Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1907-07-16
RICH STRIKE Of GOLD.
MADE IN zUNI
MOUNTAINS
Gallup. N. NJ. Prospecting
Party Made Discovery of
Valuable Deposit
of Ore.
THEIR CLUE CAME
FROM MAN Slayer
He Found Vein Of Metal and Trad
ed Enough Nuggets to Secure
Funds to Escape Gave
Friends Information
as to New Find.

Gallup, N. M, July Especially
A party of Gallup men, headed by
John Bowie, who have just returned
from a weeks prospecting trip in the
Zuni mountains, are exhibiting sam
Piles of gray quartz containing free
milling gold in particles easily visi-
BILE to the naked eye. A quantity
Of the ore has been sent to an as
sayer, and the returns are anxiously
awaited. 1t is said that a man,
wanted for murder, found the gold
vein and told friends of its location.
The men forming the prospecting
party beside Mr.. Bowie, were Ellis
Winters, town marshal of Gallup;
Arm of Gallup, and w. G. Kelley, of
Winslow, Arizona. They were in
the mountains only one week and al
though every member of the party
has been very reticient as to the ex-
act location of the place where the
gold was found, 1t has leaked out
that they drove direct to a point
about seventy-five miles southeast of
Gallup, on the south slope of the
Zuni mountains. The nearest postof-
flee to the place is Kettner. Socorro
is the nearest large town. Albu-
place where the gold was found.
Extent is Unknown.
"All that we are afraid Of" said
Mr.. Bowie today in discussing the
find, sis that it won't hold out, We
found this about six feet below the
surface" and he held up a piece of
quartz the size of walnut contain
| ing one nugget as large as a French
pea and several smaller pieces, many
of them as large as a pin head.
| AT this depth the vein was about
eighteen inches in width. 1t cropped
out in the side of a deep gulch tilted
toward the southeast at about forty
| five degrees"
| The news of the strike spread rap
| idly and considerable excitement pre-
walls among the people, but the un-
certainty OF the exact location of the
gold is preventing other prospecting
| parties from starting out to seek for
| it. The prospecting done by the
first party was very slight, only few
| shallow holes were dug by the pros
every member of the party, even to
| the cook, got busy and staked out
| the entire country around. A survey
or will be taken out to survey the
claims next week, when some of the
party will return to the discovery
and continue the prospecting.
From Hunted Man.
| There is much speculation in Gal
lup as to how the lucky party got
a clue to where the gold was to be
found, as it is very apparent that
they knew about where to look for
it.
| 1t is said and not denied by any
member of the Bowie party, that a
man wanted at Silver City, n. NJ,
for murder, now hiding in Mexico,
first discovered the gold. This man,
whose name cannot be learned, gath
cred several hundred dollars worth
| of nuggets from an arroyo in the
Zuni mountains and disposed of the
| gold in Gallup and Winslow His
| Identity as the man wanted at Silver
! City for murder was discovered by
Marshal Green, of this place, when
| the nuggets were traded to local
merchants for money.
Green was preparing to arrest the
| miner-slayer. when the latter got
on a train and went to Flagstaff.
Green was about to telegraph to
Flagstaff to intercept and capture the
| slayer, when a native informed him
that the wanted man was not get
ting away, but had,only gone to Flag
staff TO see a friend and would re-
! turn in a few days to Gallup. In
stead of returning. the man learned
| that he was to be arrested, and fled
| to Mexico. Now the supposition is
that this man, whoever he is, has in
formed someone either here or al
| Winslow as to the location of the
| gold. And that this is where the
| Bowie party got its clue.