Arizona republican., 1909-04-06
REAL MINING HAS BEGUN
Homer King Returned Yes terday With the Latest Details of the Conditions In the Goldfields--Rush- ing the Road Work.

The next step in the development of
 the new Arizona go'd fields has been
 tHNen and the pacceling out Of rich
 gruu nd to leasers hl $ begun. Two
 l, ases have been male by President
 Sharpe on the Salome Hillside group
 after the manner ct the leasing sys-
 tenn in vogue in Colorado and Nevada,
 and with very similar terms and re-
 quirements. That h the news, or part
 of it. at least. brought oacl; bv Foner
 B. King. who returned from the gold
 camp yesterday. and verified also by
 the leasers. who arc also here pre-
 pairing to begin business at once.
 One of the leases is to be known as
 the Cowboy lease. the parties to it
 being C. B. Holman, the discoverer ot
 Rawhide also interested in the Bouse district. and R. l. Hall, young man
 who has been associated for some time
 with the Southwestern Realty com
 pany. in this city. in charge If its in surance business The Cowboy lease covers the east end block of the Hill side claim and contains about ten acres. Holman and Hal have secured
 teams for transportation purposes and
 will begin the driyinS of a tunnel at once. They expect to make good money after paying the royalty. and have confidence in the ground. for their iesze only runs eiGftesn months. so they figure on getting early results. They were on the ground and gave it a careful prospecting. bringing down a large number of samples for assay ing. and in their exploration discovered a very pleasing ore body on the prop erty that had not previously been mo- ticed by the owners. Free gold was in evidence. and the rock would have been pronounced as most enth1sing to anybody anywhere except under the shadow of the big Bonanza. but it looks good to the leaseholders. and they will take a chance on it.
 The other lease was the center block of the Hillside. a somewhat smaller area than the Cowboy lease. and was of by Ernie Hall and asso- ciates. who have organized what they call the Salome Bonanza Mines com pany. They started an outfit out yes terday and expect to begin actual work on the property on Thursday.
 The two leasers in the exploitation of the property will begin close to- gether and work in opposite direction. one to the east and the other to the west, along the contact.
 President Sharpe is devoting his en- ergy to building a good road into the camp as fast as possible from the | gulch on the south side. across the | to the Hillside property. He | has thirty or forty men at work, but | 1t is a task and will cost considerable | in time and money. But when com | pleted. it will be a road that an au- can take right to the camp | of the Arizona Northern and the Hill side companies.
 Mir. King says that while he was on the property on Sunday the visitors numbered not less than three hundred, in his judgment. though he did not count them. and of that number there were probably thirty or forty women
 Asked for the latest news from the Glory Hole, Mir. King said they have stopped taking out the rich ore. not because there is no more in the ground put because none is found where they Ire now digging. which Is not at all surprising. The trench is crosscut- ing the formation and they have pass ed by the stringer that crossed the rench in driving on toward the con act. which he considers not less than hirty-five feet still distant. and which # that point should gain vertical lepth of twenty feet. The trench now ut is. perhaps. forty or fifty feet from where it was first begun on the lower tide below the Glory Hole. The rich tringers. the roots" of the Glory Hole ieposit are still in evidence on the tides of the trench. where they were 'assed. but no time will be spent now n following them in to their deeper biding places.
 President Sharpe has satisfied him elf of the value and permanency of he ore bodies and has now begun the york of actual mining. systematic de- 'elopment. He has selected a spot bout two hundred and fifty feet from he Glory Hole in the little sgulch to