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The Green Forest tribune., 1917-03-23

Clean up!
 Clean up days are here.
 Farm for rent. write or call J. E. Woods, Enon, Ark.
 Good buggy for sale-See Harve Villines.
 Suggestions for the paint brush are in evidence.
 Ed J. B. Rose will fill an appoint ment at the Calvery Baptist church at Eureka Springs next Sunday, March 25.
 Cue Buell. is now owner of the Walker Dray, having purchased same Friday of last week.
 Come and recall the days of your childhood at The Majestic March 30th.
 "Condensed farming" is the way Dr. Elsie Schmitz put it when she told us she was milking goat, now, and raising bantam chickens.
 In spite of high prices we can sell you up-to-date Millinery at veIy low price. It will pay you to see Warren's Millinery.
 The home of William Wells has closely resembled hospital the past several days. The baby boy, Tula, has had pneumonia, and other members of the family humps.
 A new son arrived at the home of Mr Megown, senior member of the Megown Bros. bakery, Monday.
 Rev. W. H. Neal has purchased the Earl Phillips farm, better known as the Wilding farm adjoining town on the northeast and is making improvements galore.
 In order to evade the high cost of getting married, you'll have to secure your license before the new law passed by the recent legislature takes effect. Instead of $2 50 it will then cost $3 % per
 Hon. John R. Stafford attended the adjourned term of chancery court at Berryvile Friday He informed us the stock law was not contested as had been intimated. and that it would be be in effect on and after May '.
 Ertie Alfred and Ross Ward were Urbanette visitors Sunday. The high cost of courting by rail don't seem to bluff the boys bit, or it may be they suspect another raise in the $3.0 per.
 Mrs. R. A. Queen called Monday and ordered The Tribune sent her daughter, Mrs. Loy Childress, at Wirt, Okla., for birthday present, the date of the birthday being the 29 inst. Mrs. Queen told US her husband, who is visiting in Oklahoma, is slightly im- proved in health and is enjoying his visit very much and will be coming home in few more weeks.
 Henry Donaldson left Monday night for Dallas, Tex, where he has accept ed position in bakery. We can promise those Texas sunf1owers that they will have no kick coming on the grade of bakery goods handed out by Henry, for he has learned the art of baking under the best baker in the world-E. J. Megown, of Green Forest any way we have never heard of any better.
The Green Forest tribune., 1917-03-23
To the Public

have purchased the Walker Dray and will continue the business. Any one desiring any draying or transport ing of any kind will please phone 3S and I will be at your service. My mot to will be prompt service.
 Cue Buell..
The Green Forest tribune., 1917-03-23
CITY DADS NAMED

The following city ticket was named at the mass meeting held at Judge w. A. Butts court room Monday night:
 Mayor-A. L. Kinney.
 Recorder Ray Anderson.
 Aldermen-J. A. Buell., C. c. O'Neal, Dr. E. E. Poynor, J. w. Bair and L. H. Smith.
The Green Forest tribune., 1917-03-23
PHOTOGRAPHS

make photographs of all kinds, also do Kodak finishing. Prices right.
 Elmer Wise.
The Green Forest tribune., 1917-03-23

A Good Roads meeting is called for next Monday night. A program has been prepared and if you arc friend of good roads be there
The Green Forest tribune., 1917-03-23
Douglas & Villines will buy all the country bacon brought them at the highest market price.

