Arizona republican., 1901-03-26
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velopments likely will justify them in putting in a much larger plant.
 HOW THE STRIKE WAS MADE.

Placer mining and dry-washing along the streams leading out from tn ? Gro Grande on both sides of noun tain range, has been conducted inter- mittently since 1866, tnH streams hay ing been afforded fresh supplies of gold with every rain. Twelve years ago, without a knowledge of what he was doing. a prospector put down the hole which has since been deepened into tn 2 main shaft on the mother lode of the placer gold. A year ago A. L. Weis ing carried free gold quartz to Upton, who was then operating in the Rich Hill country. stating that he had a pros pect from which came that rock for sale. He had located 1t. said he, with Dan Genung. The rock was so rich that Upton went to the county records of Yavapai. He had agreed to take the prospect and develop it for two-thlrds interest, if it was any thing like Weisling represented. A search failed to show that Weisling or Cenung had located the claim
 Another prospector calle Upton's attention to the property and he visit ed 1t with Hatfield. They rGsted mo- tices and suspending operations on their claims in the Rich H Il district began and conducted work for two months on what appeared to them to be the biggest gold proposition in Ari- zona. R. w. Baxter and A. D. Shultz had also seen specimens and grub staked prospectors to work the claims before Upton and Hatfield mnenced The proSpectors acquired quite a sup ply of provisions, but evidently did nothing with the claim they ostensibly started to work.
 Baxter and Shultz made out no- tices which they placed in a safe at Wickenburg. planning to have them posted when the prospectors returned. They made several steps toward To- eating the prospect. but did not have clear title. When they discovered in January that Upton and Hatfield had done two months' work they learned of the duplicfty of the prospectors they had staked, but were reluctant to part with the property and commenced to establish their claims, in the hope of acquiring possession. Finally they le- ceivcd $50 for a mine that will likely develop into one of the greatest gold bonanzas in the country, and Upton, Hatfield and Lamb acquired clear title.
 WHO THE OWNERS ARE.
 Upton has been operating in Arizona for six years. He was interested in mining in Colorado in the early days. but returned to Clifton, la, before coming to Arizona. He is a practi al mining man with other mining inter ests in Arizona, other than the Orc Grande. He has been hacked in his operations by c. F.. Lamb, a wealthy banker of Clinton who has visited Ari- zona several times to look over the prospects in the Rich Hill country. owned by himself and UIton. Hat field has worked in mines for twenty five years. His experience. before con- ing to Arizona. year ago. was con fined to Montana mining. He entered the employ of Upton near stanton, Ariz.. and was soon made foreman of a mine The three men share the Orc Grande equally
 They have papers prepared and will soon organize a corporation, called the Gro Grlnda Mining company, under the laws of Iowa.
 LLOYD DAMRON.