The copper era., 1911-05-05

company with Dlu and Alex Fraser,
 I saw one of the handsomest gold
 bearing veins have ever looked over
 It is over feet in width and one can
 walk on it for more than a mile. At
 30 to 50 feet they get out of the oxide
 and into the sulphide zone Now, | after one has passed over the country
 to get to this ospect, he will be fully convinced that there has been erosion
 here of tremendous extent; and
 therefore, of course, this vein, and
 the others in the vicinity, were originally very deep. As the erosion
 continued, the oxidisation also pro- ceeded, so that the contents of the
 vein from the top down to say 50 feet
 below the present surface, was free
 gold. Now, there has never been any
 mining there-so of course the gold coming from these veins is in there mewhere-where is the only question. As the country is precipiL- ous in the extreme, I have an idea that when it is found it will be iu
 very rich but rather small pockets.
 The result of the investigations thus forsarded, and even now being exemplifed, is the determina tiou that within the section vlsited-4nd
 why not iu other places, don't know there is valuable placer ground already taken aver and to be worked, anu thousands Of acres that no one has paid attention to which will bring fortune. just stopped few minutes and banned the fines from an ordinary ore sack full of the material from the Winchester Mountain country and ] got 4 cen's. There wasn't more than cupful. Oh, yes, I am willing to admi that the stuff was highgrAde - have gotten over packing sacks of ordinary grade ore home-but all the same it was wonderfully rich, and
 if man were just to put in his time crushing and banning that rock he'd make ordinary miners wages. Then, 1 want to know, why under the sui don't some of these prospectors and mining men who are looking for something to turn up, go out and turn il up for themselves. Why, I have seen "tushes''-regular old-time stampedes-to sections not having half the possibilities of that country of which I write Why, out near Hachita-you all remember the Sylvanite ''boOm''-I rushed oyer on as hard a backed horse as one ever rode and found one of the principal | boomers working like Trojan, and | be had saved S36 in gold in days which "ain't placer minin' any way you take it; it's just pure ordinary i hard work. I am simply telling this | placer story for the sake of letting the world generally know what there may be here if real effort is made to get it. I know there is placer gold | in paying quaniities-not only in the | Clifton -Moreuci district, nor the | Winchester Mountain section-but | throughout the Southwest. I know there are gold properties at Globe, i at Jerome, at half hundred differ | ent places: and I am going to those ! places-going "horse back and with a proSpector or two along. and am going to make d decided effort to find | real profitable p'@cer ground. 1 am not going after it for myself, but to awaken an interest in. this country | The gold is here, and want to prove it. Oh, no: I'm no philanthropist- but do you suppose that no one ever did anything of this| sort from a desire for adventure, to make good" on his belief, and to build up by the logical process of helping the country to go forward. Anyway, I'm not going to stop this placeriug investigation till have covered all likely places in Arizona and New Mexico. If the be- lief have that placer ground in pay ing quantities is here, the fact made known will bring about the condition want to see-the gollblamedest boom you ever saw.