Arizona republican., 1908-11-01

1 graph and the telephone and the pianola and the potato pairing ma l chine weren't invented 2000 years earlier. I hate people who want to get all their knowledge by asking cues tions without the labor of reflection at all.
 GREAT GOLD LODES. There are already some great gold lode mines operating in this country tributary to Quartzsite-the King of Arizona and the North Star--and from what I have seen of the region in two weeks of constant moving around among the mines and prospects I can entertain no doubt that a great many bonanzas will be opened up when up- to-date mining intelligence and capital get onto the job.
 WATER SUPPLY.
 There is water nearly everywhere here but it isn't on the surface. This broad Tyson valley where Quartzsite stands is a synclynal trough between the Plumosa and the Dome Rock ranges and constitutes a great subsur- face cistern like other synclinal val leys in this region. There is no end of water here at Quartzsite at a depth of 30 to 40 feet and it's water that you can drink till the cows come home.
 TYsoN'S WELL.
 Quartzsite is on the site of the fa- nous old Tyson well of 1860 to 1867 on the old pioneer road from La Paz to Prescott and the Weaver and Brad shaw districts of the early days. All the travel and supplies to Prescott and the Hassayampa country came in that way, from San Francisco-by water to La Paz and thence by wagon from the river. There is plenty of water every where in the synclinal valleys of northern Yuma county. It has to be raised of course but the supply is en- eXhaustible and the wind will raise it free of cost. Nine windmills are now constantly pumping water at Quartz site and it is stored in tanks and ce- ment reservoirs to water stock and ir- rigate gardens.
 WATER FOR MILLING.
 Geologically there is no visible req son to doubt that 90O-or even 5000 -windmills might be kept in constant operation without lowering the water in the great natural cistern sensibly, for unquestionably it flows out of the valley all the year round beneath the surface through Tyson's wash pass, into the Colorado
 Milling the vast bodies of free gold rock in the Quartzsite district is therefore only a matter of hauling the ore to the water, or pumping the wa ter to the mines.
 Each windmill will supply a five stamp mill quite adequately
 That is already proved.
 One hundred wells would supply 800 stamps, and 800 stamps would work 25O0 tons of this splinting quartz a day-and there is about half an ounce of free gold in every ton of this quartz.
 There is where capital will get it's inning in this district 1t is a fine field for a big milling proposition.
 For the greater part the gold ores of the region are wet high grade, but the lodes are enormously large-up to 30. 70 and even 50 feet-and the m1n- ing will therefore be cheap.
 A PRoSPEcToR'S PARADISE.
 It is the finest field for prospectors in North America-and the easiest.
 It cannot be too emphatically reiter- ated that from the first of October to the first of June the region has the climate of Paradise-no snow and only seldom frost Figs thrive vigorously in the gardens of Quartzsite, and George Ingersoll has the largest lem ons l ever saw. growing in his yard. l Frank Weber has a beautiful cOmmer- cial orchard of figs and peaches and apricots, and all the California grapes, in the valley mile north of the camp. watered by two windmills, and he is | experimenting with oranges. No doubt he will succeed. Winter in the Tyson valley is one long ldveIy october.
 osSAWATToMIE BROWN.
 There is an estimable old miner here whose name recalls the hot times of Bleeding Kansas way back in the sos. He is John Brown and he claims to hail from Kentucky but he is prob ably mistaken about that-not that he. would Intentionally deceive anybody. 1 for he is the soul of truth and honor, a modest, quiet, serious minded man, ana always sober-but after bengi out in the western mining camps for a whole generation an honest miner may easily "disremember'' where he was born and brought up So sweet and lovable and honorable an old miner as this John Brown couldn't have comel from any other state but Kansas. and couldn't have come from any part of Kansas but Ossawattomie county. Sol I call him John Brown of Ossawat- tonic as a compliment that embodeis my or inion of him. l