Arizona republican., 1916-08-13
6be MINES of ARIZONA

lolled swollen and blackened from their mouths as they paid with life itself the deserts memorable toll. The railroad and the automobile have, however robbed the desert of it's terrors; and renegade Indian and white long since went the way of all flesh that set itself in opposition to the stern justice of the frontier.
 Gold was first discovered in the yi- cinity of the Harqua Hala Bonanza mine in 1762, by party of Spanish prospectors. Hostile Indians quickly put an end to their activities, however, and no further attempt was made to prospect in the Harqua Hala country until 1914. That effort, like the first, proved disastrous to all concerned. The first lode locations under American dominance were made there in Novem- Der. 1888. These, claims, known as the Harqua Hala Bonanza and Golden Ea- gle groups, are now being operated by the Yuma Warrior Mieing Company. From then until now the first men toned group has produced about $5,- 000,000 worth of gold.
 Find High Grade Ore
 Exceptionally rich ore was discov- cred in near-surface workings on each of the claims by the original locators and others, and when the news became generally known there was a rush of prospectors to the locality. In the course of time the locators of the Har- qua Hala Bonanza and Golden Eagle groups sold them to Hubble and part ners of Phoenix, who proceeded tc open them up in manner calculated to produce the greatest immediate re- turns. They erected a 20-stamp mill and in 30 days cleaned up $9S,000 worth of gold.
 Subsequently the properties were purchased by an English syndicate. AZ incline shaft was sunk by the British CTS on the Harqua Hala Bonanza group to ! depth of 200 feet and the property l thoroughly equipped with mine and mill machinery. It is said they eX- tracted $4,000,011 "orlh of gold ore above the 200-foot level The bullion was teamed to Ph )enix. ahont l2t miles distant. Road-asents infested the trail in those perlious days and as q result of their activities several ship
 ments of bullion from the Harqua Hala
 Bonanza and Vulture mines failed to reach their destination. After a num- Der of episodes of that nature. in one of which the manager of the Nulture
 mine was killed and 60,000 worth of
 bullion stolen, the Harqua Hala bull
 lion was moulded into bars of such
 massive size and weight tho bandits
 could not make way with them across
 the arid stretches. Shipments of in-
 gots having a value of s365.000 each were for q time sent out from the prop crty.
 i The Bonanza Cave" [ Owing to the long freight haul, the 1 scarcity of wood in a country of dwarf 1 sage and mesquite bush, and the conse- quent high price of mine timbers the latter were sparsely used. As the | grodnd was opened and stCped the cus- tom was to leave supporting pillars of
 ore, much of which was high grade. While attempting to remove these pil-
 lars. in later years. the ground caved ! from the third level to surface for sew
 eral hundred feet in either direction | from the shaft, leaving an immense
 chasm extending from wall to wall-a width of 70 feet-and laterally along
 the vein workings a length of 100 feet. | This great cavity IS known as the "Bo- 1 nanza Cave" It cut off access to the mine workings and forced the sinking | of a new shaft The latter is located ! about 400 feet west of the old shaft and intersects it at a depth of 2S6 feet on the incline. Connection was made
 with the 2nd and 3rd levels of the old workings.
 l III illlllS HOulilNt tSl llOiil liit new ] shaft a body of ore was opened and l stopped that milled s2.000, 900 worth of | gold. This stope is of enormous pro- l portions and presents the appearance
 of a natural cavern rather than the
 handiwork of man. Due to it's unusual size and shape the miners called it Castle Garden" On the same level an
 attempt was made to get under and 1 draw the ore from the Bonanza Cave 1 by means of crosscut. As 1t was l driven under the "cave" on the hang ing wall side 1t failed its purpose owing l to the unstable nature of the ground above, which could not be safely tim l bered. Ultimately this crosscut caved | to the solid rock below. These re- l verses were augmented by barren streak in the vein, and the Englishmer Ebecoming discouraged quit the proper | ty in disgust.
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