Phoenix weekly herald., 1897-08-12

| does J D Ou9eD Oary, WnO i5 an olo an'
 respected citizen here. He has besi
 st rough one gold fever there.
 It was MT. Cusen bary who owned
 whetia now Fairmount park when it va
 Ousen bsry Springs. and he sold to th' present owners the land. He is sn oiC
 man now, and his mining and roughinG
 days are over. but he has memories anc
 they ere valuable to the younger gene
 ration.
 MF. Cueen bary says that the msjorit!
 of the tales told and printed of the
 Northern gold fields are romenceF. The
 bad features grow with repetition, sf
 we'll ee the good. He has been there in the winter time, he seys, when 1t was
 no colder than it gets here in the same
 season, and not so cold as it becomes in l Montana. Ia the mountains it might
 bs ss cold, he says, but In the valleys
 there are lakes that often have clear
 water in the winter time.
 "The gold fever of the North was just
 es high," said Mir. Ousen bary yaster-
 day. lin 1858, when gold was found on T
 as it is now. Thousands of people went
 there, and a few made fortunes. l
 went overland, taking with me train
 of pack mules and cerrying provisions
 to the different camps. There were some very rich claims iu that country then. The Caribou mines were per haps as rich AS anything that has been found in what is now the Klondyks country.
 ''As in all the rich gold strikes that have been made in all gold bearing regions, there gre g few gulches and canyons thst are natural sluices, where the gold has been concentrating for centuries end a few hundred claims take in all She rich ground in that vicinity. That WAS my experience in Oalitoynia, Idaho, British Colu mbia and Arizona. They will find the same thing in the KIondyke country, and the condi- tions will extend to other parts of the north, to which the strike will extend.
 "The first few hundred who get there will take all the rich claims and she late comers will come back poorer than they went.
 "If were going to the Kondyke gold mines I would go overland. It Is she shortest and best route. I would go to the Frazier rive-, in British Columbis, by rail. on,f 5 with pack horses end talks the trail to Caribou. From there I would proepecs along the entire route to the Klondyke mines. l believe the Caribou mines are the southeast end of the gold belt shst She Klondyke mines are fn, and not more than 300 OF 400 miles southeast of them.
 "I would leave Frazier river about June 15sh. There will then be plenty of grass, joint Rushes end moss foE tbe horses. The most trouble will be from high water, but prospeotors can cross any stream OF mountain with safety | There is a vast amount of low, level l and in British Columbia, ard e great 1 many lakes and plenty of timber.
 "When I was n that country thirty | 1ine years ago there were DO trails CT ,oeds, the Indians trevellng up and | town the streams and lakes in canoes There are plenty oe berries of different | zinds during July, August and Sep emb bsr. There are also plenty of fish nd they are easily caught. In some parts of the country pheseants, ducks caribou and moose are plentiful, so that Vithal you can see there is not such 8 carcity of food es reports might make me believe.
 "It is rot so cold and disegreeabls here as one might gather from what las been printed and said, with the ex eption of crossing 5he Bald mountains bove the bimber line, where there is snow. The summers are warm and the days very long. and one an eee the midnight sun reflected CD he tops of the ice mountains"
 Mir. Cussnbary does not believe the old fevsr of the north will be lasting. Ie has his eyes turned toward Arizona, where there have been rich finds. Hs eys.
 T predict that the next excitement bout rich placer gold fields will be in Arizopa There are thousands Of acres f land in Arizona thas have from three O twenty feet Of gravel, carrying from 0 to 30 cents of gold to the yard. The ravel lies on cement, and the cement t 7esrs away in the canyons with water nd gravel running over it, and the gold hat hes deen washing into them for has been carried on down the alley OF banks of ths Colorado river.
 "Ib has been prospecsed ib few ,laoes where there was high bed rock nd found to he very rioh. The run ,here the gold is lodged ie under the 'ater. I believe that the gravel bsds D the hills would pay 5l50 per day with sluice head of water, which could be umped there"
 Mr Cnsenbsry is still so much of liner that he takes papers from the lining districts end pointed to this tipping from the Yums, Ariz., Sun of July B, l897 to prove his position: "Lsss developments show that, no Iatter what may oe said. the King of rizona is the greatest find tbat was yer made in the Territory. ehe arestest tha entire wesa.
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