Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1908-12-29
WUENSCH SURE
SYLVAAITE IS
4 LIVE ONE
Denver Expert Has No Doubt
That the New Mexico Camp
Will Come Out Ahead Before
Very Long.

(From the Rocky Mountain News.)
A. F. Wuensch, the mining engin-
eer, who has inspected many proper.
ties for David Fl. Moffat, has return
ed to Denver from the new camp o
Sylvanite, n. NJ, and he believes thai
1t is destined to be ali important golc
producing locality.
Sylvanite is attracting the attention
OF mining men all over the west, anC
scores of Colorado people have gore
there. Wuensch said that about every
other man was firm Colorado, anc
they sent back this message by him:
"The waetr is fine. get ini"
Sylvanite is located In the extreme
southwest corner Of New Mexico and
about fifteen miles rom Hachita, on
the FL Paso & Northwestern, and
there are three stages and two auto.
mobile lines from the railroad to the
camp 1t costs about $50 to get from
Denver there.
'"rhe town is in the northern por-
ton of the Hachita mountains, on the
western slope" explained Wuensch
; ION the other side of the range are
broad valleys. At old Hachita. in the
valley just northeast of the range
mines of carbonate of lead and copper
in limestone have produced a great
deal OF ore In the north end of the
range a nearly horizontal contact OF
white limestone, capped BY dioffte
containing copper ore, which also
makes stringers and large chambers
into the limestone
Approaching the town Of Sylvanite
is an extensive field of diorite, il
III ha Ffs.l
Broken jug, Makeup. Charley and
other working properties. Veins are
of quartz, from three inches to foul
feet wide, the wider ones being quart
sulphate, low grade; the narTowel
ones are of quartz, carrying teiiuri
UNI and free gold, with assays from
81 to $500 per ton and more.
Next in order, just south and cas-
of Sylvanite, is a system of veins as
ISOLATED or inciosed in quartz phorpv
ry bikes. To this system BELONGS th'
Neihart mines, which shipped four ca
loads of ore that averaged s35 a tn
and which has been purchased by E
A. and Leslie Carlton of Grippe
Creek.
Beyond the NihaYt about a fouru
of a mile is the Nsderlapd, vein o
quartz in diorite from fourteen Il
eighteen inches wide, that shows tel
lurium and free gold. This propert.
has been taken over hy George Fry
Clarence G. Hamlil and Mr.. New
comb of Colorado Springs and Den
yer.
"A half mile further on, on the cas-
slope of the range. is the Clemmi
mine, developed ny Sol Camp. Ma
vern Ish and taken over by DR.. Z
A. Wheeler and Milton Ish of Gold
field. It is a quartzite ledge betweel
limestone and slate, accompanied b.
a sheet and bikes of basaitic TocR
The quartzite zone is from twenty L
forty feet wide, sheared at acute an
giles to its bedding. and containin
much quartz The ore shows muc
tellurfum and free gold to the eye
/; and assays from 81 to 5000 ton:
! Further south large quartz vein
prevail, some showing silver su
phides.
Among the prominent Colorad
people in the district are f. NJ. Benz
dict of Cripple Creek, Colonel He
from. representing P0sy and Bailey
W. B. Root, Ed Hoff and Tom Nc
Gregor, formerly of Aspen; Ed I
Hight of Cripple Greek, Felix Wa
tiers, the Pierson brothers of Ouray
William Truax, C. " Mitchell. j.. Z
Roerig and ]. A. Wilson of Crippl
Creek, n. II. Slaughted, J. P. O'Laugf
lin. of Creole, F. L. Cox and l. J. Rus
sell Of Colorado Springs.
Il was in the district four weeks
and | made a very careful examine
ton, and ] am confident that theF
is great future for the district.