Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1911-04-26
(By Chas. A. Dinsmore.)

clared last year They were working
In this worked out" placer ground.
There is a los of difference between
placering in 1911 and placering in
1s69-and this difference is all in
favor Of the 1911 miner. Ground that
would not have paid for the grub
| stake then viii now yield dividends
on large capitalization. It is no
longer a case OF i rocker or a long
tom: but OF improved methods ma
chinery doing the work of.l00 men.
and science instead of muscle and
pluck.
Placer Boom Sure.
There is gong 10 be = placer
room" in the southwest the first
thing you know-and It will be bas-
ed on ground running from 10 cents
to as many dollars yard. | have
Just returned from a three-weeks'
stay In the Arizona-New Mexico
torder country about Clifton. and
this time | went out to see what
some of the little" fellows were
doing. They are making good. but
there isn't any stir about it, and for
the most part people take it as a
joke. But Il isn't. The fact is. and
IL is well known, that usually as
one gets to the outer edge of pro-
nounced oorper bearing zone. gold
comes in, and the extent of this gold
bearing area may be few miles or
II may be hundreds. OF course. all
the ground will not pay, and no min
er would attempt to work il. but
good quantity will, and pay hand
somely il worked carefully and with
system. / visited a property the
other day where there are sixteen
claims of placer ground. and they
told me-and ! believe II, because |
banned lot there-that an average
of 8 acres on each of the claims car
ried pay dirt. On one Of these claims
there are three shafts-one, 30 feet
deep: one, IS; one, 103-the first
two we're all the way through pay
gravel, and the deepest one was in
20 feet Of practically barren ground.
Now, say that one follows the rise
Of the formation from the bottom
OF the second shaft, he will go 400
feet before he gets to the surface,
following bedrock; and he viii have
an average depth of a sand OF say
20 feet by $50 feet wide by 400 Ions.
This viii average above 40 cents q
yard-in fact, it did average all the
way down In that shaft over 81. II
you happen TO know a mining engt
neer he will tell you that u crbtf
feet equal cubic yard, and that 4
placer mining can he done econon
icaIly-that is, IL the ground is neal
plentv of water-it will pay hand
sou ely if it run 10 cents yard and
if Quantities are worked. So it viii
easily be figured how han5sonely
this little pay streak would reward
one and there are on this piece o.
land fully 10 acres OF such ground
/ At another rlace an old prospecto'
| has taken over considerable ground
and this I pros~ected, getting from
! ceEt to 10 cents rer pan, but one
ran Welded % cents. 1t is extrs
| conservative to estimate that a cen
a ran equals 80 cents yard. Thes'
are the facts regarding two proper
ties. l visited another, miles from
either Of these mentioned, and Will
- had no opportunity Scr panning
the ground Is similar in every re
| spect and a man in whom / place
every confidence stated that th'
ground pans an avera7e of cents
| for every an This is in the new Ar
iona comfy of Greenlee. and t
IS miles from either Morenci o.
! Clifton.
old Hat Claim.
1 Placer mining has teen carriec
on somewhat for many years on th'
] san Francisco river. which runi
/ through the town of Clifton. Sever
al years ago there was a flooi OF
this stream, AMI the waite cam'
boiling down the narrow canyon am
/ mighty near took the to n. But a.
( ter a few days the waters s-bsideC
0 normal a yong man ma re
Fellrer role Up the sire m few
days after TIE floo7, and as his pom
: foV-trotted UT strea n something at
| O. acted .he young mans eyes 81
| strongly that he brought the pony u
a standstiIl Oh his haanches, snc
then he got on and picked up a mug
/ get OF gold weighing Sill He used
! his white slough hat for . ''pan' and
I in a depression in bedrock he took
out that afternoon little more
than $40. He afterward went there
with rocker and a few crude appli
ances, and in a space not more thar
40x40 feet he took out $500. This
( claim was properly called The OLD
Hat" D. a. Lenoxs farther down th'
| san Francisco river, working a
/ horsepower engine and small pump