Weekly journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1908-1929, 1909-03-24

Streaming into the country from all
points of the compass, fortune hunters
are now pouring into the new FL Dora
do near Salome, in prairie wagons, on
horseback, on foot and on burros,
while the more opulent are speeding
thither on trains.
In some respects, the rush reminds
one of that into Tonopan several years
ago, except that the immigrants are a
more substantial class of citizens than
invaded Nevada, the influx there be
ing composed in a considerable degree
of the vicious and lawless element.
Only Just now is the outside world
realizing the importance of the big
strike, and the average Arizonan is
really just beginning to sit up and
take notice. Not until Thursday was
there anything of the semblapce of
stampede 1t was on Friday, March
u, that the news of the discovery was
brought to Salome, and on the next
morning the Journal-Miner was the
first newspaper TO publish it. The
news spread like wild-fre among the
towns along the A. & c. railroad and
there was a rush for two or three days
from Salome. Wenden, Bouse, Vicks-
burg and Parker, but then came lull,
and right here was the opportunity
g. ill., Ar;1o,opc 70 oova iunued in
and made locations, for which those
who have them now are asking $780,
600 and other dizzy prices. On the
dav that l landed on the ground there
were only six prospectors in active
pursuit of the yellow metal, but two
DAYS later the influx assumed the pro-
portions of a stampede. While the
ground mas been already located for
couple of miles on each side of the
Northern Automatic name of the
claim on which the big find was made
there is still ample territory to tempt
the patient and persevering prospect
or: for it must be remembered that
the district is a big schist belt Of an
area about twenty-five miles square.
Thus far the best ground Is in the
eastern end Of the belt. It is mere
that the diorite bikes are regular and
FREQUENT. and where the recent find of
Harry ANIME and Joe Fuller was made.
Such reports as have heretofore been
published in the JournalNir-r as re
CARDS the richness Of the Arizona
Northern strike have been extremely
conservative. and have dealt entirely
with actual facts that have been per
souaLy verified by the writer
That the strike Is the richest ever
- made in Arizona is the opinion Of al!
who have seen the ore, some Of it ac-
tually being one-half of the precious
metal, but to give an average value
as to its richness is impossible, being
in some cases a mass of small nuggets
running up to the size of a pea, bat
more generally appearing as wire gold,
so closely enmeshed that a specimen
when broken can be worked back
ward and forward like a hinge. -Four
assays made by Edwin Pepper, the
Salome assayer, ran respectively S53S,
$40. Sl74,734, S254,OOO and $l79, $40
Traces of copper and silver were also
shown.
Geological Formation.
IL, . hi
point is interesting. The district be
gins at the western end of the Hareu
var mountains where the primitive bar
rem granite characteristic of this wei
known range suddenly disappears, dip
ping below the sedimentary deposits
Beyond this is the new gold distrie
which is a slaty scnist formation en-
bv diorite dikes. 1t is on the contac
of one of these dikes that the diseov
erv was made, where there is an out
crop of brown hematite spar an
quartz. This blowout is about fit
feet wide and two hundred feet Ions
and they occur at intervals along III
dixie for three claims to the west an
about mile to the east. 1t IS in III
eastern part of tae district that al
other discovery was made Tuesday O
the claim owned jointly by Joe Fullc
Harry ANIME and Dan Ever. It
over the ridge and mile from 4
bonanza strike and it differs from IL
bonarza ore in the fact that the trt
gold is found in 4 quartz gangue il
stead Of in the spar. When I left the
the ledge had not been located On tn
claim, the find being a feat but vol
,alnahle- Two davs later. the prOpe