Bisbee daily review., 1909-03-17
SALOMEsROCK IS WORTH S6O
 PER POUND
New Gold Field in Arizona Shows Wonderful! Wealth. Excitement is Growing Apace in That Section

SALOME. Ariz., March 16.-I have just returned from the new Salome Bonanza with a sack Of ore worth at least fifty dollars pound to lock in the safe. and can now personally confirm the genuineness of the strike made by Algers, Griffin and Barker six miles northwest of Salome. It is beyond question the richest gold strike made in Arrzona in recent years. possibly ever. The ore is alto gether too rich to give any sane or accurate average value, being in cases a mass of wire gold and small mug gets so rich that chunks of the rock cannot be pulled apart when broken except by using considerable force. It Is worse than lousy with gold, and the pile of it that the boys have stacked up ia the sun on the hillside is enough to make ordinarily cOnserv- ative men act Temporarily Insane. Some of them don't know whether to laugh or cry.
 This is the first time I have ever seen what can be really called gold fever The gold Occurs in a brown hematite srar on the contact of an inmense diorite dike, with the slatey schist which forms the country rock of the SalOme schist belt For three years I have been writing articles about this same schist belt. advising prosDectOTs to look there for gold, but I did not do it myself. I an sorry now, but I have the extension of the main ledge and am lucky at that. The big diorite dike cuts through the .E-4 s.f f--Tv and all along It's contacts are big blowouts of iron and quartz and pecuI- far hard brown hematite spar, and it is on this brown spar that the gold occurs on the Arizona Northern
 Where the strike was made there is an immense outcrop of this spar and quartz. about sixty feet wide and two hundred feet long This rich float was found on the hillside about fifty feet below the blowout and followed up the hi'l to the spar oUtcrOD, which is identical with the float Yesterday
 the boys dug in on the contact and have taken out several hundred
 pounds of this jewelry. which is half wire gold and runs away up into the thousands. They break a piece of and look at it. and then every one looks at it. aud they undoubtedly gave away thousands of dollars yesterday and today 10 friends and fellow pros pEctora. Today people are rushing in from every direction and, after . look at the rich strike. they scatter out again 7in every direction and go to
 putting up location notices. Every one in this section was either there today or is now on his way, and, for tunately for us, there is no train Sun | day, and local people along the Ari ] zoDa and California railroad will have all day Sunday and until Monday af- terDoon to locate before the outside world can get in. But there is room for all
 This same formation covers an area about six miles long by- four miles wide and is cut by hundreds of these | diorite dikes. along which there are | outcrops and stringers of this same brown spar and hefiiatfre in hundreds { of places. but DO one has ever done any work on that before. All the hest of them will be located within the next week, and if surface indica- ! tions are of any value and the ore | just struck any indication. there will ! be many other rich strikes made dur | ing the newt few weeks when work iS uObS. mere are dOZSn or places anDarentlv just the same on the sur face. The schist belt starts four | miles west of Salome and covers about twenty-five square miles at the west end of the Harcuyars. Yol can | walk out in aH hour and a half, or l ride if you can get rig. but rigs are ri"s. I will be in Phoenix Monday afternoon with a saet nf o-a that will convince fha ronG4 oE
 DICK HALL.