Mohave County miner., 1916-10-07
PREDICTION MADE 4O YEARS AGO IS
 BEING FULFILLED

Copper is not worth anything now,
 but some day it will De worth money,
 and then one of the best copper
 mines in the couIrcry wil> be opened up here"
 The prophetic statement above
 quoted was not made yesterday; it was uttered in the spring of 1S76- over 40 years ago-by no less a per sonage and recognized authority on geology than Prof. Joshua Clayton, a close friend and associate of Prof. B.. Silliman, instructor in geology of Harvard university, also acknowl- edged to be leader in his profession in his day and time.
 In making the prediction Professor Clayton, long since dead, the victim of a stage coach accident, addressed his remarks to O. F. Kuencer, then a fresh graduate from the mining engi- neering department of the University 1 of Freiberg, Saxony, Germany, as the two stood on ground now en- braced in the Ark silver lode mining claim, within almost a stones throw of the holdings of the Arizona Cop perfelds, Inc, in the Mineral Park quadrangle in the Cerbat mountains, about 15 miles north of Kingman.
 MT. Kuencer, still hale and hearty and the owner of the Ark claim, is au thority for the prophecy credited to Professor Clayton, who he knew inti- mately and with whom he inspected many mines in Northwestern Arizona prior to the coming of the railroad, when San Francisco was the nearest city of importance and main supply point.
 That portion of Professor Clayton's prediction relative to the value of cop per has been more than fulfilled; the correctness of that bearing upon the development of a great red metal mine at or near the spot where he stood when he made the prophecy is being demonstrated by results already ac- complished in the exploration of prop erty that has of late come under the control of the Arizona Copperfelds. There is every reason to believe that the prediction/a a whole, will be as completely fulfilled as has that portion of it that referred to an increase in the price of copper. All mining engi- neers and geolOgists who have exam ined the Mineral Park quadrangle, all though ignorant of the prediction of Professor Clayton, have expressed identical opinions upon it's possibili- ties.
 In his book, "As I Remember Them" Judge c. c. Goodwin of Salt Lake City, Utah, the famous author and pioneer of the ComstOck, pays the following tribute to Professor Clay ton:
 He loved to sit by the hour where the earthquake had rent the earth's ed by certain profound phenomena.
 "He loved to explain why the gla- cier was but sublime preliminary in preparing the earth for races of intel hgent beings, which at the time and for millions of years thereafter had no existence save in the mind of God.
 Gould such a man have strolled i quietly into Athens and found So- crates teaching the youth of the city, he would have sat down beside the great scientist and explained that i from the croppings and other surface indications the old sage was mistaken.
 ''He was always humble, cheerful, | kindly and passionately fond of real friends, but he really needed no so- ciety except his hand hammer, his glass and a mountain crest covered with shells and rocks.
 "With these he could summon all the ages around him, all the master spirits of the past, and be at home with them. He became a great ge- ologist; he read surface indications as an open book.
 "He said from the first, as did Prof. Frank Stewart, that the natural pitch of the Comstock was to the east, and gave his reasons for his belief in the face of Professor Silliman's judgment, and was right. He was the first, we believe, to call attention to the mighty future which the Ely district would have, and in his wanderings he took in every known mining camp of Nevada and passed upon it's worth"