Mohave County miner., 1910-06-11


 Dany's estate, and the ground cleared ready for steam shovels to commence stripping the ground, but the shovels have not yet arrived. It is under stood that the work will not commence until later in the season.-Herald Re publican.
 Interesting History of Famous Mine.
 fl the history of each of the old gold mines of Arizona could be written and put in book form there would be few novels that could sprpass such a work in interest. The history of our Vul- ture mine, crimsoned with the blood of the daring argonauts would be bit of literature that would make the heart of the present day reader bound with excitement. But those days are past and almost forgotten and the Vul- ture mine has for nearly two years been making a new and more pacific record after its 20 years of idleness. It is now a mine under new manage ment with new ore bodies enriching the coffers of the new company. It is all new now, even a new mill is about to commence crushing out the gold from the famous old mine. All this is local, right at our very doors, but there are other old properties not quite so near, but near enough to be of great interest to this section. The latest old mine that is about to be brought from the darkness of the past, one that has history though not so lurid as that of the Vulture, but ex- tremely interesting in that it has created excitement not only from its record as a producer of gold ore of fabulous value. Out Uf the mysterious caverns that are discovered in the ground, the bottoms of which are mys- teries of the past which may be solved ID the future and the source of the gold established. The Old Mesa gold mine has been known 10 the settlers of Yavapai county for over thirty years. The mine deliv, its name from the fiat topped mountain through which traverses what is known as the main ledge of the Old Mesa. This mountain was evidently at one time a volcano, the crater of which is To- cated almost in its center and the sides of the mountain are covered with lava.
 Down in the workings of the mine are numerous caves and crevices, the origin of which could probably be traced to the activities of the volcano. In some places the earth is rent to un- known depths and in the course of working the property miners have lost their drills, which slipped suddenly from ther hands and went bounding into the interior of the earth, striking from side to side until the sounds grad ually died away. One cave is very large and was used as a dumping place by the miners. Tons and tons of waste rock were dumped into it and it all disappeared as though empiied into a bottomless pit.
 While this old crater is some dis tance off the property, the caves before mentioned undoubtedly have some connection with the extinct volcano, it is a matter of knowledge that where ever the caves and crevices were en- countered there also was found phenomenal values Tn gold, the rich est clinging to the sizes of the crev- ises, where pieces as large as a mans hand of almost pure gold. were found. It would seem as though the old vol cano had something to do with the bringing up of the gold with its vapors which found their way through rents made by whatever fierce earth action took place in ages past. At any rate, during the short activity of the mine, it is known that five men took out forty thousand dollars worth of gold from a tunnel 9l feet in length.
 The property was primarily owned by Mexicans who sold it to some Chi cago men, the latter exploiting it for the gold they could get out of it to spend and doing no substantial de- They kept this up for