Bisbee daily review., 1915-11-21
DE WOLF TELLS OF BIG
 CHANGE FOR PIONEER BUSINESS IN OATMAN
Interesting Story Told of the Completion of Traffic Now Coming and Going from New Found Mining Camp.
lex William ?. De woIfl

from a point of vantage near the Trading Post" l counted twenty-three automobiles, two ten-mule freight team outfits, four auto trucks, a cou- pie of 2-horse delivery wagons, five burros and seven dogs scrambled in a hodge podge of picturesque confu- sion across the open space that isl bounded at one end by the Oasis Cafe and on the left and right by the hanging-wall and footwall of what not too discriminating public calls the main street of Oatman"
 Eight months ago when I rode into Oatman for the first time, the main street was as free of impediments as Is a horned toad of hair. Which is one way to stating that during the in- terin the breath of life has been blown into the postrils of the local mining industry and that Oatman has quick ened into sentient, fully-awakened mining camp.
 If you want to buy, sell or trade a burro, a prospect, a tent, a Waterbury watch. Ford jitney or any other little ole thing, all you have to dc is to chalk the fact upon the ebon surface of the Trading Post" and start a-dic- Sering with the other fellow. For the Trading Post" be it known, is a blackboard about five feet long by three feet wide upon which the bar ] gain hunters and oferers of the camp | transcribe their small want ads.
 The other day it was topped by three watches, whose golden" hue was suspiciously suggestive of the three gold" balls that hanh above a pawnbroker's door. On nthe board was scrawled the following announce ment: "The owner of these watches will hook, trade or sell 'em at any | damned price, or any damned thing. lis only stipulation is quick action. Make your offer" He must have got ten quick action" for a little while later I noticed that the watches were gone
 The Trading Post clings precarious- 1 'y to an upright that affords unstable support to the porch of the Oasis Cafe One day last summer, when ! the temperature was no in the shade. pair of locoed mules ran away and knocked this upright from its pins, 50 to speak Since then it's useful less as a support is considerably im- | paired At the time of the runaway | Jack Rabbit Bill" volunteered the in- | formation that the mules were crazy l with the heat. However, this is of the yesterdays of Oatman, and it is of the sirile, progressive present We would | write
 1 There are approximately sixty diff ! 'erent mining properties here where 1 development is being furthered by l means of machinery. Including the costly and capable plants in operation 1 lt the producing mines of the camp, l his machinery has an aggregate value l 1f about $1,25O,O00 The sum total of the machinery cost will be augmented l by about S2OOOOO upon the completion of the mine and mill plants ordered | by the United Eastern Mining Com. pany.
 l Mining properties having prospec i've value of many millions of dollars and a spot cash value of several hun | ireds of thousands of dollars has
 hanged ownership here during the
 past eight months. The first deal of
 magnitude was recorded about siN | months ago when the extensive
 estate of the old Gold Dust" mining l company was taken over by w. II 1 Wise of Los Angeles and associate!
 or the Orion Mining and Milling com
 lany The purchase included min'
 and mill, machinery and camp build
 ings valued at $2O0,O0O, a finch pipe
 inc from the Colorado river to tn,
 nine and an electrical motor anl
 pumping plant on the east bank O the river The transfer of the Gol' a Dust property to the Orion compan. appears to have been the impetu needed to start things moving in al 1 investment way; for since that tim transfers of mining acreage have beei
 recorded in ever increasing number
 Among the first deals put througl 1 after the Orion purchase was th , | transfer of the Hardy mine, an earl
 day producer of high grade ores, t
 Fred W. Crosley, J. O. A. Carper am associates of Cripple Creek, Colorado . subsequently the before mentioned D, 1 came financially interested in th | Fessenden Mining company and il other properties throughout the camI { l Following the trial of the Crippl | Checkers came the host of investor whose names are written on the loca
 Who's Who and Why tablets.
 The old time prospectors assei , that all mining trails ultimately merg
 with the main trail which lead sto new mining camp and that in du 9 course you will meet there the Arg
 nauts you may nave eaten "Mulligan
 with the Creed, or Leadville, or Nom
 or Dawson, or South Africa, or To
 opah. or Golddeld or some other ie the multifarious stations that hay ,rl been established along the treasui " seekers peripatetic trail The tra'
 Of this assertion was never better d
 monstrated than here in Oatman,
 is evidenced by giving the roadst d. most superficial one over.
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