Arizona state miner., 1925-04-18
BIGGEST GOLD BONANZA OF THE
WEST
Proven Mineral Zone Adjacent to the
Famous VuIture Will Build
Great City of Mills and
Smelters

"The wildcat of today may be the
mine of tomorrow" But be careful
to select your feline. Col Fred Bow
ler has had many experiences with
wild mineralogical felines as well as
the other kinds, and it has not phased
him one whit from tackling everyone
that showed a semblance of tangibil-
ity towards success. He is known
from Siberia to the Andes and his
varied experiences would furnish food
for generations of mineralogists to
come.
About a year ago the editor of the
State Miner, who was associated with
him up around Prescott while editing
the Yavapai Magazine, tried to inter
est the Colonel in looking over some
copper properties near Wickenburg,
but without success. Later Bowler
came of his own volition. He saw;
and what he saw inspired him to take
hold. In about one years time new
activity is manifest everywhere along
the Wickenburg fabulously rich min
eral zone. Along with Bowler now
are manifest other energetic mining
men who are opening up new dlscov-
cries every week. The result has
been that many new locations OF old
mines are coming to light, being re-
habilitated and coming into develop
ment, just as the famous Vulture and
Congress mines were fifty years ago.
Among some of the new discoveries
that have been quietly going on is
one by Dan FinlaysOn, superintend-
ent of the Copper Chief at Jerome,
who owns a newly acquired property
lust south of the Vulture about 13
miles from Wickenburg. He has been
making some quiet development work
in that zone which exposes a prodig-
tous dioritic dyke that traverses the
country for miles, and now is aston
ished with some of the richest spec
linen rock ever shown in any country
bristling with free gold.
Bill Owens, whom everybody around
Wickenburg knows, wanted to buy a
location in the same section last sum-
mer and when he saw the rock turned
pale. 81 knew it was there some
where" said he, "but it wasn't my
luck to get in on it."
Then Colonel Bowler showed him
another specimen on his adjoining
claim. "You could have knocked his
eyes off with a stick-they enlarged
So" said the Colonel.
The Bonanza mine is another lOca-
ton and lies just south of the famous
Vulture, and shows 40 feet of ore be-
tween walls that averages not lower
than SO the ton, with stringers Of
free gold ore all through it that will
go away up into the hundreds of dol
lars per ton.
OF course, the choice ground is
practically all taken up, but there is
an opportunity every day for some
capitalist who has money to put it
into DEVELOPMENT work on shares or
leasing bond.
The whole country is proven field
for gold mining and has been oper-
ated in a desultorv way for nearly a
century by primitive methods OF
Spanish and Mexican operators. The
Vu1ture, so named because of the
peak near which it was found, has
produced under old methods over 40
millions in gold. 1t was a misman-
aged mine, requiring in some cases
seven lifts to get the pay ore from
where it was extracted to the mill
But it paid at that, until the charac-
ter of the ore changed as depth pro-
gressed into the moisture zone. when
the primitive process of reduction
could not recover all the values.
The upper reaches of this free gold
region in manv instances are still
virgin ground and will encourage pro-
duction for many years to come. The
great veins of ore traversing the coun
try will be worked now under mod
ern mining methods of the goth cen
tury. There is prospect of seeing a
new city spring up around the old
Vulture camp that will rival Cold
field, or Tonopah, of the last decade
or two. Leasors will come in and as
soon as the extraction warrants,
reduction plant to take care of Gus
tom work will follow. Taken all in
all, recent developments in that Sec
ton south of Wickenburg, point de-
cisively to not only one, but several
Vulture mine gold producers. There
is already ore enough of suitable
grade to keep a city of 5000 men
busy for the next so years.
An Accooiofod ProcC dicnafch saws