Bisbee daily review., 1911-09-05

| 70 AueIe was cloud burst above the Queen, and the gulch carried probably 10 feet of a raging torrent The flat below is between the westermost end of the Superstition range cf mountains | and low foothills several miles away { There is in the flat not the least indi- [ cation of mineral. it being generally ! covered with from , to 90 feet of Gila { conglomerate. The idea of a mine be- ! ing there was never entertained. and in fact where the mill now stands was the fayorite camping-place for pros. ] pectors and travellers generally-not | 5 feet from the famous Glory Hole.@ Well. this torrent Of water cleaned the debris from the arroyo or gulch and tore out trees along the edge and washed boulders off. Hall and two men followed down the gulch to recover scme lumber that had been washed away, and they saw the fresh rock, ap. parently a granite lousy with gold" Tlte rock seemed in place, too, and there appeared plenty of it. C. O. Ken nedy, the present mill superintendent
 at the Mammoth. was passing when this discovery was made. and he was asked Co sample a bit of the rock. He . d it-and g1t 8 spoonful of gold. The excitement was on right then. Tie
 gold was fine, but not floured. The news spread and men came in by hun,
 dreds from all directions, and the
 country was 'located' for miles in
 either direction-in black andesite, in conglomerate. in porphyry-in fact. aSv open ground was worth locating ana some wcrk, regardless of eondi- tioDs ol values. But it was Hall and Denny Sullivan wnO sss.S9 St-ss .. -r-->adsS. They put some men at work on the original discovery opening up what was first called the Glory Hole" and later on the Mormon St0pe.". This lense of-ore was 90 feet in width. 200 feet in length. 400 feet in depth. What the ore ran 1 cannot learn: but the month of February, 1895. operating l5 Of the stamps. bullion to the value of Sl05,000 was recovered. Another rich lense on the contact was discov- cred on the south end of the property. not more than 800 feet from the first; But this was not 80 large as the orig inal discovery. Construction work be- gan on a 20-stamp mill in July and the first day of September it was in full operation, continuing till the win ter of 1897, snice when it has been practically shut down until NIT. Young took over the property. Hall bought Denny Sullivan out in 1904, after a disagreement. Hall believed that the ore went to great depth: but Denny wanted a sure thing Hall went tc San Francisco to see his partner and get him 10 assist in the purchase of machinery to sink to 100 weet, but Sullivan would not do this: hence the disagreement. The best information that l can get is that during the part nership more than S1,000,000 was taken out But I am ahead of the story. A few weeks after the first discovery a miners meeting was held and the camp organized. It was called the Superstition mining district, and town Goldfields. The district is named after the mountain range; and one man in the meeting insisted that the town should be called Gold Farms. because, as he said, the country looked more like farming land than mining; but Goldfields caught the public fancy, and so 1t is to this day It is 1 miles from Salt river. The town grew apace, as is the wont of new camps, and al one time there was a school and 40 children attended. But a better idea of the rich ore and the easy mining may be had by the statement that at no time during Halls ownership were there more than 50 men on the pay
 roll. in all capacities.
 Hall was @ reader, 1t seems, and he cd Ia aff securing the entire holding. .'an up-to- date guaranteed diyining rod. and with it began prospecting the ground Tn the principal claims of the II in the hold ing He operated the rod personally. and it is said that when he wake slowly over the ground, with the rod pointing downward, the precipitation of excitement sometimes almost blinded his eyes; and when the rod ! began to wriggle, as it often did, he would .'go white with the intensity Of | his feelings; and wherever the rod ! wriggled, there he rug, sometimes : having a deep hole sunk, sometimes a shallow one There are hundreds Of such holes on the property now-but l the rod didn't find any more high ! grade. But the holes he dug have 1 beer of greatest benefit in the pros l pecting work now being done for each | of these holes has been carefully 7 cleaned out and sampled, and some of
 them have been extended downward ! considerable distances.
 There are, of course, a number of
 peculiarities here. At one place on
 the 7th level (425 feet verticaD a kid ney of manganese was found, and the
 associated quartz has a little iron in
 1t; but this is the only occurrence of
 the kind. The brecciated ore-bearine
 material runs north and south, dipping
 about 20 degrees. To ascertain some
 data on the andssitic football the management recently caused an open
 cut to be made, and from the bottom 9 t shallow shaft was sunk. This was out
 side the line Of the regular contact
 but this work is in practically the
 same ere as that of the main body
 and there is an andesite contact tc
 the other side Of 1t, too. This indicates
 faulting previous to the main fault
 At the north end of the mill some eX
 cavation was done. The rock or, the
 surface Git is ore) is brecciated iron very close to the surface. But there i: ]. a flatseam about 20 inches in widtb Of pure dirst brown and barren look