Mohave County miner., 1910-11-05

hath let it be given" was further ex-
 emplified by the sale of the Quijotoa
 properties. They came, they saw,
 they bought. and Tucson went wild
 over their prospective entry into the
 Pima county mining field. In money
 they paid out over lOO,OOOs and made
 the difference up with certain specified
 amounts of stockton be it remember
 ed that the stock was early listed on
 the boards in San Francisco.
 In the meantime the company went
 to work in earnest. They sank a we'll
 in the Santa Rosa valley at a cost of
 over 1O,OOOS, bought the old HermO-
 sillo mill at Harshaw, and rebuilt it
 where it would do the most good; and
 an earnest effort was made to develop
 the property and make it return on the
 investment. But as shafts were sunk
 in the great bluff the ore became lean
 CT with depth. The company was still
 in earnest to develop a mine. George
 Roskrudge, then, as now, resident of
 Tucson, surveyed tunnel through the
 Quijotoa bluff. The excavation was
 begun on both sides and work was
 prosecuted both night and day. In the course of time the two holes met
 and were made one, but sad to relate, in that two thousand feet of tunnel they found no ore. The blowout on top, for such it proved to be, did not go down, and the Quijotoa bubble was
 "busted."
 In the meantime, one more Quijotoa stock had struck sky line and still the cry for more was echoed from the big California board. William c. Davis heard it and answered the call. Be- fore gong, however, he called on his old friend, Alex Mckay, and urged like action upon him. But Alex would not sell. He had, he said, ''done so much for the Bonanza firm that he was sure they would rot throw him down." But Mir. Davis more shrewdly thought otherwise. He went to San Francisco and received sky-blue prices for all the stock he had, and came home feeling better for the deal. When the Bonanza firm learned of the action of Mir. Davis they were wrathy and de- handed the cause, saying, i've told you not to sell that stock.,s In reply Mr. Davis said, "Gentlemen, whenever I have something that someone else wants worse than 1 do, 1 always let them have it." Right here it may be said that Mir. Davis was the only one who made a dollar out of the stock taken as part payment. When it was that the ore bodies were the bottom dropped out of the market. The stock had no quotation and was practically value less. At this stage of the proceedings the old board of directors met, re- pudiated both stock and debts and or ganiZed new company, and on the ruins of the old. In the meantime, the work of cutting straight hole through the capping of the QuiJotoa mountain went steadily on, but there was no ore and the Quijotoa with its bonanza lin ing was allowed to pass out of the memory of the present generation of men. In those days nearly every old miner was a "Comstock man." He had worked in Virginia City or on Gold Hill, and had, or claimed to have had, personal acquaintance with one or more of the Bonanza firm, and faith in the ultimate outcome died hard. As stock proposition to work the un- public it was considered par and it was maintained by many that if it was necessary to pad the report with Comstock bullion the | company would not hesitate to make .he shipment. This belief led to a | udicrous robbery. A bar of babbit | metal which to the uneducated eye silver in the rough, was sent % the Quijotoa for use in the mill. At he express office it was dumped into he body of the stage. On that par icular morning there was one lone He was a stranger in Tue ,on and was unknown. When the itage reached the top of Robles pass le was known to be still in it, but when the change station was reached le was gone and the bar of babbit metal had gone with him. As neither were ever heard of afterwards, the metal is still supposed to be cached in the hills west of town. !