Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-05-26
NO. l9
FROM THE GOLD FIELDS.


 What Is Said of them by Parties Returned.
 Messrs. Jacob Schreiber and Wm. A.
 Scollay, of San Francisco, returned last
 evening from Guaymas, and have re-
 mained in this city to-day MT. Schrei-
 Der is one of the owners of the Reforma mine, about sixty miles north of Muleje,
 and about ten miles below the new gOlI
 placer discovery in Lower California. ] The Reforma mine Is a silyer.coj mlne, and the developments have discovered ore quite rich in gold also, and it Is thought that the mine will eventually become gold mine, as the gold forma- 1 ton exists there. About a thousand | tons of good ore are now on the Re forma dump, but the mine will be opened up to a much greater extent be- fore mill IS erected. The mins Is about elght miles from the Reforma landing on the Gulf of California, and fine spring of pure water bubbles cut from a hillside on the road to the mines about half way. Plenty of wood exists.
  worked very cheaply there.
 It WIS upon Mir. Schreiber's return to Nuleie from Reforma that be tss- heard of the new placer discovery. Three h. dians bruugE. in some coarse gold, and the Mexicaus of the town soon equip ped a party and went under the guidance of the Indians to the grounds. In a few days they returned with a quantity of gold, which so excited She people that every burro in that locality possessed a value almost equal tC a golden nugget of his weight Nuleje became depOpulated, and as Guaymas was the base of all supplies the news soon spread and the excitement iu- creased Vessels and sailing craft of every sort were brought into requisItiOu at Guaymas, and loaded down with sup plies and men, and on reaching the opposite shore even the crew and often the skipper himself would leave fo- tue digglngs, and the deserted boat would he idle at anchor. When MT. Schreiber wanted to return to GUaylnas he found but one sailor among the vessels at Muleie, and although the ordinary fare ae;oss had been but five dollars, the sailor would not lift anchor short of a fee Of SlUO. II so happened that a party came from the placerS with a quantity of gold and he wanted to cross sufficiently bad to giye SjO. and Mr. Schreiber made up the necessary balance and reached GUay- mas m safety. The same vessel returned to MuleIe loaded down with supplies and passengers.
 While in Muleie, Messrs. Schneider and Scollay accepted an invitation from one of the municipal officials oi that place to pay visit to the new pllcers, and they went north in large canoe. They found many Mexicars at worS dlg- ging and picking such nuggets out iIom the gravel as they could discern with the naked eye. Some of them found a little gold and some were less forum ate. The absence of water made It ne- cessary to resort to a dry process Of ex- tracting the gold The water used has to be packed twelve miles, and It Is therefore a very expensive luxury. The AIexicans thought the placers would ex- tend over an area thirty miles wide by @ hundred miles long, yet this Is all guess work
 The excitement is drawing in people from all parts of California, and large
 
 San Diego who will chase the golden will o-the-wisp so far into the danger ous and barren hills that much privation and suffering must bound to ensue The reports of gold finds are the most ex- pansive of all the forms of gas. 4 h.tle ill shaped yellow mug get will make half dozen en- thusiastic and excitable men crazy, and a handful of pebbles will draw harder than a sixteen-wheel locomotive, Ind the story of mere handful. when 1t has passed into the ears and uus or the mouths of half dozen excised peo- pie, will enlarge the quantity to a shlp- Rad of gold.
 If there be persons in this territory who contemplate going to the gold fields, let them make abundant p-erII-.- tion to return disappointed; then, II the bubble should burst, their har,ishiis will not be so great. Those who go to the mines court all possible human dan gers, and 1t IS as safe to say cf this Bs the experience of thousand other ex- elements have proved, nine out Ot every ten who rush in will return broken down in health and purse.