The Arizona sentinel., 1902-12-03
QUARTZSiTE
The Coming Country--Rich in Gold, Silver, Copper
 and Lead.

county and its advancement along al
 lines of progress, take the liberty O
 asking space for brief account of wha
 is being done in a remote locality by {
 community that has never sought noto
 riety through the public press. The
 central point of this locality is Quartz
 site, better known to old residents a:
 Tyson's Well, an old station on the Eh.
 renburg and Prescott Wickenburg
 road of long ago.
 This is the postofflce and business
 center of a large number of mines in
 process of development, the nearest be-
 ing distant about four miles, and the
 most distant eighteen or twenty miles. It is a small, mountain-rimmed valley underlaid with an abundance of the softest, purest water one ever drank, within which Quartzsite, the nucleus of a future metropolis, nestles. Within the surrounding hills, by courtesy called mountains, are not isolated pros poets, but groups of locations upon strong, well defined and we'll mineral ized ledges, each group being center of activity peculiar to itself.
 Beginning with the most distant, we have
 THE LEAD CAMP, A group of mines under bond to Mir. Geo. w. Norton, of Mohawk, who now has force of four miners at work car rying out the scheme of development began in the long ago, when silver-lead ores could be mined and shipped down the Colorado to the Gulf and thence to San Francisco for reduction and leave a handsome profit to the owner. This consists in finishing crosS-cut tunnel designed to cut the main claim of the group at a great depth, thus opening backs for stoping down the rich car bonates that show strong in the princi pal outcrop on the lode. This camp is seventeen miles northeast from Quartz site.
 THE GUADALUPE MINES Are on the east side of the valley and ten miles distant from Quartzsite, near the old stage road to Wickenburg, and were "coyoted" by Mexicans in years gone by, who are credited with having taken out from the croppings large amount of coarse gold. The surface showing is of several small veins or lodges having dip that would indicate that they will all come together at depth of about 800 feet, and it is upon this supposition that the development has been prosecuted. The water level was reached some time ago, but the flow is not so strong but that it can be handled with bucket on the gasoline hoist, which has been in use for year or more. The country rock is a soft granite, by some minirg men consid- cred "The Mother of Gold" As sink ing has progressed, many punches of rich ore have been cut, the gold being free and coarse, keeping up it's reputa- tion in that respect.
 Ia the same locality and about four i miles distant is the
 GOoDENOUGH,
 Formerly the Apache Chief, with a rec ord for large shipments of copper sul- phide ore, carrying gold and silver in paying quantities. This mine is thir- teen miles south and 75 degrees east from our starting point (Quartzsitel, ], with good wagon road to it. It has recently been incorporated in Los An geles as the Success Copper Company, with C. E. Eichleberger, president, and John A. Rivers, manager. A p H. P. gasoline hoist has been installed in the mine and sufficient force employed 1 to push the development to the full ca pacity of the machinery.
 Southeast ouly eight miles from Quartzsite is the property of
 BIG. SMITH,
 Which has large amount of develop ment work done upon it, but not enough, as the owner says, to call it a mine. It is free gold proposition, with large, we'll defined ledge, which has been followed down to water level. A carload of machinery, which includ- ed large pumping plant, was shipped to the mine during October. This will enable the owners to go to sufficient depth to determine what effect the wa ter level will have upon the ore, and what kind of reduction works will be required.
 Still southeast and nine miles distant is the
 DESERT QUEEN, For which a tunnel was driven TO feet, cutting the ledge at about the same depth with a that has encouraged the own- CTS to start another tunnel lower down the mountain to cut the lode at 1000 feet from the entrance and nearly that depth. During November carload of machinery from Denver was delivered at the mine, which includes a 40 H. P. gasoline engine, dynamo and all it's appurtenances, and air compress or, air holder, two machine drills, l. 200 feet of ''T' rails for car track, with car. etc., making as complete mine outfit as can be found outside some of the old producing mines of the territory. Continuing south thirty-fve degrees east twelve miles ve conoa to iC