Arizona republican., 1903-09-30
ACCIDENTAL WEALTH
Stories of Some of the Mining Dis.
 coveries of Mohave.

 can yesterday morning of the arrival In the city of Dr. John R. Whitesides. member of the council from Mohave county. pr. Whitesides was speaking of the late so-called Kingman strike of which little has been heard lately It has been pronounced to be a fake but Dr. Whiteside said that as mat ter of fact nobody knows anything about it. The Boston people who. To- cated all that part of the country last spring are at work and spending a great deal of money. They refuse to talk and do not seem to care whether the strike is believed to be a fake or not. They have all the capital they want and they are indifferent to the opinions of their neighbors
 It is a rather funny thing that the ground was all located from Coyote Springs for fifteen miles before a soul in Mohave county knew of the exist ence of mineral in that region. It hap pened that a year before a young man who had extensive experience in min-
 ing in South Africa was passing through the country on a west bound Santa Fe Pacific train. The train was
 stopped for sometime at a siding and this man. walking about to pass the time picked up piece of rock which strongly fesembled some he had seen
 on the Rand. He gathered up a quan- tity of 1t and pursued his journey He mad other matters on hand at that time but when he had leisure he had an examination made of the rock and he found that his first suspicion was justified. He took several of his Bos- ton friends in with him and returned
 to Arizona and began to build monu-
 ments all over that part of Mohave county. It is known that a grat deal of rock was of a high value but out side of the Boston people nobody has had an opportunity to find out how much there is of it.
 pr. Whitesides told an interesting story of the discovery of the Gold Roads mine, a result partly of an ac- cident and partly of a weakness, and by the way, quite a profitable one. for which Sheriff Henry Lovin of Mohave county is famous. It is a weakness for srub-staking prospectors, by which within comparatively short time he has become worth not less than $6O, ,0OO In this case a Mexican in whom there was a general want Of confi- dence had been hanging about King | man trying to get somebody to grub stake him. He was at last sent to the sheriff who he was told was the easiest mark in that part of the country. When he mentioned the matter to the sheriff he was sent to a store and told | to order what he needed. He bought goods to the amount of s12.SO. It turn | ed out that he did not want grub stake. He was getting the provisions |, had been living in the neighborhood
 of the Needles. He had not the slight
 est notion of looking for a mine. | On his way out to the Needles, he stopped one day to eat his dinner. He
 was sitting half asleep when his eyes
 fell upon something glittering in a | piece of rock. He made an investiga- tion. found where the rock came from and found that it was abundant He
 forgot all about his Mohave squaw
 and hurried back to Kingman. He and
 MT. Iovin located the property, dug q l hole in it ten feet deep and sold it for l $500 The purchasers did not pay
 nearly enough. They are cleaning up
 every four or five days bars ranging | from $120OO to S15,O00
 | The famous mines of O'Day and | Dempsey were discovered by a sort of
 Tn accident. The ledge where the dis
 covery was made had been prospected | Tor years. Gold in small quantities lad been found and locations had been 1 made but all of them had been aban-
 doned. O'Day happened to knock d
 piece of rock off of the ledge and what
 ne saw hurt his eyes. The rock seem- | ed filled with gold. Subsequent investi- 5ation disclosed a ledge eighteen feet wide which it is believed has an aver
 age value of sS5. Assays of ore taken
 put in large bodies have averaged from l twenty to one hundred ounces and a | few days ago Q vein of two feet was l found in the hanging wall which will 1 go twenty-five ounces. The property | consisting of three mines. one of which l S probably worthless has been bonded | for $250,00O.