Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-03-17
Rain Uncovers Gold;
Rush to Arizona Field
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publican carried short article re-
garding the rumors of the strike,
which "a hours later We're confirmed
by statement in the same paper by
Girand.
BY that time the rush in Dripping
Springs was on and claims that long
had known no owners boasted corner
posts and monuments.
The rain landslide that filled Joe
Lees cabin with mud and his pockets
with gold took place during the
: heavy February rains about Il miles
southeast of Dripping Springs ranch,
in CHA county, in what is known to
the United States geological survey
as the Ray quadrangle, a highly min
eralized area almost equally divided
between ella and Pinal counties,
which has been prospected and work
ed for more than 40 years. Dripping
Springs ranch lies on the southern
slope of Dripping Springs valley, with
the Mescal mountains, also shown on
some maps as the Dripping Springs
mountains, behind it. Steamboat
mountain, Tam O'Shanter and Tor
nado peaks are the most conspicuous
landmarks in the district.
Access to the district can be had
either from the north by way of
Globe and Ell Captain canyon road
or via Kelvin, on the Southern Pacific
railway, and thence by way of Kama
Springs and Troy
Frank M. Pool former prohibition
director here, said that he had mined
gold throughout the district between
35 and 40 years ago, as far east as
Sulphur valley near Saddle mountain,
and that when he first saw the,
country he found Mexicans ahead of
him, working placer claims in the
valleys. The United States geologi-
cal survey lists three gold mines in
the district, two of which are listed
as now idle-the Lavell, the Cowboy
and the Barba Rossa. The Baroa
Rossa, owned by C. NJ. Graw, who
lives on the property, is now under
option to the Grand McGraw syndl-
cate
F. L. Ransome, in the Ray folio
of the geological survey, reports that
one nugget taken from the Barha
Rossa is said to have weighed %
ounces. Other nuggets, says the
folio, Showed little rounding and
presumably were supplied by the
disintegration of some small vein
close at hand
1t is a tradition among Arizona
mining men that the richest ore ever
struck in Arizona was taken oat of
the Lavell, but the property is said
nd
after yielding $15O,OOO was allowed to
lapse @into disuse. The Oakland.
Calf, owners are reported to be
seeking new backing in London,
where they have case of samples on
display.
Ransome's d e scriptio of the
coarse wire" gold in the Cowboy
is interesting because it exactly CO.
incides with samples brought to
Phoenix yesterday by prospectors
who have staked claims along the
same dyke that runs through tais
group of Lee claims
TUCSON, March 16. P)-The Tucson
gold rush is on. Armed with pick
axes, gold pans and horn spoons, an
advance guard of prsopectors, tired
business men and plain, ordinary citi-
zens started today for the Dripping
Springs country about 80 miles south
east of Globe, where a $1O0o000a-ton
gold strike has been reported.
Tomorrow morning bright and carly
Il party of Tucsonians and Chicago
visitors will set out for the alleged
1ldorado. Unlike the gold seekers Ct
old, however, they will not travel on
burros, but in motor cars In the
meantime, men of science We're study
ing the probabilities in the case.
Miles NJ. Carpenter, consulting mining
engineer and president of the Tucson
chamber of mines, declared without
hesitation that he believed a gcid
strike had been made, and that he re-
garded the finding of gol doce yield
ing 100000 a ton, as reported in a
dispatch from Phoenix. as mot im-
probable