Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-09-13
GOIn HILL MINES.
What Perseve erance and Pluck Has Ac-
 compIIshed in this Region,
Phenix Gazette.

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 For years the eyes of prospectors iu the Cave Creek district have rested won deringly on Gold Hill. goldden colored butte that rises to a height of several hundred feet The numerous lodges that project in various places, the general for nation of the country. and the suggestive color of the soil, are calculated to attract the expectant prospector, and fill him with hope, sufficient to enable hm to unfold to the light of day the unseen treasures be- meath the surface. Located as 1t Is some distance back, and only accessible over a somewhat tiresome and for the last three miles, a rough road, capitalists have not been hasty in securing claims there. The development has been left for persever- ing prospectors, whose capital consisted of pick and shovel, and untiring energy. goaded on by the hope of abundant re- ward.
 Numerous parties have located claims on this hill, and after keeping up their as sessments for year or two, abandoned them for claims easier of access. Those who have persevered, are now i'll far way to realize handsome sums for thelr properties. Eleven years ago, thls sum mer Marcellus Dugas located a claim on the western slope of Gold Hill. and com menced to sink q shaft Not having any means, progress was necessarily slow; but he kept at work picking and blasting away as long as provisions lasted, then he would rustic around for grub stake, when he would return to his work again. 1 Thus time went on, and when at the | depth of 90 feet, blast uncovered to hls 1 astonished eyes a ledge of rich ore, Mar | cellus was happy. Assays were SatlSfac- i tory, and he concluded that if he tunneled ! from the side to connect with his shaft, SC 1 that he could work the mine alone, he could grind ont liberal wages with an arastra. With this in view he commenced a tunnel. Having progressed few feet a small vein of quartz was struck, noi over three fourths of an inch thick. As this vein was running almost in the al rection of his shaft which he desired tC connect he concluded to follow it. anO when, after about three years hard work having trnneled distance of 100 feet, an other blast displayed a four foot vein O rich decomposed quartz, he was again happy. Through the development made by the perseverance of Mir. Dugas main ly, eastern capitalists have been led tC investigate Gold Hill and her claims, anC the result Is that negotiations have beel commenced to secure possession or Una
 property.
 Mir. Dugas is now down 1S5 feet witt his shaft and has extended his tunnel t
 190 feet. The ore continues to increas
 in quantity and richness and he has bond ed 1t to the eastern company above men
 toned for $35,000 Another valuabl
 claim which IS being negotiated for is tn
 Money Maker owned by Grey and Bick pell Mir Dugas says that for the amour
 of development work that has been done
 this mine shows up better than his owr
 The Money Maker Is contiguous to tn
 Elizabeth MT. Dugas' mine and recen experiment with the ore worked in tn three stamp mill at the Catherne mine near by, by inexperienced hands nette tue owners over $32, 1000 per ton. Repr, sentatives of the negotiating company al expected Hi few daSs when sonethin : definite may be learned concerning thes promising claims. That Gold Hill Is fu
 of gold Is no longer q matter of speculi ton and it is almost all assured fact thi . one of the largest camps ill Arizona wi 2 be located there in the near future.