Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1912-03-16
MOUNTAIN OF ORE
At APACHE BOX
Twenty Million Tons Blocked
Out by Nature Will Yield
From $e0,0O0,00O to $50.
100000 is Belief of Experts.

Especial Corscsponoenee Co she ueFaidD l
silver city. ~ ~, March is.-
Twenty million tons of ore running |
from SO 60 50 a ton, which Will Yield |
from sixty to eighty millions OF doll
lars % believed to exist In Apache |
BOX canyon IN this district. being a |
veritable mountain OF low grade mill. !
ing gold ore, most Of which can be
literally quarried ont Of the ground. |
The news OF the great strike 81
Apache BOX has travelled fast and
many people look for a stampede 60
the locality when the run extent o.
this marvellous ore deposit becomes
widely known. The silver city lndo-
pendent gives the following descrip-
ton Of the proposition which VIII be
OF great interest to mining men
throughout the southwest:
The Iodcs Of Apache Box.
In generallscd statement. the orc
Grande lode at Apache Box Is mon
strous core or chimney OF rhyolite.
nearly thousand feet In diameter
that was intruded D. subtcrrancan
forces through the basal granite and
everything andesite covering. which
cracked the rhyollte into myriad
seams and hl!stered Il into innumerr
/ able pores and cavities subsequently
healed by the gold and silica laden
thermal waters; and Their was cut OF
cracked by the great fault. now the
4 Canyon OF the Apache Box, thereby
exposing one face OF this huge golden
monolith 10 height Of over soc feet
and Il horizontal width " nearly 5000
feet showing free gold, Nigh grade
AMI low grade, nearly everywhere.
This monolythic ore OF rhyolite H.
estimated as stated % have blocked
out by nature aud exposed 10 the Hight
81 the sun, that can be quarried ana
mined By steam shovols, over co.
00O 900 tons OF ore running from So
10 81 per ton, sufficient 20 feed q
thousand stamps for two decades,
containing from 100000 900 TO $780,
O00. coo. in this dixie are several sue
cessive zones or shoots OF higher
Grade ores running so feet. so feet,
100 feet shd zoe feet wide, and IN
several places veins n fow inches and
feet wide Of such richness that they
would individually make the rcpu-
tation of any other new camp.
Not satisfied with her prodlgality IN
mineral, nature has furnished per-
ennlal stream az water near at hand
AZ the base Of this golden ciiff, af-
fording water sufficient for several
hundred stamps, whose laundering
noise viii in the not distant reverber-
ate through the ochoing canypp while
they grind into powder the aursfeyOus
ore almost automatically fed from the
face Of tho elm This golden marvel
Is in a proved gold belt heart Of the
great continental divide whore the old
Carlisle mine yielded gold go depth
lof i,000 feet and where the mines Of
tho Mogolon mountains are now
yielding millions OF dollars IN div
idcnds.
Whe q Apache BOX Canyon -.
The Box 81 situated Ia the extreme
southern end Of the Mogollon noun
tains. Ia a range sometimes called the
plnos Altos ChiEh pines), In the west
orn portion 81 Grant county II ia
about three miles southeast OF Twin
Peaks mine. and within two miles 81
the Hinckley mine. and about five or
six miles from the old Carlisle gold
mine, which has produced over one
million dollars
The DiscOycrcr,
rho discovorer of the richness nf
1.-The Apache Rox Is n, ollie Phillips q
Duncan, Arizona. IN May last he io-
Gated eleven claims, giving o. "a.
Bean J.. A. Campbell OF tong Bench,
California. and Or Craig Of bisbee
each an Interest