Weekly journal-miner., 1908-11-11
GROCER MINER |S N2I6LL FUR
 SyLVAN|TE
Joe Conley First Saw the Semblance to Cripple
 Creek Ore

 yanitc claims. and who Is protected with Camp and Isb, returned from the new camp yesterday. AS he was said 10 be largely responsible for the find i, an old ,imc miner with experience going back to 1879. went through the Cripple Creek excitement, was thor. oughly ronvcrsant with the conditions there and could compare with them those nt the camp. hc was today inter viewed.
 "what can you tell us about the origin "f the present cxcitemenii' the reporter asked
 Well. it WI, along last spring when there was an excitement about Ilachita that q man named Wilcox brought me in some samples from the Gold Hill property and later. rail. road man, c. K. Preston, brought me in spfc others from the Clark proper ". I at once recognized this ore as nlUlliNl " lN' 'liIIl' 'i''N '''"' ton and when they told me there was no free gold with depth was not sur. priscl The samples lay m my store nniil one day John Alexander came m and showed them tu him and asked him to see Sol Camp about them, as they arc both experienced mining men tt...v.,,..l1. c guUttlfuV kxtfl Cripple Creek and iis ores. They both cane back to me and we decided that where such ore had been found there wa, more of it." said Mr Conlcy
 "rhcy wanted me to ga out with them, but told them my rheumatism would not permit. and they went, be licving as did that it was rich tcllu- rum ore.
 "Camp sent samples to Denver for assay and the results confirmed our be- lefs. We do not care how much the mineralologists disagree over their names for the ore. That was the ease in Cripple Creek, too. until the miners proved the ground, and so it will he here. It does koep back capital but in the end it will he seen we are right.
 "Now l am not talking on any stock iobbing proposition, for we have no stock for sale in our enterprise. We have tied up three claims extending along the mother vein for i500 feet A. .a al ul, ..l for sale nor is it even stocked. We arc certain this vein will broaden out with depth, being narrow and flat on the top and extending outward on both sides as it goes down. l do not hesi- tate to say that surface conditions are there and are right, but l go farther and say the country is more mineral ized than in the Cripple Creek district and the ore is of similar character, a tcliurium ore. That in the mother vein where our claims are, is similar to that around Victor where three. fourtbs of the Cripple Creek output csme from.
 bflVte Ah' '""P''' brought 10 Alexander and Camp had showed them to others and they all laughed at me and belittled my opin- ioas. 1 am now sure the new camp is good; have bought lot for myself sud a lot for Joe Burke. There are usw about six hundred in the camp, over 6fty working on day wages; good meats are obtainable at 60 cents and cots at 75 cents to . dollar. There arc now several frame buildings up and lumber coming in all the time.
 "One thing wrong is tho course of the owners of the Gyp spring about a mile and a half down Sunny Slope from Sylvsnitc. where they are charg ing Ave cents each for watering horses while the others are trying to build up the distriet.'
 Mir Conley went on to say that he would only advise those who were ia miliar with Cripple Creek conditions to enter the new field as the ordinary mining man would be all at sea, and that he thought the best direction for prospecicrs to work was to the south of the new strike.
 He expects ultimately to locate in Sylvanitc, for he feels sure of its fu. ture. Mir. Conlcy says that sickness prevented his getting away as soon as he wanted to and So kept him from getting in on another claim which he thinks most highly of, that now owned by N. ]. Cunningham of Bisbee. Al, togther he was enthusiastic about syl. | vanite and the future as well.