Weekly journal-miner., 1915-11-24

means all output or gold III excess Oi $l00,000000. Burris mas been ident;- fled for more than twenty years with the mining affairs of Cripple Creek.
 He was one of the prime movers in the Cripple Creek drainage tunnel project, and is president of the Fl Paso-Bcacon Hill Consolidated Com- pany, owner of one Of the most pro ductive and valuable mining estates in that camp. Mr. Burris somewhat recently made an exhaustive eXamina- ton of the mineralogical and geOlo2i cal conditions Of this district, and moro recently purchased for himself and Eastern associates 70 acres com prising the choicest section of the estate of the Pioneer Consolidated Mines Company. It was this action on the part of Burris which prompted the brokerage house of O'Mcara, Will son & Company Of New York, Phila- delphia and Los Angeles, to finance the Arizona-Tom Reed Company, whose property adjoins the Burris purchase. In canvassing the local mining situation Mr. Burris said:
 Greater Than Cripple Creek.
 q am convinced that the Tom Rced Gold Road mining district will i'll iu- ture years record a production of gold in excess Of Cripple Creeks enviabic record. This district is a marvel and holds one of the most marvellous mines ever discovered. l refer to the United Eastern. It has most re- markable ore body and is unqucstion- ably one of the greatest gold mines in the United States. l believe, now ever, there are other ore bodies here the equal Of that opened in tn United Eastern. On the 70 acres we recently bought from the Pioneer people, fer instance, we have approximately $250,000 worth of ore in sight at sur face, the shoot in question being one of the few in the local field to out crop. The Lilah shoot on the prop erty Of the Arizona-Tom Reed Com pany's ground, adjoining, can be traced at surface for length of 3,OOn feet. It is well-dehned and well-nin eralized. The mineralogical and geo logical conditions of the entire Tom Reed-Gold Road district demonstrate . wide distribution of precious meta! values and warrant extensive minlrS operations
 E. w. Brooks, a mining engineer whose practical experience dates from the early days of Cripple Creek, holds an opinion regarding the future oti this district similar to that held by MT. Burris. He has for number oi years been prominently identified with the copper mining interests of Ari- zona and is considered to be an au- thority on ore occurrencies and dep ositions. Of late Mr. Brooks has made a number of reports on the geo. logical structures, etc, of the Tom Reed-Gold Road district. A portion of one of the reports follows:
 Large Mineralized Area.
 "The mineralized area of the Tom Road mining district ap- pears to be exceptionally large, eX- tending something like 25 miles along tine axis of the range with width varying from two to five miles. Min eral veins arc numerous and their out crops can often be traced for several thousand of feet due to the sillclhca- ton of the vein matter and its consc- quent resistance to weathering, which has worn down the softer wall rocks on either side, leaving the vein out above the general level. InI other cases the outcroppings Of some of the large veins are not easily dis owing to the vein filling being softer than the inclosing walls. They all appear to carry small values in gold at and near surface. The true ore shoots, however, have thus Tar been found at a depth of from 100 to 300 feet. 1 have noted many veins striking in all directions, many of them appearing to converse to a com- mon point. Those which nave thus far been found productive have al northwest-south trend. It IS not my intention. however. to convey the impression that veins having a differ ent strike will. for that reason, be found unDroductive.'
 Dr. Walter Harvey Weed, mining engineer of international repute, has on two separate occasions made favor able reports on the ore occurrencies and mining possibilities Of the Tom Reed Gold Road district. In his latest report, supplementing the one made about eight years ago, he says:
 Dikes Are Numerous.
 "A prominent feature of the Tom Reed-Gold Road mining district IS the occurrence of many dikes whose wall like outcrops are traCeablc uphill and down, often for many miles across the country. These dikes are the veins along which most of the mines are located. Some of them are doubtless true dikes, Assured ana mineralized by vein formin0 agencies. Others are true Assure veins along which solutions have soaked into the wall rocks, altering and silicifylu.E them, so that their hardened quart zose texture has resisted erosion and the vein and its silicious wall rock have weathered out in relief. Almost all of the better known properties oi the district have been located along such veins. Other veins occur, but are less readily found, and until re gently. Since the discovery of rich ore in vein of this nature in the United Eastern mine, were unfavorably re- garded. In my opinion both types of veins are worthy of exploration"
 Ralph C. Rowland, field representa- tive for Colonel D. C. Jacklin, the well known copper mine owner, came to this district about three months ago and after an inspection of its ore