Bisbee daily review., 1906-05-10
BOOM PLACER MINING THE COPPER SITUATION
More Interest in Yayapai Coun- .ty Than at Any Time in .
 Past Decade.
FIFTY MEN ARE AT
 WORK ON STREAMS.

The placer mining industry of Yaya- pal county is again being prosecuted with more of an interest than at any time in the past decade. Every gulch and stream within a radius of ten | miles of Prescott has men at work and in many instances more money Is being made by the individual than ne vocation of a tradesman could re- l turn. The inducement that causes the regeneration of this industry is due to but one channel. that of the abundance of water in every locality on the sur face. for camp purposes and the sub terranean flow at shallow depths for mining uses in the use of the pan or the rocker.
 Within two miles of Prescott 1t is estimated at least fifty men are at work placering, while along the Has sayampa, Lynx Creek, Big Bug and other lesser gulches that lead into them, there are more men engaged than even in the palmiest days of placering, says the Prescott Journal Miner.
 Merchants In Prescott, as well as the station keepers along the many routes of travel, together with the SD aller dealer at the several camps, report the yield as indicating a re- sumption of the industry in produc- ton ard a decidedly lively interest is manifested to follow the calling by ,, Al l. Ars, ----~-ss=-
 Previous to ten years ago the amount of yellow metal to reach Pres colt was estimated all :sI ...; way from s75,000 to s150,Q0o annually from placer mining sources. With the steady decline in rainfall and the drouth that ersued in later years the output gradually diminished until if was practically abandoned Two years ago the heavy rainfall again took place, and followed necessarily during the last year by the heavIesI precipitation that ever took place in Yavapai county in one years time, an cturGance of water is now an absolute certainty iul the successful Prosecu- ton of this industry.
 Practically speaking, placer mining is the foundation or the pedestal of the county's. mineral life Or today. bacA in 1863 when the Territory was SET ated by Congressional enactment, the gubernatorial party were instructed to r.c-e toward the scene of where the rich beds of gravel were being mined, and in accordance with that order they naturally selected what is now Pres colt as the most desirable location for the first official seat of the new gov" ernment. In that day rt!ch Hill where , Weaver now stands, was yielding fab ulgus sums, attracting hundreds ot miners from the Pacific Coast and otker sections: along the Hassayampa 1 from the Senator mine 10 the town or | Wickenburg every inch of desirable ground was teeming with activity; Big Bug and Lynx Creeks had over | thousand people wi hin their confines | all dependent upon the output ot the placer field; even Granite Creek with | in the confines of the city of Prescott, was mined for the dust. It was an era of placer mining dtsti1c lively, and gold quartz mining was of only an oc' 1 casional occurrence.
 The placer output of Yavapai coun'
 ty since it's earliest settlement VII!
 run into the millions of dollars. This fact is so well established that prom
 nent and au horitative writers have
 stated time and again in the past that
 the auri9erous deTEsits of Tavapai
 county were unquestionably more ex
 tensivo and of more value than any similar subdivision in the west.
 So far as the deposi,s of placer golc
 of are considered, many mineralogist: give Prescott, along with Johannes
 burg. South Africa, unique and in teresting consideration, in this. by pub -?fs1eL.v., h m h meh mehemeheu
 licly saying in their literature tha these two cities have streets that ar,
 IFaJicaliy etA d with gold. This
 estimation has become traditional, ant !. is generally accepted by the minin. element as indisputable.
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