Arizona republican., 1909-04-11
Visited the Arizona Northern
 Gold Strike InCOgnitO THE MANNER OF HIS GOING
Bought Property, Will Re- turn to Develop It and Will Lead a Colony of Nevada Men Into the Promised Land.

The inocuiation of Nevada with the germs of the Arizona gold fever has hitherto been announced, and it has now been determined that the virus was of effective potency and that sat isfying results are certain. This has been a theory for three weeks, but actual manifestation of the indisputa- ble fact came Friday afternoon, when R V. LeGrand, of Hawthorne, Nev, drifted into town from Salome. He appeared unannOunced at the office of the Southwestern Realty company, and as nobody knew him. he introduced himself to Homer King, who has had charge of the town interests of the Arizona Northern. and told his story. A Republican reporter having heard something of il by repetition, immedi- ately located him at the Commercial hotel and got the facts direct as he re- lated them.
 IL is always more interesting to know something of the identity of the man under discussion at the beginning of story. so there will be first recited. such facts as the reporter was able to elicit later in the conversation, con- corning MT. LeGrand himself. He spoke of these things only when the above sentiment was suggested. and modestly. too, for he much preferred talking of the gold fields to talk ing of himself. He pleaded guilty to being mining man and a success ful one, at that. His home is in Pasa- dena, but his mining operations at present are chiefly at Hawthorne. New, ,TT Nevada camps Three years ago he had the foresight. or, perhaps, 1t was just his good luck, to pay $50 in real money for three silver lead claims. He developed them somewhat, and then very foolishly sold them for S45,000. The man who bought them recently re- fused S9OO,0OO for them, and Mir. Le- Grand says. from all appearances, the present owner displayed good judg- ment. for he is operating by lease, and the leasers are shipping from sixty to eighty tons of ore per day that returns better than $100 per ton in silver and lead. The leaser is J. D. Hubbard, of Chicago. and his leasing company is declaring dividends of s25,000 per month. Mir LeGrand says he owns the adjoining property now, and is be- ginning to open it up and has fine prospects and plenty of ore in sight though he has not yet got to the ship ping point. He is very busy with his Hawthorne project. and that is the condition he was in when the Salome gold strike met his gaze in the papers.
 The report looked good to him, too good, in fact and he refused to take much interest in it until he could see some verificatiOn of it. He had enough to do, anyhow, but a man with a taste for gold and the habit or digging 1t, cannot help being interested in gold stories. Then he saw the verification of the strike by Fitz- Mac He had heard of that facile writer of mining intelligence and knew his trail through Nevada, but had never met him. so he conferred with those of his acquaint ance as to the dependability of F'itz- Macs statements. and was quite sat isfied with what was told him of his predictions concerning Ely and Yering ton, and was also satisfied that F'itz Mac knew something about geology, whether he was a mineralogist or not Incidentally, and timely. though hay ing nothing to do with this particular story, a paper that came to Phoenix yesterday from one of the eastern cop per markets said: George Washing ton never told a lie; Fitz-Mac was never caught in lie. and it is known that he did tell the truth about Ely and Yerington."
 Returning to Mir. LeGrand's story: When he had satisfied himself about Fitz-Mac, he employed Harry Page, who, he says, is recognized as a cool