The Arizona copper camp., 1916-08-04
GREAT ACTIVITY IN
THE SALOME DISTRICT

SALOME, Ariz, Aug. 3-Salome is
dancing again. 1t isn't because the
sand is hot and burns her feet, but be-
cause the Harqua Hala has struck
what is apparently the downward con-
tinuation of the old Castle Garden stope
with its production record of over
million dollars in high grade gold ore
from one level; because the Glory Hole
Bonanza has started and has already
found some gold; because the Cobrita
copper ore; because r. A. ("Bob')
Montgomery, the famous Nevada min
ing millionaire, has struck some good
ore on the Cuff property near the
Golden Eagle, and lastly, because new
people are coming in and new work is
being started all around here.
John Martin and II. William Stevens,
of the Harqua Hala, are both wearing
smiles of the won't-come- off variety
and every time they pan a handful of
dirt from the lower levels either one
could easily win first prize in a
standing broad grim contest. Dick
Wick Hall, of the Glory Hole, is step
ping high and saying: Il told you so;
just wait till we get into the main.
ledge!" w. ]. Gregg, of Texas and the
Cobrita mine, says: ..Shes sure a
Jones, of the Big Jones Store, wipes
his forehead and his spectacles and
tries to catch his breath between or
ders and accounts. Everything is
picking up in all lines and it looks as
if Salome the Home of High grade
Shipping Ores at the Grass Roots is
just starting in for a real, regular old
fashioned mining boom. Business is
better right now than it was in the
middle of last winter, in spite of the
usual warm summer weather, and
while the people around here haven't
made much noise yet they are making
good-and that's what counts. When
you see the platforms covered with
high grade gold and copper ores, the
ore teams busy all the time, and every
one stepping around lively and happy
at this time of the year, 1t means
The Harqua Hala already has pro-
duced over $5,0OO,00O above vertical
depth of less than 200 feet, the sixth
level on the old incline being 1879 feet
from the surface. 1t was during the
old Hubbard regime that this mine be-
came famous for it's production of
high grade free millings ores The
Harqua Hala was discovered in much
the same manner as the Glory Hole.
S55UrIe trigh- grade ore, almost nuggets,
were first picked UP on the surface
near the main outcrop and a little
work was done before the prospect
changed hands and was opened up
Several fortunes were taken out and
several times the mine was thought to
have been worked out, but each time
it has come in again better than ever
One time in particular it was ready to
close down, but John Dougherty fol-
lowed a knife blade seam and struck
the famous Castle Garden stope, which
soon widened out toS sixty feet. All
the ore from this stope was high
grade, averaging in the neighborhood
Of 800 a ton while large streaks and
punches carried fabulous values. The
first round of holes where Dougherty
broke into the Castle Garden ore
body shot out four candleboxes of
jewelry ore that contained over $35,-
900 in gold, some of it being mass of
nuggets bound together with wire gold
This property is now being developed
by the Yuma Warrior company under
the supervision of John b. Martin,
osciates. Little attention has been paid
to the old workings except as a guide
and indication. Martin has sunk into
the footwall porphyry and evidently
cut the main vein and fractured zone
which carried the values up into the
porphyry -quartzite contact of the old
workings. The sixth level is below
the bottom of the older explored ore
bodies and the new workings extend
to the eighth level Martin now has
the vein, or ore body exposed in the
on three levels, with consid-
cradle drifting on each, the vein av-
eraging from three to sixteen feet or
more in width and getting bigger all
the time The average values, not
aounting the high grade spots. run over
$40 ton gold and five per cent cop
per, besides some silver.
On the eighth level the drifting has
extended under where the lower ex-
tension of the old Castle Garden ore
shoot should be and the ore struck
last week looks good enough to eat.
Grab samples, handfuls of dirt thrown
in a pan and horned without pounding
up, give a string of gold that would
make any high-grader's eyes glisten.
Some of the gold is as coarse as grains
of mustard or wheat, while the general
average is probably higher than in
any gold mine in Arizona, not count