Weekly Arizona journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1903-1908, 1906-04-04
STIRRING STORY OF RICH FIND.
(From Thursdays Daily.)

/ discovery ol boIhc oI thc Iicn'Ht Vi'"S'
urcs OF the mineral wealth of the
rockies has been made under circum-
stances of novel and strange charac.
ter.
The story Of the discovery Of the
! Punia de orc mine in I'll" mountains
Of chihuahua told yesterday 10y u. T..
! Riley. who passed through here on his
way to New York, is startling from
many -inndpoints M well as being part
| ~ pathetic in i's nature. lie said
~ first heard of the Punta lie
orc mine through n miner named
Brooks whom met in III Paso about
three years ago on his way to Kansas
| city, lie showed me some of the
! rock. which was marvclously rich ia
copper aud gold, and asked me to ne.
company him TO the place on his re-
turn To- the country where he made the
/ discovery and take half interest with
him. Before he left for Kansas City
he drew rough map of the district,
tcring places. A short time after
/ arriving in Kansas City he took sick
with pneumonia and died. waited
patiently to hear from him. and later
learned through n mutual friend there
of his death. I returned TO Prescott,
and after visiting the Grand Canyon
country. where ! told the story of the
mine M learned IL from Brooks TO
Joseph r. Ticrnnn, who was then run.
ming the Herman dairy, and n friend
of mine since the early SOS. lie
insisted that ! should start in search
of II. aud locate him for an interest il
my trip proved successful. took
into partnership with me on the expo.
dition i. g. Paul another old time
miner, and with nothing for our guild.
ancc bu, the rough sketch of tho coun-
try surrounding tho discovery We
started for the Casa Grandc district
of the state of chihuahua. Mexico, de.
termincd. IL possible, to reach the
Brooks 6ud.
"After n search Of sixteen months
during which we encountered many
dangers and surmountcd many diff.
culties, and when we were almost nj
the point of giving up all hope of
ever being successful. our efforts were
rewarded by finding the vein described
by Brooks in one of the toughest see
tioDs Of the entire Casa Grande dis.
trict, about 20 miles southwest of the
Cash Grandc and Sierra Madre rail
road and about so miles south of the
Rogers mine
"Aftcr perfecting tho title we
commenced to develop the lead by
sinking shafts, and we now have one
shaft sunk 10 n depth Of l35 feet, nm.
other shaft ~ feet, and have also run
tunnel along the vein into the noun.
tain distance af los feet. These
openings uncovered a six foot ledge Of
ore in fssurc vein, some of which
samples as high M 20 per cent in copper
and 10 ounces in gold to the ton. A
coldblooded sample Of the entire ore
body taken by an expert who exam.
ined the property gave returns Of 10
per cent in copper and little over an
ounce IN gold. When the news of the
discovery reached the outside world
mining expert from London visited
the ground. and mt once began negotia.
tions for its purchase. | then com.
municated with an acquaintance here
and found that the partner whom /
had located with me and my old time
friend Joe Herman were dead. This
was about two months ago, and "A short
time since, on receiving a letter re.
questing me to join the London expert
In New York and proceed to England
to close the deal, ! came here to secure
power Of attorney from Mrs. Up.
Tiernan TO dispose Of her interest In
the mine to the English company"
r., j.. Riley Is well known to many in
this county. lie came here In 1850
from New Mexico after discovering
and disposing Of the Tucalota aud
White Oaks mines in 1873 and 1879.
lie was in Tombstone In the pnlmy
days OF that camp, and has from time
to time visited, located and disposed
OF some valuable mining properties In
different camps in the western mining
states Some years ago no opened
some claims in the Big Bug district,
ana was among the first miners EN-.
ployed by Judge Sloan when he
purchased the properties belonging TO
the faeger Canyon Copper company
at the present time. He exported the
Cananca mines for w. G. Greene. he.