Bisbee daily review., 1908-01-28
LYNX CREEK GOLD MINES
 CHANCE HANDS
Hydraulic Gold Mining Comp any Takes Property Under Bond and Sends Rush Order For New Placer Machinery.

PRESCOTT. Jan. 27-After sever al weeks negotiations. title to the .'Lynx Creek Hydraulics passed un- der bond yesteraday from the T. G. Barlow Massick's estate to the Fly draulic Gold Mining Company. An order for new placer mining machin- cry. with a capacity of 1000 yards day, was also placed with an eastern manufacturing concern under rush or. ders, and the directors of the company are confident that the new machinery will be installed and in operation in ninety days.
 Under the management of w. E. Pedley. general manager of the LynA Creek Gold and Land Company the property is reported to have produced over $2,0OO.0O0 in placer gold. It was then worked by the hydraulic system. Operations ceased after the dam, which impounded the waters two miles further up the creek. was des- troyed by food Pedley was a heavy stockholder in the concern He died in the early sos while plans fol the rebuilding of the dam were under consideration and the property has never been operated since, except in a small way by placer miners. After the death of Pedley the property pass ed into the hands or T. G. Barlow Mas sicks, who, after making many sub stantial Improvements, died before he consummated plans for the resump- tion of work. The property has since been in charge of Rev. Aired QuetH of. this city as administrator of the Massicks estate.
 EThe properties transferred yester- day include 5000 acres of placer ground on Lynx Creek. covering the bed of the creek for a distance of two miles, and the right to use all of the creeks flow oI water. The old dam site, located two miles up the creek, and several minor water and placer rights, are also included in the con- alterations.
 A large and commodious residence. ass well as several camp buildings, valued at $30,000. affords accomoda- ton for large force of employees as we'll as residence and office accoLloda- tions for the management. These improvements are located near the west end of the main property, sev- en miles east of this city, and are al so included in the transfer.
 Although the property has record of production in placer gold unsur- passed by any property of similar size in northern Arizona, it is prac- ally virgin ground. The bed of the creek, proven lately by an eminent mining expert to be the richest of the ground, has not been exploited. On. ly few rich bars have been worked. The directors of the new concern gave out yesterday that it was the inten. ton of the company to install the ma ehinery just ordered in the bed of the creek where the ground has been prov en to be very rich by actual test. At a depth ranging from ten to twenty feet bedrock is found, so that the ground can be mined at very reason able expense Two thousand acres of the ground is under fence.
 The directors of the Hydraulic Gold Mining Company are James R. Will son, of Bonneville, Indiana; H. w. Flentke, Evansville, Ind; R. J. Hick- ey. Summeryille, NJ: and M. l.. Buck. ley and P, J, Keohane of this city.
 James R. Wilson, prominent in financial circles in Bonneville, is president; R. J. Hickey, a successful inancier, is vice president and H. w Flentke, who has large mining inter ests in this country, is treasurer. P J. Keohane of this city is secretary, and M. L. Buckley, superintendent of the Spec Mining Company, and the Blackberry Mining Company; will be in charge of operations as general manager Mir. Buckley has managed successfully many mining enterpris es here and in the state of Montans in the last twenty years.