The Arizona copper camp., 1915-11-26

which has since been developed and
is showing piles of ore of great value
on the dump.
Johnny Moss, a scout, discovered
the old Moss mine which has laid
dormant for years. The old fort
was abandoned in 1886 and interest
waned in this district until seven or
eight years ago when the Tom Reed
and Gold Roads people began de-
velopment on a large scale and have
taken millions of dollars worth of
ore out of the ground.
When they started this develop
ment they imagined that pay ore
would only be found at a depth of
fifty feet, but the surprising record
a year ago demonstrated that for
years the miners of this district had
overlooked a big bet by not going
deeper and tapping an abnormal
geological formation which they and
the mining experts had overlooked.
Therefore the strike by the Great
Eastern people is alone responsible
for the Oatman rush and the town
is filled to overflowing with mining
men looking for investments, and
miners looking for work.
Mining men who have followed the
lure of gold all over the world are
here, men who have participated in
the luck of the roaring camps OF
Leadville, Dawson, Cripple Creek
South Africa and Australia. They
meet on the street or in the cafes
and restaurants and hold reunions
that make the heart glad, and one
frequently hears remarks like: 'Hel-
lo-o-o, old mani For the love OF
Mike! Gee, but I'm glad to see
you! Thought you were dead, ole
fellow. Haven't seen you since
left Dawson"-or Rawhide, or Gold
field, as the case may be.
Enthusiasm and good fellowship
a democratic convention, but the all
is as placid and the atmosphere as
free from profanity and vulgarity as
though these were a party of Ep-
worth Leaguers attending a district
convocation,
To enumerate the list of those
who came and stayed and those who
came, made their investment and re-
turned home would be like compil-
ing a list of all the men, now living
who struck it rich in gold camps in
times past. Here are a few OF
them:
j. Parks Charming, he of the
classic name, president, vice presi-
dent and director of various copper
companies, came to Oatman, saw
and was easily conquered, and as he
purchased prospects took time tc
remark that one of the Oatmar
mines, now in operation, is entitled
to rank among the great gold mines
of the continent.
Seeley w. Mudd, he of the phe-
beian name, but phethoric purse
Mudd, who broke into the game as
Leadville mine operator, is q
heavy owner Of Oatman shares and
has prominent mining men of Utah
Colorado and Arizona associated
with him.
Richard Roelfs, the lucky man who
opened the Cresson mine at Cripple
Creek, property that has paid
$2,000,000 in dividends within a sin
gle year, visited the camp recently
and made arrangements for taking
over several properties.
F. M. Woods and H. E. Woods, a.
one time the most extensive opel
ators in the Cripple Creek district
are materially interested in severa
Oatman companies.
W. P. O'Meara, the lucky man
who, in the short space of three
months, extracted 100000 worth o.
ore out Of a circumscribed block o.
| Tonopah Mining company's ground
is another of the Argonauts who
succumbed to the Oatman distric1
and became interested in seYera
large properties here.
DR.. J. N. Chipley, one Of the vet.
eran operators of the Colorado
fields where he has mined for forty
years, after making an investigation
of the Oatman field, comes out ir
print and says: "It is the biggest
thing I ever saw and the greatest
camp I was ever in
Judge r. l.. Johns Of San Fran
cisco, one of the incorporators and
heaviest stockholders Of the Gold
field Mining Company of Nevada