Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1908-11-04
DOUGLAS MAN
FOUND SYLVkkITE
Groceyman Of That Place
First to Detect Value of
New District.

Joe Conley, who is on the ground
floor on several Sylvanite claims, and
who is protected with Camp and lsh'
returned from the rev camp yester-
day. AS he was said to be largely
responsible for the find which produc-
ed the present excitement, is an old
time miner with experience going
back to 1879, went through the Grip
pie Creek excitement, was thorough
Iy conversant with the conditions
there and could compare them WITH
those at the new camp, he was today
interviewed by an Observation-Disclosures
lean reporter.
What can you tell us about the
origin of the present excitement?
the reporter asked.
Well, it was along last spring when
there was an excitement about Ha-
chita that man named WILCOX
brought me in some samples from the
Gold Hill property and later, rail-
road man, G. r. Preston, brought me
in some others from the Clark prop
erty. | at once recognized this ore
as similar to the Cripple Creek Tor
nation and when tley told me there
was no free gold with depth l was
not SuTpIlSSu. NJ SdHApICS 10y III
nv store until one day John Alexan-
der came in and | showed them 10
him and asked him to see Sol Camp
about them, as they are both exper-
fenced mining men and were thor
oughIy familiar with Cripple Creek
and its ores. They both came back
to me and we decided that where
such ore had been found there was
more of 1t. Said Mr.. Conley.
They wanted ne to go out with
them but told them my rheumatism
would not permit and they went, he
Iieving as l did that it was a rich tel
lurium ore.
Camp sent samples to Denver for
assay and the results confirmed our
, beliefs. We do not care how much
the mineralologists disagree over
their names for the ore. That was the
case in Cripple Creek, too, until the
miners proved the ground and so 1t
will be here. 1t does keep back capt.
| tai but in the end it will be seen we
are right.
Now I am not talking on any stock
| jobbing proposition, for we have no
stock for sale in Cur enterprise. We
have tied up three claims extending
along the mother vein for $500 feet
and there is not a share of our stock
/ for sale nor is 1t even stocked We
are certain this vein will broaden out
with depth, being narrow and fiat on
| the top and extending outward on
both sides as 1t goes down. l do not
hesitate to say that surface condi-
lions are there and are right, but go
| farther and say the country is more
mineralized than in the Cripple Creek
district and the ore is of similar
character, a tellurium ore. That in
! the mother vein where our claims are,
! is similar to that around Victor where
three-fourths OF the Cripple Creek
output has came from.
| Before I showed the samples
brought me to Alexander and Camp
| l had showed them to others and they
| all laughed at me and belittled my
opinions. l am now sure the new
camp is good; ! have bought a lot
for myself and a lot for Joe Burke.
There are now about six hundred in
the camp, over fifty working on day
wages, good meals are obtainable at
| 50 cents and cots az rs cents TO a
| dollar. There are Dow several frame
buildings up and lumber coming In all
the time.
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the owners of the Gyp spring about a
mile and half down Sunny slope
| from Sylvanite, whore they are charg-
| ing FIVE cents each for watering
horses while the others are trying to
build up the district.
| Mr.. Conley went on Ia say that he
would only advise those who were M
miliar with Cripple Creek conditions
to enter the new fell as the ordinary
mining man would be all at sea, and
| that he thought the best direction for
prospectors to work was to the south
OF the new strike
= He expects ultimately TO locate in
Sylvanite. for he feels sure Of its flu
ture. Mr.. Conley says that sickness
prevented HIS getting away as soon
as he wanted to and 90 kept him from
/ getting in on another claim which he
thinks most highly of, that now own
| ed by NJ. J. Cunningham OF Bisbee.
Altogether he was enthusiastic about
| Sylvanite and the future as well.
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