Bisbee daily review., 1911-09-24
(By Cbas. A. Dinsmore.)

(By Cbas. 4. Dinsmore.l
 A placer mOyement-almost g
 'boom"-is on in the section of coun- try between Morristown and Wicken.
 burg, Arizona, extending up the Has.
 sayampa river over a territory 20
 miles long by wide It is justifiabls
 l nave spent five weeks in this sec
 ton, and without any too do have prospected a great deal of the ground
 1t all carries gold. Sometimes the average of a gulch will be 10 cents A cubic yard. sometimes 20 cents. and generally 1t reaches 40 cents, while in some places whole gulches will run up to 70 cents. The gold is fairly coarse.
 It is found on the benches as well as
 on the sidehills, but the gulches al
 ways carry it in quantity to pay. The gold is in the same quantity whether
 on the surface. halfwsr down or to
 bedrock. The gulches d benches of this whole section have afforded meat and beans for a greet 71any people during the last half lS. 5ury, by the
 dry washing" method The curse of the country has been lack of water. Everyone knew of the gold; but the dry washing was slow. tedious and
 not over-productive. for several req. sons--in the first place the sand is never actually dry to bedrock, and if it was not more than a third could be saved by dry washing. Thus, for 10 or l5 years only a few Americans
 have done any placering here. leaving 1t to the Mexicans., who have occa- sionally found exceptionally rich ground and made 8 to s25 with their inadequate little machines. Still, mo- body gave this rich ground any real attention. because without water noth- | ing could be made working it.
 l They now have the water.
 It Is the easiest thing in the world a lot easier than the easiest invention man ever planned-but it took an outsider to evolve it. An Alaska placer miner named John s. Sanger. accompanied by his wife, turned
 against the hardships of the Nome
 country and came out this way in search of 25-cent ground. They found ! it here-9 miles either from Morris
 town or Wickenburg-and it was bet ! ter (much better) than 25-cent ground Then he ran agains. the ole snas-nn water: and fo, a time dreams of doing something were for
 naught. because he did not for a min ute consider regular dry washing
 nor the many schemes for securing the gold from the gravel by other
 means than water. He began think.
 ing and prospecting, and while riding
 over one of the upper washes one day ! the thought popped into his mind, ri
 the government is spending millions building dams to impound water for
 agricultural purposes, why, in the
 name of all the Checkawkers of the 4 country, can't I impound water for | placering?r And that is what he is doing. He is putting in two dams, one
 conserving 100,00O,000 gallons of wa
 ter, the other 5O,0OO, 900 gallons. The i expense of dam, pipe line. etc, will come so much inside of S6,000 that
 he can buy a big span of mules out Of
 what is left. This may not sound just right to the man who has toiled and ! starved for water in the desert, but it is real-so real. in fact, that | Christmas money" will come to a
 great many through their operations lin this field. For there is not gulch
 where water cannot be conserved | sometimes at considerable cost and l nItenIlmGS IOf dlillOsl uOeAhAss bNI Hi-
 ways leaving big margins for profit
 Not a tenth of the ground has been taken, though locations are being made daily now. Many placer miners
 have been here lately and were
 amazed, not at the amount Of gold,
 of which they knew. but that no one had ever before hit upon this little
 easy scheme of building dam to supply necessary water. Eyerybody ! familiar with the Southwest will re-
 member the famous San Domingo placer felds-well. this is the San Domingo of which l write. Without
 water it is mot worth whoop Tn hell" With water, it is a bonanza, better thing than Alaska ever had be cause instead of 90 days there, 1t IS nine months here in which one IS