Bisbee daily review., 1908-10-25


 less than fifty claims n the rev
 camp of Sylyanite. By the time 70:
 read this there will be thousand men in the camp. and it is predicted
 that within a month the camp vii
 have 2,50O people. 1t looks good ou
 there. One must go by the way O the Fl Paso & Southwestern railwa! to Hachita, N. NJ, 100 miles iron Douglas, and from Hachita it is abou twelve miles to the camp through tht
 nearest pass. Going by the old route it is seventeen miles The ledge:
 bearing the rich material free gold teIlurium and syl7anite-are in tht hills just above the placer fields that attracted some attention last
 spring, but which are now abandoned 1 because they did not pay for working ferrous material on the mesa erodec l from the iedges Row for the first time having consideration. These i lodges are demonstrated from a few I inches to five feet in width, and they
 seem to have depth. this theory being /, borne out, too, by the general condi
 tiops. From the sressroots the min | eralization pays Some of it runs eX, | sl ! the average will be above $50 in the
 danger zone,' while there are many l ledges outside this zone that carry from S5 up. One very large dyke about one and one-hah miles from discovery has steady values of sS
 with occasional pockets running ex, tremely high. Of course many re, ports coming from there lack an atom of truth. It Is always the case. But in this instance about every big tale
 has a solid foun lation somewhere
 The veins are there, the mineral is there, and now the men with money to develop are there. In order Ic start right, I am going to give an in. terview on formation. first with Mir. W. c. Mcbride, who visited the camp for the Phelps Dodge interests, for whom he has been doing field and expert work for many years; and
 then with Mir. Arthur Philbrick, a we'll known expert who operated for years in the Goldfelds and Tonopah fields.
 What Experts Say.
 Mcbride; "The formation on the north and south is limestone over laid by quartZite. The central part
 of the mineralized zone is made up | of complex mixture of igneous
 rocks, the most prominent being a
 dioritie rock; and very strong DOT. phyry dyke which cuts through the dioritic material in a northeasterly | direction. The ore is found along slips and faults in the igneous rock. | It also occurs with local igneous in. ltrusions in the limestone. The veins are found on both sides of the big
 dyke, showing that this has not cut of the mineralization. As far as de velopment goes it shows the veins. to run from a few inches to five feet in width. The ore is a quartz carrying both iron and oxide and pyrites and the values are found in free gold tel lurides. The Cripple Creek miners class it as phonolite and they in a body claim that the values occur the same as at Cripple Creek. The for nation is not identical with Cripple Creek, but the values do occur the same. The principal values are in sylvanite form. One particular fea- ture is that where the rock may not show anything to tha eye, it screens well. It is probable there is some diabase in the instrusion. It is con- mon to pick a sample that will run above $1,000. It is demonstrated now that this is a very highgrade camp, with sylvanite the base of the val ues"
 Philbrick: "A great many of these veins are Assures following the gen eral stratifcation of the eruptIve rocks. The main axis of the range runs northwest and southeast, while the veins run with the stratification of the country at acute right angles. There has been considerable faulting and a great many large igneous lode porphyry dykes, the same as at Gold fields and Tonopah. There is a large trachyte dyke in the center of the dis trict, where numerous veins have ] been found running acuteiy toward
 the dykes, and presumably large ore
 bodies will be found on the contact
 between the soft PoTphyry and the hard dyke, with deleIopment Ore has heen found in ray on both sides
 of this dyke in paying quantities, and
 remarkably highgrade
 Work On Many Claims
 Work has actually begun on a great many claims, and it will start on others as soon as material can be secured. The "rusl caught the Hach- | ita Mercantile Co. with the regular
 stock, and as it is the only store in l the section new goods had to be or. dered, and in most instances owners of claims or leases purchased on their own hook. The Fl Paso South l western puts goods into the camp in twelve hours from the time order. ed, so there is DO danger of delay. Transportation at fist was a prob lem, but now that is overcome. The chuck shanty"was iaadquate for the demands also, but now there are restaurants sufficient. That reminds us of the sign on one of the eating houses: The greatest wonder of the goth century-French. German, Irish and English cooking out of the same pot" You were at least permitted 10 name your choice The person who went into camp without a blanket was iD a bad way, and few did this. Of course it is Q new camp. and there is really little work to do. so anyone going in without means and expect ing to secure employment at good wages is more than liable to disap- pointrnent. It is the concensus of opinion that Mexicans and other for eign lador will be debarred, though many question the wisdom of that Hourse. The few miners there oWD claims, so no scale Of wages has beer determined. There ia wood and wat CT. There will be in a short time the conveniences usually found in thining camp. Some of the most prominent operators 0f The sothwes arc there now. and the day the writer