Weekly Phoenix herald., 1882-12-01

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would have thought of it? Not eve
we, who have stood tip-toe on IL
top of the tip-iest attitudes of I'll
snow-capped ranges of Colorado, an
, held our breath while we slid mil
or two down the mountain sid
astride an avalanche of a thousan
feet of snow. Who cares? We di
1t for the fun of the thing; some
thing to write home about and aston
ish our country relatives. In thos
days We we're fond of excitement
now we've grown cold and very still
We never talk about our hair breadth
escapes. Sometimes when tender.
foot or a mining expert comes along
we speak Of our Indian experience
with the red handed Apache. How
we were taken prisoner and dangled
over canyon four thousand feet
deep, and made to realize that we
were tumbling, tumb1ing, tumbiing
down. Well, just did it to try our
nerves, and they told US TO tell our
white brethren that they were The
white mans friend. They said ::
young man, go East and tell it, -
But the Eastern man is very skep-
teal aud won't believe our Indian
stories and laughs sally when we
talk of our big bonanzas. And so
we grow skeptical and laugh sadly
at their mining experts. Yet skep-
teal rs We have grown to be, the
whispering. of new find, big
strike, rich placers, will set US look
ing up the remnants OF our last
camping outfits, and on the first in
dication of color, we arc off with the
balance, and doa't propose to get
left. Our pencils are sharpened and
our blank notices are already filled
out to drop on the first initial monu-
met. And so, when it was whispered
that an assay of $50, 1885 ton was
just brought 10 light, we found out
how the land lay and before sun
down we had located $50 acres.
That is what makes us write in this
hazy, daisy way. We have got |
our chicken pie, and now can take
our time and breath i n telling it.
A beautiful buggy ride of seven
niles takes US to the Lime Kiln Dis
District, and here and there we
,atch a glimpse of stone monu-
nehts which plainly say here is the
lew find. A mil has already been
,uilt-a flour mill. 1t is all the
anne. Miners must have brea d.
jome of the miners wanted the
he district the Flour Mill, but the
lacer diggers carried the day, AMI
will be known as the Lime Kiln
district. We suggested did Aztec
suins," but it was howled down as
cling too ancient.
Now the facts are, that in prim e.
al days a great lake of salt water
as situated where now is located
lie Lime Kiln District" and on {
lie banks OF this beautiful lake =,
God the palacial dwelling, over
hose ruins we still ponder and
exile our imagination with scenes
at once. lived. loved and died in :
ose grand old dirt piles. The
arp that once through Tara's
ais and the =" Gay Gondeliers of =
enice,p could MT have been more
elodious and beautiful than the
enes and songs that reveled around
e dying days of the Aztec reign;
d here amidst these ruins and in
c bed of the golden lake we hear r
e echo of the Aztec maid calling
r truant lover from 1t of the pres e
t " Lime Kiln Dolby Holes" y
The ancient maid is dead. The =
lden waters-of the beautiful lake e
we dried up. The palaces of prim- S
l mud have tumbled down, whilst
e horny listed farmers Of Tempe
e panning out the gold dust along
e Grand Canal. ris a sacreligious
'liday on the ruins of the dead
st. But gold is gold, and the bones l:
the Aztec maid mingle in the same o
n of dirt with the golden lime .
In dust that is riffled out by the
lrd-hearted son of the sod and O
sorghum chawer" of the nineteenth tt
injury. f;
We have dwelt on the beautiful "
ng enough. To make long story l:
ort, seven miles east of Phoenix
We been discovered placer diggins n
fabulous richness. The bottom of 0
dried up lake, wherein through the ii
ocess of filtration has become load a
with aur1ferous dust. Among Ii
her wonders mastodon has been
.rtially unearthed. To what extent r
proportions viii reach has not yet n
ZEN ascertained, but enough has o
en seen to warrant a belief that "
ere are bones sufficient to keep a C
n-stamp mill running for year or O
10. In our location of 100 acres we D
1t only claim all spurs, dips, an
es, etc, but also whatever may 2
m up in the shape of mastodons, i,
hthylogical monsters, petrifed sea c
rpents, petrified dead elephants ;,
i'd all other petrifcations that may
habit the Lime Kiln District. As
r the gold dust, we propose to wait :
It'll they build the big canal that is r
oxen of, and then sluice out the =
% acres down TO bed rock. We u
ay conclude to form stock COM
my, and offer one share of our p
acer claim for one water share in +
at Big Ditch. as we then could Il
ater our stock to meet all demands. c
PINACARTE