Arizona republican., 1908-02-10

with a gold pan. being therefore prac- tically all profit.
 The gold came from the placer claims owned by the Barbarosa Mining com readers of The Republican will re- member an item about a week ago re- counting the discovery of a couple of nuggets there. These nuggets wer in cluded in the two sacks referred to above and were displayed in The Re publican office last night. The larger nugget looks about like q shredded wheat biscuit and weighs twcnty-three ounces 1t is credited with containing a gold value of $36O but the owners have been offered much more than that for il. The next largest nugget is valued at about $50. and the rest of their gold is smaller nuggets and dust. These nuggets were found January 9, though the men had been working the claims for sometime before that
 The gentlemen named have organ ized the company which owns the four claims they had. They say they are not seeking any great notoriety and
 
 want to start any rush to that coun- try because they do not think it would be the right thing To do. Hay ing secured their first claims they proceeded to prospect the adjoining country very thoroughly and the four claims take in about all the ground they deem valuable. If there had been a wider field they would have taken that in also for there were no strings on them but they think they have got all that is worth having in that imme- diate vicinity SO anybody who goes prospecting on adjoining ground, will do so with the knowledge in advance that it has been worked over and dis carded. Their ground prospects from fifty cents tO three or four dollars a yard. The character O: the geld indi- cates that it has not drifted far from the mother ledge and they propose to search thoroughly in the immediate vicinity for the origin of their placer gold
 Messrs. s. H. Snider and C. G. Wer- her Of the Two Queens mine were on the train yesterday when these gentle men came in and like everybody else they were very much enthused. espe- cially MT. Werner. who knew Messrs Pickenback and Weik as real estate agents in Los Angeles. They have no personal interest in this prospect as il is some distance northwest of them but they can't help exulting in that people can run over in that section every once in a while and dig up gold by the roots and great chunks of it at that. More over. they verify-a story that has been heard before, as being one of the gen orally accepted traditions Of that sec ton. and which indicates that the Bar barosa CRed Beard) property is but the re-discovery of an old find.
 The story is that a generation ago when the country was hardly settled at all between Fort Grant and Globe. the soldiers passing from one of those places to the other. used a trail that led over the hill at the head of the Barbarosa gulch. An old soldier while crossing this trail one day discovered a ledge on the top of a mountain from which he broke off some specimens rich in gold. This mountain is sup posed to be the one that overshadows the Barbarosa claims. for the soldier said that from the ledge he could ldok away to the south and see Fort Grant The mountain at the head of the Bar barOsa gulch affords about the olhE view point that answers this specified ton and for that reason the Los An geles men expect one of these days to find the old Soldiers ledge which they think will prove to be the origin of their placer gold.