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out In the other party was a man named Jose Vitelle, a particular friend of mine and a most reliable fellow. He was very much excited about one certain piece of e he car ried himself. Of course, this was the first piece we assayed and the re suits made us gasp. We were so ex- cited we lost our appetites, and all interest in anything else for a time, until we had regained our breath. I assayed that sample myself and most carefully, as that was my work with the company. It ran I6,500 ounces in silver and Ill ounces in gold. This is not boast, for didn't find the ore, nor did have anything more to do with it than merely to assay it vitelle said that he had met a man named Palefox, a rancaer on the other side of the Sierras, on the Obispo river. He put up with the ranches several days, he said. and in that time Palefox showed him a piece of ore from his mine. Neither of the two men dad any idea of the value of the ore, but Vitelle had a more accurate judgment Of 1t than Palefox. Vitelle begged to be shown the ore body and finally old Palefox consented to take him to the place, but stipulated that 1t must be at night. Vitelle said that he went to the mine at night and lighting some candles, ae saw two seams of ore, one besides the other, and one much richer than the other. He said they seemed to be in a natural cleft in rocks and there were no siglIs of very much work having been done. Pale fox. he said. was famous in that county for the rich ore he found and he had his crude apparatus for ex- tracing the silver and gold.
 Well, within day or two Yitelle and I were on our way back on that irksome trail over the Sierras. We reached the rancS. but to our surprise found Palefox down in beds suffering from a growth on his arm near his elbow. It came from a poisoned ar
 row which some Apache had shot, he said. When saw his serious condi, ton, I persuaded him to go with me to a doctor whom I know in the coun try to have an operation performed This was done, but the doctor said the disease was likely to break oui again. While he was in the care oi the doctor received word that the
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president of my company and some of the directors were on their way oo
 the mine and 1t was imperative or me to return at once The party of visitors were President Ramsey of the Big Four railroad and some other
 eastern capitalists. It was six weeks
 before 1 got back to see Palefox again and 1 found him back in bed with the same trouble returned. It was then that I heard of the Famous
 Cinco de Mayo mine, only six miles away As you all know, I secured possession of that property and in the
 eighteen months 1 had 1t shipped to
 Fl Paso over $640,000 worth of ore. Well, you know I was too busy to pay any attention to the Palefox
 proposition, whic1 for all l knew might have been just freak of nat
 ure. if not a myth. I did see Pale
 fox again, however. He sent his
 wife over to the mine for me. He
 said that he did not want me to for
 get his property and that he would take me there as soon as he got up.
 But Palefox never got up. A few days after l returned to the mine the news
 came of his death. Six months after
 that Vitelle died. After this came
 the climax in my disappointment
 Palefox's wife had given me the only
 clew I had to the mine. She sara her husband had told her that it was
 in a northerly direction up the val ley. not more than six or eight miles away, and that the only landmark
 was an old ramrod stuck in the ground some little distance away, but pointing in the direction which would lead to, the finding of the mine. We'll. soon after these calamities a man by the name q Brooks, who kept a little resort there told me one day when I was in his place and asked him if any prospectors had been in with anything looking good. No, the only prospector in that week was a
 fellow that came the day before to
 his place. saying he had been up
 north a-ways, and that while he had
 found no ore, he had got some metal,
 and exhibited an old ramrod.' Well.
 Brooks never knew what that ram
 rod meant to me. But I know the
 mine Is undiscovered. and that dis trict is now being prospected so thoroughly that I believe some time
 or other the mine may be found. Some time want to hunt for it.'
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NEW COMPANY GETS | TEN COPPER CLAIMS
Eastem Money Backs the Or phan Company in Working
 Thompson Properties.
Globe Belt)

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 The ten copper claims formerly owned by Henry Thompson. c. D. Barclay and Charles Cloud. situated a quarter of mile from the Miami Cop per eompany's property, have been SC cured and will be developed and worked by the newly incorporated Orphan Copper company.
 A. c. Smith, P. P. Greer. Chas T. Martin, B. G. Fox and Charles NJ. Clark are the incorporators of the Orphan Copper company. The com pany is capitalized at s3,000.000 di- yided into 6oe.000 shares of par value of s5 each.
