Weekly journal-miner., 1910-03-16
PLACER FIELDS ARE
 PROVING BONANZA

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 From H. E. Dugan, who has been investigating the placer gold fields of western Sonora, recently, the Doug las International has secured a full re- port of the conditions prevailing locality.
 The placer fields lie about fifty miles from the railroad and the op- lportunity now offered to gold seekers in that locality, southwest of Santa Ana, and northwest of Hermosillo, cover a territory 2co miles long, 75 miles wide, and show such amazing richness as to be astounding.
 Mitt Quinner, the inventor of an ingenious method for treating placer grounds, is on the ground with one machine, as is also his first financial packer, Charles Peck, now of St. Louis, and formerly of Tucson.
 MT. Peck has been working one machine for the past ten months and during that time has cleared oyer $100,000, while MT. Quinner has taken out with his machine more than $75,0O0 worth of the golden metal since last March, and this upon ground that had been worked by Spaniards and Yaqui Indians for the past two hundred years with dry washers. MT. Dugan watched the op- eration of one of these machines for two days, and the run for the first day was twenty-two ounces of gold. and for the second day twenty-four ounces, and within a half mile of Quinner's camp, three American boys, Bray, Thompson and Jones, are clear ing more than $175 per day, using the primitive dry washer. And with in a radius of fifty miles of Quin- ner's camp 500 Mexicans and Indians are also dry washing.
 Quinner has denounced 4,OO0 per tencias of placer ground and John Hays Hammond, the worlds famous mining expert, has denounced 5000 pertencias, 125 miles north of Quin- ner's holdings, showing the extent of the field.
 The gold is coarse and the largest nugget seen by MT. Dugan weighed AZ kilos, and he saw many weighing from l to 21h ounces each.
 The gold is found in a cement conglomerate and in some places it is 11O feet to bedrock, but the In dians, Spanish and Mexieans have never worked the ground lower than ten feet and of course the nearer bed rock the richer the ground.
 Probably fifty Americans have taken up ground in the placer district and MT. Dugan's advice to all seekers after gold is to get in on the ground floor of this marvelously rich dis trict.
 Water for the most part is scarce but it can be found in most places at a depth of from 30 to 80 feet, and provisions are plentiful within twenty five miles of the placer workings, as there is a rich farming and cattle country near by.
 George D. Stonestreet, who repre- sented the English government in the Rand district, in South Africa, for fifteen years, is at present in the employ of MT. Quinner. He made 1,6OO samples on 40 acres of ground, and estimates that on this one tract there are $6,OOO,OOO worth of gold in sight. He has also examined 2,000 acres of ground not so rich, and esti- mates that there are on this tract $2,0OO,OOO in gold.
 Quinner's machine is admirably adapted for this ground, and each machine, properly handled, is capable of handling 800 tons of the conglom- crate in twenty-four hours, but the pachine will handle quartz with equal facility, eight tons of quartz from a nearby mine being handled in six min utes.
 James Suits, the well known min ing man, and E. H. Goode, a cattle man, who recently came to Arizona from Oklahoma, and who accompanied MT. Dugan into Sonora, remained there for the purpose of denouneing placer ground for themselves.