Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-11-01

causing the eyes of the mining world | to be turned toward it, is situated in | the Little Hachita mountains, twelve miles, as the crow flies from Hachita station on the E. P. & s. w., and about the same distance from La Plaza sta tion. A gentle and smooth down grade obtains from the new camp to the rail road.
 Gold was first discovered by the Clark brothers, oldtime dry-washing placer miners in the gulches, who used dry-washing machines. This was in February of this year, and their work was continued until the rainy season set in
 The fact that much of this gold was attached to quartz caused them to in- stitute systematic search for the veins from which they felt sure the gold was thrown. Success crowned their efforts, after many laborious days, and a for tune as their reward seemed inevitable. The news of their discovery caused quite a ripple of excitement through out the southwest, and many mining men flocked to the scene.
 The ore, while showing some free gold, was found to carry a metal, with which no one on the ground at that time was familiar, namely sylvanite, which is telluride gold. Interest in the discovery from that time waned, and it was not until by accident a piece of ore found it's way into the hands of Sol Camp, the we'll known op' orator of Cripple Creek and Goldfeld, that interest was re-awakened.
 This sample led MT. Camp to inves. tigate, and the thorough knowledge of its character gained during his success. full operation as general superintendent of the famous Elkton mine in Cripple Creek caused him to think that & new field was about to be opened to the mining world.
 Feeling that the returns received from the assaying were not satisfactory, MT. Camp, after careful inspection, sent samples to the office of Burbugaine of Denver, whose ability as an assayer and chemist is well known over the Amer ican continent.
 The returns from these assays were as follows: l960 gold, l.56 silver, rep resenting a value of $392.56. The general course of the axis of the range has N. E. and s. w. trend. The main core of the Hachita mountains is formed by eruptive rocks composed of diotites, early audesites, gneiss, and granite, with an occasional lime cap. ping The general character of the eruptive cut the range at nearly right angles. These rocks are interrupted by numerous porphyry dykes, similar in character to the Goldfield and Tonopah lode porphyry.
 Following these dykes are numerous true Assure veins of quartz and other veins of a similar nature, with avery strong iron capping. It is evident that at this stage of development these pho nolite carry the highest gold values. These veins traverse the entire length of three claims of the Sol Camp and Marvin F. Ish group, which are being tAIIpiN'u tAAtt tht SNpN9t of which is forty feet. In this shaft exists a very strong phonolite quartz vein, averaging from twenty to twen- ty-four inches, which runs from as low as $50 to the ton, into the thousands. This shaft is located on the extreme east end of the Broken Jug claim.
 On the Golden Eagle claim about 200 feet west, large working shaft is being sent down, and has now reached a depth of twenty-five feet. The ore runs from $70 to $50 ton. At about 1 400 feet west of this shaft the ground has been opened with three cuts and a forty foot shaft from which working there are now 200 sacks of shipping ore on the dump. At distance of 800 feet westerly from this shaft, there is an open cut on the Broken Bottle claim, about twenty-two feet long, with an eight.foot face, showing twelve inches of the ore averaging $25 ton.
 About one mile northerly from the Gold Eagle shaft is the Wood mine, the vein of which is cut by tunnel twelve feet deep from the surface. This vein shows . width of from six to ten feet, which can be traced for 4,500 feet on the surface, and averages across four feet of ore $2O to $30 ton gold, with picked specimens as high as $l00 a ton.
 About 2,000 feet westerly from the Wood mine is the Lively property, with 40-foot tunnel, from which there is now being sacked for shipment ore av- eraging $l00 ton gold. About one mile southerly from the Gold Eagle shaft is the Ninehart property, on which force of ten men is being worked on an open cut from which four car loads of ore have already been shipped, av eraging about $l05 ton.
 From the Ninehart mine on the south to the Woods mine on the north, mum erous other veins have been discovered all showing good values at the grass roots.
 Sol Camp said that compared with the last four years constant work in all of
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