Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1909-04-01
GUS HEYMAN'S SORE
BUT GETTING OVER IT
Delivers Red Hot Lecture on Timely
Topics to an Interested Audience.


See those big rocks" he said. as
he pointed to the three ore specimens
on the counter of the Southwestern
Realty company Il brought them
down to Salome myself after / saw
them taken out of the Glory Hole then
telegraphed to Phoenix, and still the
town won't wake up. 1t makes me
mad. Why, if the people would only
accept the word of responsible people
that they know, who have seen and
reported, and make the proper noise
about it. there would be five or ten
thousand people in the hills this very
minute. I've got something myself
down at the Ford hotel that is as fine
a layout as a man ever saw, but I'll
not show it i'm Phoenix The people
don't deserve to see it, and / don't
have TO show it, because | have moth
ing to sell. Myself and my partners,
r. A Sawyer. r. R Mcdonald, c. F.
Enos and Jack Woods. have property
in the Harcuvars. six and a half miles
from Wenden, and seven and half
miles from Salome, that we have been
developing for nine years, known as
the Edna May, and it's as fine a show
ing as anybody ever looked at, but the
people of Phoenix don't care anything
about it and | don't care anything
about showing il here, for / am rot
depending on Phoenix people to de-
velop it. | have 200 pounds Of as fine
ore as anybody would care to see. that
| am going to take along with me for
sampling. but there's nobody In this
town going to get look at it,"
Mr. HaK-p1an'c auditors v.ara
a dozen friends of many years and
most of them knew there was a deal
of truth in what he was saying. Be
sides. Gus was really mad and had to
be left alone for a few minutes until
he had relieved the pressure Then a
Republican reporter nailed him by the
collar and asked him if he had been
reading the paper lately. and he ad-
mitted that he had. Asked if the pa
per hadn't printed every reliable bit of
mining news it could get. he confessed
it had. Asked if it hadn't printed his
little wire from Salome to the effect
that the Arizona Northern strike was
the biggest in the world, he made a
further confession. Then asked II he
wouldn't please, please show his ore
To a Republican reporter. he said he
would. but that he would never have
revealed his secret to anybody else in
town. and he wouldn't have said any
thing where even a Republican reporter
could have heard it only that he was
mad and spoke before he knew what
he was doing.
Then The Republican reporter and n
dozen other men followed him to the
Ford hotel and he made good. He said
he was not talking through his hat and
was laying for the first fellow that
yelled Hot air" for he was not giving
hot air, but merely shaking things up
a little and telling Gus Heyman's SEN
timents, and he had the goods 10 show
He is a travelling man by profession
and boasts that his goods are always
as good as his samples.
Mr.. Heyman proceeded to dump out
on the floor Of the hotel office about
200 pounds of a fine white or crystal
liZed quartz. strongly impregnated with
iron and gold formation that no min
ing man could doubt and no other
would have the nerve to deny. I'VE
have sixteen inches of that kind of
ore" said Mr. Heyman. "and the crop
ping can be traced for $500 feet" This
ore came from trenches or surface tun-
nels, though it also carries some sui
phides. and Mr.. Heyman says it will
run from $40 to $500 per ton. He says
he has a dump with 100 tons on it
that will run $40 or better or he will
give it to any man VINO will prove the
contrary. The deepest workings are
on the Edna May claim, being shafts
80, 50 and 40 feet deep. respectively.
On the combination claim they have a
55-foot shaft and two or three other
openings. Mr.. Heyman said he also
had samples in his grip showing free
gold, but he refused to show them.
They are only specimens and what the
mining men want is ore. lodges of il
that will produce tonnage, just as this
will. But | have nothing to sell,
neither mines nor mining stock" he
said. land that is the reason ! sought
no publicity for this. / am only show
ing it TO prove that my temper IS
earnest and that I am not talking hot
air"
Reverting to the strike on the Ari-
IONA Northern, he said he had seen
big strikes all his life, but had never
seen anything like this. When he saw
the first samples in Phoenix he
thought it was just little pocket, as
did most people, and went up to look
at the hole. People wanted him TO
write and telegraph things as soon as
he got there. but he refused, saying he
had to be shown first. but when he
saw the big chunks of ore in we'll |
formed ledge. there was no limit TO
his enthusiasm. He said that a man
who would send out sensational stories
when there is no truth to the find
should be put in a penitentiary, as 1t
urges many a poor fellow on to his I'M
doing. but when the real thing Is there
and fully demonstrated. it is equally
as wicked to keep the facts a secret or
the light hidden under bushel.
The Arizona Northern is not the only |
good thing found in that country. said |
Mr. Heyman. and he proceeded to tell |
of a strike at what is called the Water
hole, about a mile north of the prop |
erty sold by Judge StilweIl. but he |
could not recall the name of the owner. |
He told of another group of five claims |
owned by r. r. Mcdonald of Wenden |
alongside of the Rose properties. Mr.. |
Mcdonald was prospecting them and !
picked up some rock which someone |
told him to horn, but he said he didn't !
believe it would show anything. Never
theless, he got a string of colors that |