Arizona republican., 1908-11-01

himself but he is undoubtedly the re- incarnation of that noble old patriot | "Ossawattomie" Brown who met a martyrs fate like a martyr by drop | ping through a hole in the floor and strangled to death because he chanced l at the moment to have a rope around
 his neck, but-"His soul goes march | ing on.''
 It's al one how a man dies if he
 lives in the fear of the Lord-and that | is just how John Brown of Mariquita | Gulch does live.
 Mariquita Gulch is in the Dome Rock range near Quartzsite and John | has got a string of seven or eight | Claims there covering the extension of the great Mariquita lode, an immense. | low grade gold proposition in the | splintery white quartz of the region. In Johns ground the lode appears to | change to a wide shear zone and the values are higher than in the Mari quita. On a swift inspection it inn pressed me as very valuable prop erty. It is close to the spot indicated by the claire-voyante as containing
 the greatest gold deposit in North America" It is a wonderful region, that Mariquita Gulch-the Algonkian schists are thrown up into high and precipitOus mountains and penetrated by vast dikes of an acidic diorite and monZonite. and from appearances might easily contain the greatest gold deposit in all the world.
 With some rational misgivings RrnVfn tnn halipNaC in that claire voyante story and hopefully but mod estly believes he has located the apex. Likely enough he has I cannot say him nay. But all I really know is that he appears to have some of the best ground that I have looked over in the district.
 THE COMING BOOM.
 Quartzsite is on the eve of a great boom. There can hardly be q doubt about it. You feel it in the air. The first wavelets of the boom tide are al ready tapping the shore. and with your ear to the ground you can hear the far-off roar of an incoming high tide. It is the trampling of the hosts that have started. Capitalists and their experts from Denver and Los -AIStltS anu NTlDDlt NTt6h anu field have been coming since the hot weather passed to look over the ground and obtain options. There are many sales negotiating Prospectors are beginning to arrive. They will soon be coming over the Plumosa range from Vicksburg. or up the Ty- son valley from Bouse or Parker in swarms. When the winter set in in the Colorado and Utah and Nevada mountain camps there will be a rush, to escape the snow and the cold and the wet mines and the rheumatism and pneumonia of those horrible cli- mates.
 ROOM FOR ALL
 Let them come. There's room for all. Five thousand prospectors will not crowd this Cuartzsite country. the Plumosa and the Dome Rock ranges at all.
 Both ranges are about 50 miles long and Quartzsite lies in Tyson valley between them and they constitute the finest prospecting field Gin the winter) that an ambitious prospector ever struck When they find themselves able to be out all day in the hills through December. January and Feb ruary without coat and wearing only a pair of kaki trousers and a straw hat they'll think they have
 LANDED IN PARADISE.
 If 5000 intelligent hustling prospec- tors pour in, there will be 50 million aires among them before spring and 500 more of them will have. comfort able fortunes.
 It's a big field and an easy one and truly believe (without reference to the claire-vOyante story) that it is a field full of rich prizes for good pros pectors. I haven't a doubt about that or ] wouldn't advise them to come. THE cLAIRE-VoYANTE's VISION.
 As for the claire-voyante's story know nothing about it except what Charles B. Genung the white haired patriarch of Quartzsite related to me as having been revealed to him by a claire-voyante in San Francisco sev- eral years ago. For all I could swear to old Charley may have been play ing me for a simple. trusting orphan or the witch woman" may have play ed Charley.
 I don't go much on such things my self and I suspect that it was really a case of mind-reading rather than claire e-voyance-that the witch-woman read what was pictured in Genung's mind rather than visioned the actual scene. Yet in either case the mystery is about the same for she described vividly to MT. Genung the country around the head of Gonzales pass in the Dome Rock range west of Quartz site and said: "There-near there not very far away-is the richest gold deposit in North America"
 Now it's a fact that that is the scene-"near there-not far away of some of the richest of the old plac- CTS, and they are worked up to this day. They are working now. Geolog- ically. I must confess it would be hard to find anywhere in the mining states of the west a more likely looking spot to contain the greatest gold deposit of North America" But, as uslAlIy happens Gf you've ever mo- ticed) there is lack of preciseness in the witch woman's description of the scene. It fits the scene at the head of Guadeloupe pass in the Plumosa range east of Quartzsite about as well as the head of Gonzales pass to west of the camD The old road from I a