Arizona republican., 1905-10-29

During the past week publicity has been given to a rich strike of gold ore made by Tom Carrigan of Con- gress about fourteen miles northwest of Wenden on the Arizona & Califor- mia railroad The gold fever is one disease whose infection becomes no less virulent as the years go by and the only treatment is to let it run it's course. It is seldom fatal is only occasionally harmful and sometimes one gains immunity forever after by getting all the gold he needs. It is this immunity that everybody craves and for which every victim is will . ing to stand the siege. Latest reports indicate that this strike like all it's notable predecessors. will result in an epidemic of gold fever in that region. the result of which may be several good mines and the discovery of many of lesser value, though entirely worthy properties.
 No gold strike ever amounted to as much as was hoped for it, though some individual mines have done so, for there is always an ending both in length and breadth to marvelously rich gold deposits, and often the boundaries are met with sdiscouragingly soon. It is improbable that even the Carrigan property can be so wonderfully rich and large as first reports indicate, even though it prove to be the big gest mine in Arizona, though it re- quires no imagination nor careless reasoning to believe the probability of its being a most important discovery. It is a demonstrated fact that this strike is in a wonderfully well min eraIized section and that part of Ari- zona abounds in prospects whose own CTS may all hope to some day live in affluence. There are numerous good properties under development through all that country and no one can yet say that this will not prove the best of all of them, but the story that the ledge is 4O5 feet wide and a mile long, composed mainly of ore running $5,000 a ton. is a calculation not well found ed. If that kind of an ore shoot runs a hundred feet. MT. CarTigan can af ford to be happy
 There is no doubt but that the lode in which the ore is found, runs as far as the reliable gentlemen who have visited tine place say it does and prob ably it is equally as wide, but that any great quantity of it will hold up to the 5000 assay of the two sacks brought in by MT. Carrigan is doubt full. One report is to the effect that the lead is in reality a huge claybank, thickly specked with gold and an other is that within this 4O5 foot lode are five blanket lodges. mainly of DOT phyry. slanting into the ground in a parallel manner, the values being in the pOrphyry. The one undeniable fact proved by the word of many, is that MT. Carrigan has taken to Pres colt two ore sacks full of pOrphyry rock, that is undoubtedly very rich and of a character that has greatly excited nearly everybody who has seen it.
 It is not regrettabIe that excitement has been created for it is through such incidents that new districts are dis covered and mainly by men who de- vote their lives to following up the hand of fortune when it beckons in this particular way. Moreover, no special hardship will be worked upon any reasonable person who journeys to the gold fields, by reason of their nearness to the railroad and the base of supplies. It costs but little to go there and but little more to come back again if one gets weary of his undertaking. Those who go to pros