Arizona weekly citizen., 1895-06-22
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PICACHO.
Story of the Richest Placer Mines Ever Developed in This Portion
 of This Rich Section.
Yuma Times

tuna lm66.
 Nearly half century has rolled into the past since the old prospectors. tired and worn out under the heat of the sum-
 mer's sun, sat down ou the banks of the Colorado, almost under the shadow of Chimney Peak, now known as Picscho, to eat their lunch and rest and sleep.
 Awakening early in the afternoon they
 wended their way slowly up the great canyon that leads into the basin which lies at the eastern foot of this strangely
 marked, weird land mark of the great desert that lies between the Ipdio sink
 at Salton Lake and the Colorado river. They journeyed on till evening and
 camped for the night. Morning came
 and with it the thought: ''There must
 be gold here." The old man now, but
 then young and in his prime, took his
 batells aud horn spoon, scrsped up @
 pan of dirt, dry washed it, and there was
 left nearly an ounce of the prettiest gold
 in the bottom of the batells. He show
 ed it to his fellow prospectors. who in
 the meantime had fastened the raw hide
 thongs and strings that held the scanty
 outfit on to the burro's backs that pack
 ed them over the hills. Only 6 word,
 and they were united, the burros told to "vamose," and each man grasped his
 hora spoon and went for gold. For months they took out their two, three, four, five and six ounces per day. One day just ss they had about eaten up the last kernel of corn and the lRst mesquite bean had been Drowned for coffee,
 Piasko, one of their number, sat down
 on the ground and scrspe6 up just what dirt he could reach without changing his position Soon he cleaned it up and had as a result thirty ounces of clean gold. This was enough. One went for deer and mountain sheep which were plentiful, another went to the Indian camp near Yuma for corn. All hurried back. More than 800 pounds avoirdu- pois in gold was gathered up on the small area of ground lying between the Mars and Venus and the Goshen mines, since so famoue for their output of gold. Even the third and fourth year after the discovery of the Picacho placer l miners toek out from SIS to s25 each per day. When Frederico came with hie dry washer he took out from twelve to fifteen ounces per day in gold, even af- Cos | sn old miner to me yesterday who has lived and worked in the Picsoho mines 1 for thirty years. "I have seen during my day the San George, Mars and Venus | canyon worked over more than 100 times, and even now the miners make Sl per day. It is a fact that more gold has been taken out of Picacho than from all the mines within 100 miles of there. Five million dollars will not | cover the amount. The old five stamp mill run CD Mars and Venus oree for | three years and nine months. The poorest ore run paid s425O and the best S96 per ton at the mill. The new DavId Neahr fifteen stamp mill ran five years and seven montbs. The poorest ore paid ! S17.5O and the best s94. Three thousand
 tons of second class ore, taken out of these mines after the rich streaks had
 been worked, paid S6 per ton in the mill 1 110 average samples were tested with 6
 result of s6 40 per ton. The Rica Tierrs
 ore paid S144 in gold in the arastra. | The poorest ore in the Goshen mine . S8 per ton. The Monday mine ore paid sl650 per ton in the mill. The San George paid, poorest S5. best ore s125 per ton. It is estimated by careful | tests extended over weeks of careful | ssmplipg that all the ores in the Pioacho
 basin will pay s5 per ton in the null taking all the vein matter between the walls. Takiug these great veins from eight to sixty feet wide, and some of
 which widen out to 100 feet, it IS believ ed that one of the best mining districts on the coast IS now being opened and developed. During the time that the Mars and Venus mines were worked, | nine years and six months, they produc- ed s2,876, ,510 in gold, and they are be- lieved to be as good or better today than at any time during their history. Open ed 10 the depth of 240 feet, with veins more than thirty feet wide and only one wall they show that immense bodies of ore only await the coming of the miner. The fact that these mines have already or will soon pass into the hands of a
 wealthy eastern syndicate, is an import | ant turn in Yuma'e future.
 The development now going on at Picscho in five of the eight mines lately purchased by Denver and New York capitalists is opening new era in gold | mining on the banks of the Colorado.
 Here at Ehrenburg, or east of here,
 We hope for good results. Water, water is our cry. Give us weter and we will show you what this part of Yuma coun- ty can turn out in gold. The cement beds are wonderful, carrying from $5 to ST per ton in gold, but we are held hack for lack of water. This will yet come. Los Trigos is rich-but DO water.
 Santiago Lopez took out s22 ID two
 hours last week. Water, water is our
 cry. "FoRTY YEARS MINER"
 Ehrenburg, May 3l, 1895.
 A Romance of the Peerage.