Williams news., 1903-08-15
GREAT RUSH TO
 THE GOLD FIELDS
Kingman in a State of Great Ex. citement---Big GoId-Bearing
 Dykes Near There.

One of the greatest gold excite ments northwest Arizona has ever seen is just now on at Kingman, says the 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 hundreds and the whole country is staked off. The gold is found in stratifed reefs of spar rocks. The original discovery of gold in these reefs is ascribed to R. A. Gurley, mining expert of Denver, who has associated with him A: F. Judson, Dennis and s. J. Sullivan, also of Denver, and other mining men. Charles Davis made the original location of the dykes and these people purchased his in terests for a large sum in cash, re- serving a large interest in the com pany to be organized to work the deposits. Free gold is found in these reefs and assays run from SIC to $500 to the ton in gold. When it became known that gold was found in the big reefs, Kingman people rushed into the field, fol- lowed by hundreds of people from the outside. Every form of con- veyance was pressed into service to take the gold-seekers to the field and many went out afoot. People are arriving from different parts of the country and going out daily to the new fields, while from the camps of the county prospectors and miners are coming in in all sorts of conveyances and going out to the scene of action. All the big reefs of granite for a 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 a few miles south and west of King man in the broken foothills of the south end of the Cerbat and west side of the Wallapai mountain ranges. The whole country has at one period been covered by a great volcanic flow, but in places the vol canic matter has been eroded away leaving sections of the primary for nation exposed. It is in these ig- neous rocks that the gold is found both in quartz veins and in the massive spar dykes cutting the country through. Lying against the lavas 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 $2O,OOO,OOO in ore is lying exposed on the surface of the great reefs. A big milling plant is projected for the mines, to be in stalled at once. The people back of the project are men of means and are enthusiastic over their big find.
 In the same neighborhood is the great Bi-Metal mine, recently pur- chased by E. R. Holden & Com pany of New York, and upon which men are now at work. This great vein carries values in the porphyry as well 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 magnifi- cent scale is to be started up by the first of September. All the mines are accessible by wagon and so close to the base of supplies that they can be operated very cheaply.
 Charles Metcalfand Robert Rosco, who Lave located Boulder Spring. are showing some splendid speci- mems of gold from claim few miles south of that place. The gold is in an iron hemitite and per fectly free. They have big streak of the ore and are preparing to go