Arizona republican., 1916-04-29
GOLD AND COPPER CAMPS SHOW ', INCREASED ACTIVITIES NOW
Lost Frenchman Mine Probably Rediscovered South of Ajo; Gold Pros poets Divide Interest With Company Progress
Special Correspondence)

AJO, Ariz., April 25-What is prob ably the most important gold dis covery made in this section for many years, was made few days ago about twenty-five miles south of this place and only a few miles north of the Mexican line. The discovery is an old mine and is said by the h. dians to be the lost FrenChman mine that so many prospectors have been looking for the past thirty years. There is a very large gold ledge eX- posed on the property and for dis ttance of 5000 feet on the surface shows free gold in abundance. The mine shows every evidence of having been worked on an extensive scale in the early days. The shafts were sunk in hard rock and are well pre- served. but most of the timbers around the mine have long since de- cayed.
 i Near by the mine Is the ruins of ! several old houses that show evidence of having been occupied for con- siderable length of time. One of the old shafts was entered to q depth of fifty feet and a crosscut from the bottom of this shaft exposes d ledge of gold ore sixteen feet in width that shows considerable free gold. The other shaft about forty feet deep could not be entered for a swarm of bes but the dump showed some high grade ore. Another shaft about twen- ty-five fee deep 5000 feet east of the other two showed ledge about two and one half feet in width. Some of the white quartz taken from the dump showed considerable free gold and from pannings made of the rock il is estimated that it will run very high in gold.
 The Indians claim that the proper : ty was worked by a Frenchman in ! the early days and that after doing considerable work was killed by a band of hostile Apache Indians. A great many people in the past have tried to hire the Indians to show the mine but without success. A thor ough investigation will be made of the property and if the values war
 rant it will be developed on large scale. F. II. Johnson. one of the owners of the mine. when inter
 viewed by the writer said that he
 had every reason to believe that the
 mine is in reality the lost French
 man that so many people have been
 looking for The Indians claim that
 the Frenchman made several trips from the mine to Yuma with rich
 gold ore and that shortly after one
 of these trips was murdered
 Three miles south of Ajo Consoli- dated and the New Cornelia proper
 ties is a group of ten claims owned l by Emil Sundstrorp and associates
 This is considered one of the best properties in the district and has q
 wonderful surface showing. It is fol
 the purpose of equiping and develop
 ing this property that the South Cor. nelia Copper Company will shortly be organized by local men. The com pany will be capitalized for sl,000.00' divided into 1,0O0,0O0 shares of pal value of $1.00 each and non-assess able. 300.0 900 shares of this stock vii z be sold A great many inquiries hav'
 already been received in regard to tn 5 property and from the present indica I tions the 300 900 shares of stock vii l. be over subscribed by the time tha it is put on the market The stool O will be handled through the firm O
 Mitchell & Brunei of Ajo.
 = The Growler property located abou e eighteen miles southwest of Ajo wa