Bisbee daily review., 1918-01-20

T.
 part by his unpleasant experience
 with George W. Tower of the United | States geological survey at Butte; for ! that geOlOgist had access to the Clark mines in his official capacity.
 and when he resigned from the sur
 vey he used his information as an ex- pert witness in the local mining liuga- tiOn. which at one time had many. of the characteristics of a vendetta That
 may excuse the senator's strong preju-
 dice during recent years, but not his
 earlier inhOspitality to geOlOgists,
 whether official or unofficial The late S F. EmmOns, a man to whom
 the Tower episode, made known in 1903. seemed a blow at the honor Of the survey. being himself most scru- pulous in his use of information Ob- tained as an officer of the survey. records regretfully the fact that MT. Clark's policy of excluding visitors, ! especially geOlOgists, from the United ! Verde. prevented him from studying the evidence of secondary enrichment existing in that mine That was in 1899 IL is significant that when H. H Rogers was organizing the Anal
 gamated Copper combination in 1898 ! he proposed to include the United Verde. but the negotiations broke down when Senator S-fark refused to
 allow an examination to be made. So
 geOlOgists were consistently excluded | from the United Verde. and the sen ator was so preiudiced against them . that he did not employ one to guide | him or his manager in the develop
 ment of the mine. The consequence
 was that the combined effects of
 geologic faulting and secondary en- richment were not correctly ap- ! prehended. and it remained for min | ing engineer from the outside to come [ into Jerome and uncover the bonanza under the noses of the people that had been exploiting the United Verde | for 25 years. We do not inSis. that all the geOlOgists made correct infer ences; the story of the U- V K dis ! closes the fact that several of them and some pretty good men, too ! guessed wrong; but that is to he ex- | pected. seeing how young the silence of ore deposits is and how uncertain | are many of the criteria on which it | is based Still the |. V. K remains a | triumph of sound observation and sci entific reasoning; it is far removed | from the lucky accidents that started
 most Of the great mines of the west. ' from the ComstOck to the Cap Bird. | The enterprise organized by MesSrs.
 Douglas and Tener is also noteworthy
 as a clean promotion and a straight | forward piece of business IL was con ' duCted on a high level of integrity ! iron start to finish: affOrding good
 example to other incubators of mining adventure. It is not the fault of
 Messrs. Douglas and Tener if the |. ' V x has been used as an excuse | for breeding a vOciferOus litter of . wildcats. The promoter of a pulling prospect can pOint-and has nO- heSi-
 tsted to do so-at the |. V. \ as a rich mine that was started on ncthing.
 9 successful development preGicsted on no surflcial showing of ore. and. as one might expect, the sO-called fiscal agents and other OrganizCr Of hair-brained schemes Tor cOT acting
 money from the public have used the U- V N story as an argument that
 can only be answered by those aware Of the facts The publication 1s the
 real story should serve to cf ,ck a distortion of the truth. while ct the
 same time offering encourasem nt to thrown aside II il were given to the
 intelligent exploration The idea that
 there are -One mine' districts-,hat a single mine may include within its
 boundaries all the rich ore in a given ! fnt
 miner for an instant to have 8 radio
 active vision enabling asm tO see into
 the crust Of the earth. he would. we
 think. be sstOunded to see how much
 ore he had missed. even close 70 the
 workings he had made PrOhab Y the
 undiscovered ore greatly exceeds that which has been mined. could We but find it without spending an ex- assive
 amount of money in the search The
 geology of the Jerome district $ vet
 10 be deciphered- For thar the
 microscope of the petrographer is nee
 esSary- Several experienced geO,ogists
 have examined the district re antly.
 and even the United Verde can now
 boast a competent guide in thes mat
 ters. so we shall hope that fresh evi-
 u'ANE VIII uc RiuuuCtl. 10 the elu
 that a clear and cOmprehensive ex-
 planation of the rock structure may
 become available. The energetic pros pectOrs along the line of the bi- fsuit
 need such help, and thy ought So have
 it Undoubtedly they would hare had
 it long ago if the Cnisec TerCo had
 not been closed to the United States
 geological survey; and now that the
 [. V X is open to official inspection
 the director of the survey should lose
 no time in delegating members of his
 staff 10 make an examination. TimeII-
 ness is essential to a geological re
 port Delicately WOrded obituaries
 and meticulOus pOst-mOrtems a-e not
 m demand by those engaged in .he Op-
 eration of mines. It may he that Mir
 Douglss' venture will furnish scien-
 tific evidence of great value. as well
 as much copper for making the muni-
 tiOns to be used in the achievement
 of victory on the battlefield. He un-
 doubtedy is glad to have his copper
 put to military use, for he is a large
 scale American whose heart is in the
 Great Cause-and more than his heart.
 for his son is in the United States
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