Arizona republican., 1909-04-20

is gold in the country and has set hundreds of people tO looking for 1t. He said the news had reached there before he left. and while it was re- gretted. it was not in any sense em- barrassing. He did not visit the Glory Hole until the morning he left for Phoenix, and did so then from duty rather than choice. as he felt he owed it to himself to see it. and walked un- til late the night before and slept on a pair of borrowed blankets in the hills in order to be near there in the morn ing. He found things just as he had expected. just as they had been re ported to be, satisfied his curiosity, and then came home.
 Mir Williams told of a score or more of properties he visited. and gave more detailed information than could be put in good sized book. The Yuma Cop per company, he says, has thirty-One claims under the management of F.. A. Haggott. Joe Fuller. Harry Amme and Dan Ewer have the Midnight group of sixteen claims The first named company is preparing to do big development work and has a fine
 
 mining man. one who gave up a big salary to prospect in that section. and has been there for some time. He has about six hundred feet of work done on his property, including one shaft seventy feet deep, and three about twenty feet deep. The rest of it is cuts and other work designed to eX- pose the lodges. In that locality there are iron, lime. quartz, quartZite and diorite ledges W tn lime lodges cross ing in almost every direction. and to the west of the Yuma Copper company there is formation of devOnian lime fully one thousand feet wide. The foot walls are usually of quartzite thereabout, with lime on the hanging wall. The values are usually fin the lime and quartzite contact and one can hardly run cut anywhere in that zone without getting a good copper showing.
 Speaking of the prospect work. Mir. Williams said. that. while the district. except in a few instances. has not got down to real mining. the prospectors are doing their work systematically and making their cuts in a way that shows up the ground. doing the work that would have to be done first for exploration, before the real mining is undertaken. The thing that appealed to him was that the effort is not be- ing wasted. and everything done Is be- ing done to count
 Another property visited is owned by a MT Ford, an elderly gentleman, who has a group of ten claims. Bar ker. Algier X Griffin have a group of sixteen claims. aside from the Arizona Northern: Rlnklin & Melczer have three claims; Williams and Haffner have an interest in eight claims which they secured on a ground floor basis with the prOspectOrs. All these prop critics looI; good. and he believes are worth developing as indicative of big mines
 This zone lies northwest of Vicks- burg. and there is a level plain between t and the railroad, which is only four and a half miles away. though Vicks-- burg is the nearest station. Some day. if these properties continue good. there will probably be another station or side track for their accommodation.
 Speaking of big strikes. he said there are frequent exposures of rich ore but it takes development to prove anything. He secured specimens from different properties. among them Fullers, and Mayer & Gilbert's. showing free gold. picture rock, if you please, rock one could shake the gold out of, but. of course, they are specimens. and not the run of the ledge. Fullers whole ledge in his seventyfoot shaft assays $45. and man named Stafford has a mine two and a half miles above Win chester with a fivefoot face to a ledge than runs Si5