Arizona republican., 1909-05-12

privations and his virtues. and for
 give and forget his faults. There is
 one motto that the prospector remem-
 bers in his daily contact with his feI-
 low prospectOrs, that has always ap-
 pealed to me, on account of its sweet
 Christ-like spirit, it is, always keep the
 latch string on the outside of the door
 He will share the last drop of water
 and the last crumb of bread with
 comrade, or the unfortunate. The in
 vesting world should remember this and meet the man who has the latch string on the outside with the glad
 hand, a sincere heart and a ready purse. and establish their reciprocal motto by helping in another's trouble
 Of course there are some prospect ers who are a disgrace to their fellows, but these men are easily distinguished and are ostracised by the community at large
 This great country around Salome is blessed with as fine set of fel- lows as ever congregated in a coun- try. and they are men, who as a rule, have. sealed the heights of many ranges and have had their tongues sticking out in the shadow Of Death Valley. and the wastes of the land of the Gila monster. They can smile in good natural disdain at the hot shot of old Sol
 In my last article I mentioned my friend. MT. T. H. Finnegan. who is of the Calcite com pany's property west of town MT. -ipr ha, An Bill Williams Fork country the other day and reports things down there as pretty rapid. He visited the Signal mine. twenty-six miles from Bouse and which belongs to the Clara Consoli- dated. He says they are working 150 men, and that they have under con struction a 300 ton smelter, right at the mine. They are erecting an eighty horse power steam hoist and building l large adobe store. which the com Dany will operate for the miners ac- It Is to be 100 feet long oy fifty wide. Mir. Finnegan says that | he Signal has an enormous amount of l ore blocked out and that it is in | ]oubtedly a great mine. He was as- 'ured on excellent authority that the | railroad from Bouse to | he mine will be built before long.
 want you all to know MT Finne- gan better, that's why I am talking | bout him so much. You are pretty i Ipt to hear considerable from him, | n the near future. Do you know that l le is interested in some mining prop
 rty within five or six miles of Sa- ome that in little more development vill be the greatest producing mine 'n earth. We'll. that's a fact. You perhaps remember that I told you last Sunday that when MT, Finnegan came ack I was going to go out with him. o the Calcite group and look around {
 have gone saw and was conquered.
 The knocker who reforms and takes lis medicine in this country is safe, ut woe betide him who dances by the ght of misrepresentation. This great ,alcite company's ground will stand | he closest examination by the best xperts on earth. We are all apt to e mistaken; Mir. Spur was, at one inc, in a report he made on Tono- ah, but it is my humble belief, forci- ly expressed, that if the United States eological bureau would send a rep esentative to examine this property e would report that it is the largest ulphide zone in the world. I am go- lg to describe to you just what I saw. nd when we have finished the trip, if ou don't think as I do. why just wait
 while and see who's right
 In going north from Salome, on the l astern side of the Granite Wash lnge, I began to notice evidence of any intrusions. Until I got well in ast the washes and foothills. I was nable to distinguish the contact atters. As we approached the Cal te group of fourteen claims I began get sight of a monster body of de porphyry and lime. It was seam 1, stained and impregnated with on. There were metallurgical scorias !