Bisbee daily review., 1911-07-05

NAt uiY oSaoou iuciS fS dDSolulris nothing doing" Ike Stevens, John Swisshelm. Charley shannon, E. Fl Burlingame. John Eberle. Ben Crau- furd discovered the gulch while en route from Silver City to their cop per holdings at Metcalfe. just above Morenci. These names will be fam liar to every mining man who has visited this section, and in fact all over the country. Burlingame has a reputation in Denver. Shannon owned the now famous shannon cop per mines. Stevens owned the Cor onado. the Swisshelm mountains were named after John, Eberle passed acros sthe great Divide Divide many years ago and Crau- furd is yet in the country, a re spected citizen. He. by the way, was appointed postmaster in 73. and there were from 400 to 1000 men who received their mail in the old stone house now nearly demolished, standing across the creek from biz cottonwood tree which was a land mark for many years. The opening of the rich placers brought in a horde of men, of course, and among them were two well known the world over. though one-Frederick Remington, the famous artist-died last year. He was a resident of Gold Gulch for a year or more. and made a reputation in many ways He got a lease on a veritable rock pile, where there seemed to be no gravel at all; but he paid a big price for it, and after removing the boulders and rock found that there was a depression in the formation in which the gravel had gathered, and in three weeks he took out S6.OO0 Money didn't last long. those days however, and Remington blew him self as speedily and picturesquely as the best Of them. CharlesC he likes to be called Charley by the old-timers and those he knows wellj Michaelson, now famous as a writer in the Hearst syndicate, was kid" in Gold Gulch. Sometimes he carried water for the boys. sometimes he shot biscuit in the boarding house. and several times he dealt faro bank. But finally he too, got a lease and took out suih- cient gold to get away in good shape. and he rambled over the boom camps of the west for a number of years, till one day he drifted into San Francisco. He was broke
 then-which. by the way, was common experience in those days of plenty of money-and he hadn't an idea what to do or where to hang up." He was sitting in a lit- tie saloon talking with a number of men of the mining camps, and while he was exploiting one of the placer booms a newspaper man stood and listened. After Charley had finished the newspaper man stepped over and said: Kid. if you will write that story as interestingly as you have told 1t. write it just as though you were telling it to someone. you could sell 1t 10 the papers for good money Michaelson was busted flat. and he got busy He wrote the story and started up town. Seeing the sign Examiner" he dropped in there, showed his stuff to the managing editor, who on the ! spot gave him a job, and he has gone from plain job" on the EX aminer to top-notch position" Re verting again to Gold Gulch. it was
 the the gold taken from here that kept Morenci and Metcalfe going for
 a number of years, and put those two wonderful camps on the map.
 New Copper Camps.
 Gold Gulch now. however. bids
 fair to be a copper camp Here
 Richard Lakeman has the Messabe
 Morenci property, claims patented.
 Work is forwarding in drifts from
 the 300 level in the shaft. There is a long tunnel on the property. and considerable high grade gold-silve- ore has been taken out and shipped ; It is expected, however, to develop , into a copper mine. especially sC
 since the monzonite porphyry Of the
 MOrenci district has been discov cred at depth and with a small amount of copper contained. Ir 7 describing the geology of this sec - ton when reporting on the Lake
 man holdings in 1906, Robert Lin 5 ton stated: The ore bodies o ] the active Morenci mines are con I nected with an intrusion of monZon 3 ite-pOhphyry which forms the mas: 3 of Copper Mountain and continues 3 westward into Gold Gulch to th' 9 foothills above Eagle Creek. where 2 1t becomes lost beneath the Pink
 ard shaies and diorite-pOhphyry ore e, vailing there. This porphyry ha ], been extensively altered, though no g throughout it's whole mass of ex ,- tent. The typical altered porDhy
 ", and this is the porphyry tha < is of interest in connection witl