The Arizona sentinel., 1889-06-22

icial means upon the diggings
 1t is in these properties that tn.
 greatest enterprises are likely tc
 be inamgurated in future years, real.z
 ing millions of dollars. Your core
 spondent made 6 trip to Loguna, in
 company with L. $. Morland. La
 guna Is fifteen miles above Yuma, or
 the Colorado river, and seven miles
 from Gila, on the Southern Pacific
 railroad. It was at Gila City Tn early 1 Years Chat the Americans learned o:
 the existence of placers that Mexicans
 were working, and which fact attracted
 several large parties of argonauts to Arizona. 1t IS claimed the Mexican
 lry-washers have worked these mines
 for seventy years, but of course their
 primitive methods must give way to
 modern machinery and enterprise.
 Mr. Morland is representing an eastern syndicate of great wealth, and his
 company have located BOO acres of
 these auriferous deposits. The char acter of the country is certainly a natural wonder. It represents glacial
 wrecks, volcanic upheavals and water deposits of all imaginary periods, leaving broken, rugged country, the hills, bluffs and peaks, the gulches, bars and sEens of winch are exclusive
 J composed of the red ana blue gravel, ike that which gave to the hydraulic
 miners Of Oregon and California their immense profits; similar to those which filled the Sacramento with dirt md slickens and caused the passage of the famous anti-debris bill Hills 300 feet high show nothing but gravel. Sinking to Q depth of forty-five to fifty feet in gulches, have shown no bedrock nothing but gravel, which prospects from two to three cents per pan at Q very moderate average esti- mate. That this estimate is true is shown by tine lnhumerable holes in the iilIsides and tbe excavations in the ooSIo.s made by Mexicans, perhaps, in period of fifty years.
 L. c. Morland and party have a "paystrea'z," as was shown to the writer and demonstrated by "pros- poets, milo and three-quarters in length and perhaps 500 feet in width; depth unknown. The extravagant extent and valae of the property may therefore be easily calculated. This is located on lagoon of the Colorado river, from the bank back to a dis tance of two miles entire deposit confirming to the Gila river, some sesen miles south. Now the water supply IS steady and abundant; the elevation of the ridges sufficient to l afford necessary pressure for hydraulic 1 mining. The company now has a number of men employed in prospect mil hn zc pumping the water up on the ridges, carrying It in pipes wherever desired, and washing off the entire ground, thus securing the coveted gold. It is practical proposition and will naturally constitute one of the great est enterprises of the entire southwest, employ hundreds of men, and do much to build up the city of Yuma.
 MT, Morland is a practical miner; has had years of experience in the northwest as well as in the southwest; has fine reputation for his business as we'll as social qualities. and 1t is pretty well recognized that there IS no better man on the coast to manage this great undertaking If it can be success he can make 1t so, and com mon sense will demonstrate that it can be made successful.
 On the opposite side of the Colorado IS similar deposi; !lich has been To- cated by Jim Cussenbery, an old timer in Arizona, now wealthy and residing in Kansas City. Associated with him are number of wealthy eastern men, and in September next they propose putting in hydraulic works. Ex- periauce or t!s northern part of ti, coast will give an idea of what an i'm petus the business of Yuma will re ceive from taese great enterprises.
 Your representative visited the ter ritorial prison, and was extended every courtesy by Snperinteadent Dchai. ar! the afab!e assistant, Hartlee. My. Bahan had the day before returned from trip down the Colorado in pur