The Arizona sentinel., 1891-12-26
JESUS. sOLOMON's R1RNES.
The Richest Placer Ground
Found i'm Years.

The discovery of rich placer ground
in Cargo Muchacho district, which
was noted by the SENTINEL a few
weeks ago, has improved day by day
until now it is veritable bonanza
Unlike the strike" made in Mesquite
district some years ago, the gold is
found to lie in irregular channel and
and not in pockets. There has been
ground worked. in the Cargo Mucha-
cho camp before, but it never pro-
du ced gold in such profitable quaint
ties as that now beng worked. The
discoversr eff the new placer, Jesus
Solomon, more Familiarity known in
Yuma as Charley" is visiting rela-
tives here, and in an interview with
him the following facts were learned.
The story is a plain statement of the
facts and shows how energy and faith
frequently meet with reward, at
times anyway: .et
swell, last summer. was pros
pectingA around in, the Cargo Mucha
cho country with but little success.
I had about concluded to quit looking
for new placer ground when, in con-
versation with some miners who had
worked in the old Cargo Muchacho
placers, 1 learned a curious fact,
which set me to thinking, and ! con
Guided to work the problem out. 1t
WAS this that they told me: First,
that the old ground had been thor
QUICKLY worked out and had paid good
wages clear down the arroyo from the
hills to the mesa, where the wash
made sharp turn, almost at right an
giles from its course and continued OH
Coarse gold was clear along to the point
where the srroyo turned ard found
although, the precious metal Was
found in the arroyo below the mesa,
be gold was "Houry" and the bed
rock showed oaly few pockets, which
did not prove profitable. / was also
told that clear from the hills down to
the mesa, where the arroyo turned,
water was found Gu the bedrock
From the place, however, where the
arroyo changed it's course TO water
was found on the bedrock. Now,
TO the careless nearer, this informa-
ton might have been thought value
less, but 1 reasoned the matter out,
ond concluded the chsnnel, in which
the old workings had produced gold,
IAN directly on and under, the mesa.
After a few moments of silence,
Mr. Solomon continued, "then the
difficulty of going to work without
moaey, TOOLS or provisions checked my
enthusiastic ideas for a time. / went
among my friends and offered them q
share of the developments 1 was about
to make, if they would put up enough
coin, SO that l could 90 up on the
nlesa and sink down to bed -reek, but
l was unsuccessful, and for a time
discouraged. Finally [ proposed to
my brotbcr-in-- law, Ign cio Yanez.
TO 60 in with me and delve for the
riches, 1 felt sure, could be found
below. He agreed, and Interested
Rafael Sonoqui in the enterprise, and
we began work. At 6rst we mode
good progress, but after short time
tho work became very hard aud the
shaft went down slowly. Soon the
little stock Of provisions, which my
partners had provided, had become
low, and Trey left mo to continue the
work alone, seeking employment so
that they could continue the work.
In few weeks Yanez and Sonoqui
returned with another lot of grub and
We worked in dead earnest. We
never falieeed or doubted that we
would strike 1T rich, although many
of our acquaintanees ridiculed as for