Graham guardian., 1895-03-09


ton. Some time since while rs
E San Xavier in Tucson, Arizona, y
very prominent mining engineer,
knowing that was interested in
mining, asked me if | had ever
been along the Colorado. ''If nos"
said he, "do not go back to New
York until you have seen that wen
derful rich country in gold, silver,
lead. and IRON" Tin had not then
been discovered in any quantity he
said. | have spent several weeks
in Il careful examination of the diE
ferent mining districts, and as re-
suit | can say that within the next
five years the country between
Ehrenberg and Yuma Will surprise
the world in its output of gold sill
yer and lead. Copper does not
amount to anything, but iron, man
ganest, zinc and other minerals W. al
come in time, when cheap transpoY-
tatiOn and living can be had. The
great cement belt of gold, east OF
Ehrenberg, the gold veins nearer
the river, the great gold vein at
Pichaco-the finest free milling
belt Of gold ores have ever seen,
together with those further back
from the Colorado, will astonish
us all, while the rich silver and
lead districts of Castle Dome,
Eureka and Silver districts will
open the eyes of our silver produc-
ing sections. Just at present but
little can be done on account of the
high cost of provisions and the ex
orbitant freight rates. But the
grand keynote has been struck by
a party of capitalists, whose names
are purposly withheld from the
public at present, who have at Bar
rite Rocks on the Colorado river,
near Picacho, large millsite for
water power for the largest electric
plant ever constructed. The river
at this point is divided into four
channels or water ways by great
piers of rock thirty-five to seventy
feet above the river, and having
base of 100 to $50 feet square, be-
ing 10 to l25 feet apart, and ex-
tends out into and down the river
far enough to give room for the
construction of from 100 to $50
distinct water wheels, which can
be built so that they stand in lines
or series of three or four each, one
or different shafts in line. These.
wheels will be suspended or hung
from iron or steel bridges which.
will rest on the great piers which
nature has already constructed.
The entire work will be of iron
steel and aluminium. In short,
the plan is this: To furnish pow
er and light for running all the
mines, mills, furnaces, smelters
and reduction works within rad
ius of 100 miles; to run q morrow
guage railroad which will be built
to connect the mines and min
ing plants with each other; to run
steamers from the Needles to Yuma
and the Gulf; to pump water for
irrigating all the valleys along the
Colorado, and also into the canals
that will be built to irrigate the
great valley of the Colorado below
but adjacent to Yuma; to supply
power to every manufacturing in
dustry, to ever farmer, fruit grower
and mechanic who may want it and
who shall settle along any of the
main station.
Within the area named there are
at least 1000 good mines that will
furnish ore for nearly 10000 stamps
or their equivalent in crushers
smelters and other reducing ap-
pliances; and that from 10000 to
$4,000 horsepower can be devel-
oped at Picacho and Barrier rocks.
There is no other such place on the
Colorado, at least below the Need
les. While at Picacho / found
that it cost the great English pump
ing'plant 1892 per day for wood
alone, not counting the handling of
it. The electric company will fur
nish the same power for sl6 per
day. No wonder the pumps are
idle at the present time. Moneyed
and mining men, experts and min
ing engineers from Montana, Idaho
Colorado and the eDakotas are
quietly coming into these sections
carefully examining the mines and
minerals, getting the price of prop
critics and reporting to their prin-
cipals, and in all / have met, i have
found but one man, a Montana
bloater, who did all of his pros
pecting in boat with well filled
demijohn, claiming that he was
sent here by all the millionaires in
in Montana, and he condemned
everything, yet tried 70 get bond
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