Bisbee daily review., 1918-06-30

of any actual discovery, and over an area beyond all anticipation of the ex- tension of oxidized ores in depth. Min ing property was still cheap, and had the administration been as strong as they should have been, the whole of the limestone area within sight could have been secured for a trifle. But the welfare and development of the district at large would not have prog ressed as rapidly under single as they have under multiple ownership.
 In the cary days the geological feat ures were hardly recognized, and in searching for ore the miner followed such clues as in his experience he ac- cepted as indications The perolo- gist's skill in distinguishing minute mineral differences, and the ingenuity of the geolcgist in accounting for nat ural phenomena and deducting nat ure's ways of bringing them about, is marvellous; but the instinctive and mysterious assurance with which an old and experienced miner interprets with almost occult sense the near pres ence of ore, and anticipates what he cannot see, stands him, though very indifferently, as a substitute for the more accurate diagnosis and often cor rect prognosis of the scientist.
 The earliest reconnaissance of the geological structure of the region was made by Dr. Ricketts, but the first actual survey was made by Mir Ran some, of the United States Geological Survey, whose monograph and map have become the guides which We and our neighbors have since followed with advantage in search of ere. Our present geological staff. under the gen. eral direction of Mir. J. NJ. Boutell, and with Mr Arthur Notman as local head, has generally corroborated the obser- vaticns and deductions of Ransome, and their advice has given a degree of uniformity and reasonableness to our exploratory work which it did not possess before. But at best our de velopment work is costly, and still more or less empirical, for while faults may be accepted as the chan nels by which ore currents ascend or descend, CT into which lateral secre- tions may filter to form ore bodies, all faults, are not the parents of ore bodies, aud even productive faults are barren in places, and therefore. when searching for ore in our limestones, We must burrow erratically, often fol lowing delusive trails which science or false precedent may have traced for us.
 Our strictly exploratory work repre- nf no nf total mining operations, and therefore any aid which geology can give us to- wards exploring systematically in stead of empirically is of immense pc cuniary advantage to us.
 After the failure of the early com. petittve companies, the Copper Queen company has been the only operating company and the dominant power in the Warren district. But in the year 1899 a group of courageous miners SC cured an option on the Irish Mag claim whose history was illustrative of a phase of western life which is fast dis appearing On one of my early trips 70 Bisbee, a man named Daly was in troduced to me, who told me that there was plot against my life; that he had been taken into the conspiracy and offered a certain sum to kill me. recognized at once that the man was insane. Shortly afterward the same man came to me and offered me all his claims, including the Irish Mag the Senator group and claim on the Sacramento mountain, for $10,000, as he said he was anxious to leave the camp. I would have been glad to buy them simply for the purpose of secur ing his extradition, but our superin tendent. whose life he had threatened said that if I bought them he would resign Shortly after that Daly shot deputy sheriff as he was entering his gate to serve d warrant for his ar rest. Daly was seen running up Sac ramento mountain behind his house and that was the last authentic know ledge as to his whereabouts, though he signed a deed of his property ir Pueblo, Colorado, to a certain Andy Mehan.
 Another claimant of his property was Mexican wife with whom hC
 lived, and who claimed that she ad