Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-08-30
\ SfunS HiRiRs Expedition Leaves Prs colt to HHHt for the Traditi61al
 Riches of Long LsO.
Private Capital Furnishes the ''Sine~s ot War" and Arizona the Men to Practically Ferret out
 the Riches.

Lc dDDfo peOple nave TOT wears
 resided in Yavapai county, and are
 practical miners. They go. it is
 said, to distant Peru on a contract
 with C. F. Collins, the well-known
 mining operator who has lately in
 vested quite heavily in thIs county.
 Their purpose is to explore tbis
 new mining ragion and work under
 a contract for one year any quartz
 or placer claims which may be dis
 covered. From Franklin the party
 will go direct to New York. thence
 by steamer to the Isthmus of Pan
 anna. Arriving at ths latter lace
 they cross overland 10 the Pacific.
 where a steamer will await their
 arrival to take them to MoheredO,
 Peru. From this point they walk to
 Julisca, Peru, a distance of l75
 miles. With the Arizona conting-
 ent there will be an additional force
 of half a dozen more, to meet them
 at New York. At this latter place
 they wlll be outdtted in clothing,
 mining utensils and fire arms, it
 being the purpose to provide each
 man with such means of protection
 as to withstand any element of the
 bloOdthirsty that country seems to
 be so badly afflicted with Each
 maa will be armed with a brace of
 six x-shOoters and rifles of the latest
 make, with 5o0 rounds of ammuni-
 ton. A large pack train of aeclim-
 ated animals will carry provisions
 and other goods across the Andes
 from Moheredo.
 This is one of the most novel and largest American eXE editions ever to leave for South America ou purely private backing. It goes, according to report, on the representations made by 6 correspondent of the Chicago Record, whose glittering accounts of the fabulous wealth of gold in that section, are indeed iasc- mating 1T not inviting. This cor respondent also states that the country is but in Its infancy ID min ing and so we'll guarded are its inches by uncivilized native Indians that none but the intripid should advance to the interior. and q sui fcient number should be together 10 withstand any probable attack.
 The selection of Arizona miners IS a creditable one, and seems to have been due to the fact of a general knowledge of the mining industry, and likewise a familiarity to the and characteristics of the Indian. Nearly every man of the above coterie has been iD the terri tory many years, and followed min ing in its every phase, from punch ing a burro over the mountain trail to chloTIding or any prospect run onto.
 The objective point of these min CTS is one of the oldest and richest in mining tradition on the American IL is here, according to history of gold hunting that Fl Do rado lived and thrived many gener ations ago, and as yet has not been run onto. The Cibca Indians, who still inLabit and rule over that and who 1t is said are the only human beings who know of the . exact location of the secret chamber in that mythical mountain supposed . to gusrd this god of gold, have from time to time in the past fifty years been persuaded to reveal the loca- ton of the same, but to each eXpedi- ton has the same reaults followed, and after years of fruitless search, . coupled with death and disease, has . each successively failed. An EE. lish company has been striving Tor a decade past to solve the mystery "f the location of Fl Dorado, but asid' . from the discovery of some ric!. . placer deposits, or an occasional !. stringer of quartz, has met with dis astef from either climatic diseases or the hostility of the natives. Dec mated to few they are about to abandon the search, which has been !. fruitless and disastrous to the men and their promoters
 As each year passes by, interest . seems to awaken more and more Co ! the belief that the location of these . gold fields of some thread like tra- dition, have again been ruu onto. . and the formation of this Arizona . expedition is only in keeping with . the cherished hope of private capi- ! tal that it will be solved to cer- taintv in this instance. A few years . ago a party of four left Prescott for Peru, two of whom returned. Those ] two who remained were killed later, along with four others. A fate like . the above has oveTtaken scores ot . others, but undsunted they still l to rush in.
 Up to the present time no dis coyerles of any great value have been made cn the eastern slope of . the Andes. and with the exception of few rich placer claims being found, nothing in the line of start ! ling discoveries have yet bee n chron- ! icled to stampede hOrdes of the sd- venturous, nor is 1t probable that . that there will be in the future. As one of the party remarked before leaving this morning, "we are going to see the country any way, and If . we do not like the country, we will . come back to old Yavapai." ,"