Arizona republican., 1921-10-03

happiness, already considers itself destined for great things and kath- crime expects to team along with its mate and do it's share toward adding to the U. S. gold reserve.
 s'The two days celebration at Fri state ended in a blaze of glory last night after a barbecue. dancing and true-to life, joyful, clean, burlesquing of the olds west, which particularly delighted big party of guests from Los Angeles which included stock brokers, investors and map building advertising men and newspaper rep resentatives.
 ''The big doings were staged Sat | urday night and while 1t lasted 1t 'sent thrills through everyone, for all the elements were present to give IL a stage setting and only those things which Uncle Sam says cannot be were missing But the well staged substitutes gave the appearance of the real thing and the lack of the essentials" caused some good natured grumbling from the old ..sourdoughs'' and hard rock" men, l but was taken in good part when | they came to realize that the pep" necessarily was lacking.
 "A committee headed by Ed Shaw. who is to be the first mayor of the new camp. A. B. Cushman and James | Cushman., who conceived the idea of building Tristate. E. s. Chafey, who named the town. and others provided | decora tions and entertainment which made the old boys whoop with delight | and for a time even had old Sheriff | Sam Gay guessing until he found 1t was only stage stuff put on for the benefit of the outside visitors.
 Tt is planned to make Tristate the l center of the general development of the district on both sides of the | river while Katherine will be the | headquarters of the Katherine terri tory group of which there are half dozen actively at work.
 Enormous Sum Expended
 And this from the Los Angeles Evening Express:
 ITO date, including roadway de velopments in the district, approxi- {. mately $2,500,000 has been expended The concensus of opinion of olt miners who areflocking to the dis. ! trict in great numbers and six wei known and conservative minint engineers was that the Katherine district would develop into one of thu great gold producing camps of th' continent.
 "The Katherine mine has made tho greatest progress to date; TAO fec of drifting and cross-cuts have beer completed with ore yalueS aVeraS' ing about s14. The shaft has beer sunk to a depth of 400 feet. witt tunnels at 100, 200, 800 and 400 feet R. L. Dimmick, vice. president ant general manager, is one of the rec cgnized authorities on western gol' mining and the splendid character o the development work, which was in spected by the visiting mining oper ators, mining engineers and broker was commented on by all as bein one of the best pieces of minin engineering they had ever seen Some values in this mine have ru to S53. To date s300,000 has bee expended, 154 tons of ore has actual been blocked out with an estimate value of S2,164.000. MT. Dimmic
 refused to make a prediction as the total values when the develop ment work has been completed, bu other engineers were not backwar
 in stating that the total values woul
 be several times the S2,0O0.O00 mari
 lover 200 claims have been locate in the Katherine district. Some c them, according to engineers, hay
 little prospects of success. Other are located in the recognized miner
 alized zone and, with honest and in
 telligent management, have goo
 chance for success.