Daily Arizona silver belt., 1907-07-09
TROY GOLD FIELD
 YIELDS RICHNESS
Several Claims in New Gold District in
 Pinal County Change Hands-Be- lieved that New Camp Will Be an Fl Dorado-First Discovered Years Ago.

ererS or the rlcn Troy gOlu nelu, III Pinal county, was visitor at the Blade sanctum Monday and exhibited to us a fine collection of gold nuggets he had taken from his properties. Some of these nuggets are worth $50. He found one nugget which sold for $107. This gold is not the ordinary placer gold found in gravel bars, but is vein gold that has not travelled far from the veins. It has simply been freed by disintegra- tion of the eroppings in which it had been formed and rolled down and lodged among the adjacent boulders and debris. Two of the blind leads from which it came have been discovered within the boundaries of the c. E. Brown and John Kavanaugh claims. The Brown vein has two pay streaks, one bedded on quartzite and the other on slate. They are small but the ore is nearly half gold, lying in sheets one fourth of an inch thick and in large nuggets. Mir. Brown has extracted $2,- 100 worth of gold on his claims since he discovered and located them. The misunderstanding between him and Messrs. Weick and Pickenback of Los Angeles, mention of which was made in the Blade three weeks since, has been amicably adjusted and the claim cover ing the original discovery has been in corporated and the stock placed on sale in Los Angeles.
 MT. Brown sold one claim to Messrs. John and Thomas Kavanaugh and Jack Clark, and they are at work on the property and are obtaining very satis- factory results.
 John Kelley made location adjacent to the original discovery and sold an interest therein to Jake Bates and Charlie McGee of Kelvin. They also bought the Good Hope claim from Brown. They are at work on vein four feet in width and the entire four feet averages s6.50 per ton in free gold. R. H. Renfro and s. E. Brown of Troy have also acquired some valuable holdings near to the original discovery and are at work on the property.
 Messrs. Terrill and MeGraw of Okla. homa have gotten possession of some good ground in the midst of the gold zone and are now sinking development shaft.
 There is every reason to believe that one of the great gold camps of the west will be established in this rich Troy geld field in the immediate future Ten foot shafts, sunk for location work, are the deepest openings yet made in the field, but development work will be pushed from this date on and there is hardly doubt that the quartz strata, so marvelously rich in gold at their sur. face, will lead to large bonanzas. The rich gold quartz shown us by MT. Brown is identical in color, texture, richness and general character to that found in the same vicinity by a soldier, over thirty-fve years ago and for which Charlie Brown of Tucson has been searching, at odd times, for thirty years past. A company of soldiers was riding over the old government trail, from old Camp Grant, on the San Pedro, to the Pinal ranch, situated in the lap of the Pinal range, about eight miles from the old Silver King mine, this county. Somewhere in the vicinity of Steam boat Springs, the location of the Troy gold discovery, one of the troopers fell out of line and did not join the troop again until it had reached the Pinal ranch. When reprimanded by the lieu tenant in command for tagging behind the company in section where hostile Apaches were numerous, he exhibited to the astonished officer chunks of quartz that were more than half gold. The lieutenant became excited and tried to induce the trooper to return with him and an escort to the location of the discovery, but the soldier refused, say ing he would wait till his term of ser vice expired, then return and locate the ground for himself. Neither threats, persuasion or offers of bribes would in. duce him to alter his determination in this matter Some time afterward his company was ordered to the Dakotas and he did not live to return. Charlie Brown of Tucson was here at that time and procured specimens of the ore from the soldier and slight hint as to the locality in which the trooper found it, and Charlie has always told us it was located somewhere in the vicinity of Steamboat mountain, just east of Troy, just where the recently discovered gold field is located
 C.. E. Brown, who contracted rheu- matism while banning gold on his new find, left here Monday for Phoenix, overland, on two months vacation. He has good team and wagon and will go from Phoenix to Roosevelt, then to Globe and from the later place back to Troy. He retained four claims ad- joining his original discovery and will develop them after he recovers from the rheumatism. He has mined for gold in Africa, Australia, Alaska and in all the gold camps of Nevada and California and believes that Pinal conn ty, Arizona, is the best gold field he ever saw. He is not alone in this opin- ion. Old Pinal is the richest copper, gold, silver and lead feld on the face of the earth Time will confirm this statement.--Florence Blade.