Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-02-08
Samples From the Big Strike 0i the Crowned King Reach Prescott and are Now On
 Exhibition.
USEFUL IS WELL IS ORILEEIrlL
Many Miners as Well as Others os to the Prescott National Bank Teddy 10 Examine and Look ct the Rieh- est Piece Of Ore Ever to Come From Any Mine in the West.

A small army of peopIe. which. considering the small Pox epidemic was necessarily limited 10 numbers, but including several ore experts, surething formation authorities, business men who have at one time or arother grub stAked" the Has sayamper trail hunter, the tender foot, the ardent 16-to-ler, the gold bugger, the artisan aud last but not least, the inquisltiye but nsverthe- less interested feminine, whether married or single, made life a burden and figures obnoxious today to Mir. kinsley aud other attachees of the Prescott National Bank. They all came to see the sample taken from the lower workings of the CrOEnsd King mine, that had just been brought in, and incidentally 10 make inquiries of the extent of the strike, its value per ton, and in short ask questions that the mining vocabu- lsry as yet has not dipped" or "cross-cuL" into. Anyway the sample was there. and ss each one picked it up and "rubber-neeked" at It, as the VulRaf would say, all man. Der of expressions were heard. The ore was eagerly seFutinized however, and ss '6ggsrs don't lie" neither could that sample deceive the most unsophIsticated.
 As before stated in these columns the strike in the Crowned King was made in the 500-f0ot level of that mine, in the deepest workings of it. The ore on exhibition will weigh about three pounds and Is of par tislly crystalized white quartz, car ryiBg spar, lead and sulphurets, free gold predominarIng, however. An authority says that the free gold carries at least 95 per cent of the values of the sample. The partic ular sample was taken from . ten inch vein, and its actual value in dicates by assay at least flO0,0O0 to the ton.
 Nothing additional has been heard from the mine that furnishes this magnificent ore, other than that there was some excitement prevail ing yet, and al o that the chute from whence it came, had not pinched. Another somewhat re- markable fact in encouutering such ore at that depth, prevails in the case of this late discovery, in this, a a general rule in Yavapai mining at great depth the rich ores are in a sulphide state usually, the free ordinarily coming from the suFfscs. workings. This theory, however, shows and proves again that gold is wherever you find it, and even if tEs- dition or miuerslogical authorities are exploded occasionally the min ing fraternity of a scholastic hue should take their medicine grace fully, and particularly so in the Crnwne1 King instsnce.
 The strike which the sample shows, is unquestionably the great est in wealth ever to take place in the history of western miring, and aside from the pecuniary profit 10 the Crowned King Company. it Is loy ously hailed by every resident snd businesi man in this section.
 The only attsche of the company residing in Prescott is R. H. Heth- erington, and while the poverty stricken :ypo did not care to bump up" against such a pronounced gold bug as he threatens to be, for fear of disturbing bis sweet e1uelibrium, in an endeavor Co ge; news. enough was learned from his golden silence, however, that warrants us in stating that ~ColOnel Sellars and his mil lions in 1t" are not in 1t with this YavapaI bonanza.