Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1906-05-09
Fifty Men Arc At Worl Along Various
 Streams
Abundance Of Water 1, The Cause Of
 Activity

The placer mining industry of thi section of Arizona is again bsing proc cuted with more of an interest than s any time in the past docadss Evsr gulch and stream within . radius of tsI miles of Prescott has men at work spi in many instances moro money is beia( made by the individual thsa tho voss tion of . tradcsman could return. n@ inducenent that faces the rsgsnsr.tisd of this industry is duo to but ono chsa| nel that of the abundance of water il every locality on the surface, for css1 purposes and the subtsrss.ssn flow s( shallow depths for mining uses in ~ use of the pan os the rocker. withii two miles of this city 1t is estimatcd q least fifty men are at work plaeeriae while along the Hasssyamps, LynI Creek, Big Bug and other lesser gulchl cs that lead into them, there sse more men engaged that even in the palmiess days of placering.
 Merchants in this city a we'll e ths station keeper along the many rostss of travel, together with the smaller dealer at the several camps, report tho | yield as indicating . resumption of tls industry in pfoduction and decidedly | lively interest is manifested to follow the calling by others. g
 Previous to ten years ago the amount of yellow metal to reach Prescott vss estimated al the way from t7S,Ooo to el5o,oOO annually from placer mining sources. With tho steady decline in rainfall and the drouth that ensucd in later years the output gradually dimia. ished until it was practically abaD. doned. Two years ego the heavy rain falls again took place, and followed in. ccssantly during the last year by tho heaviest precipitation that ever took place in this county in one years time, an abundance of water is now an absO lute certainty for the successful prose- cution of this industry. i>
 Practically speaking, placer mining is the fouudadun or the pedestal of the county,s mineral life Sf today. Back Tn 1863 when the territory was created by congressional enactment, the gaber natorial party wore instructed to move toward tho sespeiof where the ric1 beds of grayelfv were being mined, and in ac' cordance with that order they naturally selected, what is now Prescott "s 'hs most desirable location for -ths first official seat of the new government. Ia that day. RicA. Hin where Weaver now stands, was, yielding fabulous sums, attracting hnndxeds, of miners from the Pacific Coast and other sections; along tho Hasaayampa from the Senator mine to the town of wickenhurg every inch of desirable ground was tesming with activity; Big Bug and Lynx Greeks had over a thousand people within their confines all dependent upon the output of the placer field; even Granite Greek within the confines of tho city of Pres. colt was mined for the dust. It W" an era of placer minNg distinctively, and gold quartz mining was of only an occasional occurrence.
 The placer output of Yavapai county since it's earliest settlement will run in. to the millions of dollars. This fact is so well established that prominent and authoritative writers have stated time and again in the past that the aurifer' ous deposits'of this county were un. occasionally more extensive and of more value than any similar subdivision in the west.
 So far as the deposits of placer gold or this section are considered, many mineralogists give this city along with Johannesburg, South Africa, . unique and interesting consideration, in this, by publicly saying in their literature that these two cities have streets that are practically graded with gold. This estimation has become traditional, and is generally accepted by the mining element as indisputabie.
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