The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-01-27
WOMEN IN RUSH
TO COLD FIELDS
Elbow Men in Scramble for 10.
cations in 0atman District
in Arizona.
BLOOM NOT OFF FIRST RUSH
Soldiers Of Fortune, Young and Old,
Flock From All Sections Of the
Worid-oid Mine Resumes
in Search for Wealth.

Phoenix, AriZ.-Soldiers Of fortune
young and old, both men and women
are still focking to Oatman, In Mohave
county, to prospect for gold, and many
Of them are finding 1t. The Oatman
gold fields are the most active ON the
North American continent and the
bloom Is not yet off the first rush.
Weather-beaten adventures who got
the word while digging away In far
away parts Of the>world like Africa are
arriving with all the enthusiasm Of
their first hunt.
The old Goldroad mine at Oatman
has resumed, and to those who know
about gold mining that news carries
significance. It means q permanent
camp in all likelihood and development
akin to that Of the gold fields of Ne
vada. The United Eastern Mining COM
pany Is cutting drill station on the
tenth level (1,3O0 feet) and at the
breast Of the 1,OOO-foot crosscut into
the hanging wall. The drill will be
pushed down an angle 1000 feet, 1t be-
Ing intended to cut the known big vein
at a depth of 2,6OO or 2,700 feet below
the apex. That Is one Of the biggest
operations going on at Oatman. one
that may mean millions.
Work on Biz Scale.
The Lucky Boy Mining and Milling
company has started another hole on
Its property which is expected to strike
q vein at 600 feet. The Lucky Boy is
financed in New York and its campaign
Is on big scale. The Bonanza Placer
company has run across a silver ledge
paying $50 to the ton and work has
been begun to take out the profit. The
Frisco mine Is pushing its drilling, with
pay in hand and more in sight.
Other companies, big and little. are
scratching and gnawing at the earth
In all directions. Not far from Oatman
work is going forward evenly at Min
eral Park in the turquoise mines.
among the largest In America, owned
by the Tffanys Of New York, which
irst led adventures up into the region
from Mexico as far back as 1880. It Is
history that at that date several hun
dred Spaniards and $4,000 Indians left
Mexico City to find the precious treas
ures Of the Seven Cities Of Cibola. in
the present state of Arizona, and that
from 1880 to 1889 Cortez sent four ex-
petitions up from Mexico, one of which
he headed himself. Friar Marco de
Mia it was who brought back to the
Spaniards the wondrous tales Of the
Cibola villages where "they use vessels
of gold and silver, for they have no
other metal"
But the present prospectors at Oat-
man are all Of the sort Of folk who
never look back. They live romance in
stead Of reading it; their lives are
nlled with the adventure of pioneering,
unchanged from the days Of Cortez ex-
cept for modern settings. There's still
danger enough to make it attractive,
what with dynamite and moonshine
whisky and the age-old impulses that
follow in the train Of sudden wealth.
Named After Early Settler.
Oatman was named after Royce Oat-
man, a settler, who came with his
family from Missouri in 1851 and To-
Gated at Oatman Flat. The parents
were killed by Indians and two daugh-
ters, Mary Ann and Olive, seven and
six teen years old, were carried of as
slaves. Mary died after having been
traded to several tribes, but Olive sur
vived and was recovered by American
troops five years later. She was sent
East to be educated and returned to
Arizona, where she lived to a ripe old
age and was a leader in social affairs.
However. she always wore q veil In
public, for the Indians had tattooed
their tribal insignia on her chin and
lower jaw. -~
Gold was discovered in Oatman by
United States soldiers In 1885. Johnny
Moss made the first big strike. The
gold hunters Of California heard Of 1t,
and soon George Hearst, father Of
william Randolph Hearst; Levi Par
sons, Joe Clark and other notable f1g-
ures came over and started prospect
ing syndicate. Many a fortune was
taken out Of the earth in the years that
followed. But the real Oatman boom
began with the finding Of a fabulously
rich ledge by the United Eastern In
1914, which shows no signs of ending.
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