Bisbee daily review., 1909-07-18
HASSAYAMPA IS
 RICH STREAM
In Flowing Over Rich Hill Fab- uIous Gold Finds Are
 Deposited
NUGGETS LARGE AS BIG
 BULL FROG IS SHOWN

PHoENIX, July Hilary Yarnell is engaged in mining operations at Rich Hill which one of these days will create a stir in this part of the world Everybody has heard of Ricn Hill. from the time of Jack Swilling who with a party was led to it by an Indian. The Indian baked on his arrival there, and for evident super stitious reasons refused 10 disclose any other information he might have about the place. Some of the mem bers of the party wanted to kill him, but Swilling stood in defense of him, and in thos days there were net many men in this part of the country who cared to run counter 10 Swilling.
 The expedition was not without result, however, for soon after tha; the wonderful discoveries of gold nuggets began to be made on the hill It is estimated that within an area of 200 square yards, gold to the
 value of s1,250.O0O has been pickau ur. All this gold was in yellow
 washed nggsts of varying sizes. One of them, the size of a large bugfrog and of the same general shape. was for scme time in Lle poss sssion of P. K. Hickey, who took it with him to Washington once and showed it al the United States treasury The officials were so filled with admiration of 1t that they wanted to keep 1t for a paper weight. offering MT. Hickey its equiv alent, about S260.
 He brought 1t back with him and at Chicago he met Governor Murphy, who borrowed it and took 1t about town to show to prominent friends. Some hours later he returned to the hotel and begged Mir. Hickey to take 1t back quickly. The governor said he had had no rest since he had 1t in his possession, his friends had tried 10 take 1t from him by force.
 This was the largest nugget ever found at Rich Hill, though there were many others nearly approaching 1t in size. Notwithstanding the first 1 nuggets were found by white men more than forty years ago, and though the ground has since been gone oyer by thousands of prospectors and mug get hunters, che is still occasionally found
 In his present operations NIT. Tar l nell is working upon a theory that he formed many years ago.
 He has operated in that regioa and has studied It for more than E generation. He was the owner of the famous Yarnell mine. which he sold for large sum of money sev- eral years since His theory is that the gold found on Rich Hill Is for eign to that part of the country;
 that it was brought down there by the waters of the Hassayampa.
 Here is where the theory becomes | startling, for the Hassayampa is now { a long distance from Rich Hill. and the bed of it is 1000 feet lower than i the surface of the hill.
 But those who have studied :he country have been brought to agree with Mir Yarneil that a river bed
 once lay across it; that under the | influence Of earthquakes the sur- TC unding country fell away. on the 1 Waeyer side to precipitous. descent of more than l.S0G feet. On the
 northwest il fell in gradual slope. | Then there was volcanic action which
 formed the Antelope range, the most ] prominent feature of which is Ante
 lope peak,
 Rich Hill is a lower eminence,, sep
 arated from the range by small val | ley. On both the north and south sides i of this range there are springs, as
 has been asceTtained. on an exact level. One of these springs oyerlooss
 Rich Hill on the south. and the other Placeritas on the north. NIT. Yarnell
 believes that these springs indicate
 the level of the former bed of the | Hassayampa, and that explorations
 along that level will uncover more of
 those nuggets than have ever been
 found; that they have been held these by the impervious volcanic capping,
 which was thrown upon the old bed. In pursuance of this theory, the Old
 Channel Mining company has been formed, Mir. Yarnell having short time ago made all the necessary loca-
 tions for the carrying out of his the
 ory. It is the object of the company
 to tunnel through the range, or into
 it at least, as far as many be neces-
 sary along the level of the springs
 and the supposed old river bed. The
 two springs are about a half mile
 apart, and the apex of the range is
 about 500 feet above the line of the proposed tunnel.
 In these operations there will be no interference with the waters of the 1, springs, for the one on the south, known by the way for years as Tar nelfs Springs, is the source of the
 water supply for the Octave and other
 mining properties.
 ; Experts in Los Angeles and else
 where, to whom the matter has been
 presented, are enthusiastic and one of
 them has pronounced the project to be fortune-bailder." Though a tunnel of half mile Is an expensive opera
 tion, it is estimated that the expen.
 allure of S10.000 will put the scheme
 on a paying basis