Arizona republican., 1910-07-02
WHY QU|ETNEss RE|CNS
N OLD SANTA CRUZ
WITH ALL GREAT MINERAL
WEALTH.
The Answer Is Found in Mining Meth
DDS of the Past

Nogales, June 29.-(Special Cores
pondence of The Republican -One of
the quietest corners of the United
States just now is Santa Cruz county
Arizona, and people stand around on
the street corners and ask each other
why il is SO. The writer has been
asked that question number of times
during the last few days and believes
he can bunch up a few reasons that
are worth considering.
1t is doubtful if there is in any part
of the United States a piece OF land
the size of Santa Cruz county where
there are greater surface indications
Of mineral wealth than there is in
the Patagonia and Santa Rita noun
tains in this little county And that is
why so many people cannot understand
why it is SO quiet here.
There has been lot of prospecting
done in this little corner of the uni
verse. Some people think there has
been a lot of mining done here, too. but
that is not so. There has been a lot
of digging done here that has been
talked of as mining Much of il was
not even good prospecting.
There has been some money spent
here, with small results, and that has
not helped the district any because
possible investors will ask "Why?" But
man with practical knowledge of
mining can ride through the hills of
Santa Cruz county and come back to
town and cite a number of reasons
why.
In many instances spectators have
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and spent many thousands of dollars
Frequently such people had their man
ayers on the ground. The manager, in
many instances, did not know a mine
from any other old hole in the ground
and was frequently a stakeholder, or,
worse yet. the son of a stakeholder.
Out in the Harshaw basin there is
a good sample of the work done. A
shaft was sunk 100 feet Twenty feet
of the shaft was used for a stump and
more than a thousand feet of work
was done at a depth. of eighty feet
Thousands of dollars went without the
owners Of the property ever knowing
what was or is below that depth. The
manager was sent here from some
eastern city, and had no knowledge of
mining. He was known about town as
a good fellow" He spent money free
ly-as high as $500 in a night, it is
said That was in the good old days
you read about-when woman as well
as wine was sold in the bar rooms in
Nogales.
A trip through the Gringo gold mine,
a few miles from Patagonia. will dis
close another brilliant piece of mining
A cowboy is said to have been super
intendent of the mine at the time At
a depth of sixty feet drifts were run
east and west on a quartz vein about
five feet wide. That is. the drifts were
started on the vein. A short distance
from the shaft both drifts turned from
the vein into one of the walls and con-
tinued in nice clear porphyry. Porphyry
so clean that there was not a stain on
it-not even a mineral stain. Is it any
wonder that the men who were spend
ing their money in what was meant for
development work of a mine became
discouraged and quiet? Another COM
pany has the Gringo now, and there is
a practical miner employed as super
But they have only a ten
stamp mill. They have a low grade
gold ore. There are some higher grade
streaks that might run up to SO a.