Arizona republican., 1915-02-07


 serve Banks for assistance.
 'Nowy turning from ! long sentence like that to a practical application of i the idea:
 If the Bureau of Mines was au- thoriZed to lve up to the public de- clarations made by members of Mr. Wilson's Cabinet, an effort would be made to ascertain officially facts known to every investor iH gold prop critics in Arizona and to every miner within the belt refer to, and demon strated by every grllbstaker who has | left Phoenix and travelled to the East. stopping at as many spots as I per- sonally nave examined in the last 25 years in Arizona, and always turning up gold bearing rock but seldom of recent years producing enough bull 1 ion to pay for a substantial plant or l investor Yet you know as well a. anyone that the advance in the char acter of machinery and improvements in chemistry in the last years has been such that if a proper examina
 tion survey and report were made on the country as a whole, by the gov ernment, an expert could demonstrate the millions of tons of gold ore in the ground, which sthe government is anxious to secure ana which turned into bullion enriches the United States as such With the governments fla cilities they could demonstrate to capital that the ore could be mixed, i milled and turned into bullion with q greater profit to an honest business concern than can oe made in Alaska today.
 Whereas, on the other hand, it is most difficult to find any req! capi- tai to be invested in legitimate gold mining in Arizona, and nearly all of the mines have been or are used for purposes that do not enrich the peo- pie as whole.
 In my opinion it is the point I make in the last paragraph that de- ters eastern investment in Arizona gold propositions. Whereas if the government reported on conditions that are known to me and known to you, it would take very limited number of thousands of dollars, com pared with their ether less import ant investments of public funos, to prove how gold can be found and milled, and perhaps aid directly or indirectly in the matter of tr1nspor- tation, there is plenty of capital east and elsewhere to organize a real low grade gold mining business, such as was thought out and worked out in Alaska. This benefit to the public at large could be without any partiality
 to any one mining locality over an
 other, or to any one class of ma chinery or chemical concern over an- other, but simply giving facts as they can be found between Phoenix and Prescott in Arizona, with the stamp of official endorsement, and
 furnishing to those investors an off ciai endorsement as to the proven re-
 suits in various processes of milling
 which are not given the full credit
 they deserve by the public, because
 the pubic 0ike myself. for instance) assume t may be deceived for lack or opportunity open to either the Fed eral or state authorities.
 The character of work I would ask of our Federal government or Of the state of Arizona, is such as the federal government and the state of New York have done in connection with iron ores in the neighborhood Of Lake Champlain, and in the way of barge canal and in many other ways too numerous to mention. l. T would refer to the Roosevelt Dam undertaking, and the money in lested and the pamphlets issued by the government on the subject of ir- rigation in, Arizona. and note what the state of California has done to draw capital and men to mine and mill it's gold deposits.
 If anyone was prepared 10 dispute my proposition as to the enormous
 quantity of low grade gold ore or, it
 you please, the enormous amount O. . gold ore to be found between Phoe nix and Prescott in the belt i refer ! to above, or to dispute that today (no { matter what may be found with the ] gold ore) 1t can he milled and re- ] duced to bullion at a substantial busi- / ness profit, as compared with any ] other kind of a legitimate business ! I am prepared to defend that propo- ! sition Where I fail from technical ! knowledge or practica! experience, ! can refer to someone to help me out "The proposition has never reache' the City of New York, and up tc date no one has been able to suc- cessfully present the possibility t, capital or business concerns here that there are enough low grade propositions in close proximity tt ! each other to be handled as single business, and which could be operat- ed on the lines Cat least) of the op- erations carried on in Alaska Yet this government, and every other { government, is crying for gold, ant there is plenty of unemployed capita to mine and mill it.
 T contemplate personally taking uI this subject with the federal -authori- ties in Washington, and if you car help along the cause in any way, q will appreciate it very much. Thai is if vOu have within the wOnderfu