Arizona republican., 1909-03-30
IN
THE WORLD
So Says John v. Sharpe Of
Arizona Northern Strike
VALUES ARE UND|M|N|sHED

No gold strike ever made before
In the world, except rich placer beds
ever produced as much ore of equal
richness and quantity as has been
exposed and taken out of the Arizona
Northern. 1 say that advisedly, on
my experience of thirty years in the
mining business and a quite intimate
knowledge of what has been done in
fields with which / have no personal
acquaintance. There have been many
strikes of ore equally as rich and
many mines that developed lodges
that milled their millions. but no sur
face or prospect showing that / have
ever heard of produced such a guam
tity of ore of marvellous value at the
point of its uncovering as we have
already secured. How much longer
| the phenomenal values will be main
| tained l cannot venture an opinion,
nor can anyone, with propriety.
only speak of what has been done to
/ date
of what is likely to follow / can
only recite the indications as they
appear to me and as they are cor
! roborated by every experienced miner
with whom l have talked, who has
visited the property. among them
three Bisbee gentlemen and a Colo
RADIO man and a Nevada man. who
made a very careful examination of
il. These conditions are that when
the gold was first found in the Glory
Hole the formation was loose broken
and full of little pockets. The trench
or open cut cross cutting the fOrma-
ton is now under what was the
Glory Hole. which is no more, having
been lifted OUT but not exactly
been pulled up by the roots, for il is
the roots we are following. Beneath
the broken formation decomposed
porphyry and quartz in the Glory
Hole were developed the three seams
from one TO three inches thick, Of
which much has been printed. These
seams are still in evidence but the
formation has changed from loose
rock into ledge matter which is be-
coming more plainly defined as the
crosscut is driven toward the big
dixie, yet many feet distant"
The above is the substance of the
remarks of John w. Sharpe. president
of the Arizona Northern company,
who left for the property a week ago
when the company was first formed.
who has been in personal charge Of
operations, and who returned yes
terday, concerning the progress of the
development, the results to date. and
the showing for the future. Much
more Of interesting detail was learned
from him. but the above is most i'm
portant as indicating that the only
reason to fear the early diminishing
of rich values is the one fact that the
showing is too good to last.
II would not surprise the owners
or anybody else if the rich showing
of free gold were to suddenly stop
as ii has already exceeded what any
body could conservatively hope for
But that it has not TO this good hour
diminished in values, is testified to
not only by Mr.. Sharpe, but by many
others who returned from the mine on
Sunday and Monday.
But more pleasing to Mr.. Sharpe
than the continued richness of the
stringers, is the fact that the forma-
ton is assuming the stability of a
fine gold bearing vein. The schist
between the stringers is hardening
and is well impregnated with values,
running all the way from s25 to 800
per ton and the width of this gold
impregnated formation being Of de-
cidedly gratifying size, for an expo
sure so near the surface. Mr.. Sharpe
says he cannot yet venture an opinion
whether they are on the main ore
body or merely following formation
that will lead to it. But that it has
emerged from specimen pockets into
decided vein, he is fully convinced,
as seem to be all those who have
been on the property recently.
The finest ore samples yet brought
to Phoenix, from a miners point of
view, were brought in by Mr.. Sharpe
yesterday. They are three chunks,
the largest weighing fifty pounds or
more. and the other two but slightly
smaller on one side of each of these
chunks the most inexperienced OBJ
server can see in place, the formation
and contents of the rich stringers.
considerably thicker than ones hand
with here and there the nuggets peep
ing out. The rest of the respective
chunks is the vein formation referred
to and the chunks are from eight IN
ches to a foot in thickness. This for
nation is spotted here and there with
the iron Oxiders and other material OF
the rich stringers with here and there
specks of gold in evidence. These |
sample rocks were inspected by hum
dreds last evening on the counters OF
the Southwestern Realty company.
Mr.. Sharpe was asked if he would |
make a conservative estimate for pub
LEGATION as to the quantity of gold that
has been taken from the prospect hole |
to date From the number of people |
who have marveled over the five sacks |
of samples that have been brought to |
Phoenix, one not accustomed to such |
things is licensed to believe there is |
much more of the precious metal than |
there really is. One looking at spec |
linen sees the gold and forgets the |
weight of the waste rock hanging to
IL.
Mr. Sharpe said that to be cOnserva- |
tive he would say they had now taken
out about $4,000. He says he would |
not be surprised if it would mill twice
or three times as much and he feels
sure that at least $500 worth has been
carried away in specimens.
It is altogether likely that of the
hundreds who have seen the rich ore
both in Phoenix and at the mine.
ninety-five per cent of them would say