The Arizona sentinel., 1894-09-29
Marvellous Claims About the Resources of OGilby Dis- trict.

The gold mines of easterii San
 Diego county are destined to as-
 tonish the world, said D. M. Du-
 bravcich, a prominent mining man,
 the other day. q have just re-
 turned from Gold Rock camp, in
 Ogilby district, and the people of
 San Diego do not imagine what
 treasure they have in their own
 county. The mines in that district,
 I verify believe, on my own opinion
 and that of every mining man who
 has seen them, will become the
 greatest gold producers in America, if not in the world. Such immense
 deposits of ore are rarely to be
 found anywhere, and when you add
 to this the fact that the ore is
 of high grade, running not less
 than $1O per ton, you can imagine
 the bonanza in sight. The deepest
 mine in the camp is 300 feet down,
 and not another foot needs to be
 sunk to keep 100 stamp mill run
 ming for the next three years.
 Neighter wall in this great ore body
 has been found. In fact, that ore seems to be more of a deposit than
 8 vein, though I have no doubt that the formation is regular, and that the gigantic veins will be found to run with the trend of the Cargo Muchacho mountains; in which they lie.
 The Golden Cross Mining and Milling company is owner of the properties worked at present, the main mine being the Golden Queen in point of development. Thirty men are at work in the mine, and seven men break enough rock to keep the 40-Stamp mill going night and day crushing 120 tons. One man develops enough ore to keep 50 men busy. Some of the big stopes in that mine would easily contain the biggest building in San Diego, if not quite the Hotel del Coronado. Two hundred and fifty people are in the camp, and the population is rapidly growing Other companies are becoming in terested and more prospects will soon be developed, with every in- dication that they will soon be as big as the Golden Queen.
 "For years these great deposits were deserted, and eastern capital ists laughed at the reports made on them, deeming them lies and inn possible of fulflment. Then the Hedges brothers and a couple of other Los Angeles men went in, and by hard work, economy and daring they got the properties developed, piping water from the Colorado l2 miles distant and erecting 4O- stamp mill. Within a year they had in sight a greater property than anything in South Dakota, greater than the Treadwell in and perhaps the best all round gold property in America. Everything seems to favor the camp. The ore is apparently of all kinds and colors, yet it is all free milling. The gold is as good as reaches the San Francisco mint, reaching $2O per ounce. With all these things, the Englishmen be- gan to get interested, and they offered $1,OO0,000 for the properties but it was the Americans turn to laugh, and they would not enter tian the offer. The Hedges own three-ffths and others parties the balance, and all efforts to buy into the company have failed. l be- lieve that within two years the mine will be worth in cold cash $5,OOO,OOO.
 "The district" continued MT. Dubravcich, lis big one, and the seem to be full of ore as as that on which the Hedges are working. Mining men are puzzled when they come to look at the district, as in many fea- lures it is an entirely new problem in geology and mineralogya All agree, however, that the district will astonish the world with its yield of gold. The Golden Cross company will increase its stamps to 80 and later to 100, and with other companies going in there will be greater activity and an immense camp built up The camp is four