Arizona weekly citizen., 1895-08-10
CHUNKS OF SILVER.
The Large Nuggets Found in
 Richmond Basin
Wonderful Discoveries of tho Past
 in Globe District.
Globe Silver Belt.

| In6lr eIZ5 IS pOl pneOnnenaI, Duk Iue t. apparent purity is what excites con 70 ment. The largest nugget Is about II inches long and 16i i.ches in crcun IS ference, and its appearance and weigE
 would indicate that 1t is almost pul q metal.
 n The large nugget was found by NJ 6 Ikenberry two weeks ago, in gulc above tLe Nugget mill, close to wher = Ben Pascoe had acorral years ago. Tn
 place ls fully a mile from where the TIC
 nuggets were found few years ago, an . in a different gulch. Lee was out hun' T ing his mule, and stopped for momen
 to rest. and was looking at some stocI browsing on the mountain above hin One foot rested on what he supposed
 YVES B blackened powder. 1t had cur
 Ious look, and after scme exertlon h' dislodged lt. What was hls surprise EnI
 delight to fine it was huge nugget O
 sllverl
 Lee forgot all about the mule. Ht hurried back to camp with his treasure and then. accom- panied by Geo. Bird Gno l. w. Kiilen, repaired U the place oi discovery and commenced search TOT
 more nuggets. George soon found the
 small nugget, but after that the search
 was fruItiees, although they hunted
 diligently for ten dsys.
 The value ct the ficd is 8 matter of
 coriectura, although several old miners | think it will assay 5 ind. On that basls, ct the present price Of eilver, o114, | the large nugget is worth o2S4.30, 6no the small one S56.24. The nuggets have | been on exhibition at A. R. 1oungs, and have attracted great attention.
 h the early days of the camp this find | would not have been considered eX- traordinary. From 1876 to 1SoO rich ! silver strikes were common. Richmond | Basin Is noted for i;s silver discoveries | during the past nineteen years. From l 1876 to 1880 the Chilson brothers took out $50 ,0O0 worth of nuggets from the Nugget and Riheman claims. Nuggets have been found at various time n the Basin worth from four or five to ten dol lars per pound. The Mack Morris was tn, famous mine in the Basin, however Our recollection IS that during the per iod It WAS worked the shipments by the Mack Morris company, through Weiis Fargo & Go, aggregated over SoOO,COO. McMillen's record as silver producer is almost equal to Richmond Basin, The famous Stonewall Jackson mine gas discovered by Ohas. McMillen and during 1876 and 1877 was owned and worked by McMillen and Dore Harris. They made the first shipment fron the Stouewgn Jackson mIne in March, 1o'6. of 300 pounds of float, which netted one dollar per pound at Florence, Mir. Jen- nings being the purchaser. Sinking oD the lead they st uck native silver, and ID August, 1871, Messrs. McMillsn and Harris made tue first shipment of native silver to the Selby smelling Works, San | Francisco. The shipment consisted of one ton, lacking 40 pounds, from which ! the net returns were SI9,5JO.
 Soon afterwards they sold the Stone wall Jackson mine to San Francisco parties for Sl20,G00, and within two months after the sale the company took out ore to more than pay for the mine. l rhe company made one shipment O. | 5IO5.OOO. A the time the sale was made | McMIllen and Harris had sunk shaft 1 70 feet on the ledge and exposed sLab of native silver that was continuous l from the surface to the bottom Of the | shaft, and from two to eight inches | thick and about six feet ID width. It waS 8, nearly pure silver th8t It was | difficult to blast, and much of It had to | be cut with chlsels and broken ooWb.
 Tn one instance 8 slab weighing l5OO
 pounds was detached and 700 pounds oi l it shipped in one piece to San Francesca | 4 stringer on the Little Mack. an ad- | ioIninC claim to the StonewRh Jackson 1 yielded McMillen and Hgrris S2O,COO | 4 part of thIs ore S70c0 per ton, and three tons worked in Morrill, & Ret
 chum's mill yielded S27OO per ton.
 The greatest silver nugget ever found in the Globe district was discovered
 about 315 miles from town, to the leti of the road goirg to Quartzlte. Mack 1 Morris WAS on his way to Richmond Basin one day, and eeeing man named | Muuson sitting on big bowljer, hailed him and inquired what he was dolng there. Munson replied that he Wai guarding she powder, which he deciar
 ed was silver, and had been there almost
 two days without food. Mack told hiu
 to put up a notice and go on into town,
 and Mack wrote out the notice for him
 .sThig is Munson's chunkw The buol der was broken up and shipped to Sar | Francisco, netting some S6OOO. l Another extraordinary find WAS made bv Bill Burne, in 1876, in the Sherman mine. adjoining ChromO, F miles north
 east of Glote. This discovery was IT
 the form Of nugget weighing DIX
 mounds and valued at S5000 iu silver. l.
 \. Saxe. cousin of the famous poet,
 John G. Saxe, received s20 for briDglni tha nugget to town, and 1t WAS shipped
 whole sewed up in e rawhlde, to Yuma
 This discovery enGendered dlsput | over the Sherman mine, resulting Tn tb'
 killing of Jones by Bill Burns.
 We mention only few of the discoV
 cries which made Globe famous as a sll
 yer camp. end those who know the mine of the district best firmly believe tba
 the silver deposits in this district hav'
 been as yet scarcely drawn upon. Tn
 great number and richness of the dis
 coveries made in the roe was misfoT
 tune for the camp, as 1t etimulate'
 wreckless buying of claims and tn
 erection of costly reduction works ol
 properties, the value of which had DO been demonstrated. Incompetent me-
 were put in charge of properties, eD'
 some of the best mInes mismanaged an'
 abandoned, notably the Mack Morri
 and Stonewgll Jackson. The restorat ion of free coinage would rehabilta.
 the silver industry and make Globe on | of the greatest mining camps in tn 1 West.
 Ral.