Bisbee daily review., 1908-03-26
DISCUSSES GOLD
 FIND AT HAC7I1I IA

Judge Lew. H. Davis has just re
 turned from trip to the gold fields
 of the Hachita mountains, cays the El
 Paso Times. He is. interested in the
 development oT the promising field
 and tells an interesting story Of the
 trip he made through the camp.
 When seen last night by a Times re
 porter, Judge Davis said;
 "Yes, I went to Hachita last week
 and remained about six days. My pur-
 pose was simply to visit Mir. R.R. Smith at the Old Hachita camp on private business. This place is about six miles north of the scene of the present gold excitement. Our business !, finished, Smith persuaded me 10 ac-
 company him to the placer fields. That
 unexpected trip last Sunday aroused
 in me the fever and the lure of the
 gold" and held me there for five
 days.
 The mountain Trip
 We travelled horseback acrcss noun tain trails. Far below us we saw prospecters in pairs searching the ra- vines and foothills, and occasionally white tents near the wagon road. As
 we. approached the Sunny Slope spring on the western side Of the mountains, we saw about thirty men within the ocatilla fence that encloses the email pond, all engaged in examin- ing quartz and banning dirt I count ed twenty-seven vehicles and a mum Der of saddie>S horses at this place Everybody was so completely absorb ed in his testin as not to seem to notice our approach. We knew some thing unusual was in the air Every body spoke in low tones, and one might have imagined that there were religious or funeral services being held in the huts CT jacals and these men were unable to get aside.
 'Reticence scon gave away when they learned wasifrom far away Eli Paso and had no designs of jumping their claims. Mir. WinkIer, wealthy ranch man from the Playas noun tains, recognized me and said he had that morning caught the fever and stopped over on his way home and located what he calls the Spanish group and leach one has vein stained quartz and pans coarse gold half way round the pan" he said, as he proved on the spot. "But, those Douglas fel- lows over there have struck it bigger than wolf Why. they have ledge so rich thet their monuments are of rock showing free gold to the naked eye" said he, as he pointed to fonr men camping in tho old chicken coop. I rushed over and found these quiet gentlemen secking up large samples of copper stained quartz to take home with them to Douglas These were the richest samuies I ever saw outside of California or from Mexico There was no need of a glass to see the yellow stuff Coarse gold from pinhead to beans were plentifully visible.
 .what are the ne-nes of these men? The men whom met are I. E. Pred more, Wilcox, W. F. Nihart, and l. | hink a Mir. Fletcher, all of Douglas. I learned that J. O. Martin and c. E. Norton were their associates. = q asked whom I could have the pleasure of congratulating as the lucky finder who first saw the glitter of the yellow metal With blush | of a school girl, Predmore modestly | admitted the guilt. Whats your name?'' I asked? They call me Shor- ty' for short he said. He alleged that the ledge was very wide and traceable a long distance across the mountains. T suppose you located the entire visi- bIe veinT I remarked. No he rel piled. We only took up two claims, the Mountain and Norton. We are t not hogs like good many -sooners.' li and the tenderfeet who ruched in here a couple of weeks ago We have all we want, and believed in giving others 3 show NIT. Wilcox then showed me how the bare quartz that showed nc visible gold. even under the rnagnifying glass. would pan. From such piece he size of an egg he got a string of course gold eight inches long in the i, pan.