Arizona republican., 1909-03-14

 GOLD STRIKE Said to Be the Greatest Ever
 Made In Arizona BARKER, ALGER AND GRIFFIN
Owners of Arizona Northern Group Five Miles From Vicksburg, Make Wonder full Discovery--A Rush of Prospectors.

Salome Ariz, March 13.-(SpeciaD T have just returned from the new Salome Bonanza with a sack of ore worth at least fifty dollars a pound to
 lock in the safe, and can now person. ally confirm the genuineness of the strike made by Algers, Griffin and Barker six miles northwest of Salome
 It is beyond question the richest gold strike made in Arizona in recent years,
 possibly ever The ore is altogether too
 rich to give any sane or accurate av-
 craze value. being in cases mass of
 wire gold and small nuggets so rich
 that chunks of the rock cannot be
 pulled apart when broken except by
 using considerable force. It is worse
 than lousy with gold, and the pile
 of 1t that the boys have stacked up
 in the sun on the hillside is enough
 to make ordinarily conservative men
 act temporarily insane. Some of them
 don't know whether to laugh or cry.
 This is the first time l have ever
 seen what can be really called gold
 fever. The gold occurs in a brown
 hematite spar on the contact of an
 immense 6iorite dike, with the slatey -schist which forms the country 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
 did not do it myself. I am sorry
 now. but I 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 of iron and quartz and peculiar hard, brown hematite spar and it is on this brown spar that the gold occurs on the Arizona Northern.
 Where this strike was made there Is an immense outcrOp of this spar and quartz, about sixty feet 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 iden- tical with the float. Yesterday the boys dug in on the contact and have taken out Several hundred pounds of this jewelry. which is half wire gold and runs away up into the thousands. They break a piece off and look at it. ana Intn every Nllt loohS dl It, anu they undoubtedly gave away thousands of dollars yesterday and today to friends and fellow prospectors. Today people are rushing in from every di- rection and. after a look at the rich strike. they scatter out again in every direction and go to putting up location notices Every one in this section was either there today or is now on his way. and. fortunately for us. there is no train Sunday. and local people along the Arizona and California rail- road will have all day Sunday and until Monday afternoon to locate be- fore the outside world can get in. But there is room for all.
 This same formation covers an area about six miles long by four miles wide and is cut by hundreds of these diorite dikes. along which there are outcrops and stringers of this same brown spar and hematite in hundreds l of places. but no one has ever done any | work on that before. All the best of them will be located within the next | week. and if surface indications are of any value and the ore just struck | any indication, there will be many | other rich strikes made during the next few weeks when work Is dorA. | There are dozens of places apparently | just the same on the surface. The | schist belt starts four miles west of Salome and covers about twenty-five | square miles at the west end of the 1 Harcuvars You can walk out in an | hour and half. or ride if you can 1 Sat a rip hut rigs arc rigs I will be | in Phoenix Monday afternoon with a l sack of ore that will convince the most skeptical. DICK HALL.