Arizona republican., 1909-03-29
TRUTH IS TOO SENSATIONAL
Will Have to Tone It Down In Order to Make His Re- port On the Gold Strike Appeal to Careful Invest ors--The Hiking Hundreds.

I-FitZ Mac arrived in Salome this af-
 Iternoon to take the train for home. This is his second visit to the Bo- lnanZa Camp and he has been out to lmake a very careful study of the formation and write q report on the Bonanza property for the owners. He
 has covered the field for two or three
 miles in all directions from the Bo-
 nanza strike, living in camp right at
 the Bonanza for the last five days. | When seen this afternoon he at first declined entirely to talk for publica- | ton, saying that as he was to make a
 private report on the property to the
 company, he would have to decline to
 make any newspaper talk, stating that
 as his private report was to be con
 servative statements he could not in dulge in the eXtravagant talk which
 the enthusiasm that the scene natur- ally inspired, would make quite proper
 for a newspaper report.
 But when it was pointed out to him that his refusal to express an opinion | for publication might be taken ad- verseIy he threw up' his hands in protest exclaiming, Let the people come and see for themselves. The tthing that is bothering me now is, how shall I make my report Gonser- vative enough to look right to cold headed business men who are putting up their money. To tell the truth it's not possible to speak cOnservatively about such a gold strike. Its won der After breakfast this morning. and before nine o'clock I went out where I could look down the BOnan ga gulch which is followed by the trail and l declare it looked like an Irish funeral. It looked as though there were 40,00O people coming up lthat trail Indian file. It was actually just lined with people, and that is not IeXaggeration-
 Of course there were not any 40,eOO but there has been a perfect stream coming all day. and a great many women come, as well as men, or course the women all ask for speci-
 mems and of course the miners and the management can't refuse them.
 They go away with scores of fine |specimens every day, but Colonel
 Sharpe is going to put an end to that immediately, by fencing in the mine
 with barb wire. You know what min- CTS are. They can't refuse the request of women and they really carry off
 rich specimens, enough to pay eX-
 penses. But that will not last long They will soon get down to business. |
 Everybody is wild just at present. 1 II was there ten days ago and the eX- citement at that time was mild com | pared to what it is now.
 "The influence of prospectors and has been beyond all be- ! lief. Every gulch is lined with tents and there are many-women among the | eoldseekers That is the strange fea- ture of it. There are groups of tents | on every flat piece of ground. Every body is wild with hope and they are stalking claims in all directions am. myself, surprised to find how eX- | tensiyely the district over there IS mineralized. but l saw yesterday in the | Joe Fuller claims, gold good enough to start a bonanza excitement on, beauu- ful gold and the rock alive with H. ! That's about three miles north of the | Bonanza.
 "The greatest of the latest events | that has happened there is the puT- chase of the Lind and Griffin claims | which are the northeast extension oi | the great Bonanza, by Josiah Nln- chester, the Cripple Creek millionaire The surface showing of ground IS oi the finest kind. Really l must say about as good as that of the Bonanza, and Mir. Winchester is taking no chances on titles, but brought in a surveying corps this morning to run the location lines and lay out sys- tenn of development. Winchester had property in the district before the eN- citement attending the discovery or the bonanza broke out. It was gold property, but not high grade. He had done his best for two weeks to resist the excitement but at last made the purchase of this splendid property at a great figure and is preparing to rush developments right from the word go, as you may see from the fact of his bringing his own engineer ing corps on the ground on Sunday. What he paid for it is not known, but it is supposed to be well up in six figures. It is ramored that he has re- fused an offer of s1,00O,0 900, but this is supposed to include all his holdings in the district and it is said that he turned it down and said nothing less than two million could buy it.
 "Winchester made great fortune in the famous old Doctor mine of Grip ple Creek and he has been looking around the Parker country for several He is a mining man and not afraid to put down money to back his own Judgment. He was one of the