The Arizona copper camp., 1916-06-09

1t doesn't grow as fast as alfalfa,
but it is worth lot more and yo!l
don't have to cultivate it or irrigate
it. All you have to do is harvest Il.
According to geologists it takes thou
sands and even millions of years for
gold to grow and form in the veins
and ledges in quantities sufficient to
pay to mine. Alfalfa grows so fast
it has to be harvested six or eight
times a year-and it is only worth
six to ten dollars a ton. If gold grew
as fast as alfalfa it would not be
worth much more than alfalfa. Gold
takes millions of years to grow and
you can harvest it only once, but
when you do harvest a nest of it, it is
worth something, and when you get it
as rich as the famous Glory Hole ore
it is sometimes worth as much as
100000 a ton instead of eight or ten
dollars like alfalfa.
The gold in the Glory Hole has
probably been growing and forming
for millions of years. When this
earth was still in the process of max
ing, an immense andesitic dixie forced
it's way up from the melted white-hot
schists forming the surface of the
earth at the point where the Glory
Hole now is Melted rock, steam gas
and vapors laden with the precious
metals also came up with the dixie,
following every crack, crevice and
fissure, the mineralizing activity of
these fluids gases and vapors lasting
for probably thousands of years, until
finally a. large area along the dixie
near it's contact with the schist was
completely altered to quartz, spar and
iron carrying the precious metals,
gold, silver and copper. Whenever the
conditions were favorable the gold
was deposited in large quantities
forming ore of fabulous richness In
the course of hundreds and thousands
of years, erosion has gradually worn
the country down to it's present con-
dition of hills, mountains and gulches.
The softer portions have eroded away,
leaving the harder quartz spar and
iron of the main ledge standing up
above the surrounding country like
an immense monument, to direct the
fortunate prospector to the location
of the vast riches it guards, deposited
in ages past by the hot solutions in
the great fractured zones along the
immense vein, where mining geology
has long since proven that condi-
tions are the most favorable for the
formation of large bodies of high
grade bonanza gold ore.
For years and years a little old
prospector who has studied Nature
more than many and dreamed the
dreams of those who are much alone
with Nature, and have chance to
study her secrets, decided that he
would investigate the Glory Hole
outcrop and see what was there. He
had noticed it hundreds of times from
a distance and studied it in a gen
eral way, and to quote him "It looked
good" but something always came
up to prevent him from going up to
examine it. 1t was in an out-of-the
way place and hard to get it, and
like all prospectors, he put it off
from time to time. Finally, l came
along one day, out in the edge of the
valley on some other business and
stopped to talk to a partner Of the
little old prospector 1 also had no.
ticed the Glory Hole outcrop, two
miles away up in the hills and had
often wondered about it, and planned
to go up and investigate. At this
particular time we started talking
about it and the old prospectors
partner suggested that I buy a claim
he had up near the Glory Hole, which
finally agreed to do if he would
locate me in on the surrounding
ground, to which he agreed, and
went on about my other business.
On Friday, March 18th, 1909
Shorty" Algier, the little old pros
pector, and Henry Barker his part
ner, went up to the hill where the
Glory Hole is now located, to locate
the claims agreed and get samples to
bring back to town and meet me
in Salome on the 14th. Fifty yards
down the hill from the main outcrop
Shorty stopped-and what he saw
staggered him. He he himself tells
it: "I knew it was there before
got to it. I just felt sick all over
and so trembly I couldn't stand up
even before 1 seen it at ALL I felt
like I was going to have a chill and
had to sit down on flat rock and
rest, and when I looked around
THERE 1T WAS = GREAT BIG
CHUNKS OF IT, THE GOLD STICK
ING OUT OF 1T LIKE MARBLES
AND GRAINS OF CORN. I didn't
dare touch it at first and I come
pretty near going away and leaving
it-and sometimes I bin sorry 1 didn't
1t amt brought me nothing but
trouble. There's too much excitement
when you find that kind Of rock, and
folks go crazy. 1 could go there and
find it again but I'm afraid to. There's
lots more of it in that hill but 1
amt goin to git it. I'm gettin' old
and I can't stand SO much fuss and
excitement like 1 used to. If 1 found
it again these moneyed guys would