore, who hauled ! coke into Globe, and copper out to Will cox more than twenty years ago, is | located at Sylvanite and runs stage line between the new camp and Hachi- ta, about lI miles distant, on the A. ! & N. NJ. railroad A number of auto mobiles also run between the two places. A telephone line has just been completed.
 1 The gold district in which Sylvanite is situated is about six miles in length and lies well up on the tHachita noun ! tains at an elevation of nearly 5000 ' feet. Nearly the whole district is coy | cred by mining locations. Active de | velopment is now under way upon some ! twenty-five or thirty claims. but as yet no companies with adequate capital | have been. organized to develop and | operate mines at Sylvanite The deep est shaft in the new diggings is only l 75 feet. There are about 100 miners at work. Good assays are obtained from most of the claims being developed, ranging from few dollars up to sew crai thousand per ton. Mir. Clark showed us an assay sheet giving the returns : from a sample of ore from claim owned by one of his sons showing 3.SS ounces of gold and 6l0 of an ounce | of silver to the ton, CT a total value of | S77.9O. This assay was by Burlingamc | & Co.,, of Denver. Another by Narney 1 & Dillon of Sylvanito gave $50 and still another $ll9 in gold.
 !. x. Clark, owner of the Gold Eagle mine has leased if to Camp, lsh and Goshen, who are also largely interested in the Sylvanite Townsite X Develop mcnt company. C. F. Clark owns the
 Wake Up Charlie and J. E. Clark is
 part owner of the Broken Jug. These are among the best claims in the camp. i Sylvanite is now a real mining camp
 -the first grand ball is announced by the Sun, as follows:
 ''Watch for the grand ball in the
 English Kitchen, the first dance of tho
 new gold camp. Billy Truax promises
 the best floor, the best music, the best Encouragement and the best time evel |, pulled off in a three weeks old city IFiand what Bill says goes.