El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-09-03

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Major Davis.
Major S. NJ. Davis writes the cham
Der of commerce as follows from
Bowie, Arizona.
have Just returned from investi.
eating q mining camp twelve miles
south OF Bowie, Arizona. 1t has been
one OF the hundreds of camps that
have been killed by tenderfoOt mining,
with some crank 81 the head OF some
kid of mill scheme, or a stock job
bling scheme where hundreds OF east.
ern parties have been feeced out OF
thousands of dollars. l see at this
camp fine lot of machinery for con-
centrating ore which ran just one
week. and at the end of the week they
found more gold and silver in the tall
inGs than they had extracted from the
ore. II Is some Kind of wind
machine, the result of some crank's
years OF study, who possessed no
practical knowledge of milling ores.
Such monuments Of folly are scattered
all over the country from Canada to
Mexico.
Now. this old camp has been report
ed dead for the last eight or ten
years. But 1 will tell you sll 1 saw.
L spent swo days 10 looking over the
camp and Investigated IL more thor
oughly than any camp since L have
been on the road, and 1 believe this
camp can be made a Dig producer OF
silver and copper.
The first group OF claims 1 visited
belongs to Edward Braun. He has a
group of three claims, but at present
IL only working on one claim, the Gold
Farm Lode. He is developing it with
a tunnel, and lie in about forty-fve
feet. he has abouS 30 tons OF ore on
the dump that will mill $40 in gold
and from the horning Of five or six
places think it will 60 oil he claims
for his cump. The ledge he is work
Ing on Is about 30 feet wide, porphyry
dyke. The gold veins running through
It all look we'll, some OF the small
stringers are very rich in gold. 1 cav
horning from six different places aud
l should Judge they would run all the
way from $50 to 800 per ton. II this
property goes down IL will make Q good
mine. No depth has been obtained on
any OF the claims Oh the Gold Hill.
Mr.. Braun has vein of good ore
running across bis claim that horns
we'll. This horniug WAS done In a
space of 300 feet In length and about
Tor ssle until it is we'll developed. He
feels he has . bonopzs and will hold on
10 IL until he knows whst he has in 1t.
He hp1 splendid showing to make q
pig gold mine. His other property,
mile from shis property, lie
proposition, but has a
arge white quartz lead carrying silver,
copper and some gold.
Mr.. NJ. E. Kinchola has several
claims on the Gold Hill. The Gold
King Is the most promising of the
h.
cots. He Is also hard at work cevelop-
ne his claims but is hampered for
he lack Of means to prosecute his work
properly. he also has q splendid show
ng ID make good big mine, wi b
proper development work. He owns
he Homestake, another very promising
,iaim. The Homestake looks sple ndid
or the work done on 1t. 1t is gold ard
!lver.
The Phil. Armour is large six foot
edge carrying gold and silver, with
healthy looking vein, and ougns TO
levelop into good paying mine l
aw quite a number OF properties be-
opging to eastern parties, some Of
hem patented, at Dug ht to be work
d, judging from the dump. They
houid be producing ore. could not
ct down into some OF the properties
ecause there WAS water in the shafts,
ut saw enough to satisfy myself shat
good producer could be made out |
I this camp, With proper development |
,ork. Their is plenty of wood and
lenty of water in. the camp for all
urposse, and more water can be deve-
,ped IL needs from Mineral Springs,
ne-half mile of on the side of the
belonging to Captain Tevis,
'ho entertained me while at Bowie.
The captain IL ore of the landmarks
the early days 10 Arizona, when one
sd to fight from daylight until dark.
lie can tell of q hundred hairbreadth
scapes, and of the terrible fights with
lie Indisns from 1857 until the capture
Geronimo few years ago. The
sptain iruns the Bowie Eating House
nd sets up fret class meal. He has
,vsral fine looking claims in this same
prines claim, the Widow, and the
ountain claim. The Mineral Springs
aim IL copper claim about dve feet
ide, we'll defined wslls, and the ore 10
from wall To wall. This is
splendid showing 30 make . good
Aying property running we'll In
,pper. The Widow ia q gold and
liver property and it should be devel-
bed with q good shaft and opened up
rom its looks il should make good
-oducer. The Fountain 10 q gold pro-
,rty but In the same list rs she above.
should have considerable develop
ent and they both ought to be mad .
rod properties.
South of Bowie seventeen miles,
olOnel Hooker OF Fort Grant, has
I'D Weber & Booz q half interest in
me property, and they are putting In
ten stamp mill aud have agreed II
BEND Sl4 900 in development work
n the half interest This is . free
illing proposition and will some day
3 a big gold producer.
NJ. KELSEY, manager of the Solomon