El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-05-23
sTEEPLE ROCK HAS
RICH ORE SAYS
BURhHAM
It Has Been deliberately
Equipped With Modern
Mining Machinery.

81 believe that Steeple Rock. n. NJ,
will soon be a name known through
the mining world" said W. Franklin
Burnham. ex-Boston, banker and man
aging director of the American Explo-
ration and Mining company, owners of
the Hinkley mines in New Mexico and
various properties in old Mexico, "aS
1t is now attracting the attention Of
some of the best mining men in the
country and the work there is being
carried on in systematic and ag-
gressive manner"
Remarkably Rich Values.
Some very remarkable values have
been discovered within 60 and 70 feet
of the surface. On the United States
Deposit claim we sank a winze on
the SO foot level 3S feet deep and en-
countered some very rich sulphides,
running from s2S to $3.50 per ton. We
have been shipping this class of ore
to smelters at Clifton and Douglas.
The property was regarded as gi-
gantic low grade propositions being
traversed by an enormous quartz dyke
in andeSite. and was being developed
along this line; our idea being to de-
velop large tonnage and extract ore in
the most economical manner
improvements.
I'VE have just finished equipping
the property with modern operat-
ing plant consisting of a so foot steel
gallows frame. 500 ton steel ore bin
capable of loading two teams with ten
tons of ore every five minutes. COM
pressor plant, air drills and so and 25
horse power engines, and we are now
getting our plans for the first mill in
the camp and hope to have the first
unit of so tons in operation by Septem-
Der Is All this machinery we have
bought of FL Paso houses.
Twin Peaks Rich Strike.
Almost at the identical time we
encountered high grade the Twin
Peaks Mining company also struck
very rich gold ore, running s200 to
$500 per ton. They, like ourselves.
were developing as a low grade prop
osition Their property is receiving
careful management under Fraser
Bros. and all indications point to their
making a bonanza
AS in Cripple Creek and Goldfield,
there are indications Of extinct fu
microbes or geysers along the strike Of
the enormous quartz vein; and evident
" the waters subsidized heavily charged
in mineral contents, and it is in these
extinct fumeroles that we are now en-
countering our rich ore chutes.
quite an excitement mas Deen Gre
ated within the past three weeks by a
discovery made by a man named Phil
lips in the Apache-Box Canyon, living
between Hinckley mines and Twin
Peak mines
How the Discovery Was Made.
phillips came in with party Of
prospectors and complete field assay
outfit and camped at the foot of the
box canyon and began blasting huge
boulders, and then PANIED the pulp
and is said to have washed out coarse
gold as large as kernels of wheat
They next attacked the face of the
Box canyon, and claim that 1t will
average SIS per ton. and all they have
to do is to quarry the quartz down. If
this proves to be correct. they have
the biggest thing in the United States.
greater than the Homestake and the
famous Treadwen of Douglas Island.
There is no question about the gold
and silver in this district for the Car
Isle mine lying next to the Hinck-
ley mines, took out $1,000. 900 from
1880 to 1884 and made N K Fairbanks
of Chicago famous. This old property
is now being examined. There are
thousands Of tons of tailings and these
are to be tested on the ground by
electrical precipitation pots new
contrivance.
Three new prospecting outfits have
come in to camp the past week and
there will be, more following. as there
is considerable good mireralized
ground left INDICATED. I only hope
that the camp will go on in the even
tenor of its way. with good. sound de-
velopment ard no gold rush or wild
cat promoting attempted | have had
numerous enquiries regarding the Boz
canyon strike, but can give no further
information than the common talk Of
the district, as 1 have been too busy
to make personal examina ton. al
though it is only two miles from our
mines. Phillips claims to have struck
the real thing. Two engineers are
now in the party, ore from Bisbee and
the other from Douglas. who are ru-
mored to represent one of the lar
gest companies in the country.
DO you know that western New
Mexico lies in the gold belt? 1t will
unouestionablv produce this year
81 600 OOO and that within 100 miles
Of Steeple Rock. and this is only the
beginning This gold belt lies between
the Mogollon ard Steeple Rock. ancoun-
try so miles wide and 100 miles lone
See what the Mogollons can do. fully
90 miles from railroad and you ca
then ina CINE what Steeple Rock VII
do. which IS only 16 miles from rai'-
road and is near the ella rive
which Will furnish plenty of power