Arizona republican., 1903-11-14
NORTHERN nARICOPA co.
Letter Concerning Mines in Black
 Rock and Blue Tank District.

A correspondent sends the following letter from Wickenburg respecting tn
 mines of the districts surrounding thG i camp:
 Many inquiries have been made as t,
 what became of the King Solomon ! group of mines, the Blue Lead ano many of the old mining claims tha
 were bonded to English capitalists ovel
 eight years ago.
 | We'll to begin with the King Solomon
 group, some of them passed into othel i hands by relocation; others were pur i chased by the Electra company. Tn, ! Joe Dandy and Long and others in the vicinity gave promise of becoming bis
 producers and the Electra company cal congratulate itself on its good luck iT ! acquiring such fine properties.
 An old timer, who returned after ar
 absence of seven years, says he seems
 10 be in a strange district. as so many of the old camps are now owned by
 strangers who are doing good develop
 ment work, and new strikes are often
 made and never reported, as the fault
 of most prospectors is to locate every
 thing in sight without the means ol doing even a. fair assessment work.
 The old Amazon group is TOW known as the Middleton property anl the Jack
 Ellis mines as the Profusion group. The Sullivan group is owned by the Key stone company. The cid Uncle Tom, Copper Nellie and others on the NCrth Star lCde have been relocated or pur- chased by parties who have in most cases changed the names, so it mak s it hard, for an old timer to realize the many changes in Hue Tank and Black Rock districts. Had some of our prospectors kept their agreements to give an extension of time on their bonds. long enough to carefully exam inc the various groups that an English syndicate wished to develop, today there would be hundreds of miners working in Black Rock and old King Solomon districts. English and Ameri- can experts had reported favorably on these districts and the miners alone are to blame for turning capital off by be- ing too unreasonable. Rumor says that it will not be long until foreign capital ests will try and acquire some of the developed properties in the Blue Tanks. The old Gold Bug is now owned by the Black Rock company, and the Gold Bug No. is owned by a San Francisco lady This Gold Bug lode was famous SlS ltltuSdiltS Ol uOlldAS were SALTdtltu from the croppings. And the Gold Lead, owned by the Black Rock company, is now called the Olympia and bids fair to rival the famous Congress, being or the same lode and ore of a similar 
 The Gold Bug No. one is the east eX- tension and is now called the Lona It has only several assessments done on 1t and in most cases the ore has aras- traed with great profit. old pioneers claim that when Lona has as much work done as Olympi2s they will be for nidable rivals. This business of chang ng names and relocating has made 7onc confusion in mining descriptions. Some enerEdic and old time prospsc- tors are needed; also men who are clever enough to grub-stake honest Such men helped to make most of our prosperous mining districts. More promoters and fewer knockers would soon bring on the needed pro- oerity and confidence to Wickenburg md surroundings.