The Arizona sentinel., 1897-04-17
TaE GOLD sTRlRES NEAR YUMA,
From Los Angeles Evening Express.

YUMA, Ariz., April 6.-Recent discoveries of rich gold mines and valuable strikes of ore in old ones in Southwestern Arizona and South eastern California have attracted attention to Yuma as the center of these developments, and the people eff Yuma are naturally not a little elated over the prospect The King of Arizona" as the latest rich discovery is called, which was located since the 1st of March, and which gives promise of being one of the,most prolific gold mines ever found in Arizona, is peculiarly & Yuma affair. The prospector, Eichelberger, who found it, was outftted in Yuma by MT. Gleason, engineer for the Yuma Light and Water Company, and started out from this place. The mine was found about seventy miles due east of Yuma, in the foothills of the western slope of the Chocolate mountai! S. The country in which the mine is situated is said to be 2
 most u7pronIising one, esCimatea by the usual standards, ard it is thirty-fve miles from the nearest water. But the ledge is one of great size and phenomenal richness. Six hundred pounds was brought down to Yuma, which yielded an average of $1 per pound.
 A great many mining men have visited the find, including Charles D. Lane, now considered the most extensive and successful gold miner in the United States, and all pro no1nced 1t the most remarkable discovery on the surface that they have ever seen, The vein is several feet wide at the surface-some say ten to twelve feet-all high grade free-milling gold ore, and some portions of it phenomenally rich, making a dazzling showing of free gold That which does not show free gold gives rich results in the thorn spoon " Messrs Eichel- berger and Gleason have three locations on the ledge, which is traceable on the surface over 5000 feet, and which has been found to be Of high grade wherever prospect ed.
 Messrs. Gleason and Eichelberger are said to have received proffers to bond the property at such enormous figures as $400,O00 or $5O0,000. This would be an un- precedented figure for an entirely undeveloped property, except as nature has devel op'd it. But whether these offers have or have not heen made, they have not ac- cepted them, but by disposing of an interest, supposed to be one quarter, the lucky owners have secured enough money for their immediate use, and have also be- come the preprietors of five stamp mill, which is now on the road, and which will be set up at the point nearest the mine where water can be obtained-thirty-fve miles dis tant. The gentlemen who have purchased in are Mayor R. J. Dun- can of Yuma, and Superintendent E. Randolph of the Arizona divi- sion of the Southern Pacific Com pany, of Tucson. They expect to have their mill running in q few days, and although the distance which they have to haul ore is very great, its value ;s expected 10 capnter-halance that drawback After 6 time they may pump water to the mine, or at least iart way. The Golden Cross Company, on the California side of the Colorado river, pump water for their one hundred stamp mill twenty miles. and water for La Fortuna mine and mill is pumped twelve miles.
 Thus far no other very important discoveries have been made in the neigh borhood of the King of Ari- zona, excepting one on a parallel location, which is said to be show ing a narrower vein Of high grade