Arizona republican., 1902-08-30

pecting, which. though not meant for publication, will be read with relish Ey many who have been through pretty much the same general experience. Writing from Mineral Park. Mir. Hdas ! says:
 .I sometimes see in the Mining ard Scientific Press mention Of the tur- GUoise found in California and New Mexico Now I will give you a brief | idea or sketch Of the turquoise and mines in this section, as I am the man { who worked for years to bring them into market and prominence. l have i just sold to a New York company, or i people, who now style themselves the Aztec Turquoise company, and who l have expended over S30,00 in labor and | improvements in less than two years. | l have shipped to them in New York | over $100000 worth of gems and stones from their mines here.
 About twenty eight years ago, in prospecting for precious metals, l came across an old dump which had been worked by soldiers stationed at Fort Nohave-a company of the California volunteers-about two miles and half south from Mineral Park; on that dump and scattered oyer the ground were small pieces of blue and green stone, and chunks of granite with creases around the center, which We afterwards found to be stone hammers, made of granite and very hard. took some of the blue or green stone, after pounding it up, to an assayer who was running the Mineral Park mill He assayed it-with no returns.
 I sunk the shalt a little deeper found nothing; so let it go. A short time after l learned of some one find ing turquoise over that way. l went over there and, To! in the same old shaft that was sunk by the soldiers and ancients. were men at work. They had the ground located; they worked a lit tie while, went away and did not come back. In due course of time the ground was subject to location. l then located it and went to work.
 Some men would come along, and, seeing me at work on nothing, would say: Crazy. | got few pieces of the stone and sent it to Tiffany of New York, George Kuntz. his expert, de- clared it was all right, but would be better if it was gone down on farther. , went down q little farther, with no good results, and, having no money, 1 quit it. but did not abandon it. l pros . pected east of it on the hill and found several old shafts that were sunk by prehistoric miners; beautiful pieces O; blue stone, with others, all over that section. I picked up several pounds fi sent some to France Germany, SwitZ- erland, England and Belgium. From nearly all l got returns; they would have some fault to find-it was either too light, too dark, too green, or toe some thing, but always with the re- quest to send three CT four pounds. and they would pay the postaSe'-bui I could get no one to help me develop
 IL lay idle for two years. l went over there again and found a notice witf Sarah AIthea Hill-Terry's name on it but that poor woman never did any F work on it. Before the time ran ou an individual located it for a Denver syndicate; they did about $50 worth O.
 work and then left it.
 It lay there idle, nothing done on it
 for two years more. 1 then located l
 again and went to work. l sent ston'
 to parties north, south, cast and yves
 to advertise it.. No one wanted it : Finally a man travelling on the A. S
 r. railroad heard of it, came to see me
 He had plenty of money. @ He tool
  for $10,0OO. 1 thought $1O,0OO would b
 better to me alive than $50,000 after
 was dead. He got a rich man ther
 interested in it, who put up $,2O0 . cash-$1 0C0 the promoter was to pa.
 me on the lease and bond and S1,000 fo
 his expenses going and coming iron | New York. The schemer came Ou
 here gave me $500 and kept the $1,50 and went, God knows where-and h
 is there yet I believe his consCienc
 had stricken him or I never would hay
 get a cent; but 1 treated him kindl
 and perhaps he thought ] might hun
 him up; but he does not dare go bac
 to New York. However, l did not pro n pose that the gentleman who put u the $2,000 should be the loSer. l pro ; tected his interest even if I did no = get my money. His name was in tn $ lease and bond, of which l had a copy Q and, after a dullness of several month ,. | wrote him. He was surprised to fin = the position of things and to know tn $ facts.
 | After a brief period, another eXpeI = was sent cut and we did some business : The man whO put up the money l. the first place is president of the cen
 pany and 1 was the manager here. wit $ the above results; but, owing to m K. other mining interests, l resigned. I'll g company is still working and shipping e- "I send you herewith two phot;
 graphs-one with the hill in the bact s. ground. In the one of the ether m le you will note the men and tents Q
 top. That has an altitude of 6,5OO fee d There is turquoise on top of it. There
 where we worked in the winter