market price.
 County Judge Roy Thompson was over from Berryville Monday. being called here on account of the break down of the County Grader, which was in service on the Green Forest and Alpena public high way. He secured the service of L. H. Smith, as expert oil engine man, to go out and investi- gate the repairs and report has been made and no doubt that Judge Thomp- son will have the machine at work soon.
 In referance to his probable candidacy for delegate to the constitutional con- vention, Hon. w. R. Phillips tells us he is not in favor of primary to nom mate candidate. He wishes our county to do, as many of the other coun- ties of the state have done-Call a mass meeting in each township, nominate delegates to county convention and there nominate a man regardless of his politics. He says it is not polite al matter, and men who know what our people needs and are qualified to do the work properly are the men to send to this convention.
 Johnny Clendenin of Harrison, has been appointed Register of the United l States land office at Harrison, Brice B. Hudgins having resigned on account of his continued i'll health. MT. Cendenin was travelling salesman for the G. D, Miligan Grocery Co.,, and was among the most popular travellers making this territory. His friends are counted by his acquaintances, and all join in ex- tending hearty congratulations. Mir. w. F. Eastman, whose term as receiver. will expire in April, was not an applicant for second term, and it is stated that Walter l.. Snapp of Harrison. is slated for that position. MT. Clendenin was succeeded as travel ing salesman by H. c. Poynor of this ace
The Green Forest tribune., 1917-03-23
Rev. w. H. Neal is at Rogers en- gagged in evangelstic work,

c. R. Seitz, son of Uncle Loss Seitz, has recently been promoted to Chief Boss of the guards at the Atlas Powder Works at Carthage, Mo-, for which company he has been working for sever al months. We are always delighted to hear good reports of our boys away from home.
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The Parker post., 1917-04-14
Will Equip Troops.
(Los Angeles Times. }

Commodore H. NJ Higginbotham
and W. H. Dove. capitalists of Chi
cago, are in Los Angeles to arrange
for equipping and recruiting two ma
chine-gun companies. which they
will tender with their services to the
government, on behalf of the State
OF Arizona.
The offer which will be made di-
rect to the war department, is to
include the necessary equipment
and is inspired by desire to show
loyalty to Arizona, where the yisi-
tors have large mining interests, in
the vicinity of Yuma
Commodore Higginbotham and Mr..
Dove are stopping at the Jonathan
Club. They will leave for the east
Monday, and after a brief confer
ence with Gov. Campbell of Arizona
will go dirct to Washington.
The Parker post., 1917-04-14
New Building for B. B. Brown.

A new building will be erected in
the near future by B. B Brown on
the site of his present place of bust
ness, and the old structure. which
has been leased by John King to be
used as rooming house, will be
moved to the corner Of D street and
California avenue. The building
which Mr.. Brown proposes to erect
will be of reinforced concrete. the
full size of the lot, 25x125 feet.
The contract for the work has been
given to Joseph La Belle It will
be one-story structure with base
ment, but ample foundation for a
two-story building will be laid in
case conditions in the future should
warrant an additional story. 1t will
have plate glass front and will
be strictly modern in all its appoint
ments.
The Parker post., 1917-04-14

which by erosion and disintegration,
furnished the gold which is now
found in the bearing gravel
beds.
There are seventy-four shafts sunk
on the property into the gravel to
a depth of from five to forty-five feet.
None, save in one instance, was put
down to bedrock. The average depth
to bedrock is estimated at about
so feet. On the higher ground.
which the company proposes to work
by the hydraulic process, the bed
rock comes much closer to the sur
face.
The result of recent sampling
shows an average value of $2.16 per
cubic yard in free gold which
amounts to $11,448,OOO and the total
including the black sand would be
$11, ,8O0,44S
This black sand which is found in
all portions of the property has a
value of $3.50 in gold and $1.4O in
silver to the ton. By actual test
made from ninety-one samples it
was found that every five hundred
cubic yards of gravel contains one
ton Of black sand. In the 5,200,U00
cubic yards of gravel in these hold
ings, there would be 1O,600 tons of
black sand worth $312,448. This
black sand will be saved without one
cent additional cost to the company.
There are little or no indications
of cemented gravel or sticky clay
which is always very Objectionable
in placer mining and especially
where the process OF working is by
the hydraulic system.
The company proposes to prose-
cute operations by the hydraulic
method, and to this end a reservoir
has been constructed on the top of
an adjacent hill This reservoir is
of sufficient capacity to insure a
continuous run, and Of ample eleva-
tion to afford a strong pressure. It
is situated four miles from the town
of La Paz, where three wells have
been sunk and equipped with pump
ing machinery to pump the water
through a 12-inch pipe to the res
ervoir. Machinery is now arriving
at the property for extensive by
draulic operations.
1t is the opinion of prominent
mining engineers, based entirely
upon the 10,O00,00O cubic yards sur
veyed and tested. that it will take
nine and two-thirds years to work
the mine out, handling 5000 cubic
The Parker post., 1917-04-14
VISITOR SAYS THAT BIG THINGS
ARE GOING To HAPPEN IN PARKER
BY A. w. ATHERTON.

