Bisbee daily review., 1909-01-14
BIG STRIKES IN
 CATALINA MOUNTAINS
(sylvanite MIner.)


 ite awoke in a whirl of excitement over some fabulously rich gold ore brought into camp the previous day by hobert Bruce Buchanan from ths Quo Vadis group of claims. and ex cited knots of men gathered round q small tin pan in whIch the ore hat been washed showing a long heavy stream of bright colors and coars' gold, the value being varioasly esti mated at from 5000 to S3000 a ton The discovery is not entirely new, il having been published Tn the issus of the Sylvanite Miner of December F. the statement being made that an assay of 120 ounces or gold to the ton had been obtained by the locator. al that time Buchanan had not done ms location work and consequently had done very little prospecting on the ledge. Since then he has opened uT the pay shoot and ruw has from four teen to twenty-four inches of speci men ore in quartz vein about twenty feet wide. Among the few who read an mine comprises a group of sis claims known as Quo Vadis No 1 ana No. 2, Sulphide, Lead Pipe and Siivel Lance and two mill sites, located by n. b. anu II. H. 1nN situated one mile north of the Wood mine and about the same distance east of Barker's wells. On the Que Vadis claims there is an immense quartz vein fully twenty feet wide in "a lime and slate contact. The aver age value of this ore has not been as certained but it pans milling values and on the lime wall which is greatly altered, are from fourteen to twenty four inches of iron-stained crystalliz ed honeycomb quartz showing free gold in fine particles distribu cd throughout the ore and assaying from four ounces to one hundred and fifty ounces of gold to the ton. Many spec linens were obtained which showed much higher values than the above The new owners ieft on "Wednesday for the property both to operate it ana protect it from specimen hunters. Or the Lead Pipe and Silver Lance claims adjoining the Quo Vadis. ana which were located two years ago, Ii strong body of lead carbonate ore ii 1 lime floln which shipments have beer made yielding returns of thirtv-tivi per cent lead and good silver values l On Wednesday and Thursday stampede to the property set in anf | there was a wild scramble to loea1 claims in the vicinity From tn course of the vein it is believed tha | it will junction with the Clemmie veil | of the Consolidated Mines cOmpan. | somewhere on the King Solomon MiH | ing c0mpany's property.
 i The Buchanan mine is ideally iS cated for both shipping ore and mn 1 ing on the ground It is only min miles from the railroad and on tn mill sites included in the property an inexhaustible supply of water l 1 obtainable. The new owners inten to make a shipment as quickly as tn ore can be extracted from the vein.
 While nearly all Sylvanite was a ! the Buchanan mine, whispers wer | heaTd of another great strike whic [ had been known to the discoverer fO ! some days but was not made pubn until Thursday. Little more tha | three weeks ago Frank P. Davit s' ] cured a bond and option from x. N 1 Click. R. A. WeihF and c. F Stam on the Euclid and Ridgewood claim adjoining the Nedderland and Gol Hill mines. No ore of any great valu | had been found on the property an i Davis commenced to systematicali prospect the Ridgewood claim. unco' ering the rich ore wnich was inspec ed by a representative of the Mine On Thursday afternoon. This ore O. CUTS in a contact of slate and lim' in an immense altered p0TphyTy dix
 which has in places been changed |
 a white fine grained quartzose pol phyry showing some quartz crystal and plentifuIiy spTinlded with fine au coarse gold. In other places the DO phyry is cnanged and heavily siaine by black manganese. and carries COT siderable iron and all through it fin particles of telluriuIn and free gol are plainly visible. This great golt bearing dike outcrops boldly for full 500 feet Idiagonally through the clair running on one end into the Neddel land. about 200 feet north of the snai and on the other eEd into the Gol Hill mine about 15O feet south of tn west tunnel On being asked wha the many ore shoots would run, Davi said from . few douaTs 10 an ave age of over S400 a ton. I have take
 hundreds of pannings all over tn
 dike and the majority run better tha SiOD toH I ne NIiieT 9Peut LH
 hours on the properry and broke Il numerable pieces from the outcro
 and nearly every p;ece showed fire gold and teIlurium, or showed hig
 vaiues in the pan. Selected spec mems have yielded exceptionally hlg
 values by assay. Not only must tn great values in this property found 2 the surface appeal to the practics
 miner, but the immensity of the or body and the vast tonnage that ca
 De developed place no limits to th \ probabilities Of the property. u occasionally for immense tonnage an l general high average gold values
 is the greatest surface showing eve ! AFs-11r-0YlJ