Bisbee daily review., 1902-08-22
.HASSAYAMPA RIVER
 MAY CARRY GOLD
The Wickenburg Herald says:

The W1ckenDurg Herald says:
 For the past few weeks an expert | enced eastern mining man has been in this vicinity. and while he has had little to say. he has not been idle. and has been saving wood-for placer To- cation stakes. if we are correctly in- formed.
 Most of his time has been spent in examining and testing the gold-bear- ing sands and gravel in the bed of the Hassay ampa river between the Wal nut Grove dam site and the box can yon, a distance of twenty miles. It is well known that the bed of the river is very irch in gold. and for many years attempts have been made with a variety of dredges and other ma chimes to save the values, but the un- eveneness of the bed rock. the small amount of water and the presence of countless boulders have made all pre- yious attempts failures.
 It now looks as if the Hassayamapa will at last be conquered and footed of the treasures it has been boarding since God made gold. The gentle man referred to was sent here by an eastern company to consider the ad- visibility of again attempting to uTSuSe tuS TlNcT. WuIiS over the ground he was suddenly struck with one of those ideas which come but once in a lifetime. makes millionaires out of paupers and changes the worlds history.
 Between the dam site and the box canyon below lie twenty miles of river bed ranging from 90 to 300 yards in width and fairly teeming with gold s hat. 1f ,h hnA -Cnl- is from 70 to 160 feet of sand, gravel and immense boulders. At the box canyon two large mountains come nearly together and the bed rock comes closer to the surface, forming an enormous cyanide tank twenty miles long and one hundred feet deep Nature has not only provided the tank. but has placed the gold therein and supplied the water as well, and It now awaits the man who will add the cyanide.
 The Hassayampa is one of Arizona's s 1 famous dry" rivers. with the eXcep- ton of a very few days each year.
 when some water comes down from | the mountains The remainder of the year the river is apparently dry, bu,
 seeping along under and through the | llCu SduuS IS d SlIcdll Ol sSNSl al Huh- | dred inches of water, which follows the bed rock, coming to the surface only at long intervals, such as the dam site and the box canyon. It is proposed to build small dam at the dam site, where all the water will be taken out. cyanide added and again
 sent on its twenty-five mile run through the sands. At the box canyon
 another dam will be built to bed rock
 and the treasure laden waters run
 through pipes to the level tract be- ' low the box. where they will be made
 to give up their gold by means of the
 ordinary zinc precipitation tanks. It
 will take several acres of tanks. As it takes the water several weeks
 to seep twenty miles through the rich
 sands. any one familiar with cyanid-
 ing and the Hassayampa gravel will
 realize the rich harvest which will be
 reaped from a continuous flow of 300
 to 500 inches of the gold-laden waters. The gentleman conceiving the idea is now endeavoring to raise capital
 to further the project. It is estimated
 that the first years run will net from
 S35, 900 900 to $50. 900, ,000