Arizona republican., 1902-04-02
A TWO WEEKS TOUR
A Well-Known Californian's Impress
 sious of Arizona.


 lis son Clarence, spent yesterday in the city, leaving on the evening train for home. Mr. Osborne is United States marshal for the southern district Of California, and is just finishing a two weeks tour of Arizona, taken during T leave of absence from his official duties. He has lived in Los Angeles for the last twenty-three years. thirteen of which were spent in the management of the Los Angeles Express, which he owned till about four years ago. He was also the boom days, being very successu:io. q pioneer editor in Bodie, California, during the boom days, being very successful there. He has crossed Arizona several times on the two through lines of railroad, but that sort of travel lilly acquaints one with the real resources of Arizona, as these roads cross the worst part of the terri tory. Being interested in gold mining in California and having heard great deal about Arizona. MT. Osborne decid- cd to give the treasure territory a good fair looking over. He said yesterday he was glad he had done so, and from his expressions of satisfaction it is to be depended upon that the territory has one more friend who will say good things about it and speak from personal observation.
 Mir. Osborne something over year ago purchased the Dorleska gold mine, little prospect in Trinity county. Cal, for s5.000 and organized company to work it. Last season, the first after he owned it. he worked through the little sampler at the mine 756 tons of ore that returned the company cJ- paid for the mine. It is little wonder that he is interested in gold mining with that sort of a showing. How ever, it was not all profit, for the mine is eighty miles from the railroad and the snow in that region is so deep that nothing in the way of milling can be done in the winter time. MT. Osborne still calls it a prospect for only two hundred feet of work have been done and no stopirg, but it is prospect worth looking after and he now has a Huntington mill and concentrator ready for this seasons work.
 The mine is located in one of the prettiest regions in the world. and there is an abundance of wood and water on the property which largely counter balances the long distance to the rail road. Some samples of the ore from the rich streak in the mine are the prettiest things ever seen oi that na- ture. being pure white quartz with cubes of galena and nuggests of gold scattered all through it. They are strictly specimens, of course, for ore of that character would be worth two dollars a pound.
 Arriving in Arizona the first section visited was Patagonia and the new strike on property belonging to R. R. Richardson and Wm. Powers. He says the whole country thereabout is staked out and certainly looks promising. There is little work done on the new strike and the size of the ore bodies is yet problema tical though the values shown are certainly of remarkable richness. He also visited the Hardshen and Hermosa districts and adjacent country, the mines all looking well. He next went to Clifton. more for the satisfaction of seeing d big copper camp than anything else. He was greatly impressed with all that he saw there and convinced that it is a won- derful region for the red metal. He passed through Phoenix several days ago for Wickenburg, Octave, Con- gress. Prescott and other mining cen ters and really has nothing but good to say of any of them. He inspected the Congress plant and noted the meth ods oi gold extraction and also took an inside view of the mine. Returning to Wickenburg he visited and went through the Orc Grande mine. While he took no samples or estimates of the value of the ore, he says it looks good and there is an immense quantity Of it blocked out.
 In general MT. Osborne says. he is fully convinced that Arizona is won derful region and while it is already one of the inportiont producing sections.
 the real development has hardly begun. He was not seeking investment eVi- dently, else he could have found plenty Of opportunity He was on an outing
 trip and was taking advantage of 1t to acouaint himself with Arizona meth ods.
 1 Regarding Phoenix and this valley he said he was more than pleased with
 what he had seen. The city was equal
 to all representations previously made