 Chas. NJ Clark, who is general man ager of the company. returned only a few days ago from New York, where he was in consultation with eastern capitalists who are financing the com pany. Stock to the value of s100,000 has been sold from the New York of flee.
 There are nine well defined ledges on the property in porphyry and schist formation" said Manager Clark yes terday.
 In Ine SndIl 6lSuty keel uSep WS have a good vein of sulphide copper ore the entire distance which as says from to per cent copper. This ledge has not been crosscut but will be as soon as the hoisting machinery has been installed.
 "Ali the Calumet & Globe Develop ment company's machinery has been purchased by us and will be moved as soon as the surveyors have finished laying out the roads and the points for development work have been decided on.
 Men will be employed at once in the mine, drifting on each side of the shaft at both stations and at the same time sinking the shaft.
 "A large hoist will be placed at the schist contact and a perpendicular shaft will be put down probably 1000 feet and will cut the various veins on their incline.
 "H. E. Bierce furnished the follow ing analysis of our ore: Raw ore screenings from the dump, 4.61 per cent copper, concentrated six into one, 23 per cent copper, 21.15 per cent iron, .465S per cent sulphur, 12 per cent silica.
 Ion account of the huxing value we can get a very low smelting rate by reason of the high per cent of iron and sulphur" ...-.......
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SILVER DOWN BECAUSE
 | INDIA BUYS LITTLE
Producers of White Metal Hard Hit By the Present Low
 Price.


 The situation in the metal market at present is peculiarly sensitive to rumors, good or bad, Tor the reason that so far this year the consump- tion generally has been less than 1907.
 In silver prices have been cut to a point where it is almost impossible for the smaller mines to continue work. On May l the quotation was 52A cents per fine oz., which is the lowest since December last, and when compared with the high of 701s cents on January 3, 1907, suom } reduction of IFS cents per OF. Imagine the money loss to producers of some 56,000,000 ounces, per annum in this country alone.
 The dominant factor that caused the slump in the price of siISSl IS the heavy curtailment of consump- ton in India--the largest buyer in the world. The shipments to India so far this year snow a decrease of nearly 100 per cent To offset this in a measure is the revival in demand from China, which, however, at latest account, has resold an apprecia- ble quantity of silver Hopes are entertained that China's industrial expansion will eventually create an unusually large demand Tor silver for coinage purposes.
 The copper situation has been made more interesting by the early initial production of the low-grade mines at Ely, Nevada, the increased output of the Butte mines. and the preparations for more active mining in other sections Of the country Meantime copper prices, in the ab sence of any large demand, are weak and on May were 129s to 127s ce1ss per pound for Lake, 12Ss to 127s cents for electrolytic in cakes anc wire bars, and 121s to 123s cents fol casting. Compared with the quota tions on the same day a year agC there is shown drop of nearly 10t percent
 One reason why copper prices have ] been cut so deeply this year is tht heavy falling of in the domestic de mand, due principally to the finan cial furry, which created an apatheti' feeling among the larger consumers. The brightening spot in the cope market is the increased export trade notably with Germany and France During the first quarter this yea
 the exports of fine copper, as meta and in ore and matte, amounted t
 ST. ,22S long tons, which compare
 with 25.6S9 tons for the correspondin period in 1907.
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STRANGER PULLS UP RAMROD
 POINTING ID RICH MINE, AND
 THE PROPERTY IS NOW LUST

DOUGLAS, May 23-Every mining man in Douglas who has ever vis- ited the rich territory south of here in the Sierra Madres in the neigh borhood Of the famous Cinco de Mayo and N Tigre mines, or has gone to the equally Famous hot springs of Agua Calientes situated about half way on the trail, trying there to get rid of his rheumatism, has heard ail the legandary lore of the celebrated "Palefox" mine, the Golden Fleece of all prospectors in Sonora. Few though have heard the interesting story connected with it, as told by a well known Douglas mining man in the hearing of newspaper man.
 A. J. King was the teller of the story to small party of mining men in the Ray hotel the other evening. He was simply relating his own ex- perience. but evidently 1t was a story he had kept pretty close to nimseir for his friends who had known him intimately were surprised to learn that he had once near and yet so far from not only finding the mine. pul being given an interest in 1t by old Palefox himself.