[ arrived in Parker, from Los An
geles via Needles, few days ago,
with no thought but to get on to
Phoenix as quickly as possible. To-
day I am strongly minded not to go
On at all, but to stay and take part
in the big things that are unques-
tionably going to be done right here
within the next few years.
When one who has travelled all
over California, studying her towns
and writing about them, and who
has done his share in the upbuild-
ing Of San Diego, Berkeley, Santa
Monica and Ell Centric, can be so
forcibly impressed with the future
certainties of place. there must be
something worth while about it.
What Holt did in Imperial Valley,
the other HOlts hereaway have be-
gun, and will accomplish, only,
feel sure on d bigger and better
scale-for this country is not below
the level OF the sea, and its soil is
not impregnated with mixtures from
Inferno, as is the case yonder.
do not think it matters that title
is vested in the wards of the govern
ment. If one is doing the grand
work of developing such resources as
these, and is turning desert land into
successive generations of fat hogs
and cattle, the difference, in point of
profit, between fee-simple and prac-
tically permanent lease-hold, is neg
ligible.
If, then, one finds himself, not on
the threshold of another experiment,
but at the beginning of another
achievement, will not
one do well to pause and think?
There was once an Arab-sO runs
The Parker post., 1917-04-14
COMPANY READY
To SAVE GOLD
FROM GRAvELS

The La Paz mining district, SO
prominently identified with the
early history of Arizona on account
of the large quantities of placer gold
it produced, but which has lain dor
mant for a period of nearly half
century, promises, according to re-
cent developments, to once more
come to the front and rival its for
mer record in the production OF the
yellow metal.
Of the early history Of this sec
ton, it is said that gold was dis
covered as early as 1S49 by fortune
seekers to that part of the country,
but it was not until 1850 or 1852
that gold in large quantities was
found and mining prosecuted on a
large scale. 1t was then that Capt.
Pauline Weaver, who was trapping
along the Colorado river and would
wander out into the mountains on
prospecting trips, was given some
nuggets by Indians, with whom he
was on friendly terms, and shown
the place where they had been found.
Weaver organized a party, went
to the spot and picked up $4,000 in
nuggets in a short time. News of
this spread like wildfre, others
went there and made rich discov
cries and many of the old forty-nine
miners who had gone to California
during the great gold excitement
there, heard of the fabulous wealth
of the La Paz placer mines and were
drawn hither by visions of untold
riches that lay in this virgin field
and awaited only the hand of man
to gather and place them in the
channels of commerce, and SO people
focked in from every section.
AS a result of the influx of
gold seekers, three towns sprang in
TO existence, La Paz, Ehrenberg and
Mineral The town of La Paz was
established at the base of the bench
lands near the Colorado river, the
The Parker post., 1917-04-14
New La Paz Gold Mining Company

