Morning journal and courier., 1881-10-29
SouruaI aIl0 Cuurisr.
Saturday Morning, Oct. 2s. 1881.
An Arizona Trip.

Eight or Mine Thousand Miles-NIining RegEons-Purchase of a Valuable Mine.
 Of few hundred miles from where the Gila flows, with it's water so densely salt that it is said fish cannot live in it, is a mine of gold which lately came by purchase into the possession of one of our townsmen, Massena Clark, and one other gentleman, 8 New York physician, Dr. Gilman. The mine, more &C., curately described, is six miles from Prescott
 the capital city of Arizona. It is well situ- ated as to those important requisites for 8 mine-wood and water-there being plenty of both on the claims purchased. Mir. Clark brought home with him samples from the mine. one averaging $6,O0O in gold to the ton of another $2, GOO to the ton MT. Clark and his friend have what is believed to be the richest mine in Arizona. It IS composed of seven different claims and has been worked seven years. They got the right to purchase six months ago, and have been working it six months, satisfying themselves to what 1t can do. There is now 8 shaft eighty feet deep, with two off-shoots thirty feet each. About seven years ago a Boston merchant who had failed in business and was thrown
 
 l out for the West in desperate hope of re- ] trieving his fortunes He wandered about seeking the opportunity and looking furtive | ly at the wheel of fortune to see if it would | revolve once more in his favor. He located | on the claims which are now the property ot 1 Mr. Clark and Dr. Gilman. For seven years | he fought with diversity, and lived in 8 hut and searched for gold, and dug for gold. Gole 1 rewarded his vision. He sunk shaft. He found more gold. For six months past MT Clark and Dr. Gilman had been waiting results from the mine to purchase if it banned ou | well. The result was they purchased the claim, in all 13O acres, of the BostoI man, who had become now thoroughly ac quainted and almost fascinated with life il the confines of civilization. Our own towns man may be said to have tried "Roughins It." as he slept for two weeks in trunk a the mines extemporized in hut by his sol Edward and the doctor, and he enjoyed 1t but this was in the bright beautiful days O autumn and not in the depths of winter The city of Prescott has It's green in the cen ter of the town like New Haven, only it i not as large by half as our old Green. It i
 settled almost entirely by Americans. It i
 city of about 2,000 inhabitants and has capitol costing S16O, ,O00 Pretty well for young town near New Mexico. It is in direc railroad communication with California ant the East MT. Clark in his recent trip wen
 across the continent" a phrase coinet by the late Samuel Bowles, of Springfelt Republican fame. He was accompanied b. his son Edward M. They went d1rectl, across via Union Pacific to San Francisco ans then went southward by the South Pacif
 R. R. to Arizona, travelling the latter part o the time by stage coach, from Maricopa, tn
 terminus of the railroad, to Prescott, dis tance of about 16o miles, Our citizens wh
 want an interesting trip, full of diversity, cal find this trip full of it, both as to scener. and change. They can see an Indian reser
 vation near the place where there are f, 50
 friendly redskins, immense cactuses 30 fee | high and 24 in diameter, and many curios ities and natural wonders. The eye ha
 plenty to do to take it all in. Coming hom
 Mir. Clark and friends went to Tucson, Ari
 zona, and took the Atehison, Santa Fe an
 Topeka R. R. via New Mexico to Kansa City, and thence by the usual route, eigh
 or nine thousand miles being the entire dis
 tance travelled on the round trip.