 The first time ever saw sam pie of ore from the Palefox mine. said Mir. King, was several years ago when 1 was assistant general man ager of the property of the Sabinal Mining and Smelling company bocat- ed at Sabinal, Chihuahua. Two or three of the heads of the department including myself had two prospect ing parties out in the hills. They had been out some time and finally one of the parties showed up. They brought in some very good looking ore which on being assayed was rich enough to warrant them in advising me to go over. and take a look at the property. To get to the property re had to cross the Sierra Madre range in Sonora It was a most difficult and fatiguing trip, more so on the return because we were disappointed in what. We found. The ore was only little stringers and the prospect seemed to have nothing of substan' tiai nature about 1t. The prospector himself should have known better than to take us to look at such g proposition. I was terribly fafiguec from the journey and had scarcely gotten over my aches and pains viser in came the other party we had sent
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to the present time Clifton produced in 1907 over $15,000,00 worth of cop per, and Globe s7,000,000.
 The cIifton-Morenci District
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GLOBE. May 23.-The local mining situation continues very satisfactoty y. changes were notd being of fay- orable character. Since the first of the month the Warrior Copper com pany and the Superior & Boston Cop per company have increased thei, ore shipments considerably, while the Gibson, United Globe and ar1- zona Commercial are maintaining their tonnages. The Old Dominion has four furnaces in blast and the production of copper for the current month promises to be in the neign- borhood of 3.O0o,O00 pounds As a+ ready announced in these columns, the Old Dominion company will, at an early date, commnce shipping sul- phide ore from Dalton, Cal, to their smelter here, the product being de sirable on account of the high per centage of sulpAur and iron 1t con tains.
 The Globe Consolidated.
 N. S. Berray, until recently mine superintendent of the Old Dominion and United Globe, yesterday visited the Globe Consolidated and Superior & Boston and was very favorably im- pressed vita the developments at both properties. To representative of the Silver Belt, Mir. Berray stateo that the Globe Consolidated had ex. posed in the north crosscut from the Gem shaft a well mineralized zone about 100 feet wide, which shows strongtindications of making mine with further development About 25 feet of this lead is sulphide. Is feet or which is good concentrating ore carrying 2 per cent copper, 14 per cent sulphide and 2f per cent iron, Drifts have been started east and west on this ore which in the east drift shows an increase of copper
 Work in the drifts will be pushed with vigor and later winze will probably be started. The showing ID tbe Gem is certainly very encouraz 1 Ing and jus;ifes Superintendent Nc Carthy's confidence in the success oi | the enterprise.
 Superior & Boston.
 The nrogress made during the pas | month fin underground deYelopnenu . and surface improvements at tnl' property have been noticeable ana re 1 fleet credit on the management. in'
 most important development na'
 been oa the 429-foot leFe! of ths l Great Eastern mine, waere iarge s.one ts being opened which vii
 eventually extend west from Is.
 crosscut to the line of the Blaci i Hawk claim ot the Arizona Conner ciaI Copper company. length of zS' feet the drift already opened beln' in good ore for that distance Tn lead is forty feet wide and carries T. feet of commercial ore which, a
 shown by the smelter returns Tor las I month. averages g per cent coppe and runs from five to eight ounces O
 silver to the ton
 The stope is being opened en'
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GLOBE MINING DISTRICT TO
 } FRONT WITH GREAT ACTIVITY

width of this ore body, three sets in height and as now timbered is s4 feet in length. It is advancing as repidly as three shifts of four men each, with one Ingersol- Sergeant drill and one No. IA Wahl drill can do the work A winze has been started in one, work on which has been temporarily sus- pended to permit of timbering the stope.
 MT. Berray, fater inspecting this ore body, gave it as his opinion that, with some further development, it should supply ore of sufficient value to meet all the expenses of develop ment work by the company for the next year. A 40-ton carload of ore from the stope on the Great Eastern Is being shipped daily to the Old Do ninion smelter.
