The Arizona sentinel., 1897-05-15
The Gold Belt of the Lower COlors ao
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 "A darl-hued lizard OF the dark-hu sd sand;
 4 rock, short gray tree; above, sn equal sky
 She sits and dreams. The whiteless blue of heayel Copes down to meet the gresnless brown of cart And compasses her dream
 And this is Arizona and the deser bordering the Lower Colorado river C.
 the West. And the languor of tic
 dreamer is passing, giving way to the 1 promise of 9 glorious future replete
 with success from energetic efforts
 It is aaiP mature equalize5 natter;
 hence, because of the unkind physical
 surroundings peculiar to this region
 It would appear compensation has been and will be had in the marvellous
 dispositions Of the precious minerals
 beneath the forbidding exterior.
 Values in gold, particularly, com
 mensurate with the hardships and actual physical suffering endured in quest of the yellow metal in this dreary zone of desolation, have been and will be found. Of the many meritorious gold strikes now in the embryotic state of "prospects" and being worked from Ehrenberg norther- ly to the vicinity of Yuma, on and along the Colorado and Gila rivers to southerly, we will not at this time touch. It is of those known to exist, actualities, tangible values in gold as found in better known prospects and mines, this letter will treat.
 Beginning with the latest recorded and verified strike in the S. H. moun- tains, eighty miles northerly from the town of Yuma and thirty miles from the Gila river: Though having no personal knowledge of the strike at the King of Arizona, or locally called the Gleason group, yet from reliable and from samples of ore Tn hand we find very peculiar and in teresting new condition. The lode | vein crops for three claims in length 450O feet-and holds an average width of about 20 feet, in diorite and por- phyry contact. The great mass of the vein matter is hard, reddish black, lungry-lookjng limestone, and Q )luish and cream-colored sugar quartz { feet thick on the hanging wall hEeaded and shot with coarse gold of . value mp to B per pound of rock 1s~.-, ,-.v highest values n this free metallic gold are held in yellow .arbonate of lead and a matrix of sugar quartz" Other samples are of . fine quartz conglomerate, through II of which iron as an oxide-carbonate nd hematite appears. Along the leavage of the rock strata of vein turf occur seams of calcspar.
 All of this matter is impregnated with coarse, visible gold, though in nuch of the dense limestone where no ( old is visible even under the glass, 1 tring and shot gold is had from the ornspoon. I am creditably informed hat the 4-foOt pay streak will not z ln below $50 per ton and up to $2OO0 I old per ton, and the remaining IA to z 6 feet of width of vein spoons ap- I roximately to plate $S to $12 per ton. I 'ntil the outcrop is broken it appears ) be but ordinary "mal paies" (hard, q lack, porous lavas). Part of the vein
 in high, serrated cliffs. Until & esh fracture IS made this appears to ( g valueless, volcanic rock. When I roken 1t was first pronounced black !, uartz; investigatiTn shows it to be msstone. This emphasizes the writer's z 'iterated advice to desert prospectors ) pass no defind ledge of rock without , samples for fresh fracture, :: 1T the sunburned, sand-polished out ,op of all rocks looks alike in blacken- q l, shining surface in the desert. It v enough to say the King of Arizona r 'Oup is a tangible reality so far as and high surface values in old goes, and from practical miners andpoint this 4500 feet in length N regularly defined outcrop in a con- t' " ct of primary rocks the future of the ', in at depth is assured, presumably . ith it precious burden.
 Next in order of discovery is the La Q 0rtuna, on the Gila river, near Yuma. a his, from all accounts, is huge O. ,ipe vein" some 400 feet in length f; ong the strike, all pay and ? to I2 q A%N(>%N(><NM cl