Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1902-04-23
Letter From Chloride.

Chloride, April 19.-(Special Cor respondence. EAll old Arizonans will remember Madame Wilburn, form erly the belle of the camp. Of late years she has been devoting large part of her time to mining, with good success, on some of the old claims her former husband located years ago that nobody would have. She would go to the claims with her little children, drill and shoot, while they lay in the shade of a cedar bush, without a thing in sight in the shape of ore. About two weeks ago she put shot in, and she broke out as fine ore as you will find anywhere. It is worth from $500 to 5000 per ton in silver and gold, and puts us in mind of old times here, when every one was taking out such ore and when we took it to the Mineral Park mill, when it was run by Cantield & O., and were robbed of it. That mill is standing there now rotting and a monument to rascality and a curse to the camp. 1 will say in all candor, in my thirty six years experi- ence of 4nining, that if this strike was made anywhere else but around Min eral Park there would be hundreds of men in the camp locating everything having a color, as it only had color on the surface, but the press of this county is so busy throwing mud at each other as to which of them can get their fins in the deepest in the county safe that they have no time to mention such trihes.
 The Shasta County Shelter Com pany is building its Vulcan smelter between Chloride and the A. & N. R. R. depot. Each and every one of the company and the gentlemen who are here in charge are first-class and prominent people of Oregon and Cal | ifornia, and there is no reason why a success will not be made. The smelter will cost at least S25, 5,090, and it is proposed to be added to. People who have the welfare of the county at heart are buying stock in the enter prise.
 The Woodchopper's Relief, group of mining claims at Mineral Park, has been leased and bonded to syn dicate of New York and Colorado capitalists for S50,O00. So, taking everything into consideration, there is a silver lining for old Mineral Park, that has laid dormant for years on account of bad management, knockers and kickers, who will have to Ego way back and sit down. V Their days are getting short. Some of them ought to be hung. Mohave county has been cursed with gang that it was either rule or ruin with them, and they ruined; and they also-those who could-and the re- cords prove it, bankrupted the county and the county has to feed some oi them today. Their ill-gotten gains did them but little good. Mohave county has the ore, and those sitters and knockers, who sit around saloons who haven't been here but few months, and are ready to knock any enterprise, are requested to pick uI their blankets and move on.
 
 A few days ago, at the old Mil house, below Mineral Park, where Jimmy Uncapher is living with hi: sister, while she was alone Haulap Indian went to the house and asked for something to eat, which she gave him, and he finding she was alone made improper proposals to her. Sh' got frightened and ran up to towr and got some one to go down, bu . when they got there Mir. Indian Wal gone. Lo, the poor Indianl EasterI people will learn something of thu : noble red, when they fawn on him, t( their sorrow, but in Mohaye count, an Indian has more rights than whit citizens. He will steal and rob, anC you cannot get jury to convict him , and they are smart enough to knov , that if they are caught they will hir lawyer and call for jury, who vii . say, "Lo, the poor Indian~ and he l !, free to do the same thing over, Il which he takes delight. Comment unnecessary; good rope is every thing.