 The Gardner shaft which will de velop the Iron King and Black Oxide claims has reached a depth of about 90 feet and is going down at the rate of about two feet a day. It has three compartments, two each feet 6 inches by 5 feet, and one feet inches, and is one of the best con structed shafts in Globe district.
 A steel tank with capacity Of 20,' coo gallons for the storage of oil is being erected at the Great Eastern shaft, Improvements and additions to the plant are made as required but there is no unnecessary expendi- ture under tue management d Super Intendent v. F. Carter.
 k,fanl Copper Company. The Red Spring shaft is down about 625 feet and sinking continues ! The work is being done by contract Developments on the 500-foot level are highly favorable. The drifts and | crosscuts are still being extended 1T one, to which there appears to be nc limit. and the estimate of Engineer J Parkt Charming, made seyera months ago, of 100000 tons of ort | in sight, will have to be revised. I l is safe to say there is now severa | times that tonnage of ore in sight ! There is now news in regard to tht railroad to the Miami property ant until rail facilities are provided lii tie can be done toward the construe ton of a concentrating mill furtne Ithan laying the foundation.
 Bierce and Kaltenbach. who oTl three claims on Mineral creek, hav' sulphide copper ore that will averag
 25 per cent copper and 15 per cen
 iron with 20 per cent sulphur. Thesl claims have been worked all througl
 the winter. There is a 200foot tun nel which taps the ore vein at depth of 160 feet from the surfac
 where the ten-inch vein of sulphid
 was discovered.
 The claims are three-quarters of
 mile west of Gibson's old shaft an
 at the head of Mineral creek.
 Sixty buckets of water is bein
 taken from the mine daily, apd hv men are employed there.
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 to the present time. Clifton produced In 1907 over $15 5,000, GOO worth of cop per, and Globe $7,000,00O.
 The cIlfton-Morenci District.
 These deposits were first discover ed by prospecting party from Silver City in 1872, and in 1873, a little hand bellows copper furnace was put in. The region was greatly injured by the Indians, who at one time at tackled the town of Morenci, but in 1885, safety was assured and the re zion opened up rapidly. In the first 90 years, 1873 to 1903, the mines pro duced $6o, 800, 900 worth of copper.
 Sections and geological maps of the district were shown, and it was brought out clearly that great in trusive mass Of porpAyry broke up through the older rocks and in cer- tain places this molten rock contain ed large amounts of superheated gases. These gases penetrated the limestone with especial ease aud formed garnet, epidote sulphide de posits. After the ingenous rock was solidified it was fractured ia vein which by their composition showed that the depositing media were hot waters and not gases. were formed. cutting all the rocks. Neither of these two classes of deposits are ricn enough to be worked and later de scending surface waters, by teaching out the copper values near the sur face in the form of blue vitroi and depositing 1t below as the black su- phide, produced a concentration or from to 6 into 1 and thus transferr- ed low grade deposits of value into valuable copper ore. With few ex- cepfions. there is no pay ore below 400 feet beneath the surface, which is the depth to which secondary enrich ment has gone in this place Wafe the earlier deposits were largely in the limestone. now great attention IS i pald to t5e dlsseyninated grains ot copper glance whicn have hse1 eFr-
 fNo-tfnuod 1.,. paon Tar,
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some other part of the globe. Then followed an era of ocean dominance, the first period of which is represent ed in the geologic column by quart zite formation from which are Lne indurated sands of the shallow ad- vancing ocean. In the deepening ocean great thicknesses of limestone were laid down in places interrupted by beds Of sandstone and shale around some local island, many of which were of temporary nature and sank back again under the ocean. The Devonian and Carboniferous per iods marked the maximum thickness of limestone de1osits and these later became the chief receptacles of the copper ores of the territory. These limestones and quartzite are grouped togetner as the formation of the Paleozoic Era This may be called the time of ocean dominance, al though there were other and briefer and less important inyasions by the ocean. The next important division with reference to ore deposits was the intrusion of great masses of mol ten rock in these sedimentary forma- tions Certain of these intrusions containing large amounts of super. heated gases and volatile compounds of the metals, especially of iron and copper, are responsible for the ore deposits We are to consider. During this period Arizona, especially the great plateau region, was slowly ele vated to it's present high altitude and during this elevation and continu ing almost to the present time, out flows of lava were extruded in i'm mense amounts. The great amount of this naterisI left the elevated
 rocks partially unsupported, and dur ! ing this period of lava outflow th' 1 rocks have been breaking down, tho l typical mountains of Arizona beins ! fault blocks, caused by the settlint l down of the fractured crust. This err ! of intrusion and the outflow Of mol 1 ten rock. together with the faultni | oF the rocks, my be called the periot l of land sentimentation, for through l out most of this time the climate
 was semi-arid as now, and tn' detritus from the hills was washed down in the intervening valleys.
