The Arizona copper camp., 1915-12-03

whose opinion carries weight wher-
ever expressed, believes the mining
industry of the Tom Reed-Gold Road
district will in due time exceed that
of the Cripple Creek district. This
means an output of gold in excess of
$100,000,000. Burris has been identi-
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 Ell
Paso-Beacon 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 meteorological and geologi-
cal conditions of this district, and
more recently purchased for himself
and eastern associates seventy acres
comprising the choicest section of the
estate of the Pioneer Consolidated
Mines company. 1t was this action
on the part of Burris which prompted
son & Co. of New York, Philadel-
phia and Los Angeles to finance the
Arizona-Tom Reed company, whose
property adjoins the Burris purchase.
In canvassing the local mining situa-
tion Mr. Burris said
Greater Than Cripple Creek
81 am convinced that the Tom
Reed Gold Road mining district will
in future years record a production of
gold in excess of Cripple Creeks en-
viable record This district is mar
vel and holds one of the most marvel
Gus mines ever discovered. refer to
the United Eastern. 1t has a most
remarkable ore body and is unques-
tionably one of the greatest gold
mines in the United States. l believe,
however, there are other ore bodies
here the equal of that opened in the
United Eastern. On the seventy acres
we recently bought from the Pioneer
people, for instance, we have approx
imately $25O,OO0 worth of ore in sight
at surface, the shoot in question be-
ing one of the few in the local field
to outcrop. The Lilah shoot on the
property of the Arizona Tom Reed
,company's ground, adjoining, can be
traced at surface for a length of 5000
feet. 1t is well defined and well
mineralized. The meteorological and
geological conditions of the entire
Tom Reed Gold Road district demon
strate wide distribution of precious
metal values and warrant extensive
mining operations"
E. w. Brooks, a mining engineer
whose practical experience dates from
the early days of Cripple Creek, holds
an opinion regarding the future of
this district similar to that held by
Mr.. Burris. He has for a number Of
years been prominently identified with
the copper mining interests of Ari-
zona and is considered to be an au-
thority on ore occurrences and dep
ositions. OF late Mr.. Brooks has
made a number of reports on the
geological structures, ETC., of the Tom
Reed Gold Road district. A portion
of one of the reports follows:
Large Mineraized Area
"The mineralized area of the Tom
Reed Gold Road mining district ap-
pears to be exceptionally large, ex-
tending something like twenty five
miles along the axis of the range
with a width varying from two to
five miles. Mineral veins are numer-
traced for several thousand feet due
to the silicification of the vein mat
ter and it's consequent resistance to
Weathering, which has worn down the
otter wall rocks on either side, leav-
ing the vein eutcropping above the
general level. In other cases the out
are not easily distinguishable, 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 far been found at
a depth of from 100 to 800 feet.
have noted many veins striking in all
directions, many of them appearing
to converse to common point. Those
which have thus far been found pro-
ductive have northwest southeast
trend. 1t is not my intention, how
ever, to convey the impression that
veins having different strike will,
for that reason, be found unproduc-
tive"
DR.. Walter Harvey Weed, a mining
engineer Of international repute, has
on two separate occasions made favor
able reports on the ore occurrences
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