Arizona republican., 1900-12-18
Gift Books. McNeil Co.
YUMA COUNTY MINES
Plomosa Districts Mineral Prospects
 Looking Decidedly Upward.

From almost every section of1Yuma county come reports that cool weather and recent rains, filling the tanks with the necessary water. have sent pros pectors to She hills in large numbers, and that almost every Gna who has an encouraging prospect in now at the scene of his find, trying, with pick and shovel, to "see into the earth" says | the Yuma Sun. In many of these latter instances the results have already proven satisfactory, encouraging the searchers for precious metals to go still deeper.
 No part of the county Is receiving more attention or giving greater prom ise than the Tyson and Palomas dis tricts. covering an area of country flf- teen miles quare. The hills of this big country probably contain more pros pectors today than any like area in the county, and many are the reports of finds coming from there.
 One of the most sensational of these reports, but of which very few of the details can be learned, is that parties working on a property near Desert Well have encountered, after sinking 100 feet and just piercing in that dis tance the heavy iron capping overlay- ing the country, a ledge of very high grade copper ore, which has been cross cut to a width of sixty feet and neither wall has yet been found. The ore is aid to be almost incredibly rich, the es.i- mate we have placing it as fifty per cent clear across the ledge. Who the the locators of this, if authentic, rich find are, we do not know. A gentleman by the name of Roberts has a bond OH the property in the sum of $15,O00, but of his residence We are also ignorant Under this gentlemans instructions the work is being done, and the indications are that he will take up the bond he has on the mine.
 w. c. Despair and Harry McPhaul. of Yuma, and Dent &Sayer Flagstaff attorneys, own four copper claims fourteen miles northeast of Tyson, which possess most hattering indica- tions. They are the Mammoth Copper, Excelsior, Hope and Ohio claims, and were located less than a year ago by the two gentlemen first named and Gus Mudesbach, who afterward dis posed of his one third interest to Dent & Saver. The attorneys also own an adjoining claim, which they secured from J. K. Handley. Mir Mudesbach Is now at the property doing development work, and MT. Despair will leave for there very shortly. A depth of thirty feet has bcen attained on one of the claims, disclosing a ledge six feet in width. Asays of the ore taken from this point are said to average twentv- nie per cent. However that may be the rock looks good and the property is well worth the attention or it's owners.
 One of the most deeply interested mining men of the Tyson district is Judge F. L. Bradshaw, who shares in the ownership of nearly or quite fifty claims, lying largely to the west of Ty- son about ten miles. He recetnly dis posed of several groups lying contigu- ous the purchasers being the Plomosa Mining and Milling company, of which Q. A. Pease of St. Louis is the he71 The company is developing the Mohave group of four claims. and the work oone has shown up good bodies of ore. Eoth MT. Pease and Judge Bradshaw are in the east, while Col. Richard Darling, who is one of the parties in terested in the property. Is superi1- tending development work.
 A deal is now being negotiated fin ChlcaSo for the Bee Hive group of four claims, owned by the Plomosa comma n.y. and this promising rloperty may | pass into other hands.
 The President group of ten claims the Orient of five and the Valen.uela or three are also under the same own ershlp' and their development will mean the eSta blishmen+ or a ,,a,,. ,, camp.
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