Arizona republican., 1900-08-18
LUCK OF GOLD MINING
Barney Murphy the Latest Favorite
 of Fortune.

A wild west correspo pondent of the New York Sun is the author of the following story, of which many Arizonians have not heard:
 "The luck that has come to young Barney Murphy at Chloride, Ariz., is the talk of the mining camps of the southwest nowadays. Four months ago he was t5aming on the deser, from Kingman. Ariz.. to the White Hills sil yer camp for $45 a month and found. Today he has a bank deposit here of $350O0. and he is having a glorious time over at the Santa Catalina island sum m=r resorts. He was grubstaked on May 1, 1900. for $l7 month, ami on May g he located the Prince gold mine among the foothills on the Rio Colo rado, in the extreme northern part of Mohave county, AriZ. sixty miles south of the southern boundary of Utah. By June Is he had laid bars enough of the ledge to show the width and length of a vein of gold bearing quartz. and on July 10 he and his grubstaking partner sold the property for $50 000 Of this sum $5O,000 was paid cash down. The rest is to be paid on November 10.
 Such luck is rare nowadays. Thou sands of proypectors have searched for years over mountains, through can yons, across deserts and along foot hills, enduring privations and living like savages, and have never found aI- together ore worth 5000. Barney Mur- phy has always lived in mining camps and has been a laborer in silver and gold mines for six years. So he has d large fund f information about ladge- and surface indications of their pres ence. During his days and nights If driving mule teams across the country he pondered over the geological lay Of the land among the hills on the horizon off to the north of his lonely route through the sterile Sacramentl valley and with the stray specimens of rock he occasionally saw in the hands of the Hualapai Indians h. formed a theory as to where a strata of gold quartz ran in that locality and where it might most easily be found beneath the sun baked adobe soil and the whi.eHed hOuliers. There's so large an lement of doubt in the finest spun theories about gold veins that Murphy hesitated about going out to seek the mine he thought he nigh, find. He $ cretly told his plans to Dan Freeman. a bar tender at Chloride. For a week Dan declined to invest his money on Barney Murphy's theory, but he finally gave in. An arrangem- mt. written on a dirty leaf from a battered not book, was signed by Murphy and Freeman 10 the effect that the former was to receive from the latter $17 month for one year, during which time Murphy was to prospect for gold and silver mines in northern Arizona. Freeman was to have one-third interest in all mining claims that Murphy located during that time.
 Along with a jackass laden with a frying pan, tin pail, coffee pot and ket- tie, sacks of beans, salt pork and bacon a roll of blankets and pickaxe and shOvels, Murphy started out on May F for the bald, parched hills. He reached the hills on May 10. He set up camp and began prospecting. While h. had been among miners and brospectors from his earliest youth, he had never before gone prospecting for himself. With a pick in his hand he trampsd and crawled and scrutinized the deso- late, hot hills over for several days. He found the topography as he had eX- pected it to be. but the character of the outcroppings was al; gether diff