Bisbee daily review., 1909-04-17
4 B|G MINE DISCOVERED BY
 HUNGRY ANTS
Theft of a Ten-Cent Lunch Followed By Find of Ore That Is Equal to a Kings Ransom

DESERT, April 16.-Just across the state line in Nevada along the Salt Lake road is the Lucy Gray Gold Mining company that considers itself some pumpkins. It hasn't done much cackl.ng or strutting around, but fI0m all appearances it's owners will seen be able ot indulge in hen fruit the entire year-even in Southern Cali fo-nia.
 There are many things unique in connection with it. T. l.. Bright, a E,2osiEr lad, was prospecting the Mccullough range. One day he left hia dinner pail at the foot of a small gulch. Returning. he found nine (oi was it ten) hundred thousand million big black ants in possession. First a kick of disgust at the pail, then a hungry lcok around. His eyes became fixed-a quicS walk up hill: Eureka. :" There dazzling his bCyish vision was a mammoth egg-shaped crater with outcroppings of ore 250 feet wide. It assayed from a trace to $500 a ton.
 First he tried a partnership. It was unsatisfactory. No ornamental houses. reclining chairs, servants or linen napkins; no mahogany desked offices. salaries or banquets. Owners, officers and the regular miners work side by side in this mine, day in and day out The only office man em- Dloyed also does the teaming. Stock has not been placed on the general market. just enough sold to relatives and friends to keep the development work going.
 Fair milling ore was found in the main shaft on the eighty and 100-foot levels. Sonic s1400 in high grade was also taken out There's better ore down below" aid the prospector. Within thirty feet of the shaft on thet 200 level $500 ore was struck. From that day to this the men have had stringers and bughclss running from S65 10 s400 mast of the time.
 Some time ago, long after the men had finished work on the main drift something induced the prospector to put a round of shot in there. String CTS running from more than S37,O0O to more than s97,000 ton were uncv- cred the first shot.
 Figures didn't seem large, We'll. a wagonioad would net nearly s300.00O; carload would be sufficient to erect a Hamburger building or two and enough be left to pay the presidents salary for sa:s to come. These stringers wee foifsNed and then crosscuts started for the walls of the ore chimney.
 Ores of various values were found. In one drift $500 rock was promising for awhile, then came indifferent rock, the drift was abandoned by the miner. Along came the prospector. The spirit moved him again. He put in some holes there The result high grade. It runs over s400 to the ton and is beginning to look perma- nent-
 In February. the company leased part of one of it's claims. The Wiz ard said Dig here" In the first fifty feet two men opened up more than 5000 worth of ore.
 Success will net be the undoing of the members of this organization. The office is still a tent; the men all sIeep in tent houses, eat a hearty meal of simple food. take their lunch pails and with light hearts and ready hands climb the hill to work. The same econcmical nlal Sgement exists, the principal owner does miners work every day and receives miners wages. There is no place for boomers or adventurers. The com pany has ouistly taken up surround ing claims and water. No leases are for sole.
 OTcrs fIcm capital to lease, bo1d or buy Eave been freuuent. The prosptctor shakes his head and says: My friends and I have mine up wonder We are going to stay here until it is the biggest producer in th's part of the county.
 The Lucy Gray Gold Mining Com pany is a poor mans organization, and t looks like a winner.
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