Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1908-11-04

swift one himself and he despIsed che
did at least when he was fush) the
blow men who could consent to make
money in SO slow a way.
Now after that explanation don't
ask why the lodes were not discovered
and worked long ago. Just ask your
self why the steam engine and the tel
egraph and the telephone and the pf-
anoia and the potatoparing machine
wernt invented 1000 years earlier. |
hate people who want to get all then
knowledge by asking questions with
out the labor Of reflection at all.
There are already some great gold
lode mines operating in this country
tributary TO Quartzitethe King of Ari-
zona and the North Star-and from
what have seen of the region in two
weeks of constant moving around
among abe mines and prospects can
entertain no doubt that great many
bonanzas will be opened up when up
to-date mining intelligence and capital
get onto the Job.
There is water nearly everywhere
here but 1t isn't on the surface. This
broad Tyson valley where Quartzite
stands is a synclinal trough between
the Pmmosa and the Dome Rock
ranges and constituts a great sub
surface cistern like other synclinal
valleys in this region. There is no
end of water here at Quartzite at a
depth of 30 to 40 feet and it's water
that you can drink till the cows come
home. --
Quartzite is on the site of the ia
nous old Tyson well of 1860 to 1867
on the old pioneer road from La Paz
to Prescott and the Weaver and Brad
shaw districts of the early days. All
the travel and supplies to Prescott and
the Hassayampa country came in that
way, from San Francisco by water
to La Paz and thence by wagon from
the river. There is plenty of water
everywhere in the synclinal valleys OF
northern Yuma county. II has to be
raised Of course but the supply is in
haustible and the wind will raise it
free of cost. Nine windmiIls are now
constantly pumping water at Quartz
site and 1t is stored in tanks and &C.
ment reservoirs to water stock and
irrigate gardens.
Geologically there is no visible rea-
SOD to doubt that 900-or even 5000
-windmills might be kept In constant
operation without lowering the water
in the great natural cistern sensibly,
for unquestionably it flows out of the
valley all the year round beneath the
surface through Tyson's wash pass,
into the Colorado.
Milling the vast bodies of free gold
rock in the Quartzsite district is
therefore only a matter of hauling
tn Tow -, -
water to the mines.
Each windmill will supply a five
stamp mill quite adequately.
That is already proved.
One hundred wells would supply 500
stamps, and 500 stamps would work
$500 tons of this splinting quartz a
day-and there is about half an ounce
of free gold in every ton of this
quartz.
There is where capital will get its
inning in this district. 1t a fine
field for a, big milling proposition.
For the greater part the gold ores
of the region are wet high grade, but
the lodes are enormously large-up to
80, 40 and even so feet-and the
mining will therefore be cheap.
1t is the finest field for prospectors
in North America-and the easiest.
It cannot be too enphatically re-
iterated that from the first of October
to the first of June the region has
the climate of Paradise-no snow ana
only seldom a frost Figs thrive Wig
oTously in the gardens of Quartzsite,
and George Ingersoll has the largest
lemons l ever saw, growing in his
yard Frank Weber has a beautiful
commercial orchard of figs and
peaches and apricots, and all the Cal,
ifornia grapes, in the valley a mile
north of the camp watered by two
: windmills, and he is experimenting
with oranges. No doubt he will sue
coed. Winter in the Tyson valley is
one long lovely October.
There is an estimable old miner
here whose name recalls the hot timee
; of bleeding Kansas" way back in
the SOS. He is John Brown. and he
claims to hail from Kentucky, but he
is probably mistaken about that-not
that he would Intentionally deceive
anybody, for he is the soul of truth
and honor, a modest, quiet, serious
minded man, and always sober-but
: after being out in the western mining
camps for whole generation an hon
: est miner may easily "disremember'
: where he was born and brought up
So sweet and loyable and honorable
an old miner as this John Brown
: couldn't have come from any part OF
! Kansas but Ossawattamie county. So
/ call him John Brown Of Ossawat
tonne as a compliment that embodiAs
I my opinion of him.