Weekly Arizona journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1903-1908, 1904-06-15

piece orchestra at the headqnarteri
building.
Mr.. Fogg had provided an elegant
comlssary for the trip and with ap.
petites sharpened by riding and walk
ing, there was not a single member OF
the party who did not do full justice
to the sumptuous meals furnished.
which consisted Of all the substantials
and delicacies which the Prescott
market affords.
The property owned by Mr.. Fogg
and his associates consists of twenty
five patented claims with a few others
which have not yet been patented.
While a considerable amount of
work has been performed on the prop
erty it has been more in the nature of
prospecting the various claims rather
than in concentrated effort at any
one point in development. This work
has proven the existene Of rich miner
ais, the entire mountain apparently
being highly mineraIized.
Another very important piece of in
formation obtained by the work done,
is that the BLACK Hills range, in ad-
ditiOn to being a storehouse for min
erals, gold, silver, and copper, is also
an immense water storage reservoir.
Water is found everywhere by sinking
only few feet, while in places also it
comes to the surface and finds its
way out of the mountains in springs.
Evidences of this was seen in various
shafts filled with water and in a never
failing spring of water. Mr. Fogg
also cited to a shaft which was sunk
thirty five feet, and strong flow of
water encountered. The flow was so
strong that work had to be suspended
temporarily and within twenty-four
hours it was running over the top Of
the shaft and continues to do so YET,
even the present dryest period ever ex-
perihced in Arizona having no visible
effect on it.
There is ole spring on one of the
claims, the water of which is highly
mineralized and which Mr.. Kendall
says possess great medicinal virtues
for kidney and stomach troubles and
AYERS that be owes his life to the drink
ing of this water. 1t was while camped
there taking the water cure from this
spring that he started prospecting
and succeeded in discovering and
locating the lodges of mineral which
now constitute the property owned
by Mr.. Fogg and others.
On Saturday evening after partaking
of most bounteous dinner, speech
making was INDUCED in by a number
of those present and among others the
host of the occasion, Mr.. Fogg.
Mr.. Fogg, after a few Introductory
remarks, said that the first time be
had sis.,el this section OF country he
became impressed with the possibili-
ties of the Black Hills range of noun
tains, from a mineral standpoint as
we'll as from other resources. Each
time since, when he has visited this
section the importance of these pos
sibilities, as we'll as as the feasibility
of developing them has grown upon
him. He referred to the we'll establish
ed fact that these mountains lie in
one of the best mineral zones of Ari-
IONA. No estimate can be made of
the hidden mineral wealth which its
depths contain. Another thing which
impressed him also is the wealth of
water which apparently underlies
these mountains. Right al the very
foot of the mountain range on the
west lies a great valley with thousands
of acres of as fertile soil as can be
found anywhere, but dry and parched
for want of water and with. as he be-
Iieves, an underground stream Of
water coursing beneath these noun
tains only a short distance away.
He does not think that providence
has made that valley to remain a bar
rem waste, and he considered it within
the reasonable powers of man to make
it profitabIy productive.
The possibilities which Mr.. Fogg
sees il these mountains, in the great
Lonesome Valley, in connection with
the towns of Jerome and Prescott is
obtainable by means of a tunnel