Arizona republican., 1900-08-18

ferent from what he had been led to believe. Only base copper ore was in sight. and the chance of finding rich ore there grew slimm each day.
 At little after dawn on May 9, when Murphy was hunting quail. he ran across a. rock in the bottom of a guIch. about the size of a mans head. He knew at a glance that it was live rock, exactly like that h. had seen in the Indians hands at Chloride a year or two before. He ran back to his tent and got his hammer and magnifying glass. The rock was whacked into pieces, and each piece revaa aled tiny specks of gold in the gray quartz.
 Murphy was wildly excited. He abandoned all else and began a search for the ledge of outcropping from which the chunks in the gulch had been de- tached. He crawled up and down the barren, scorched hill many times He crept over wide areas on his hands and knees. looking. scrutinizing and gazing all about him. He turned over hundreds of bits of oXidized rocks there. He clipped away pieces of Outcroppings and he pulled up dry sage brush and peered into the holes left by the roots. In his feverish restlessness he forgot all about hunger and he paid little attention to the suns burning heat which beat upon his back. When noon came he was no nearer finding the spot from which the float rock had been displaced. He slid down the hillside and climbed up the opposite side of the gulch. all the time scrutinizing every thing about him with the nicety of bird examining flower. Not a thing anywhere to indicate whence the float had come. But Murphy, with the pa tience of a prospector, stuck to the search.
 He went all over the hillside and found nothing. He retraced his steps and went down into the gulch to re survey the topography of the locality. He gazed up and down, before and back. Suddenly he saw in the late af- ternoon's sunlight protruding mass of rocks a half mile farther up the gulch. that rssembled in color the float he had come across early in the morning. He hastened up the gulch and climbed over boulders and through sage brush. He knew he was at last going to his gold en find. Just at sunset he reached the outcroppings-a sharp. rugged, reddish bl 'Nl II bpulutl JuIllllS 4lbIll Oul d steep area of yellow, sterile soil. He drew himself up to it and eXcitedly knocked off chunk. It was identical with the float of early morning. The golden specks Were everywhere abundant where oxidation had not dulled the pre- cious metallic deposits.
 ''I just sat and smoked all the first night of my find says Barney Murphy in telling how he came across the Prince mine. T knew I had the big gest thing in a gold proposition out there. and that I was fixed for life"
 The next day Murphy went about searching out the dimensions of the ledge. When he had satisfied himself as to that he set up his mining monu- ments, showing the four corners of his claimed property. Then he sent for his grubstahng partner at Chloride, and together they began digging and blasting in the labor of exposing the ledge and demonstrating the quality of its ore. In several spots quartz was found that ran S43 to the ton, but the average rock ran $21 to the ton. And there seems to be thousands of tons of it. It was no trick at all to sell such a property.