Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1906-05-16
TONTO BASINS MINERAL
 WEALTH.
lFrom Wednesday,s Dailxl

CT started to work in the mines in 1860 when I was only twelve years of age, and have followed the business almost my entire life, and I must say after my many years of experience in various capacities from muckcr to manager, that I have never seen n country with better surface show. ing than tho Tonto Basin district,' v said James Noel yesterday to a Journal Miner representative, after arriving in this city from that isolated district of the territory, which in the minds of many is surrounded with such \ halo ef romance and tragedy.
 "The country bas a black eye" he said, on account of the Tonto basin war, which happened many years ago, but am here to state that there is no better or more law abiding people on the faee of the earth than the sturdy min. @s, eattlcmen and ranchcrs whose aomes arc in this beautiful valley and the surrounding mountains. There is water and wood there in unlimited quantities, and within . radius of ten niles of the camp at the Single stand. ard mine, where I make my headquar. ters there are largo number of gold bearing iedges that could be made to pay from the grassroots with milling ia. cilitics within . reasonable distance" ["
 Speaking of the Single Standard mines, in which F. l., Jordan of the Verde valley, T. F. Campbell of Free cott, and Lyons | Knobloek of Jerome arc interested with him, he said: "I have been there for the past three and half years. and have opened four parallel veins. Sy shafts ranging in lepth from s5 to 100 feet and have ever e5o.ooo worth of ore biceked ont. Brom the bottom of the 100 foot shaft Aere is about 200 feet of drifting and 1osseuttins doae, 60 feet of which is through sn ore body averaging iA width from <N te S feet, the lowest asssy sf which gave returns of ever oiS ts Co ton is gold, while the average of As vein is much higher, samples taken by sompeteat experts giving returns e good as e55 to the ton. Work had to be abandoned on this property on account of the water, there being no hoisting or pumping machinery on the ground"
 "Adjoinine this property, I have de. veloped to some extent four other psral. lel veins. in which my associates arc not interested, in which there is . pay streak showing an average width of over IS inches, the lowest gradc orc of which samples se5 to the ton, while the average value runs ss high as e76 in free gold milling rock. I am now on my way to Los Angeles to purchase . mill to place on this property, which I consider I have developed far enough along to place in the producing clasl with small plant on tho ground"
 The Single Standard camp is situat. ed in the Tonto basin district of Gila county about four and half miles southwest of Payson. Considered from . transportation standpoint, the place is among the most isolated in the ter. ritory.
 Fifty miles by the Fossil creek trail and 65 miles by wagon road from Camp Verde, it is yet 90 miles from tho nearest accessible railroad station in this county, which is Dewey, on the Bradshaw mountain railroad. Situat- cd at an elevation of about 5000 feet above sea level, it has long enjoyed the distinction of being among the health. jest portions of the entire southwest, as well as land of great mineral resource, the development of which Is retarded by it's isolation from the outside world in the lack of railroad facilities. 4 workable stockman's paradise, in the early history of the territory its al. most boundless pastures were coveted alike by the sheep and cattle interests, tho many petty squabbles always exist. ing between those engaged in those two branches of the stock business, hn. ally eliminating in almost open war. fare in the latter sos, which although of short duration, has ever since had a deterrent effect on emigration there. POLAND DISTRICT SHOWING UP