Bisbee daily review., 1911-10-07

.pCl WI sides; il 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 'S5 the country was blaze of flowers. and this new camp was named Placeras de las Flores; but it was later named San Domingo. There was a good town with many stores. saloons, dance houses, etc, and for several years placering oper- ations forwarded steadily: but the richer dirt was washed. the dry ma chimes did not have more than a third of the gold and were tedious to operate. so that soon the more enter. prising went to other fields leaving this to the -Mexicans. The man nam ed Eulalia. last winter. with one man to assist in operating a small 4 yard dry washer. took out S400 in 40 days at the lower end of one of the small benches in Spring Gulch wash; and in fact there are many MeXicans 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 that rival Rider Hag- gard's brainstorms. So, after thor ough investigation, one is solidly im- pressed, because no matter where you test you will find the gold-it is here, everywhere, fin an area probably 25 miles long by wide. The old timers tried in every way to get water on to the ground, but they failed. It has become the conviction through out 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 DOT tions of this state, where there is placer ground in exactly the same condition as Is found here.
 The dams to be installed by MT. Sanger will conserve the water from a watershed fully g miles square. From October to May there is usually running water in the main wash; and the summer rains cause water to flow for a month or more. The dam site is a natural one, similar to those in practically every canyon of this sec tion, 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 giy- ing over 50 cents. The fact that in California they are placer mining to good profit on 14 cent ground shows what this all means 10 owners of Arizona placer ground in the Wicken- burg field at least. went up a new wash the other day. where no pros pecting has been done since the rush in the sos, and banned time and again, getting from 5 to I25 colors to a pan. The ground is rich, every where. The dry washers used in testing and in working this ground are new to me. There is no fan, as is usual. but beneath the rifles there is a bellows the full size of the riffle- box, this forcing the air upward and serving the same as water, causing the lighter material to flow over the riffles, while the gold is caught. No quick is used in these machines. Two men can handle from f to 6 yards Of gravel a day with these machines At first the Sangers were ridiculed; but now there is a real rush" to get on some of this ground-and there is quite general prospecting for dam sites. Wherever a dam site is found, placer mining project is feasible here, and this is being generally rec ognized now.
 The history of the financing of a mine is sometimes tragic-and so it has been with Sanger. He went to Boston and presented his proposition to a wide-awake business man who endorsed it and said he would furaish the funds. Sanger went to see him a day or so after, and found him on a sofa in his office, somewhat under the weather; but he said he would be all right in a day or two, and that if Sanger would call at 10 o'clock Friday morning he would have the papers drawn for signature and the check ready. Friday morning Sanger re- ceiyed an invitation to attend this mans funeral, he having died mean while. There was another man who had the money and was going to put 1t into the placer mine. His wife, however, learned that he wasn't true to her and she raised such a deuce of a row that he gave up all thoughts of anything but the divorce courts. Then one day while he was taking a needed rest at Grand Canyon, Sanger met a man from Chicago, who casual ly remarked. So you are in the gold brick business2" Sanger said he was and the man said he Twas going to Phoenix on his way home and that he would go and look at it. He did SO. and wrote Sanger that when the lstter got to Chicago he would like to have him cali at his office. So, some time later the Sangers reached Chicago, and the afternoon before they were going away he called on the business man. As he entered the
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