as the ordinary gold pan. With
the apparent exhaustion OF the
placers and the discovery of new
diggings, many people LETT the dis
trict From this time the popula-
ton steadily decreased, until, with
the creation of the addition TO the
Colorado River Indian reservation in
1873, 1874 and 1876, which includ
ed much of the placer ground and
greatly restricted mining, La Pa7
was virtually deserted, and the site
of the once f1ourishing town is now
marked by only disintegrating adobe
buildings.
In the La Paz district the princi-
pal arroyos in which the gold-bear
ing wash occurs or to which the
richest gulches are tributary ARE
Goodman Arroyo and Arroyo La Paz,
an arroyo at the southern boundary
of the reservation. Ferra gulch, trib-
utay to Arroyo La Paz, contained
the richest and most productive
placers of the district. Evidences
of former work are to be seen III the
old excavations and piles OF powders
and angular rock fragments, in ex-
pOsures of bedrock where the wash
was shallow, and in the deeper de
posits by old shafts from which
smalldrifts were driven in the hope
Of finding rich pockets. The thick
ness Of the gOld-bearing wash is var
liable, ranging from few feet on the
mountain slopes to an unknown
measure in La PaZ Arroyo and in the
gulch traversed by the Quartzsite-
Ehrenberg road. Shafts have been
sunk in the wash to depths Of 30
feet without reaching bedrock and it
is reported that in places the wash
is at least so feet deep. BY far the
greater part Of the auriferOus ma
terial is unworked, especially that
in the lower courses Of the arrOyos,
"hShc CAC !" dou 10 uSep. 4NO eSCI-
mate could be made of the probable
gold content of the wash in the La
Paz district because OF lack of de-
tailed data and OF uncertainty as to
the limits of the wash, but in one
area the deposit. said to contain
values Of SO to rs cents per yard and
much of it 80 feet or more deep, Oc-
cupies at least $40 acres, and con-
siderable areas extend into the
smaller gulches.
The gold-bearing material con-
sists Of sand and clay inclOsing an
gular rock fragments of greatly
variable size. The tests indicate
The Parker post., 1917-04-14
Of LAPAz
D|GG|N'S READS
LIKE ROMANCE

yards per day which the plant could
easily do and on an average of So per
cubic yard, allowing 500 per day
for running expenses, the net earn
insg per year would amount to $3,-
100000, making more than 800 per
cent dividends per year on the par
value of the stock.
A. j. Condee, a well known min
ing engineer Of Los Angeles, after
an exhaustive examination of the
New La Paz COmpany's property, in
his report recently. concludes as fol-
lows:
MANY years as a mine operator
and an engineer have taught me
that both the owner and engineer
must always be careful not to de-
ceive himself by letting his desires
form his conclusions without facts
to support them, and while it is
natural to want success, his hopes
must be tempered by judgment In
this particular case, [ am not an
owner but an engineer, who started
out to make this examination with
the firm conviction that the reports
which I had read on this mine had
been grossly exaggerated both as to
value and yardage. L think I so ex-
pressed myself to some of your COM
pany before leaving Los Angeles.
My opinion had been based upon
hearsay evidence, and l now frankly
confess that I was mistaken
For the past fourteen years I
have made a speciality of hydraulic
and dredge mining, during which
time I have operated gravel mines
in Alaska, California, Mexico and
South America, and I want to say to
you that after my examination of
the La PaZ mine, I do not know of
another body of gravel of the same
size as that which [ saw at La Paz,
which contains as high an average
per cubic yard in gold and is as
favOrably located for working"
The Parker post., 1917-04-14

The postOffice, according to pres
ent plans, will move into we'll
lighted and ventilated space with
a 16-foot front on Arizona avenue
and 25-foot depth. Adjoining the
postoftice, in a space partitioned off
from the hotel lobby will be a
barber shop and next to that will be
the hotel entrance.
The lobby of the hotel will be,
including the barber shop and per-
haps a small space utilized for min
eral display purposes, fifty feet in
depth by thirty-eight feet in width.
Partitioned off spaces will reduce
this somewhat but there will still
be, according to the present plans.
over 1900 square feet in the lobby.
The Parker post., 1917-04-14
NEW ASSAY OFFICE.

