Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1899-07-30
Injured by ExtraVagant Descrip
tions Of it Abroad.
CHLORIDE is ALL RIGHT
u Has a Promising Fufure-IiS pur-
pose Will Be Best Served ty Be-
ing Known as 10 Is Really Is.
To This End Republican Min
ing Correspondent Is on Hts
way to the Camp.

Kingman, Ariz July, 27.-CSpecial
correspondence of The Republican,
Owing to a break down of one of the
engines employed on the construction
of the new road from Kingman to
Chloride 1 am unable to start for that
camp until the necessary repairs have
been affected, and cannot think, do
better than devote the intervening
time to showing up the latest Arizona
mining fake.
The ssSan Francisco Chronicle" of
Sunday. July 16, contains an illustrat-
ed article under the caption of "A
New Arizona Silver Camp. Recent
Sudden Development of the Town of
Chloride" which to put it mildly is
in the highest degree sensational But,
this is altogether put in the shade by
communication purporting to hail
from Prescott which has lately appear
| ed in the New York Sun, nhe Kansas
City Star and good many other
prominent Journals in the middle and
eastern states. This appears under a
three lire head reading as follows:
''Chloride's Rich Ores: Rapid Growth
of the New Mining Camp in the
Southwest. 4 Sun Baked Desert With
IncaIculable Wealth Almost on the
Surface. Ores Long Neglected. His
tory of the Mines" and goes on to
a.,
mouth of nearly every gold and silver
miner in the southwest nowadays.
and a rush which promises 10 exceed
that to Randsburg in 1896 and even
that to Tombstone 20 years ago, has
set in towards Chloride. The veteran
gold and silver mine seekers in ahe
west who have an abiding faith that
every year with the figure 8 at the
end will be famous one in the find
ing of new fields for mining precious
ores in the west are convinced that
Chloride is to be the scene of the
great gold and silver rush for 1899.
Many argue that the great rush of
gold hungry men to California was
in 1919; the Fraser river and the First
Comstock rushes occurred in 1859; the
Montana gold field was discovered and
the stampede thereto began in 1869;
the Tombstone and I1eadville silver ex-
citement started in 1879; the San Juan
and Utah gold rushes We're in 1889 and
that now the Chloride field is going
to furnish tht richest diggiugs found
in thu west in 1S99."
1 quote this as a fairly artistic sort
of lead. and the article continues in
this strain: Notwithstanding the
boom in copper mining throughout
Arizona and the unprecedented ener-
gy in every copper camp in the south
west This season, one cannot go any
where in the territory without hear
ing of Chloride. The latest strike of
silver ore in Chloride is discussed in
this region before any other topic, and
sample chunks of ore from the Chic
ride mining district are exhibited in
store windows, behind saloon bars
ard in hotel offices. Stories of how
Jack so and so has struck base ore
at Chloride that sells to the Ei Paso
smelters for $3.50 a carload: how
Bill Somebody has sold a half inter
est in his prospect at Chloride for S1O,-
900 or more; and how old Jim What's
His Name has ledge 20 feet wide
with enough gold IN it to ray the
working expenses of ore that runs
12O ourceS of silver to the ton, are
heard on every side. The brakeman
on the train has a bit of silver and
gold ore from Chloride in his pocket;
the conductor yeaIns to get away from
his Job for a few days to go over TO
Chloride and try his luck. The wait
ress in the hotel asks while she waits
your order whether You have been 10
Chloride yet. and the porter fingers
after he has set your baggage in your
room to ask what's the latest news
from the rush to Chloride The dull
est schoOlboy in Arizona can locate
Chloride near Kingman in Mohave
This as an imaginative flight is not
bad in it's way, but now We get down
to more precise statements:
THE rush to Chloride started in last
March. -Four new mines We're opened
md. as the miners say-paid big from
grass roots down. So the fame of
Chloride Went abroad. At first fifty
,r sixty miners and prospectors went