Bisbee daily review., 1908-04-03
KINGNAN NOW
HUB OF RICH
Mining SECTION
Many Promising Properties Be-
ing Opened Within Compa-
ratively Short Distance of
Mohave County Seat.

PHOENIX. April "A representa-
tive of the Gazette has just returned
from a trip through the northern
part OF the territory, visiting Hol-
brook, Williams. Winslow, Kingman,
Flagstaff, etc. Everywhere prosper
ity was evident but the Gazette
man was particularly impressed with
the future OF Kingman. Lying; as
that little city does, in the middle of
what promises to become the rich
est gold mining district in the world,
Kingman seems destined TO be one
one Of the largest cities Of the south
west All that is needed is little
more pUsh-a little more energy,
properly directed--and the investors
viii begin to pour into that district
kingman is simply coTralled by
mining camps. Practically in any di-
rection one can turn is found a
camp. rapidly increasing in wealth,
population and Importance. At the
present time KingInan Is the liveliest
place in the territory, so far as the
development of mines is, concerned
Hef-strests swarm with strangers
and at times it is difficult TO obtain
hotel accommodations.
Among the many districts contigu-
sous to Kingnan. the Maynard is per
haps the most promising Within this
district lies what is known as Gold
Flat. seven miles west of Kingman.
This flat is covered entirely with de
composed granite which for ages
past has washed from the sides OF
the surrounding hills. Beneath this
granite is perfect network of veins
carving large values in coarse, free
milling gold. The fat was never
looked upon as a likely place for
prospectors and the presence of the
veins was discovered accidentally
A. /, McKesson. so the story goes
was one day passing over the fat and
happned TO come upon a place where
a vein cropped up above the COVERING
of decomposed granite. He angnteo
from his burro, clipped on Few
pieces of rock and horned them.
When he saw the coarse gold
some OF the pieces almost large
enough to be called nuggets, lying il
the bottom of his horn, Mckesson's
first exclamation was Holy Moses!
and that was what he named his mrs
claim. which he staked on at thai
time Today it is the most promis
ing claim of the McKesson group O
thirteen
The representative of the Gazette
was one of a party of twelve which
went out from Kingman the latte
part of last week to visit Gold Fiat
Several mining experts were amoni
the number and all of them enthusi
astic over the showings of the yariou
claims and the entire party was IN
pressed not only with the richness
Gold Flat itself but what the ricf
ness means to the entire distrlc
and In fact, to the entire territory.
Conditions are ideal at Gold Fla
The Santa Fe railroad runs throug
its center and almost exactly in tn
middle is Hancock station The prot
lem of transportation was obv1ate
before the discovery OF the r1che
underlying the surface of the ma
Water for mining purposes can easll
he obtained for in some of the shat
which have been sunk it has bee
encountered at a depth of on
thirty feet.
ON each of the fourteen claims
the McKesson group prospect shat
ALI the way from ten to fifty re
deem have been sunk. On the no
Moses claim is a three-stamp mi
each stamp weighing 500 poun'
each.
The party went over the fiat,
specting the various claims. and
horning was made from every ope
ing. The amount of free gold Whi
can be extracted by this crude meth
* simply marvellous. One can hard
believe that native rock can be tou
go rich. The result from one hoi
ing is startling, amazing astoul
inc