Bisbee daily review., 1914-03-08


 holes. 500 10 100 ft apart. The aver. age value fthe gravel amounted to soc per yard. During this operation it was found necessary to purchase other concessions op account of con. flicting claims and SO as to secure entire right to the use of the river The payments necessary to be made on these concessions covered a period of over a year. and. in all. these peo. pie paid some s13O,O0O for the prop. critics and spent about s6O,000 in tests and borings.
 in order to make doubly sure of these results befoah installing 1he irelge, corroborative tests were made when test pits and independent drill ings This revealed the fact that the findings of the original tests were CT rcneous. and finally one of the work. men confessed that the native fore man on the work. the women banners. and others had consistently salted the samples from the beginning. the final outcome being a total loss of large sum
 The man notorious in the paint elr
 sodo induced some Philadelphia peo- nle tc investigate a concession known as the Buena Ventura, which adjoins the Jaina river. and told them the gravel would average at least $2 per yard for thousands of acres. One Of tt ese men happened to have some 15 years prospecting experience in South America, Nicaragua. and the western part Of the United States and was familiar with sluicing, panniing. and all operations connected wit placer gold. He was engaged to make the investigation in June 1913. During his first week cn the property he was very lavorably impressed. as he ob- tainod results averaging some SlO or mora per cubic yard. Then he did some drilling and digging independ- ently when the natives were not around, and was surprised to find that he got no gold. After this he tested some of the original dri,lings and found no gcld. and after two or . his original work had been salted in every case. This he reported to his people h the United states, and as the alleged owner of the concessicn vas in Philadelphia at the time, he was asked 10 pay back all the money that they had spent. On his refusal he was arrested and the case brought before the Grand jury. and before
 citing 1t g. too far, he settled the case by paying the people what they demanded.
 In the latter part of July 1915, some Philadelphia people. who formed a cor lpt raticn known as .the Jaina Mining & Improvement Co.,. employed me to | go to Santo Dcming-, and investigate ' a concession known as the Pedro B.an, which adjoins the Buena Ven tnra. and is alleged to be owned by ! the same man. He had leased to this comIany the portion of this conces- sion adjoining the Jaina river on the basis ol .25c, royalty and payment | lown of S4OOO. One of the members of this Company had previously been to Santo Domingo in January 1915 and was thoroughly acquainted with | the owner of the concession, and had made numerous borings, and tests and found extremely high gold con | tent. amounting to all average Of S3O or more per cubic yard. He had later reported this to his sen, man oi ever forty, who being very skepucal' Nen. down with his father to corrob' olate the tests of the former. The second tests. made some time in May were even more favorable than the first ores. went down in August in company with both of these men ana another young man, son oi one of the members of tho new company Durinr the first four says augur bor' ings were made near the places which had teen previously tested by thlS man and his sen. The highest value was siS.2 per cubic yard and the aver age of the first ten holes, waieh GOV cred distance of about three miles WAS ever SIP per cubic yard. l then
 continued the investigation alone wi;h native employees and sank some so hoies, covering territory four
 miles long and two wide, the average
 being over sii per cubic yard. On account of a revolution being
 started at this time, and some'othei rosit,ve reasons which cannot be stated here. it was necessary to wind
 up the work before the investigation
 was satisfactorily completed, and ioI
 this reason l spent the last two days lr making borngs and banning the
 material without the aid of anyone Although l had up to this time heard none of the stories above outlined,
 was extremely suspicious of the re
 suits, and these suspicious were con
 filmed when 1 failed to find any gold in my twn pannings. 1 then went tt
 the United States and made a com J plete report of the matter, and also stated my suspicious, and recon |. mended that 1 be sent down agair with one or more reliable men. My suggestions were adopted by the com pany. ] therefore took one reliable . man and went down, thoroughly pre-