Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1908-11-04
Whining, SmGltGrS and Stock Quotations
OUARTZSITE DISTRICT HAS
BIG BOOM, SAYS FITZ MAC

(By Fitz-Mac in Arizona Republican,
This Quartzite district contains
the greatest deposit of gold on the
continent OF America"
That's not statement of my own
judgment. for / don't know. But lots
Of people here believe 1t and "act &C
cordin'". Venerable and estimable old
Charles B. Genung. "the man that
owned the first quartz mill ever oper
ated in Arizona" believes it, and he h
one of the most intelligent and enter
prising of our old pioneers, a man
who has made and lost several prince
iy fortunes in Arizona mines since
1S62-an exceptionally well Informed
man in mining matters. He believes
IL with all his heart and all his SOU
and all his understanding and he be
lieves he has got the ransom of q
thousand kings" in his Black Prince
group at the north end of Mosiquits
canyon.
Billy Keiser, formerly of Cripple
Creek and an exceptionally intelligent
gold miner, believes IL too and has
been getting his hooks onto every
thing that was loose around here for
tAe last four years
George U. Ingersoll, a thooughly
capable mining engineer, geolog'st
mineralogist, and metaIhIrgist, came
here several years ago from SifyertoE
In the great San Juan country, Colo
RADIO, where he had a high professional
reputation and where knew him per
sonally. He also believes it He had
quite a pretty fortune in his clothes
when he came here before there was
a railroad nearer than Yuma, 15C
miles away, and he was caught by
that mysterious lure of the desert
tat tradition of the greatest gold de
post. He is here still and he has
got enough of that greatest gold de
post corraled TO put him in the Rock
efeller class when 1t is thoroughly de
veloped. He hasn't taken any reck
less chances on missing the right spot
either, but owns groups of claims al
over the district and, like the capablt
mining man he is, he long ago put VI
a 5-stamp mill TO test his own ores BY
regular mill runs.
w. E. Scott, the shrewd, hard
headed, International merchant be
| .ieves that tradition and thinks he has
| got the core of the great deposit IN
the Goodman group, a famous ole
| poperty that lies in the heart of the
district near Gonzales pass and which
though "it has only been scratched
and hardly to say that" made fortunes
| for two former owners both of whom
| in succession got gay when the golf
was pouring into their pockets anC
lost their titles-as often happenl
when honest miners pike out for thu
big cities and get gay, and neglec
their titles while they are seeing
life -"
When Opportunity knocked a
SCOTS door she found him with hi
boots on and ready to march. It's
cold day in Yuma county when Scott
gets left-and now it's he or Rocke
Teller for first place-when the oil,
Goodwin is developed.
Sam Wilson, another merchant O
the camp, with a big store also a
Ehrenburg, and a hotel and a privat
telephone line 60 miles long connect
ing all his enterprises with the ney
railroad station at Vicksburg. who
out for the dough as fierce as Scott
and isn't letting anything that he ca
see get past him, has got a lot c
good things on the greatest gold d.
posit in North American nailed dow
against the day when all the sign
are rights to take the cover Sam |
a practical man but like all the other
he believes in that tradition of tn
greatest gold deposit and he can
help dreaming of the glad day comm
when all Paris will turn out to Sc
him scooting down the avenu
Champs Elysees in his gold plate
automobile with a hundred thousan
dollar diamond ring on his little fiji
ger. We are all dreamers that way
even the most practical of us an
Sans dream is to knock the eye OIL
: of giddy Paree Just once in that wa
and show EN- how to 60 it VINE
you've got the price
When l first came into camp an
? the oid-timers who kindly took me |
: hand began to let that story of ii
? greatest gold deposit in North Anne
lea out of the bag l thought for
: while they were playing me for Il
simple RUDE / look, but b'gosh aft
riding and driving and tramping ovt
the district for two weeks, from nil
to mine and realizing its extent al
; its genuine claims to serious consi
!, Grafton l am bound to confess that Il
l story is not absurd, that there is som
I thing in 1t besides mining camp 5u
combe.
The splendid hope which the tale /
, spires rests on solid basis of nistc