Bisbee daily review., 1905-11-02


 l During the past week publicity has
 been given to a rich strike of gold gress about fourteen miles northwest
 of Wenden on, the Arizona & Califor- mia railroad. The gold fever is one
 disease whose infection becomes no
 less yirulent as the years go by and
 the only treatment is to let it run its 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 its
 notable predecessors, will result in an epidemic of gold fever in that region,
 the result of which may be several
 good mines and the discoAery 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 boun- | daSfes are met with discouragingly | soon. It is improbable that even the Carrigan property can be so wonder fully rich and large as first reports indicate, even though it prove to be the biggest mine in Arizona, though it requires 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 eralized 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 405 feet wide and a mile long, composed mainly of ore running s5,000 ton, is a calculation not well found ed. If that kind of an ore shoot runs a hundred feet, Mr. Carrigan 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 the place say 1t does and prob ably 1t is equally as wide. but that any great quantity of it will hold up to the s5.000 assay of the two sacks brought in by MT. Carrigan is doubt ful. 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 405 foot lode are five blanket lodges, mainly of DOT phyry. The one undeniable> fact proved by the word Of many. is that Mir. Car rigan has taken to Prescott two ore | sacks full of porphyry rock. that is undoubtedly very rich and of a char acteP that has greatly excited nearly everybody who has seen it.
 It is not regrettable that excitement 1 has been created for if 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 through curiosity can usually afford the ex- pense and some of them may reap a | rich reward. It is in no sense to be i discouraged as were the rushes of many poor people to the Klondike or to the in accessible goldfields of Ne
 vada. It is sincerely to be hoped
 that Mir. Carriean has found the big gest mine in the world and that many
 others of great value will be found along the same ore deDosit. but if they are not there IS still no better field for prospecting than that rich desert country whose gates have been
 Swung ajar by the penetration of the | A. & C. railroad and whether any other big discoveries are made in that
 immediate vicinity or not it is a sure
 prediction that they will develop from
 time to time all over that western Arizona plain and the sooner the pros pector gets busy. the greater will be
 the prosperity of all Arizona.
 It is reported that most of the idle
 men in Wickenburg, together with
 most of the available teams have has tened to the scene of the strike and 1t Is not unlikely that in another week or so the infection will spread to Phoenix
 as it is now taking hold of Prescott.
 Tn any event the incident could not
 have happened at a more fitting time
 for it is strictly the prospecting sea
 son. the weather is fine and the rains
 of the last eight months have pTcvid- ed a better water and grass supply
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