Bisbee daily review., 1908-04-09
LOOKING FOR BIG l. BONANZA IN PALMS
Recent Strike of S15,000 On ItaIie Claim Regarded
 as Important,

LOS ANGELES, April S.-It seems to be a cinch that the twenty-nine Palma country will produce in the near future a big bunch of bononzas. The recent phenomenal S15,000 strike Of gold by the Italie Mining company has been followed by fini of rich rock on the Anaconda adjoining the Ana Dulce. Some of the stringers show values so large that a basketful of samples would be wortl fortuns
 Waffle the country is O'd the place os the big strikes is practically nsw. Prospectors are going in by the score and before long there VII be white city where only recently the coyotes and jackrabbits held full sway. There is a big bunch Of unlocated lana in the country, and it would not be strange or startling to hear any day of greater finds.
 w. T. Mason, who with others has leased the Ana Dulce, has been in the city buying horses, equipment and provisions and will return at once to his camp and begin mining on his claims. He expects ore from the start that will run all the way from $100 to $500 in values. These are fortune figures, tut the stuff is there, where God placed it for the use of man.
 Mir. Mason obtained his lease from the Mohawk-Herald company. This concern is heavily interested in the vicinity and is making preparations for extensive operations.
 MT. Wardwell of the Italie com pany is a levelheaded engineer ana a rock fighter of experience. He says the district is mighty rich one, ant to prove his statement produces a sack of S15,000 ore as an exhibit The general character ot all the ore in the country is the same. Experts are saying kind things about it.
 For years this new gold field has been tramped over by Cowpuncher5 and ranchmen without thought O. tne wealth that lay beneath the feet; but, like Rawhide, it has sId- denly made its appearance in ponan- "a form. Cripple Creek and run dreds of other camps were born in the same way.
 There is considerable talk among those interested about changing the name from Twenty-nine Palms 10 another more striking, fanciful or suggestive, but 1t is doubtful whether any name will be found to ueLueI that of Twenty-nine Palms. The place where the new strike was made is about five miles south from Twenty-nine Palms proper. Most o{ the water is obtained there. Stamp mills are going up, a town is being projected, boarding houses are being opened and other necessary accom- paniments. The Palms country is only 160 miles east of Los Angeles and can be easily reached from the city in a snort automobile days ride. At the present time the short est trail in is by the way of Indio and the White Tank pass, but over this road the grade is hard and freighters should go by way of Banning. The new country is about midway be- tween the Santa Fe on the north and the Southern Pacific on the south.
 Italics Big Strike.
 The ItaIie claims on which the strike that has attracted so much at tention was located by A. G. Ting. l man. of this city. He came to town interested capital and ultimately or ganized a company, with Maj. Arthur w. Phipps, Pittsburg millionaire, as president E. M. Wardwell, an eminent mining expert, reported fav- | orably on the property. He is now | general manager of the mine, and il was he who made the big strike, as | 1t is properly called. MT. Tingnan owns other property in the district All who know anything about it say that it Is surely destined to be a