Weekly journal-miner., 1911-10-11
NORTHERN ARIZONA MINES By of the Journal Mine
SAN DOMINGO DISTRICT

WHICH lS HHosI uHlQut- III testing,
 Mr. Sanger has been more than con-
 servative, rejecting all nuggets and also all pannings running exception ally high. I have spent many days on the property, prospecting all the
 time, and the result was always the same-colOrs always. An expert Mexican placer miner named Eulalia was with me, and I saw him take a double handful of the gravel, dry placer 1t in his palms, and get from two to twenty-five colors. We took pan in one of the richer spots in Spring Guleh wash, and got 300 col OTIS. It is the most wonderful prop osition I ever saw, and others who have given the field careful atten- tion say the same.
 In 1885 there was a rush to San Domingo wash. Hundreds of men of all nationalities flocked in and oper- ated with dry washers. Sometimes they made as high as $l0O a day per man. and $15 a day was just ordinary. In Old Woman guleh, work ing alone, a Mexican made $50 a day with dry washer having capacity of only six yards day. In Ameri- can wash some California miners took out fortunes in few months. Some of this work was in the washes, some on the benches and hillsides; it all
 ran high on the surface-but they couldn't work to bedrock, because
 the gravel is never actually dry enough to dry wash at any depth. The spring of 'S6 the country was a blaze of flowers, and this new camp was named Placeritas de las Flores; but it was later named San Domingo. There was good town, with many stores. saloons. dance halls, etc, and for several years plaeering operations
 forwarded steadily; but the richer dirt was washed, the dry machines 
 did not save more than a third of the gold and were tedious to operate, so that soon the more enterprising went to other fields leaving this to the Mexieans The man Eulalia. last
 winter. with one mar to assist in operating a small four-yard dry wash CT. took out $400 in 40 days at the lower end of one of the small benches in Spring Gulch wash; and in fact there are many Mexieans who make
 good wages constantly with their dry washers. This whole country is full of history of rich strikes, and I have heard tales. well authenticated, . that rival Rider Haggard's brain storms. So, after thorough investiga- ton. one is solidly impressed, be- cause no matter where you test you will find the gOld-it is here. every where, in an area probably 9 miles long by , wide. The Old-timers tried in every way to get water onto the ground, but they failed. It has be- come the conviction throughout the section that the gold cannot be saved because there is no water. But an outsider came in and solved this problem. and the success here will be equalled in many other portions of this state, where there is placer ground in exactly the same condition as is found here
 The dams to be installed by Mr. Sanger will conserve the water from watershed fully 9 miles square. From October to May there is usually water in the main wash; and the summer rains cause water to flow for month or more. The damsite is a natural one. similar to those in practically every canyon of this sec ton. where all the washes box up. The dams will be of reinforced con crete.
 The ground for great many miles west of the LOtOwana ground, and for from to : miles away from the Hassayampa river. all carries gold, and I quote the Sanger proposition because here has been the only exact testing and sampling of the district up to now. There will be hundreds of acres that will run more than Sl a yard, and there are thousands giv- ing over 50 cents. The fact that in California they are placer mining ts good profit on 14-cent ground shows what this all means to owners of Arizona placer ground in the Wieken- burg field at least. I went up a new wash the other day, where no pros peeting has been done since the rush | in the sos, and banned time and again. getting from , to 125 cOlors to q nan The Jround is rich every |