Bisbee daily review., 1908-05-03

tirely agree. am advised by MT.
 Birchfeld of the Diamond A Cattle
 company, who is now extensively in-
 terested in both the lode claims, as
 well as placers, and who has been
 resident of this section for twenty
 five or thirty years, that the cabin
 was the same when he first saw it
 as I. is today, while others say it
 was built during the copper excite
 meLt in this vicinity in 1881.
 Another tradition has it that a
 party of Georgian placer miners. sixty-four in number, enroute for Cal
 ifornia, spent several weeks in this section in the early sixties. Two of
 this party remained, building this cabin; one of these, however, is re- ported to have killed his partner, and | has never since been heard from. The writer examined the ruins of the old house and vicinity very close ] ly. The cabin is constructed of a | quartzite stone, brought from a ledge | some five hundred feet distant. The
 walls may be considered double, hay | ing almost a perfect face both inside and out, indicating the builder to | have been a good mechanic, and one who expected to make his home in ] this cabin for some time to come. | The fireplace, constructed across one 1 corner of the room, leads one to be- Heye the builder to have been of southern descent.
 While water may have been more plentiful in those days, or may have been obtained by sinking in a large gulch which passes nearby, no sur face water exists closer than Oasis Wells, a distance of two miles Searching for further signs the writ CT found some distance away, monu- | ments of stone, bearing the same age, judging from mesquite bushes which were growing within the walls of the old cabin and those overlap ping thes old monuments. The mon uments were built to mark the boun-
 daries of a mining claim, and the
 same could have been located for
 either a placer or lode claim.
 Notwithstanding the various trad.- tions of the old-timers, knowing the | existence of placer or lead gold in this vicinity, the writer feels perfect ! W safe in saying that little or noth- | ing has been known of this belt as a | gold producer until within the last sixty days. Nor will the extent, or | commercial value of the same be 1 proven for a year or eighteen months l to come; suffice to say; placer gravel is known tS exist, which is sufficient l lv rich for dry washing, on a consid- | erable extent of territory, and will 1 probably increase as prospecting pro | ceeds; while the larger channels
 congIomerates and leads will attTac'
 the attention of capital until their values are at last proven, which will | require the expedituFe of consider able moneJ. The Hachitas seem tc have attracted the attention of cop per prospectors for several years past, who sunk their assessments, or | performed their daily labors on worth i less outcrops of copper-stained states and schists, while their daily wors I took them up gulches, over placer | sands and across gold-bearing quart7 l.yeins, which are today yielding theiI I owners good wages for their lahc-s with a possibility of development l which will assure a lucrative future
 income.
 Geology and Topography.
 The geology of this country pre- l sents a somewhat complicated condi ton from a mining standpoint Th' } Hachita mountain consists of an up : lift composed of porphyry intrusion : through the Cambrian limes% states
 sandstones and schists, the whole be
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