Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-02
.SALOME STRIKE
EXCEEDS HOPES
development PROVES WELL
DEFINED LEDGE
ORE REMOVED TO DATE TOTALS
AT LEAST $4,000
Numerous Rich Gold Strikes Are Re-
ported in Vicinity-Prospectors
Stake Claims for Five
Miles Along Railroad
rsnecial to The HeraId.l

SaIome and Vicksburg, is developing
bevond all expectations. Everyone
who has been to see 1t reports thdt
it is the biggest thing of the kind that
ever happened in Arizona not III
the world. -.
John w. Sharpe, president of the
company which owns the ground ana is
developing it as a close corporation,
not having even announced It's capltai
stock, is a mining man of thirty years
experience and an operator IN large
enterprises. onarpe is i'll personal
charge of operations at the mine anu
has lust returned here. He was asked
by your correspondent to state con-
servatively how much gold mad peen
removed to date from the GLORY Eole,
as the strike locally is called. lie salu
| that could be only a guess, Tor the rlch
streaks are narrow compared with the
country rock that has to be removed
in order to get out a few pounds Of
the very rich ore. However, he would
swear they have taken out at least
$4,000, and were it milled it might go
twice or three times as much.
Conservative Estimate
Among the thousands who have seen
the five sacks of rich ore brought TO
Phoenix, and the hundreds who nave
visited the grounds, at least half or
them would say that Mr.. Sharpe s
estimate was very conservative, prop
ably not a quarter of the truth. he
adds, however, that even though ne
put the estimate low, he believes no
mine outside of a placer ever produced
so much ore of equal richness IN It's
surface opening or original strike
Thus he not only conservatively esti-
mates his own holdings, but discounts
the wild claims made for other Dig
strikes in their sensational PERIODS.
Goldfield miners and Cripple creek eX-
perts, while reciting the stories or mil
| lions that have been taken from the
depths in those localities, all agree
that neither district ever had anything
to compare with the Arizona Northern
for a perfect find.
The Glory Hole was small open
ing on the surface, the gold pelng
found with the first blow of the PICK.
After it was opened two or three Leet
crosscut trench was begun a lew
feet down the hillside and run toward
the Glory Hole, having the big dyke
some forty feet distant as its OBJ
jective This trench, eight feet VIDE,
! is now in ten or fifteen feet, just Tar
enough to have undermined or ntted
ont the Glory Hole, which is now a
thing of the past. Sharpe says that
the original discovery was in little
pockets in broken quartz and porphyry.
Just below it three seams. from one TO
three inches in thickness, developed
carrying the rich values
Well Defined Ledge
Now the schist between the seams Is
hardening into a well-formed ledge
matter, and all who have returned
from the property within the last rev
days agree that the ledge is becoming
defined just as fast as coulo De pos
sibly expected Sharpe says that he
does not know what minute the mar
velous values will cease, but when ne
left the property the seams We're well
defined still as rich as ever, and the
intervening ledge matter all impreg-
mated with gold values estimated at
from $25 to 500 a ton. He is not yet
certain whether he is following the
main gold-producing ledge or a mere
stringer from the dyke, which he in
clines to believe will mark the loca-
ton of a larger and better dehned
| ledge, though of possibly lower craze
ore. Three chunks of ore weighing APP
proximately fifty pounds each We're
| brought to Phoenix yesterday and In
spected by your correspondent, as have
been the five sacks of rich samples
that preceded them. Each of these
| chunks showed the seams, twice the
thickness of ones hand, with the mug
gets sticking out all through them, and
the remaining portions of the rock bore
| evidence OF rlCn BOlQ VALUES, al "
casional speck of the yellow metal and
the red oxides in little patches through
the schist, this red iron being the seam
dirt in which the rich nuggets and
flakes of gold are found.
Great Excitement Prevails
The country is mors excited than it
has ever been before over gold
strike. Nevada and Colorado visitors
say that were it in their respective
states. instead of the thousand or more
men now prospecting the hills, there
would be ten times as many. How
ever, they predict that it will only be
a matter of a few weeks when the
gold seekers from their states Will
swarm in.
There are numerous strikes of ore
running from $50 to 500 a ton re-
ported from various points in an area
five or ten miles square. This is not
unnatural, for there have been many
such strikes in that section before, but
people were not in a frame of mind to
become interested and, moreover, there
are ten times as many people looking
for gold than ever were before in that
locality. Hundreds of claims have been
staked, many, of course, that are val
ueless, and it is said that in one place
the stakes are in sight for hVe miles
along the railroad, even where there
search for gold.
The ten-stamp mill at the Desert
mine owned by the Josiah Winchester,
mile and a half from the Arizona
Northern, is expected to be completed
and ready for work this week. A
former mill burned to the ground there
almost the day it was completed.
Town Is Laid Out
This is the nearest water to the
strike and the town of winchester was
laid out last week, and the lot sales
are reported to be about $50 to 200
lots at S25 each. There is a good camp
at the Desert mine, and if the excite
ment continues, Winchester will be
quite a town and the nearest point to
the railroad Salome, a few miles
further away, furnishes more outfit
ting conveniences, and lots have been
selling rapidly there. Salome people
are building a good wagon road to the
strike via Vicksburg. 1t takes about
two hours walking from the railroad
to the strike. Several properties in
the district have been bonded for large
figures pending development, on the
strength of information and the rich
values returned by assay and the horn
spoon but to date only two have been
organized for stock selling purposes,
and only a limited amount of stock