The news-herald., 1902-08-09
4 GIGANTIC
PROPOSITION.
Eastern Capitalists Planning to
Install the Largest Cyanide
Plant in the World.
Hassayampa River
To Be Cyanided.

| perIenCCQ eastern mining man mas
been in this vicinity, and while he
has had little to say, he has not
been idle and has been saving
wood-for placer location stakes,
if we are correctly informed.
Most of his time has been spent
in examining and testing the gold
bearing sands and gravel in the
bed OF the Hassayampa river, be-
tween the Walnut Grove dam site
and the box canyon, a distance OF
twenty miles. 1t is we'll known
that the bed Of the river is very
rich in gold, and for many years
attempts have been made with a
variety of dredges and other mach
ines to save the values, but the un-
eveness of the bed rock, the small
amount of water and presence OF
countless boulders has made all
previous attempts failures.
1t now looks as if the Hasa
avampa will at last be conquered
and looted Of the treasures 1t has
been boarding since God made
cold. The gentlemen referred to
was sent here by an eastern COM
panv to consider the advisability
of again attempting to dredge the
river, but while looking over the
ground he was suddenly struck
with one OF those ideas which
cons but once in Il life time, makes
millionaires out OF paupers and
changes the worlds history.
Between the dam site and the
box canyon below lie 20 miles OF
river bed ranging from 50 to 300
yards in width and fairly teeming
with gold-but Oh top Of the gold
and bed rock is from 40 to 100 feet
Of sand, gravelan immense bould-
ers. At the box canyon two large
Dountains come nearly together
and the bed rock comes close to
the surface, forming an enormous
CYAtIDE TANK 20 MILES Lone AND
100 FEET DEEP. Nature has not
only provided the tank but has
placed the gold therein and sup
piled the water as well and it now
awaits the man who will add the
cyanide.
The H&ssayampa is one OF Ari-
zona's famous ''dry" rivers, with
the exception 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, but seeping along
under and through the rich sands
is a stream of several hundred
inches of water which, follows the
bed rock, coming to the surface on
" at long intervals, such as the
dam site and the box canyon. 1t
is proposed to build a small dam
at the dam site, where all the wat
er will be taken out, cyanide add
ed and again sent on it's twenty
mile trip through the sands. At
the box canyon another dam will
be built to bed rock and the treas
ure-laden waters run through pipes
to the level tract below the box,
where they will be made to give up
their gold by means Of the ordin-
airy zine precipitation tanks. 1t
will take several acres of tanks
AS it takes the water several
weeks to seep twenty miles through
the rich sands, anyone familiar
with cyaniding and the Hassayamp
gravel will realize. the rich harvest
which will be reaped from a con-
tinuous flow of Of 300 to 500 inch
es Of the gold-laden waters.
The gentlemen conceiving the
idea is now endeavoring to raise
capital to further the project. 1t
is estimated that the first years
run will net from 100000 to
$50,000,000.