Bisbee daily review., 1903-08-19
GREAT RUSH TO GOLD FIELDS. kingman in State of Great Excite
 ment-eis Gold Bearing wykss Near There. E48 a.4

One of the greatest gold excite ments Northwest Arizoha has ever seen is just now on at Kingman. says the Kingman' Miner The scene of the great rush of gold-seekers is from three to ten miles south of the town. and to this field people are fiocking by the hundrdeds and the whole coua. try is staked off. The gold is found In startified reefs of spar rocks. The original discovery of gold in these reels IS ascribed to R. A. Gurley. q mining expert of Denver. who has as. sociated with him A. F. Judson. Der- his and s. J. Sullivan. also of Denver. and other mining men Charles Da. WIS made the original location of the dykes and these people purchased his interests for a large sum in cash re. serving large interest in the com pany to be organized 10 work the ia. poslts Free gold is found in these reefs and assays run from s1O to $500 10 the ton in gold. When it became known that gold was found in the big reefs. kingman people rushed.into the held, followed by hundreds of peopie rom the outside. Every form of conveyance was pressed into service to take the gold seekers to the ffeii and many went out afoot. People are arriving from different parts of the country-and going out daily flo the new fields while from the camps of the county prospectors and miners are coming in in all sorts of convey. ances and going out to the scene of action All the big reefs of granite TOT square of ten miles have been located and now the prospectors are pushing on into the higher mountain range
 The new mining field is located g few miles south and west of Kingman in the broken foothills of the south end of the Cerbat and west side of the Wallipai mountain ranges. The whole country has at one period been covered by a great volcanic flow, bu, in places the volcanic matter has been eroded away, leaving sections Of the primary formation exposed. It is in these igneous rocks that the gold is found. both in quartz veins and iu the massive spar dykes cutting the country through Lying against the iavas of the higher hills are veins of quartz and in these some splendid gold ore has been found The claims located by the Denver gentlemen are being worked by a force of men. and it is estimated by some that s2O O00,- 900 in ore is lying exposed on the sur face of the great reefs. A big mill ing plant is projected for the mines, to be installed at once The people back of the project are men of means and are enthusiastic over their big fnd. "a -t rsrr.,
 In the same neighborheod Is the great Bi-Betal mine. recently puc- chased by E. R. Holden 6 Co. of now at work This great vein car ries values in the porphyry as we'll as in the quartz. the whole being of a high grade character. An immense plant is to be installed on this mine and work on a magnificent scale Is to be started up by the first of Sep tember. All the mines are access sible by wagon and so close to the base Of supplies that they can be op- erated very cheaply.
 Charles Metcalf and Robert Rosco, who have located Boulder Spring, are showing some splendid specimens of gold from a claim few miles south of that place. The gold is in an iron hemitite and perfectly free. They have a big streak of the ore and are preparing 10 go to work on it at once. The hemitite runs through the gran- ite walls and the whole mass. carries values It will take some time to ascertain the extent of the strike. Other prospectors are exhibiting good Ec'd soeciments. and as each new. strike is reported the excitement grows. Denver people say that King man is sure to be the mining center of Arizona and that the new gold fields are richer than Cripple Creek.