Arizona republican., 1909-05-12

and fumolrolic silicificationS and eX- ing in a thousand places were salts of alum and gypsum and kaolin, and alumina, and black oxide of mangan-
 csc, and hematite, and heaven knows
 what. Was I in the metallurgical
 workshop of God?
 Some years ago, l stood alone in
 that cursed spot of earth, Death Val
 ley, l spent two months amid this
 furnace of hell. I tried to reason,
 and study the wonders of this awful
 place; but with the death like silence,
 and the air of utter desolation around
 me- l could not think, and finally
 fled in despair When l got out,
 could not think of any better name,
 so called it, the Workshop of God"
 l was mistaken; it was the Devils
 smelter. At last though, I have found
 the ''metalurgical workshop of God"
 It is on the Calcite group near Sa-
 lome; and now lets continue our
 story.
 l traced this enormous body, which
 is at least 400 feet wide, clear through
 a claim of the Calcite group, called
 the Catherine. The northern contact
 is a replaced, or altered granite, and
 the south and west contact a quart
 zite. On each side of this great mother lode, which l believe runs for
 many miles, is the sugars of ore,
 showing through the granites, the schists and the pOrphyrys, the result ant action of the aquaeous solutions which ascended and descended through the brecias, the seams, and the Assures
 The fumolrolic vapors, and the spurts of flames calcined and crystal ized this whole region, from the Cal cite group, on the south, to the ut termost end of the Granite Wash range on the north. On the southern contact of the Catherine claim, on its southeastern side, is a massive ledge of cherty quartz, 40 feet wide, with spottings of Hematite nuggets On the northwest side of the northern contact, laying against the quartzite, is 20 feet of volcanic lime, with an occurrence of naturalization. With proper exploration of this contact, much rich ore will be encountered to the southwest of the quartzite. The main naturalization has occurred be- tween the granite and the quartzite in this big mother lode, which is from 100 to 600 feet wide and mineralized every foot of the way IL is in, the center of this lode in close proximity to a monster ledge, that the Calcite people have sunk their main shaft: it is about 160 feet deep. At 150 feet they started to cross cut to the north contact In sinking. they cut this ledge, which dipped to the north and east out of the shaft. Some rich ore, and spottings of chalcopyrites show ed in the ledge. They expect to strike the ledge again, very shortly In sinking, they entered the sulphide zone, and have all sulphides coming from the shaft at present. So far they have cut 30 feet of sulphides, and strong indications are apparent of a rich ruby silver and gold ore in the ledge at this depth, and also in the same general magma they sunk in of having at least four hundred feet in width of iron and copper and gold sulphides. Silver to the amount of two or three ounces is present in all of it.
 Just let us reflect a moment Can you realize what four or five hundred feet wide, by perhaps miles long. of a solid ore body of uniform character means. Can you remember, of any such similar phenomenon in the worlds hitsory. I cannot
 The great camp of Butte, Mont, with it's hundreds of miles of under ground workings. give employment to Thousands of men. Without Butte, ] Montana would indeed be dead: but here is new giant of the west, just starting to grow. This one property | alone, has enough mineral under it's | surface to support another Butte. ! Anaconda and Great Falls
 Water level has not been met vet. | and when it is the true settlement | of secondary enrichments will be en- | eountered. as the metals of greater specific gravity, like gold, will have sunk until the plastic magma of it's cooled off Some cross Assuring and ore shoot and chimney accomplishments are in evidence in | places, through the lode porphyry of he vein, but everything has been praised gently and in perfect place.
 After walking many miles over this country for the past three weeks, I i'm satisfied that in ages past the iarqua Halas, the Harcuyars and the Frantic Wash rnnyes constituted in he vicinity of Salome a ve& large perhaps as large as Ve- uvius. In a great secondary erup- ion the top of this mountain, or it's rust, was thrown off. perhaps to un as basaltic lava and deposit on he plains far below. I assume that was then that the intrusions. vents |