Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-05
SALOME STRIKE
HELPS ARIZONA
ENTIRE TERRITORY REAPS
BENEFIT
FOR MILES AROUND BONANZA
CLAIMS ARE STAkED
Weaver District Becomes Especially
Active-company Organizes to
Exploit Prospects-Recent
Strikes of High Grade

STANTON, Ariz., April Mot for
decade has mining in Central Arizona
been a more popular theme than today.
The recent bonanza strikes of the
Salome district have proved a wonder
full impetus to this great industry, but
this excitement was not needed to bring
to public attention the noted Weaver
mining district, lying principally north
of the Salome country and running
from Wickenburg on the south to al
most Prescott on the north. In this
district is located the Congress mine,
the Octave, the Alvarado dong known
as the FOOLS Gulch), the Rincon, the
Stanton Rich Hill. and many other
well known properties, with the famous
old Vulture on its southern edge.
The rehabilitation of the old Vulture
and the installation of large electric
power plant at Wickenburg by the
Octave Mining company are the prin-
cipal factors in the increased activity
in mining in this section, especially
the latter, as this power will be sold
to ali the small companies operating
in the district, and this means about
so per cent reduction in the cost of
milling and about 25 per cent in the
cost of mining. Especially will this be
true with those companies operating
eight to twenty miles from the rail-
road.
To Work Claims
This increased activity in the Weaver
district has included the forming of
number of companies to exploit pros
| poets that have long been considered
good, and at least one company has re-
Gently uncovered a high-grade strike
| on some recently located claims.
On March the Southern Yavapai
Gold Mining company was organized
for the purpose of working a group of
five claims situated near Stanton,
Yavapai county, about seven miles
northwest of Congress Junction.
The claims owned by the company
are known as the Antelope group and
were located by Mr.. Morrison and an
other person during the past year. They
are situated about half a mile above
Stanton on the west side of Anteloe
creek, and just across the gulch from
the mine of the Stanton Rich Hill COM
pany. The principal lodges are similar
to those of other big mines of this dis
| trict, consisting of metamorphosed
granite, undertake by diorite and
porphyry, the character of the ore be-
ing white quartz interspersed with
| hematite of iron and rich galena.
| The best values at this stage of de-
velopment come from what is known
as the Reinsurance claim and from q
shaft only twenty-five feet deep. Here
| tn epay streak was only four to six
inches wide at the surface, while at
the present depth the vein has widened
to eighteen inches and the values
are increasing correspondence.
Assays Vary in Values
The first assays gave returns of So TO
$44, but a few days ago Mr.. Morrison
came to town bringing big sack of
ore which he had just taken out of the
bottom of the shaft, and three samples
were assayed by j. A. Porterie with the
following result: $172, 5000 and $3.50.
These samples were hematite Of iron,
a sulphide and a galena quartz, re-
spectively. Mr.. Morrison did not wait
to get returns, but stated that he
thought each sample ought to run in
the neighbOrhood of a hundred dollars;
therefore, there was glee in the camp
when the assayer was heard from, as
there is lots of rock there such as was
aSsayed.
Pay ore has been uncovered ON four
of the five claims, and. the showings
are good on the fifth. But all work is
now being centered on the Reinsurance
shaft. The history of this district is
that good vein gets bigger and better
as depth is reached. This is true with
the Congress mine that has paid over
$1,000. ),0U0 and today working at a
depth of 5000 feet, and also with the
Octave that has turned out several
millions and is now working at depth
of $500 feet. Consequently the stock
holders of the Southern Yavapai Gold
Mining company feel that they have
the chance of a second Congress and
surely a good thing to say the least.