Bisbee daily review., 1915-11-07
Center of Tom Reed-GoId Roau
Mining District Is Rapidly AC-
curing the HabilimentS of a
Modern Mining City.
OATMAN NOW NUMBERS
NEAR TWO THOUSAND
Town Has Great Prospects in
Every Way; Furnished With
Electric Lige, Water and Other
COnvenienCeS of the City.

Oatman. the civic center of the gold
district known as the Tom Reed-Gold
Road district, is easily accessible from
Kingman by automobile and the town
has all the appearance of a live. up-to-
date mining camp.
The town, i'm common with most
mining camps is built on rolling hills
situated at the base of mountains that
surround it on three sides. The build
ings, particularly the original struct-
ures. are mostly one-story cottages,
but with the boom" now in progress
the citizens are banking more and
more on the growth of the town, and
accordingly are building better and
more substantial buildings.
The town lies approximately half
way between the Tom Reed mine and
the United Eastern mine and is in
easy reach of the Big Jim. United
Eastern Extension, Oatman Mining &
Milling Company. Boundary Cone, Ori-
on and a number Of other mines. Con-
sidering the distance from the rail-
road, the citizens of the town enjoy
unusual advantages. There is news
paper, rnnning water, electricity, tele-
phone service and in commercial
way the town has enough stores to
supply all the needs of the inhabitants
in merchandise, drugs, delicacies, ice
etc
The camp is ideally situated, giving
view of the mountains and valley, the
murky Colorado river flowing far
afeld 10 the west and the dragged
ridges picturesquely surrounding the
town on three sides. The purple hills
are now dotted daily with new cabins
and tents where only a short time ago
there was only the varying landscape
While the Oatman camp is new, it
is still old. In the early sixties sol
diers of the First California Volun-
teers ventured into that country and
located a number Of the now promi-
nent mining properties One of the
first was the Moss, on Silver creek,
and the Leland and Mitchell west of
the present town of Oatman. The
Moss was famous for it's immensely
rich gold ore. It's quartz was of that
beautiful rose color that was so much
sought after by the jewellers in the
early days for the making of fobs and
watch chains, the quartz being heavy
with virgin gold
But in those days it was impossible
to work low grade ores and one by one
the big veins were allowed to revert
to the government
In the year 1901, Eli Hilty and 9th.
ers went into the district and discov-
cred the Tom Reed and Ben Harrison
claims, which now form the nucleus
for one Of the greatest gold mining
districts in the world In the scram
bic for new properties the old claims
have been forgotten, but It is evident
that these old properties are to make
; good when the miner comes to fully
understand the nature of the ore de
posits of the camp.
The district while being at first or
5 ganized to take in only ten miles in
e length of the range, has been extend
3 ed TO run from Franconia on the soutt
Be TO the neighborhood of the Burns
I ranch on the north, a distance Of ap
i proXimately twenty miles In tha
b trea there are many large veins o.
T. good grade milling ore, as we'll al
S a variety of small ones that carry yer!
n high values in gold In and aroun,
b the Oatman country is the creates
e network Of veins. the whole countr!
r being interlocked with veins. all o
J. which carry valuable minerals.
{ Oatman is the center of activity 70
e this rich gold mining district, the rich
e est in Arizona, if not in the entir
t. world, and the prosperity of the tow
n is interlinked absolutely with the de
q velopment Of the mines around il, an
l. happily the influx OF new capita
n which is turning to the Bonanza of tn
q West insures continued and permanen
prosperity.