One of the largest assay offices
Of Oatman has moved to Parker, By
ron NJ. Johnson having arrived here
last week with two truck loads of
machinery and supplies Mr.. John
son has opened an assay office in the
Brown building on Arizona avenue,
and is now prepared to do all kinds
OF custom assaying. Mr.. Johnson
is also a metallurgical engineer and
surveyor. He is prepared to make
mine examinations and reports, and
is an expert on mine management
The Parker post., 1917-04-14

that about 20 per cent Of the wash
will pass through a quarter-inch
screen. The material near the sur
face is unassOrted and is uncOnsoli-
dated, being readily worked with
pick and shovel. That at depths of
Is or 20 feet is consolidated, but the
cementing substance readily disinte-
CRATES on exposure to air. Deposits
below the depths of test pits may
prove to be similar to the outwash on
the east slope of the Dome Rock
mountains and in the Plomosa
placers, where the material is firmly
cemented with calcium carbonate
and requires crushing in order to
free the gold.
In Goodman Wash, below the
Goodman tank, deposit of calcare-
GUS tufa several feet thick is to be
seen. The ground stands sufficient
ly. well to permit the sinking of
shafts without the use Of timber
The wash is readily worked in dry
washer machines, the only require
ment being that the ground must
be dry. The gold is rough and an
gular, and particles OF iron cling to
some OF the nuggets. Magnetic is
always found in the concentrates,
and powders Of magnetic, the
largest weighing several pounds are
frequently found OH the surface
In March, 1910, the government
established the south boundary
line of the Colorado River Indian
reservation, and according to the
lines placed them back in the La
Paz Arroyo. This permitted min
ing to once more be resumed in
that section, and the opportunity
has duly been taken advantage of.
One of the principal mining COM
panies now operating in that section
is the New La Paz Gold Mining COM
pany, which is the largest individual
holder of placer ground in the dis
trict, This company owns 1546
acres of placer ground. lying in the
western border of the Dome Rock
mountains, about seven miles north
east of Ehrenberg and twelve miles
from Blythe.
The formation III the locality of
the New La Paz Gold Mining com
pany's property is in general made
and many beds and plugs of quartz
ite, also some volcanic lime on the
extreme edge Of the mountains. The
schist is interviewer with many
stringers of gold-bearing quartz
The Parker post., 1917-04-14
PARKER'S NEW MODERN HOTEL
WILL Be COMPLETED JULY |

Before July 1. unless unforeseen
difficulties arise, Parker will be able
to boast of the most modern hotel
structure in this section of Arizona.
Work on the foundation of the new
building is being rushed and the
contractor in charge OF the work,
believes the structure will be cb
pleted about June Is.
Located on the northwest cor.er
of Arizona avenue and California
street, the new building will aid
immensely to the general appear
ance of the town. Constructed
along artistic lines following the de-
sign of the owner, Mr.. o. M, Spence,
the building will be built of the
latest improved type of hollow
cement block, the air space between
walls assuring warmth in winter
and GOODNESS in, summer.
The building is to be OF the Mis-
sion type architecture, with wide
sweeping arches built to the edge of
the street and semi-enclOsing the
sidewalk 1T will be, including these
archways, 1852 feet in length and
So feet in width. wide veranGa
will extend along the full length Of
each side of the building on The sec
ond floor, enclosed on the Arizona
avenue side with Mission archways.
The main floor of the building
will be used in part for the hotel
lobby and the remainder sutd videG
for business purposes. The Com
mercial Bank of Parke. and the
City Drug Store will be moved from
their present locations and will Oc-
cupy the California street front of
the building for ? depth of so feet,
with the bank entrance on the cor
ner of the building.
A modern safety deposit vault,
equipped with time locks and cleo
trio alarm appliances is being built
into the reinforced concrete space
pTOElueu IoI IL III III" pdHh GUAR
ters, which are to DE arranged on
a par with those of banking iIlsti- |
tutiOns in metropolitan cities. The !
space to be occupied by the drug |
store will also incluoe basement |
store-room % by 50 feet and ar
rangements have Deeh made for |
large cut-glass display windows ol |
both sides of the entrance to the |
store.