Arizona republican., 1909-05-17

 MINING SALE t Paid Three Men to Pile Up
 Little Monuments AND STAND AND WAIT A New Mexico Man of Exper- fence Who Saw Something Under Those Monuments Other Properties in the Same District.

| Correspondence of The Republican)- Good news travels fast and the good
 news that the Winchester camp had \ made a rich gold strike and that de
 velopment was going on on all sides,
 and that good ore was being encoun- tered in a dozen different places, and
 that new people and new capital were | coming into the district very rapidly, has. within less than a week, travelled along distance. Letters of inquiry are
 now being received from all parts of
 the United States regarding the rich gold fields around Winchester While all of this is good news to the people
 at Winchester, yet it is not such good
 news as the fact that activity of the
 real and substantial kind is actually
 occurring in the district every day.
 One of the first what might be called
 really good big sales was made here
 last night, when H. c. McCarty, W. W.
 Buerrine and J. W. Day sold to c. W.
 Read. of Roswell, N. NJ, eleven claims for s3,O00 cash. The eleven claims amounted to nothing but the location monuments, and when location monu-
 ments can be sold for this amount of money, it really means that there is something to the camp. Now the sale was not made to a tender-foot, either, but to an experienced mining man, who has been in the district since April 1, and has put in all day every day looking over the country. He has seen and examined every prospect hole in the camp, and he paid this large figure for simply the location monu- ments because he considered the claims well worth the money. That was one reason, and the other reason is the fact that eight of the eleven claims are located on the Mitchell ledge or in the Mitchell district, where the big strike was made. and MT. Read knew that just as soon as the outside coun- try learned of the fact that the Ana conda strike was made by J. D. Mitch ell, and, furthermore, when the people knew that this strike was made in real gold ore in a regular formation and with firm bottom, that claims in the neighborhood or zone to the strike would be raised in value, and that within a couple or three weeks the claims would be in such demand that he could not secure them, even though the location work had not been done, for many times three thousand dollars. On the other hand, the sellers made good money, because all they ever did was to pile up few little monuments of stone and then wait for a buyer. They would have kept the claims and worked them, but they were not able to do so. But, when fellow can make a thousand dollars doing a few hours work piling up a few little piles of rock, and then loaf about for few days or weeks, it is not bad way to make moneSy, either.
 Eight of the claims are located on and near the great andesite dike which passes just south of the Anaconda- They take in about four thousand feet of the dike and cross to the north to the big basalt dike. On the east. they adjoin the Mary G., and on the south, the First Chance Both the Mary c. and the First Chance have developed some very good ore with the very best of indications of a big mine. The Ana conda is a sure winner, and every day better ore is being encountered. The other three claims ar located about a mile north of the eight on the big porphyry dike which passes through the Calcite Copper company poperty In fact, they adjoin the Calcite on the northwest, and inasmuch as the Cal cite property is showing up some most excellent indications of big, rich su!- phide gold and silver mine, claims io- cated in the same zone are becoming valuable. All of the eleven claims are considered as choice property, and if one or two great big mines are not opened up, then all signs fail.
 MT. Read had operated mining prop critics all over the country. and during the past few years has been mining in New Mexico When the big Glory ole was struck in March, he and sev- eral friends in Roswell became inter ested, and MT. Read was selected out of the party to come to Winchester and look over the field, and if he found anything that really looked good, to buy it. MT. Read, regarding the prop erty and district. said: q came here on April 1, and visited the Glory Hole, and then started to look over the coun- try. The more I have examined, the more I became interested. I believe we will have a great, big gold camp right here. I like these great, distinct dikes cutting across the country. They look like business, and the fact that wherever any prospecting has been done along them. good, rich ore has been taken out, proved to me that we have had my eye on the claims which have just bought for some time, and I know I have mighty good property. My partners have told me to go right to work, and I shall do so. I am con- templating on going right ahead with development work, and will continue all summer.'
 Yellow Bird to Start.
 The old Yellow Bird mine, located