Tombstone epitaph., 1893-02-15
BEARING GOLD.
One Instance of How It is Car. ried On in Arizona Min
 ing Camps.


 in this county. But one stamp mill has been erected there that could be called mill in any sense of ] tine word. That mill now stands idlo, and perfectly useless to the c~mp and a monument 10 the folly of erecting machinery upon properties of no val ne.
 It was in 1879 that an old man came out from Cincinnati and struck the camp of Dos Cabezas. He was not miner and had never seen . mine or piece of ore in his life. After looking around for a while and shar- ing the hospitality of the prospecters in the different camps in the noun tains, he approached one of them. who is still resident of that camp, and offered him $I00 to locate him ten claims. The proposition was ac- cepted, and before the night of the first day the ten claims were duly To- cated and the money paid. The claims were without merit and had not been deemed worth monumenting by the dozens of prospectors who had walked over them times without num- Der. The claims were recorded. They were known as the Cincinnati group" and were called the "Old Man." "Old Woman" Philadelphia" and other names that have become familiar with the prospectors of that camp, and can be found upon the records of the county if one cares to look .hem up as a subs,antiAtien of this story.
 The old gentleman was not slow in sending back specimens of thls ore, much of which, SO the story goes, did not come from his mines. At any rate the Cincinnati folks grew excited over the Cincinnati group" and it was not long before money for doing the annual assessment work was put up and sent out.
 In doing the work, one of the claims, the "Philadelphia," proved to be of some merit, although it would not now be considered worth locating did it not have many thousands oi dollars worth Of work done on it. So i'm pressed were the owners, who were treated to look at the rich samples of ore sent to them that they arranged for the incorporation of a company and the erection Of a ten stamp mill. The money was soon subscribed and the stamp mill, which is as complete as any in the territory, was soon dropping its stamps upon ore hauled from the top of the mountain to the town of Dos Cabezas. The ore carries about SS per ton, and between SC and 90 per cent of 1t was saved after run ming it through pans, settlers and over concentrators. A sufficient water supply had not been developed to run the mill all of the time.
 Dividends did not ma.erialize and change of management was effected. s. W. Wood, whose success at the Grand Central mill was of record, was induced to take hold of it. Notwith- standing the low grade of the ore, the distance from the mine to the mill and other drawbacks Mr. Wood paid expenses but could not pay dividends. The stockholders gre~ impatient and demanded a dividend. It was paid under protest. That settled the busi- ness of the Cincinnati Co. Mir. Wood saw the inevitable result, and after paying of the men, closed the mill down and it has SO. remained ever since. This is actually the only effort ever made at Dos Cabezas to mill the ores of that camp. The immense lodges of $20 and $50 ore have never been touched by other process than the primitive araetra.
 The old style Huntington mill, , which was erected in 's9, by c. s. Ab- bolt and Gen. Rollins, proved too weak a concern for the tough quartz If that camp, and was abandoned.
 A ten stamp mill brought in in 80 by . railroad engineer was another failure. Ten stamps and a plate was all there was to it. It was a custom mill. A charge of $l5 ton was made for milling. A thousand tons of ore was run through it. It was . thor oughly tender foot layout and saved about 40 per cent of the gold. After mining all the ore on the dumps around the camp, the owner pulled