Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-26

\ al Hachita rush no water had \
!. been developed In the country \
\ and it had to be packed in from i
\ several miles. The present camp +
!. of Sylvanite is about eight miles !.
I. from the location of the first !.
\ Hacnita strike. i
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DOUGLAS, Oct. 25.-A crowd which
was only equaled in number by that
of the night before passed through
Douglas Wednesday night from Bis
bee bound for Sylvanite. Fully fifty
eager and visibly excited men. some
of whom are among the best known
citizens of the Warren district metrop-
oils, clad in the rough clothes that
go with a new mining camp and all
buoyed with hopes of what they may
find at the new camp, were in the
party and the half hour they had to
spend in Douglas was whiled away
down town. At the Gadsden they
formed a "live bunch'-a group of men
thoroughly impregnated with the min
ing fever. Bisbee is plumb daft over
feeling is seen in Douglas. A number
of Douglas men joined the party, while
this morning nine tickets were sold
here for Hachita. The local men who
left today were mostly old time pros
peetors and miners.
Among those from Douglas who have
sylvanited and returned is Tom Hines.
"1t looks good to me-" said Hines
this morning, land I am going to get
in on 1t. Thus far very little work
has been done in the camp. The Sol
Camp working is down about thirty
feet, the deepest in the district. Quite
a number of prospect holes have been
started and in number of these there
are fine showings from the grass roots.
In several places 1 saw ore that would
run high in gold.
Thinks SyIvanite Is There
"There is no question that there
is sylvanite there, and the only thing
that concerns the future of the camp
is the extent and depth of the de
posits. The formation is similar to
that in Colorado, and in my opinion
looks very favorable. At present the
accommodations are almost nil. One
can get a meal, but there is no place
to sleep. Yesterday there were sixty
men in the camp. but large numbers
have since gone into the camp, while
others have come out"
The consensus of news from Sylvan
ite is to the effect that the reports of
the new strike are really legitimate.
OF course there is much hysterical ex-
aggeration concerning the new camp,
as is the invariable result of every
discovery of gold. but the opinion of
miners who know rock" and who have
been over the ground in the field that
is causing so much comment of late is
to the effect that the claims adjoins
ing the new mining community are
really valuable.
Charles Gerdes, one of the best known
miners in the southwest, a man who
would not exaggerate if paid to do so.
says the vicinity of Sylvanite is well
mineralized, but thinks the talk of it
being a second Cripple Creek is prema-
ture. He says that must be proved.
Gerdes owns thirty-nine claims in the
new gold zone. He has now returned
with complete mining outfit
Gerdes gives the first news of Syl-
vanite's geologic aspect that has been
received here. In a general way it is
a series of low hills composed of
lime and f1anked by two mountain
ranges, one of porphyry, the other of
limestone.
BY Porphyritic Intrusions
The hills are cut at regular intervals
about one-half mile apart by porhy-
ritic intrusions. 1t is in these tntru-
sions that the ore bearing lenses oc-
cur. Gerdes says that he believes the
district has as much indication of cop
per with depth as it has of gold
Charley Jones, a business man of
Bisbee, who has been identified with
this mining district almost since its
inception, and who today has mining
properties in many places in Arizona,
has returned from Sylvanite. He says
the new camp has many valuable
ledges, but that the feverish excite
ment 1t has occasioned is not war
ranted. inasmuch as it has not been
developed sufficiently to prove it q
modern Golconda. Jones does not say
that the reports of its richness are un-
founded, merely that it is yet an un-
proven quantity beyond the rich sur
face ores that have been discovered
He says the lodges are we'll defined
and that some of them have been
worked for many years, notably that
owned by Woods, who has been there
since 1881. Woods bonded his property
in the fall of 1881. The company to
which he bonded it quit work in 1882
In 1889 it was bonded again and $4,000
was paid to Woods before the mummy
operators decided to allow the property
to revert
Billy Macdonald and John b. Rice
have a bond and lease on the property
made by Frank w. Fish Of Tucson
show gold values of $3.50 per ton, and
high averages in silver.