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Show I FINE GOLD ORES OF ALIO GIF Wjm ' ' Salt Lakers Opening Splendid MB Gold Property in Hills of mm Arizona. I W. H. CLARK BACK WITH BIG ASSAYS Anticipated Low-Grade Group Becoming Bonanza Property Prop-erty With Depth. IYV. H. Clark, president of the Mines Exploration and Development company, the organization holding thirty-one full claims in the Alamo mining district of the S. H. Range of Arizona, has returned re-turned to hla Salt Lake office after a several sev-eral weeks' visit to the property. The . group on which Mr. Clark and associates arc centering development work at present pres-ent is a gold property, and from tlie results re-sults of the numerous assays whicn were mde in ihis city on Monday, this is one of tho finds of tho year in yellow metal raTnoSformntion of tho country, said Mr. Clark on Tuesday, is composed of vhe porphyries, throughout which, at right angles, and across the properties of this company, extends a llmc-spar dike which shows on tho surface for a width of from 30 to 150 feet. Tho surface of this dike, as shown by the original sampling, ranged from 80 cents to ?3.0 gold all the way across, and 11 was the surface indications, tending to establish the group as a giganllc low-grade milling proposition, proposi-tion, that served to bring the pending deal for the property to a successful culmination. cul-mination. In order to ascertain the proper place on this dike for the main shaft work, a shallow tunnel cross-cutting tho same was driven, and it was on the hanging wall side that the best values were found and the shaft ultimately started. This shat has now reached a depth of fifty-six fifty-six feet from the collar, and a few days ago Lew Humphries, who is the consulting con-sulting engineer for the company, and General Manager J. U. NIsbet, made a careful sampling of the working, taking tho samples from each five-foot point from the surface. At the surface the entire shaft averaged aver-aged 53.10 gold per ton. From the surface to the 30-foot point the values in gold ran from $3.40 to S11.30. At thirty feet the shaft averaged $23.60; at 36 feet, SH.85: at 46 feet, two feet of high-grade averaged 511P.20 and 3$ feet in addition averaged Slo.on; at 51 feet, 3i feet averaged aver-aged S51.55. and one foot. 307.25 per ton. At the bottom of the shaft, one foot averaged aver-aged $400.10. while the entire bottom goes $137.30. A large number of sacks have been filled with the high-grade extracted In development work, and hand samples of tho entire lot gave an average of $352.50 gold per ton. It was these splendid values val-ues which caused all interested to alter their first Impression, and while everything every-thing points to a large tonnage of milling mill-ing grade rock, there Is certain to be i BUfflclent high-grade to bring tho prop erty quickly Into the shipping class. Mr. 1 Clark says that Mr. Humphries' estl- mate of the group Is expressed to the effect that It Js the best thing he has ever seen for the amount of work done-The done-The dike has been explored along its strike wrst of the main shaft for 215 feet, where average values on the , surface were $3.60 per ton, and for 500 feet east of the shaft, where the average aver-age wns S7.S0 per ton. The decided Improvement Im-provement in the grade and the general characteristics of tho ore with depth gives promise of still better results as deeper levela are gained. The management has the. new hoisting equipment ready fbr oneratlon, and fast work will now be pos-A pos-A little city known as Ocotlllo has been started by these Salt Lakers, where boarding, bunk houses, dwellings and an office building arc being provided, A store I being established by a merchant at Kofa. While II is only ten miles across the mountain from Ocotlllo to Kofa. this merchant had to haul his merchandise mer-chandise and equipment 140 miles from one point to the other. The company owns its own springs, but drilling for an additional water supply will be started Immediately. Water has been found wherever drilled for. The altitude of the camp is 3200 feet. Mr. Clark and associates were the plo-v plo-v neers of Hie camp, but during the last three weeks prospectors have been crowd-lng crowd-lng In. and everything as far as the eye can see has been located. The nearest near-est railroad point Is VIcksburg. 35 miles i on'' rad bclnsr a remark-ably fine The samples brought In by Mr. Clark show the gold in great profusion, and It Is thoroughly disseminated throughout the quartz. |