Bisbee daily review., 1911-11-02
SENSATION OF ONE
 WHO FINDS GOLD
lBy Chas. \. Dinsmorel


 MlCKENBURG. Oct. 3l.-The tales one hears sometimes of the ex. eitement of really finding gold are being demonstrated in the San Do. mineo field as being the truth, the whole truth. and Rcthing but the truth. The other morning man named Healey. came 10 the Brlll ranch. where ] am making headQuar- ters. and asked me if would go with him to the placer fields, so that he might know where he could make locations without infringing on any one; and as l know about all the lo- cations, ] agreed. We rode over the ground where Kellis found his ST a yard dirt recently, and then up on a big bench a short distance east of the wash owned by the Jacobs peo- pie. Healey said he thought that maybe that might be a good place, and he believed that he would locate there. So | sat down 10 write his location notice while he began get ting rocks for the monument.
 For Gods sake. Dinsmore, what's this?" The voice was as earnest as any I ever heard; and looked
 
 his hand which he was looking at with bulging eyes. Its gold" l an swered as soon as l caught a good look at it-'about a dollar nugget. Iiealey just sat down on a nearby rock and looked at that nugget with worshipful eyes. not because of its value. but because he had found 1t, without eNpecting anything Of ehe sort. and in the face Of his pre-dis- position 10 scoff at the placer fields of fhis section Where did you get it?" 1 asked him.
 Why. I was building the monu- ment, and got that big rock and lift ed onto the pile and started to get that one there, when i noticed some thing glisten in the bed made by the rock on the monument, and l got down to look at it. l had heard Of their picking up nuggets, but have never seen one before that wasn't owned by someone that didn't come from ten billion miles of, and couldn't believe this was gold-I can't hardly believe it yet. But it is sure?" It was tested to his satis- faction, proven pure gold. and he settled down and concluded erecting the discovery monument. Thinking il might be a good plan to get sample near by l kneeled down on the ground and took 10 pounds of gravel When | raised to my feet again Healey simply yelled.
 Great Goa. look at that7"
 And looking down to where I had been kneeling there was a hsTf. dollar nugget snugly nestling in the gravel Healey got it--and then he went wild He wanted 10 take up" the country he wanted to camp on The ground and look for nuggets: he wanted me to estimate what the ground would run per cubic yard, and what it would cost to put in a dam and save water to operate. have become hardened to this sort of thing up here, and cooled him CT q bit by saying that probably there wouldn't be another nugget the size of that one unless he went into the deep wash below; that the ground l would not average above % cents a ! yard. And that it would cost sever al hurdred dollars to save any amount Of water. and finally and es- pecially that it would all take time
 C. B. Hoskins was over Sunday Hom Octave. He has dry-washed ! this section, years ago; and for I5 years past has been quartz and plac. l CT mining all over Arizona He went Hp 10 the placer field and while there took a pocketful of dirt from the top Of a bench and another from the side wash-took both because some ! one who was with him said that the i whole thing carried gold. He went 1. back to Wickenburg and while wait 1; ing for the train to Octave. washed | these two samples. From the first ! he got several colors and a piece of ! gold as big as a pin-head. From the . sample taken on the sidehill he got 1 three colors. each as big as a navy bean. Well, he had 10 go to Octave I that night, but they say that he was the "excitedest" man they ever sa g. 1
 Captain Evans is a cold-blooded . @esterner who has been mining for | a good many years-in Colorado . md in Arizona. He has made a lot . of money and has lost more-that's I he fact with any good mineT--and ! he has been extra-skeptical right iiong. But as I come and go from he -ranch-Captain Evans owns the ! -anch and l am a guest in the north vest room on the ground floor md practically every time come in and get gold from the samples I pring. he is getting a bit nervious. Began telling me today Of some gold