Mohave County miner., 1900-01-27
General Mining News

made by Red Mullen in the Haraua
HaIa district. While working on one
Of his claims he encountered a cave
ten feet in length, six in height by
three in width, which fairly glistens
with gold. Mr.. Hubbard of the Bonan-
"a property, offered the fortunate own
er gO,OO0S for the property, which was
refused.-Gazette.
1t is reported that A. l.. Grow Of
Tombstone, representing New York
syndicate of capitalists, has secured
an option on eighty claims, embracing
all the old silver producers of that
camp, and movement is contemplated
whereby the subterranean waters, in
great quantities, will be drained off
and active operations resumed in the
grand old camp, which has lain dor
mant for about fifteen years. Tomb
stone at one time contained popula-
ton of 10000, but at present there are
scarcely 400 people in the camp. The
mines are known to be rich i'm both
gold and silver, and the large body of
water forcing itself up into the work
ings Is all that has caused these mines
to remain idle for the past several
years, the mammoth pumping plant at
one time in use having been consumed
by fire. The water in the shafts of the
abandoned mines is pure and will be
used to advantage if, following out con-
templated plans, new reduction works
are erected.-Silver Belt.
An old prospector tells the following
incident says the Yuma Sun: While
camped in the Wallapai mountains re-
Gently there came to my camp from off
the Santa Fe Pacific an English over.
land tourist and after passing the
usual salutations and greetings the
stranger proposed to join the desert
express train of burros and try his
luck prospecting. The first camp was
made at Maggie Springs where stood
an old miners cabin. In the morning
he proposed to help cook breakfast
aud built a rousing fire in the old fire.
place of the cabin. and started to fry
the bacon. All at once startled ex.
preston came from the embryo cook
and turning quickly ] discovered a
large king snake sizzling in the frying
pan. The chimney getting hot had
dislodged his snakeship and down he
came into the hot grease. "Good God
partner! I've got 'em again." he ex,
claimed, as he danced excitedly around
holding the frying pan at arms length
Il know I've got 'em, and hav'nt had q
drink for a month" 1t took quite q
while to quiet him down and the next
day he started out for the railroad
declaring that he had enough of the
desert.
Some days ago this paper had occas
ion to remark that Hassayampa dis
trict il coming to the front with rich
finds in manner to thoroughly verify
the longtime predictions of local min
ers as to the future mineral greatness
of that district. Now comes thorough
ly reliable reports from another mint
in that district, of SO remarkable 9
character that several of our most
prominent as well as conservativ,
mining men have already gone out tt
look at the property and have verified
the correctness of the reports, ano
more people are now preparing to visi
the mine The mine Is known as tn,
Hard to Find, is located on the soutf
side of Hassayampa creek, and belongs
to r. G.. Houston and III. o. Parten
The property WITS worked years ago fo
free. milling ore, abandoned when sui
phurets were struck, and relocated il
later years. This is the history of man,
good mines in this part of Arizona
Houston & Parten have had four mel
developing this property for abou
three months. A shaft has been sunl
GO feet, and is all in ore. 1t is unusua
to stand by development shaft TO
hours and see buckets filled with moth
ing but ore continue to come up; bu
this is what can be seen at the moutl
of the Hard-to-F Find shaft every hou
in the day and every day in the week
So far, there has been no waste in tn
workings. It is all good ore, but tn
ore body is permeated with high-grad
streaks. The ore carries gold, silve