Arizona republican., 1906-03-16

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 There is an empire to the west of Wickenburg on both sides of the Ari- zona and California railroad and reaching to and across the Colorado river. I have been over almost every foot of 1t in the last three years and just one year ago was through this vast district in company with party of engineers on a siXty-day trip. There are vast possibilities here but owing to the utter lack of facilities in the past, heat and scarcity of water at many places, absolutely unprospected.
 There are great mines at Golden, at Sunset and throughout the Harqua Hala range. The Socorro company is actively operating its properties and mills east of Harrisburg under the management of Prof. Smith. The old Harqua Hala mines, out of which Hubbard & Bowers took so much money, are being prOspected again, I am told.
 The Del Monte group, belonging to ex-Senators Pettigrew, Jones and Dor sey has an immense outcrop and can now be worked with the facilities at hand. pr. Geer, John Martin, Barney Quinn, the Devine brothers and Mrs. Carmelita Campbell have good prop critics in this range, some of them with considCrabl ble development. At Cunning ham Pass Josephi & Wilkinson are shipping ore from their Emerald and other mines. Beckman and White house, Mcdonald and Enos. Young and Hanna. Foster and Quinn, have prop critics in the pass.
 It is through this pass that one rrav- els to reach the great Carrigan, Moro and other. properties which have been discovered and located since my visit here. They are in the Black Mountain range near the Rogers mine, another good property belonging to Wm. AibeFs and others. Great things are told of the Carrigan property and they are now being actively developed by strong people. There are some good proper ties on the western slope of the Gran ite Wash range, among them the Des- ert mine, the "Dobie" Wilson property. the Yellow Bird and others. North of here are some promising copper prop critics belonging to the Griffin brothers.
 At Bause's valley there is mining region, tributary thereto, being the north end of the Plomosa range. The Woods Investment company Of Den yer has a fine lot of properties as have Thos. Bause. Thos. Blair and MT. Me Mahon. At Lead Pass to the south are large veins of silver and lead. Sam ples taken by me assayed as high as 53 per cent in lead.
 There are a lot of other good look ing prospects around here, but I have not space to mention them. There is a great big mountain of black hematite of iron ore near the Four Peaks. Great boulders of this black Iron are scat tered about promiscuously as are the granite boulders surrounding Prescott. Analysis gave me 58.so per cent in iron.
 ST,bara aro ,,,,,,ero,,s r,rorar+;es s,,r rounding Quartzsite Placer gold has been dry washed from the Posis val ley-the valley of wells-since 1861. The old Mexican mine belonging 70 w E. Scott. the Guadalupe, and those Of the Success Copper company are good properties east oe Cuartzsite.
 The old Marquette mine is five and a half miles west. Humphreys, F.. B. Moore. John Brown. Geo. King and Mir. Appadaco are owners of promis- ing properties. Johnnie Agard owns the Yum Yum mine in Cholla camp and takes out occasionally exceeding ly rich ore. I did not see it when there, as he was away and had the openings set with traps and loaded shotguns. and I had not lost it.
 There are a lot of properties in the River range, among them one under operation by Major Wyeth, at which Col. Crawford was consulting engineer. saw an outcrop of over a thousand feet in length and averaging twenty feet in width, containing high grade sulphide of copper and carrying good values in gold and silver. There are lot of other properties here, among them those of Geo. Cusenburg, the Topper Grant company, the Goodwin mine and the properties of the Valen- zuela Copper company are worthy of mention.
 Up the river above Parker are the Mack mines, the properties of the Con- solidated Copper company. At Empire Flats are some very promising proper ties owned by a Los Angeles com pany and other promising groups close by.
 Major A. J. Pickrell has some good copper properties 1t the junction of the Bill Williams and C0lOadO rivers. Ben Blanchard, Osborne and Butler have mines of copper and wolframite carrying gold and silver, just south of the Bill Williams The Jim Rosebor- ough copper properties have just been taken over by my friend, Newton Evans and Los Angeles parties. The old Blackberry mine a busy and sue cessful property in the '7Os, is being unwatered. I learn, by the game parties. The old Planet mines were being exploited when I was there year ago.
 There are great mines and great ac- tivity on the Bill Williams fork and I look at no distant day to see a branch road reaching from the A. & c. line into the heart of this region. The Bull lard copper mines have the making of a great property and will be when a price within reason is placed upon the group and sold.
 I have only written of Yavapai county and of the territory tributary to the Arizona and California railroad. There is the same great activity in our sister county of Mohave. and in the mining counties of the south Yuma, Pima. Graham, Pinal and Gila show the same great stir and development. COchise with it's great mines at Tomb stone and Bisbee is passing all in it's great development and production.