Arizona republican., 1909-05-09

from there I know won't have to call on my optimism in cold storage. and shall take particular pains to be as conservative as possible.
 Some old day I am gbing to take in the Yuma Copper company's ground. They are forging to the front, and they tell me their ground is good to look at. Production tells the tale, and they say that theirs is a producer, so keep your eye on the books.
 Somebody said it was hot; yes, it seems to me like it is a little warm. but my heavens, do your forget what TOnopah, Rhyolite and Greenwater did in the hot weather.
 Now's the time to get in here. The water hole prospector is no good any how. With proper precautions a man can scout the hills as well now as any time. What you need is d good back bone, a stiff upper lip and your face to the breeze. Get in on the ground floor, while you still have a show. Skirmish a good healthy grub stake, put your shoulder to the wheel and you can yet thank your stars that you came to Arizona, the greatest mining camp on earth.
 Your humble servant predicts that in ten years from now Arizona will have a population of ten million peo- pie. Hows that for optimism. Well, fell that's the gospel truth, and I've got to say so.
 You capitalist fellers that's got what in tough parlance is called the sinners, you want to get a hustle on you. Don't forget what millionaires Nevada has made in the last seven or eight years. 1 told the boys then what to do, I'm telling you now. Get wise, be liberal, shell out and join the band wagon.
 If you will put your thinking cap on you will remember that l told you in a previous article that there would be new strikes made on both sides of the little valley, between Harqua Hala dam and Salome. Well, they are finding the ore there all right. MT. Lamson and his partners are now at work on their ground, near the Black Strike. 1 expect some good news from there in another week.
 Capt R. V. Legrand. of Hawthorne, Nevada, and Pasadena, Calf, has re- ttHllN Dollutu d pIpltIlg On llit east side of the Harqua Hala mine and about seven miles from SalOme. The second payment is to De made short ly. MT. Page, his representative in Salome informs me that Capt. Le- grand is going to send his expert here in a few days. The assays from this property, according to MT. Page, average from $50 to SIOO in gold. A free milling proposition. MT. Page re- gently made a new discovery on ground a half mile from the property just mentioned. SurIace assays ran, No. l, S4.35 in gold and silver; No. ?, sass gold and silver; No. 3, $3.55 in gold and silver.
 Just before train time today I met a gentleman who has spent the last two years in Arizona, and who is a splendid prOspectOr. l was sorry that I did not have a chance for a long interview. His name is w. H. Spencer.
 MT. Spencer and associates have a group of calims about eleven miles from Salome, near Cottonwood Springs From his description of his property I should say it would stand expert examination. He has what he calls a sedimentary lime, dlorite and schist formation, and some granite. He had one assay made in Colorado. The re- turns were S3S.00 in gold and copper. Another surface assay was $1SSO in gold an copper. This group is called the Geronimo, and has only the Ioca- tion work, and a few open cuts made. MT. Spencer says he has some feeder veins besides the Assures that carry good values.
 Adjoining the Geronimo group is one owned by MT. H. Nevin. MT. Nevin has a rich spar quartz surface showing, and also a vein carrying sulphides, according to MT. Spencer. MT. Sam Snapp has some good claims in this section, and I understand owns Cottonwood Springs.
 Just think of it. Here is a new country, or an old country, with new people getting into it, and strike after strike being made daily.
 I haven't told you half yet of this wondrous country. It does not need the language of a Chaucer or the poetry of a Byron to tell the tale. investigation of this country py parties desirous of financial betierment will exemplify larger possibilities than any other region of like area in the world. This investigation should be made slowly and thoroughly.
 A gentleman from Denver was in Salome recently, a Mir. J. D. Mur- phy, who is an expert, and who exam ined some of the celebrated Cripple Creek mines, among them the Doctor