Bisbee daily review., 1905-11-08
WlCKENBURGERS VISIT
 HARQUA HALA MOUNTAINS
cULllNG'S VALLEY IS THE CEN TIRE OF ACTIVITY AMONG
 MINERS.
A Historic Water Supply. The Editor Makes Trip Westward Finds
 Things on the Go.
(wicbenburg News.Herald.) )

| entire section. The editor in company with a party of gentlemen who were looking for various kinds of opportu- mites, has just returned from a trip cut to Harqua Hala Mountains, Wen den and Cuttings Station. Conditions are ripe for the greatest era of activ- ity which has ever prevailed in that l section. There are a great many good prospects which are being worked now and which will in time make mines and bring about big business for that entire section of the country.
 Jose Torres, well known around Congress, has opened up a fine vein of Copper ore in Cunningham Pass and is working about twelve men on it. The general concensus of opinion is that he has big mine and that there is plenty more in the neighborhood. When he first began work on his claims it was said that he had only an inch of ore, and people laughed at him and said that he was crazy. But Joe did not mind that and kept right ahead till he has at last found a body of ore which is good enough for anybody. and people now think that he was a very wise guy all the tune.
 Dan Cullings and the Ozuma boys have fine prospect at the foot of the Harqua Hala and they are taking out some good ore and shipping it. The pay streak which they are shipping from runs from six inches to a foot in thickness, and it is accompanied by a strong, well mineralized quartz ledge of from four to six feet in thickness. A well defined porphyry dike cuts the mountain along the course of the vein and the boys feel that they have some thing before them which will justify them in following the ledge. Thelr ore shipments are paying for the de velopment work which they are doing at present and if 1t keeps up that sort of lick we do not blame them for going into the bowels of the earth. Isaac P. Noel has a number of good claims ! near Cullings, and is at present doing work on strong ledge of copper rock over on the Hurcuvars. He isl showing some of the finest specimens of rock that we have ever seen and he has a right to believe that he has a mine if things are as he says He has a group of six claims and they | lie SO close to the level plain that he | can drive wagon right up to them. | thus making their operation a much more economical proposition than if they were up among the clouds, like some of the claims of the section. He | IS interested in a good group of claims on top Of the Harqua Hala mountains, and who ever climbs to them will real ize the difference between claims so situated and those on comparatively level ground.
 | From Cullings Station we made fly ing trip (withOut a flying machine) to l Wenden. We passed through the city of Cashion without stopping and reach. ed Wenden late in the afternoon and cid not bide there long. Here we found a hustling frontier town without any of the signs of terrosism or frontier danger. Messrs. Hanna and Young are the moving spirits in this burg and they are laying out their town with an eye to permanency and prosperity and they deserve to win out in the race for prominence The location af Wenden IS such as to catch practically all the transient business from Harrisburg, Cunningham Pass and the rich strike regions beyond the Pass. That it will ce a good town in the near future can not be doubted for a minute. The government is making haste as fast as It ever does to handle the increasing mails for that section. A postoffice has been established and the mails for Harrisburg will be carried from there In the near future instead of from Mar tineZ as formerly. The town is now
 mostly of tents, although there are a number of substantial buildings there and contracts have been let for many more. In fact, both dwelling and bus mess houses are being built as fast as men and material can be gotten in. A boom is not wanted there by any of ! the residents, but it seems that they cannot help themselves for from the amount of travel it is plain that a boom has already struck the place hard in the face. But it is the kind of boom which will leave no sore spots. Several attempts were made by ya- rious people to find out where the best business location along the line of the new railroad would be for the great section which has been long known as the Cullings Valley. It seems that Wenden is the spot and Hanna and
 Young were the lucky locators. Gull lings Valley is an important place and will never become any the less import ant.
 In the development of any new coun- try the availability of a good water supply must be considered. "Old Man" Cuttings away back in the days of yore when the Indian was lord of the desert, proved that there was a good strata of water underlying the entire valley which very properly bears his name till today, in spite of the efforts of carpetbagging boomers to give It name more poetic. MT. Cullings, by the aid of Indian labor, dug well 265 feet deep and the water which it has supplied has quenched the thirst