 { A Few Figures on the Copper Indus try of Arizona.
 The importance of the copper in ' dustry can be shown by the following ' figures. Arizona has a record prt ! duction up to date 0 considerabl, over a million long tons of copper
 which, including the gold and silve
 by-products, sold for an amount ap proximateing one-half 8 billion of dol !; lars. The most of this has com [ from four great camps. which are, il the order of their yearly production | BISBEE, Clifton, Jerome and Globe
 Bisbee on March, 1907, produce
 ss,500, 900 worth Of copper and tn
 value of Bisbee's product Tor the yea
 1907, approximately. equalled the ei
 tire output of the Tombstone mine
 from the date they were discovcre
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 ably be continuation Of the tunnel coo feet nr more.
 The Gibson Copper company has abandoned work temporarily on the new vertical shaft and is developing on the fifth and sixth levels of the old shaft aud making stations in the new. The new vertical shaft is be- tween the third and fourth levels and is 25e feet west of the old shaft. Tae ore that is coming from the Gibson now Is averaging 25 per cent copper. There are sev nty-five men employed and six wagons are hauling ore daily to the Old Dominion smelter.
 John and Ed Whelan are working their claims 8 quarter of mile south west of Gibson's and the develop ment is being done in vertical shaft. They have the same class of ore that is identified with the Gibson section and are working steadily at the developing of their group. The property is also one-hah mile north east of ti,e Bierce-Kaltenback claims.
 uc JUG WllhilS CLc1u d1JOAAAh6 6 the Henry-T Thomas Mimberly group of ten gold claims, has been leased to Dick Belcher and Bob Guenther. The claim is known as the Telegraph and the only development work is a fortyfoct shaft. Besides the gold assay of s69 per ton, the ore runs high in sulphide copper. The lease on the claim is for one year ana Wilkins. is to receive oae-tenth ni the proceeds.
 Bob Henry came in yeaerdav fer timbers for the CoaSast claim. The shaft of this claim is town twenty five feet and carries S20 in gold anu good copper sulphide values. The Warren-Jimison-M Moody co partnership which IS developing three claims one mile east of the Gibson mine have opened a vein of sulphide ! copper ore that assays 20 per cen 1 cooper. The vein was discovered pS ' feet west of a blowout which tht | company was working toward ane i it was expected that copper would pf | found at the blowout. ADproximatelI ! 220 feet Of tunnel work was done | before the sulphide was encountered | Several small stringers of chalcopy rite were cut before the sulphfd' was opened. There are IS inches O the ore in the new vein.
 l The Sterling Developing comPan! :, will begin developing the Hubbel Marlin claims on Lower Pinto creek Sulphide copper is found in man! places on these claims. it is said, a the grass roots.
 Geo. E. Shute and Billy Jefferson are developing their gold claims il the Lost Gulch section and have gol' that assays $20 in a ledge that is feet wide and which pans free gold The foot wall is granite and the, say that the hanging wall Aas no been discovered. They have one rul claim and three fractions. Thei property is bounced by the claims 0 Mrs Fisk and the Sam Kee and Geo Bowen claims.
 Angus McAIpine and Charles Nes bit, who have ten gold claims in tn Lost Gulch district. are developin and prospecting the lodges by driftin on tae main ledge from the surfac j by an incline shaft They have as says from $20 to s60 in gold
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The future development will prob ably be continuation of the tunnel coo feet or more.
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Bob Henry came in yeserdav fer timbers for the CoaSact claim. The shaft of this claim is town twenty five feet and carries SO in gold anu good copper sulphide values.
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