Bisbee daily review., 1909-03-18
PROSPECTORS MAKE RUSH
 FOR SAL0ME
Villages Are 0epOpulated and Trails Are Crowded With Gold SeekerS-HiIIS Being Combined.

SALOAfE, Aris. March l5.-The town of Salome is practically de- sorted. today, and no teams can be obtained, everyone having gone out to the scene of the new strike north east of here, reported yesterday.
 The rock brought in by Barker ap peared to be thirty per cent gold. as numerous people OF the 4. & C. train can testify.
 | It was reported by trainmen that a rush vas started for the strike from Bouse wis. Vicksburg.
 | Water can be obtained at the Desert Mine well, a mile and a half from the big blowout, where the ore was found
 The local store was a busy spot this morning, with people buying supplies for a stay In the hills.
 Rich ore ana nuggets have been known in the region for twenty years CT so. but Barker and his partners seem to have hit the mother lode.
 Some very niea estimates have placed on the value oi tue ore, going as hien as S5,q00 per ten. \ l.. l.. .Iis se1t.Jn .1..- rich float h.---- 1e~1 picked up at various times but this is the first discovery of quality. The belt where the strike Is located is some eight or ten mles in length.
 Several extravarent stories have been told concerning gold taken out. but there is every reason to believe fhat there is basis of fact behind them.
 The following statement by Dick Hali who has just returned from the strike gives Interesting facts which show the real nature of the strike This is the first time that 1 lave ever seen what can be really called gold fever. The gold occurs in a brown hematite spar on the contact of an immense diorite dike, with the slatety sehist which forms the coun- ltry rock of the Salome schist belt, For three years I have been writing articles about this same schist belt, advising prospectors to look there for gold, but l did not do it myself I am sorry now, but l have the extension of the main ledge and am lucky at that The big diOrite dike cuts through the schist for the length of three claims and all along it's contacts are big blowouts or iron and quartz ! and pecul ar hard brown hema4tG , spar. and lt is Cn this brown spar thai the gold occurs on the Arizona North ern.
 Where this strike was made there lS Ian immense OutcrOp Of this spar and 1 qua ct wide and two hundred feet long. The rich float was found on the hillside about fifty feet below the blowout and followed up the hill to the spar Outcrop, which is identical with the float Yesterday the boys dug in on the contact and nave taken out several hundred pounds of this jewelry, which is hall wire gold and runs away up into the thousands. They break q piece of and look at it, and every one looks al it. and they undoubtedly gave awaI thousancs or 5Qllars vesterday and to day to friends and fellow prCspectors Today people are rushing in Iron t every direction and, after look at th' rich strike. they scatter out again ' every direction and go to putting ul location notices. Every one in thi: section was either there today or i, now on his way, and, Fortunately for us, there is no train Sunday, sC the local people had all day Sunda! ana until Monday afternoon to locate before the outside world could get in But there is room for all
 This same formation covers an are; abOnt six miles long by four milet wide end is cut by hundreds of thesl 6.oTite dikes along which there ar, tOutCrOps and stT;agers of this sam, frown spar and hematite in hundred of Llaces, but ID one has ever dom laDy york on that before. All the bes
 r7 wifsin tn ineXt week, and if surface indication iare of any value and the ore jus struek any indication, there win b. lmaHy other rich strikes made duTini tthe next few weeks when york ] Edone. There are dozens of place Iapparently just the same on the sur lfIcs. Tbe sehist belt starts fOu tEIes vest of SaIoHse and cover Eaboat twenty-five square miles at tn west end of the Harcnvars- You cal walk ont in an hour and a half. O r.de if you can get rig, but rigs ar riga I will bo in Phoenix soon viu a sack of ore that win convince tn most skept1cai.