Weekly journal-miner., 1916-07-26

activity in the Salomc district con tinucs to increase, notwithstanding it being the summer season, when many people shun the desert through a fancy that the heat will interfere with work. There is twice as much development work going on around here now as there was in the middle of the winter last year, when things arc generally at their livclicst. New properties are being started up and many new mining men and investors, prospectors and others are coming i1 here, attracted by the shipping ores at the grass roots and the high grade possibilities of the district.
 The well known Harqua Hala Bo- nanza, now known as the Guml- Warrior, made big strike last wce''
 on the eighth level, opening up body
 of orc that pans hatful' as one mi ner expressed it. The company has
 been drifting on the sixth, seventh
 and eighth levels, opening up the ore body that runs from five to seven
 teen feet wide and averages S35 to $40
 gold and 5fe copper. Several lenses
 oi high grade have been opened ur
 on these levels, running well up into
 into the hundreds and wing on the Sth level broke into a body of high grades that shows plenty of free gold, some of it running well into the thousands and almost resembling the famous Glory Hole ore. The mill is dropping thirty stamps, working on
 the oxidizcd ores being taken out during development, and while no of- ficial statements are being given out as to production, the size of the
 bricks being shipped out indicates
 that they are getting the gold.
 The Sth level at the Harqua Hala is less than three hundred feet yer tical depth, and the famous old mine las already produced over $5,0OO,OOO above the 200 1t. vertical depth. The mine has an interesting history and has been thought to have been kOrk- cd out several times in the past thir- ty years, sold at sheriff's sale and gone through all the vicissitudcs com
 mon to the mining industry. In the old Hubbard days it was worked out" and practically closed down, when Joe Doughcrty followed knife blade seam and struck the famous Castle Garden stope, where the ore body widcncd out from a scam to over thirty feet and over a million and half was taken out. The first round of holes entering this orc body shot out four candle boxes of orc that contained over $35,000 in gold, some of the ore being masses Of wire gold and nuggets as large as one head 1t was largely due to the faith and persistence of John E. Martin that the ore bodies now being oper cd up on the 9th, 7th and 9th levels were found. Martin, backed by l.. Wm. Stevens and associates, cross cut back in the footwall formation against the advice of nearly all the mining engineers and has opened ID what appears to be the main and pcf- mancnt orc body, or Assure whitn carried the high grade ores into tn ovcrlying quartz. The footwall for nation is a granite porphyry, the general underlying country rock O. the district and heretofore consider cd as barren or having nothing to do with the orc deposits. From the char actcr and value of the sulphide orc bodies now being opened up in this porphyry it evidently has had good deal to do with the deposition of tE- ore at the Harqua Ilala as well as ir the surrounding properties. The oc- curcncc of the copper sulphidcs car rying such high gold values at the ] Harqua Hala is a good indication oi ! pcrmanency and now that the ore body has been exposed on three di:- ferent levels and is getting better and l bigger all the time it looks as ii the | Harqua Hala would soon ovcrshadow | its former reputation. The mill is being run on ozodizcd ores, but plans are under way for new plant to ha dle the large bodies oi sulphides be- ing opened up.
 E. \. Bob" Montgomery. the fam ous Nevada mining millionaire, is in camp rushing work on the Cuff prop erty, about a mile north of the Har- qua Hala, where he is opening up an orc body in the same granite porphy- " as the Harqua Hala. on what seems to be a parallel fractured zone to the Harqua Hala. The character of the ore is the same and the values