The Parker post. (Parker, Ariz.) 1910-1918, 1914-02-28

out per man would only be guess
work. Hundreds of dollars per day
to the man was common, and now
and again a thousand or more per
day. Dn Juan Ferra took one nugget
from his claim that weighed AZ ounc-
es and Sc. Another party found a
'chispa' weighing 27 ounces ,and an
other one of 26 ounces Many others
found pieces of from one to two ounc-
es up to 20, and yet it is contend
ed that the greater proportion of the
larger nuggets were never shown for
fear of some evil spirits WHO infested
the mines at the time. 1t is the opin-
ion of those most conversant with
the first working of these placers
that much taken out was in nuggets
weighing from 81 up to the size of
the 'chispas' above named. l have
often heard it said of those days that
mot even Papago Indian would
work for less than $40 per day."
AS has been seen from the above,
the gold was large and clear
of foreign substances. The largest
piece above mentioned did not con-
tain an apparent atom of quartz or
any other base matter. The gold
from different camps varied a trifle
in it's worth at the mint in San Fran
cisco, and brought from $3.50 to $19-
so per ounce. But all that was sold
and taken there went for from SIG to
ST. per ounce. Since that year 1864
until the present there have been
various times many men at work in
these placers, numbering hundreds in
winter months, but in the summer
months not exceeding Is to 100; and
all seem to do sufficiently we'll not
to bic willing to work for the wages
Of the country, which are and have
been for some time $50 to $65 per
month and found. No inconsiderable
amount of gold comes in from these
placers now weekly, and only a few
days ago 1 saw, myself, a nugget
which weighed $40, clear and pure
from any foreign substance.
Some parties have lately come in
tC these diggings with what is call
eG cOncentrators or dry washers, that
they have been working for a few
weeks, and in conversation with Mr..
Flnkle Can owner of one of the ma
chines) he told me that he could
rake $40 per day where he was at
work, and pay So per day for his
hands, and that he only required four
to work the machines. Should these
mhchines prove a success, these plac-
ers will soon be peopled again with
Industrious, prosperous miners. Of
the total amount of gold taken from
these mines, | am as much at loss
to say what it has been as I was to
lame the average daily wages of the
first years, and as l might greatly
differ from those who were amone
the first in these mines, l do not feel
justified in setting up an opinion as
against them; l shall, therefore, give
the substance of the several opinions
that I have obtained from those who
were the pioneers of these placers.
l have failed to find any one of them
whose opinion is that less than ST.
100000 were taken from these dig
sings within the first year, and in
all probability as much was taken out
Nithin the following years.
The La Paz Mining company, which
how has several hundred acres of
this land located under the placer |
n inlng laws was restrained from OPP
Grating the property by the U. S.
government and suit is now pending |
f.r the title in court.
a. La Paz company is capitalized |
for million dollars, all paid in and |
has expended many thousand dollars
ca the property. At present they have
seven carloads of machinery at the |
waiting to be placed on the
ground for use whenever the title is
S titled il their favor.