Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1903-11-10
EXCITEMENT AT CHLORIDE.
Another Sensational Gold Discovery is
Reported.

Another Sensational Gold Discovery is
Reported.
Chloride camp, in Mohave county,
Arizona, comes to the
front with news of another discovery
of an enormously rich gold mine. The
Dempsey and O'Dea mine, discovered
last spring, is said to be inferior to
the new discovery. DR.. Whitesides. the
member of the territorial council for
Mohave county, stated to a Republican
not long ago, that in his
judgment the Dempsey and O'Dea
property would prove to be the richest
gold mine in the territory, and if that
discovery is exceeded in Importance by
the new strike there is likely to be
county Making due allowances for
possible eXaggerations, all the reports
justify the prediction that the Chloride
district will be lively this winter. The
Arrow of Chloride, issued Friday, has
this to say of the new strike:
This week places one of. if not the
largest. gold discoveries on record ever
made in Arizona or probably else
where.
The new gold discovery was made
by I. w. Brown while prospecting for
himself Conductor Carey and Section
Foreman Petit of the Arizona & Utah
railroad running from here to King
Of Ia
and about one and one-half miles
southwest CT Dempsey & O'Dea's mine
in Pilgrim camp and mining district.
Mr. L. Hoffman, manager of the
Chloride Gold Mining company's prop
critics here, with others, visited the
new discovery Wednesday and return
ed again yesterday. but was not seen
until after the Arrows western edi-
ton was off the presses early Thurs
day morning.
Mr.. Hoffman reports the ledge of
the new discovery thirty feet wide and
the paystreak two feet wide. An assay
certificate which Mr.. Hoffman had in
his pocket gave returns of over "a ozs.
gold per ton and els ozs. silver The
ore is a lime quartz and bromide and
brittle silver. Mr.. Hoffman remarked
of the discovery that the Dempsey &
IODea mine looked looked like baby
by the side of it,
Il w Brown. the lucky discoverer,
made nine locations on the vein and
ore belt for himself and co-owners be-
fore the discovery became known.
Many locations, however. have been
made in addition to those named and
prospecting is continuing with vigor.
As the Arrows eastern and home
edition is going to press this (Friday)
morning rumor arrives that the wild
est excitement prevails in and about
the new find and that there are many
people arriving and many on the roads
and trains across mountains and other
directions"
The Arrow also has these additional
items on mining in Mohave:
Readiness to start the wheels to roll
ing at the Great West mine is APP
Z meantime of this preparation to treat
the ores a greater quantity is being
gotten ready for the crushing and cy-
aniding plants, and as a consequence
much development work is being done
in the mines.
Mining matters are quiet at McCon-
nico Junction, the scene of the report
ed rich gold discovery during the hot
days of summer. The Colorado partie.
who inaugurated the wild report anC
excitement that followed merely from
doing a little prospecting on the quiet
are still there as from the first and car
see enough in the richly mineralizet
granite reefs to hold their claims YET
awhile at least
The attention called by the Arrow
short time back to mining investors t,
the fine and new gold discoveries being
made in the vicinity of the Great Yves
mine has caught the eyes and ears o.
capitalists and it is likely that ont
or more of these new gold finds will
exchange hands very soon and inaug
urate a new system of capital anC
labor. The sale of the discovery by
Alger & Toby is said to be about com
lpleted, with several others close in it:
wake. This and adjacent territory be
tween Chloride and the Colorado rive
has many belts and fields of the vel
How metal yet untouched by the clicl
of the pick that will have their day a:
well as the section above referred to.
Very encouraging mining report:
have been obtained from Gold Basin
this week, and ii is running no risk il
lstating that this is going to ne one Of
the banner gold producing camps il
the not far hence. No large number
of miners are at work, but the or,
bodies and contact veins between por
Iphyry and lime walls are of good sizC
and rich, and fine. The health of tn,
miners and residents is also gooc
which comes from the unusual purity
and sweetness of the water consumed
in daily use.
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