Weekly journal-miner., 1909-09-08
Wanted By Theaters
TRYING TO SOLVE
 SOURCE or WEALTH
From Thursdays Dsily)

What is believed to be one of the most important movements ever in- augurated in this section of Arizona, in solving the riches of the famous placer mining deposits earned on Rich Hill, is now under headway by company of Rhode Island capital ists, with whom is John Mclaughlin, their superintendent. If the outcome of their efforts is attended with sue cess, a startling revelation will be es- tablished, and one also which will again throw that old and fabulously rich region into a state that will bring to it the foremost in mining auriferous deposits. The purpose of these people is said to be centered to the belief that while the summit of Rich Hill has yielded over one and a half millions from a compara- lively small area, it is their opinion that this sum has been fed through an established channel, and to dem- onstate this fact is their intention
 They have selected a site less. than one mile to the north of where the riches have been taken out in the past 45 vars, and at this point they will make their demonstrations. Their ground for this testing of the earth runs to the north end lines of the well known Johnson mine, where they will start to drift in the hope of establishing the channel that feeds the Rich Hill ground operated in the past. In performing this work they will also crOsscut the ground if not sue cessful in their initial efforts. They are located below the summit of Rich Hill about 500 feet, and are to start their work at a point where it is believed the channel eonverges, and where Antelope, the Placeritas and French Creek are coming in. Their theory is that the ground at depth will show glacial condition, and that the eruption that later followed the creation of this condition, is apparent from the character of the soil in evidence. It is also their opinion that the deposit at specific point on that hill that was originally discovered in 1862, was the result of the existence of channel that flowed into it from points to the north, and in its trend to the objective ground that later proved to be so fabulously rich, it followed a lower elevation and was thrown to the highest point from the source of the original feeding ground Attending the exploration along these new lines of a theory adopted. the practical solving of the projected work will be attended with a lively regard.
 No piece of placering mining ground was ever created that produced the wealth of this limited strip. The orig inal discOverers of it were said to have taken over half a million of gold from the summit of this noun tain and from a point that could be congested into less than one acre of ground. Since that day not a rain has fallen in that section but what | sums ranging from $I00 to lesser | amounts has not been washed out of | practically the same point. Below | this peak in Weaver gulch the bed | rock has also yielded and is tOdayI producing. Large boulders are still being moved and under them the soil Is found to contain more or less of | the yellow metal. This condition is | shown for over two miles up that 1 stream, and for over 8 years hundred souls have lived off of the placer yield of that one field. What this strip has produced to date is problematical, some estimating that it will reach to over two millions of | dollars. No values whatever are gIv- en from the west side of this noun tain at that particular point, and when a distance of few miles is reached to the north, the auriferous values come in from three distinct channels, all ranging to a common center and where this new work is going on.
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