Arizona republican., 1908-11-01

Special Correspondence by Fitz- Mac.)
 This Quartzsite district "cantains the greatest deposit of golA on the continent of America"
 That's not statement of my own judgment, for I don't know. But lots of people here believe it and "act ac- 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 is one of the most intelligent and enter prising of our old pioneers. a man who has made and lost several prince ly fortunes in Arizona mines snice 1S62-an exceptionally well informed man in mining matters. He believes it with all his heart and all his soul and all his understanding" and he be- lieves he has got the ransom of a thousand kings" in his Black Prince group at the north end of Mosiquita canyon.
 Billy Keiser, formerly of Cripple Creek and an exceptionally intelligent gold miner. believes it too and has been getting his hooks onto everything that was loose around here for the last four years.
 George U. Ingersoll, a thoroughly capable mining engineer, geologist mineralogist and metallurgist, came here several years ago from Silverton in the great San Juan country, Colo rado, where he had a high professional reputation and where I 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, 15O miles away, and he was caught by that mysterious lure of the desert-that tradition Of the greatest gold deposit. He is here still and he has got enough of that greatest gold deposit cOrraied to put him in the Rockefeller class when it is thoroughly developed. He hasn't taken any reckless chances on missing the right spot either. but owns groups of claims all over the district and. like the capable mining man he is, he long ago put up a 5 stamp mill to test his own ores by regular mill runs.
 W. E. Scott, the shrewd, hard head ed. unconditional merchant believes the | tradition and thinks he has got the core of the great deposit in the Good man group a famous old property 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 sue cession got gay when the gold was pouring into their pockets and lost their titles-as often happens when honest miners pike out for the big cities and get gay, and neglect their To ar
 When Opportunity knocked at Scott's door she found him with his boots on and ready to march. It's a cold day in Yuma county when Scotty gets left-and now it's he or Rock l efeller for first place-when the old Goodwin is developed.
 Sam Wilson, another merchant of the camp. with a big store also at Ehrenburg and a hotel and private l telephone line 60 miles long connecting 1 all his enterprises with the new rail 1 road station at Vicksburg, who is out i for the dough as fierce as Scotty and | isn't letting anything that he can see get past him, has got a lot of good 1 things on the greatest gold deposit in l North America nailed down against 1 the day when all the signs are right l to take the cover. Sam is a practical l man but like all the others he believes l in that tradition Of the greatest gold | deposit and he can't help dreaming of | the glad day coming when all Paris | will turn out to see him scooting down | the avenue Champs Elysees in his | gOld-plated automobile with a hundred 1 thousand dollar diamond ring on his | little finger. We are all dreamers that | way-even the most practical of US and Sam's dream is to knock the eye out of giddy Paree just once in that | way and show 'em how to do it when | you've got the price.
 When l first came into camp and the | old-tfmers who kindly took me in | hand began to let that story of the | greatest gold deposit in North Amer ica out of the bag l thought for a | while, they were playing me for the l simple Rube I look, but b'gosh after | riding and driving and tramping over the district for two weeks, from mine to mine and realizing its extent and | its genuine claims to serious consid- eration I am bound to confess that the | story is not absurd-that there is something in it besides mining camp | bancombe.
 The splendid hope which the tale in spires rests on a solid basis of histor- ical fact--the district has produced | great many millions in gold
 That was long ago and it was al- most all by dry placering-only a | trifle of it by lode mining. There were some thousands of men placering in this field from 1880 to 1867 and the country is honey with their old shafts and drifts and open-cuts.