Arizona republican., 1908-11-01
Claim That Her Gold Deposits Are the Greatest In North America and Worth the Ran-
 som of Thousand KinqS
FzaC Calls the Country the Finest Field for prospecors In the United StdfeS--pIenty of Water and
 the Climate of Paradise.

I They were almost all Mexicans and
 when pay dirt played out they skip ped All placer miners do that way | But in wet placer mines they leave 1 some evidences behind that tell the | story of their occupation of the field. dams and ditches and fumes and ! buildings and old machinery.
 DRY WASHING.
 Nothing of that sort here. The Mex [ ican dry washer had nothing but a | shovel and a pan. All the rest was tossing up the dry dirt in the pan and blowing, blowing blowing with all the | force of the lungs while the tossing proceeded. It is amazing what skill and speed they acquire at it A good manipulator will clean a painful of dirt as dry as ashes of course-rather more quickly than it can be washed down.
 There is placering going on here still "a little. But now it is mostly done by Americans who use a little dry washer to do the blowing-something like the flaming mill which farmers use to winnow their grain. but great deal smaller so that a miner can sling it to his back by a strap and carry it around from place to place. Those Mexicans built no houses in the diggins, so when they left there was nothing to leave behind but the pits and trenches. Didn't need any houses. This region has the climate of Paradise from September to June. In midsummer its hotter than Tophet of course. but in midsummer the min CTS couldn't work the dirt anyway. , Rains keep it too wet.
 OLD LA PAZ.
 Those Mexicans miners however had 1 a town where they could go of Sat urday afternoon and blow in their | cleanup at the gambling tables like | caballeros and fill themselves up with | rot-g gut whiskey and quarrel with their | families or get into the streets with l a knife or gun and make things live ly for the whole population. A killing 1 or two more or less of a Saturday | night didn't count in the flush days of old La Paz.
 Ia Paz was the name of the city | and it was the best built and most i pOpulOus city of it's day in Arizona and the richest. It was a really fine | Mexican n-built town-adobe of course | but the buildings were plastered on the | outside and whitewashed and the big | stores had iron shutters. It was an | important trade center for the Brad | shaw mountains country and the Bill Williams country and the Eldorado | canyon country up the river. The | town was down on the banks of the | Colorado river to 15 miles from the | diggings which were in the gulches and aprons of the mountain pleXus | called the Dome Rock range.
 The placer field was a very large | one, extending along both Hanks of the range 10 to 15 miles, and there were other little gulches way up in the mountains.
 NAUGHTY PLACER MINERS.
 There was gold everywhere, though | it was not everywhere rich-not more than just pay dirt But pay dirt in those piping times of the civil war | when the Indians were bad and the | government unable to afford protec- ton had to be pretty good dirt. The naughty descendants of Montezuma | and Cortez would scorn in those days | to blow dirt that paid less than s1o a day. Couldn't afford to. Food was | expensive and the cost of whiskey was running high.
 Some of that ground paid the big | gest kind. Men often made S100 a day. | one red-letter day four Mexicans | working together came upon little, | unconsidered side gulch not more than | ten rods long which had been over l looked where they cleaned up "a whole | painful Of gold including one 600-dol- lar nugget-about S3000 apiece for the l days work
 Pretty good sys you. Yes, like the | old California diggings.
 Of course all that gold in the gulch | es came from the mountains above, any galooot would know that by | searching he could find the veins from which it came?
 Yes, of course, but you little know | the naughty spirit of the Old-time | placer miner if you think he would 1 ..demean himself to the groveling and | despised occupation of lode mining 1 That would be like asking Prima | Donna after a successful season of | grand opera to take a place in the l ballet at seven dollars a week and | board herself.
 Some serseless things like that ac- count for other things which are hard I to understand A placer miner of the old naughty school despised the slow | results of lode mining. He was a swift ! one himself and he despised Che did5 at least when he was flush) the blow | men who could consent to make mon- l ey in so slow away
 Now after that explanation don't ask why the lodes were not discovered and | worked long ago. Just ask yourself l why the steaIn engine and the tele-