Mohave County miner., 1912-03-09
Box Canyon Strike.

Southwest, but in the United States has been discovered in the extreme western border of New Mexico. It is what is called Apache Box, a box canyon in the Clear Lake camp, Steeple Rock mining district in west ern Grant County, only two miles from the property of the American Ex- ploration and Mining company, own. CTS of the famous Hinckley mines and about five miles from the great Car lisle gold mine, formerly owned by N. K. Fairbanks of Chicago, and about three miles from the Twin Peaks mine.
 Through the canyon flows Apache creek, perennial stream. In tue bed of the canyon are numerous boulderN weighing thousands of tons, that have fallen from the high cliffs above. In the center of this canyon is natural park clothed with verdure, grass and abundance of sycamore trees: and within the past few years this scenic wonder has attracted tourists who have come miles to see it and take views of it.
 It was while on one of these trips by T. Ollie Phillips of Bisbee, Ariz., that the gold discovery was made. Phil. lips had banned gold down the creek, several miles below the Box, near what is now the farming town of Sheldon, Ariz. At every available opportunity he prospected up the stream trying to find whence the gold came from but, had never been able to solve the problem. Finally along came friend, photographer, who wished to visit the Box and get photographic views and Phillips volunteered to drive out there with him from Duncan, Ariz. During this trip Phillips eye caught sight of free milling gold in one of the huge boulders and he called the photographers attention to it. They chipped off pieces from numerous boulders and all of them showed free gold. They then agreed to locate the discovery. Phillips remained on the ground while his companion left for civilization to get location blanks raise funds and return. But he never re. turned and so Phillips had to return to his home in Bisbee, Ariz., to raise grub stake to return and locate his rich find. This he did with consider able difficulty, as hardly any one credited his marvellous story of this mountain of gold. Finally he return ed, located claims, and spent a year in exploring and prospecting and found as his reward some wonderful speci. mems of free gold. But he never realized that he had found what was of far greater value, viz: that he had found one of the vastest deposits of low grade ores ever found in this country. all the signs of which point to another Treadwell mine. only with the ad- vantage of having millions of tons of ore in sight that can be quarred above the surface and mined perhaDs by steam shovel methods and ground up in cyclopean mills and treated in vast cyanide tanks. If this prediction comes true the picturesque solitudes will teem with busy miners and the cavernous canyon will be filled with the roaring thunder of a thousand stamps.
 Last August reliable mining engin- eers from Douglas examined the prop erty, but on account of its magnitude were only able to sample it breast high, as they had no equipment to scale the cliffs. However from their they found gold everywhere, the low est samples running twenty cents and the highest running 1,3l0$ in gold While these engineers were necessari. ly unable to sample the entire prop erty they made careful estimate of the visible tonnage as being over twenty million tons which will aver- age over four dollars per ton. In one place breccia clippings from face of 250 feet in width gave value of six dollars per ton; another face ten feet wide gave assay results of 99.00$ per ton, another face of ten feet gave 580S; another ten feet wide gave l4$ and another ten feet face gave 26S per ton Tn gold. All this exposed ore is