Douglas Daily Dispatch

1,000 Visitors See Arizona's New Gold Camp

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New Mexico, Ohio, Illinois and Kentucky.

Many newcomers, especially those from Arizona, staked out new claims today. There was perfect order at the camp, however.

Cal Bywater, of Globe, who with three other Globe investors own 14 claims adjacent to the Tornado property, found himself the owner of a house with the only well in the vicinity today. He paid a visit to the camp and refused to lease the place for a boarding house. He will remove with his family to the camp tomorrow. He plans to start exploration work at once.

TORNADO CAMP, March 17 (AP).

There is high-grade gold in these parts but the showing so far made as to quantity is not sufficient to warrant any one's mortgaging the old homestead to come out here.

That is the consensus of opinion among the scores of veteran prospectors interviewed today by the staff correspondent of the Arizona Daily Star. Those grizzled men of the hills who have spent their lives scratching about for pay dirt were almost unanimous in their enthusiasm over the high quality of ore that has been found—and equally cautious in making predictions, in view of the small quantities of gold so far taken out. They were impartial judges with nothing to buy and nothing to sell.

Released by a pick and a pair of pincers in the hands of a fellow visitor, a shower of gold-laden ore-particles fell from the roof of a drift from an open cut upon the head and shoulders of the correspondent. Some of the pieces which were later given to the newspaper man were estimated by mining men not connected with the Tornado as worth between $50,000 and $75,000 a ton. "Too much gopherin' and not enough real mining around here," one weather-beaten old-timer observed as he came down the mountain. "If they dig through a ledge to find out what's in it, we'll know how we stand." The "mountain" incidentally is a part of the Dripping Springs range, which separates the Cowboy mine on the north side from the 20 claims of Joseph E. Lee. This particular hill might be called "Mount Anonymous" since no one around here seems to know its name, if it ever had one. Joe Lee's claims and six others to the east belonging to George P. Bauer, of Dexter, Calif., have now been taken over by the newly organized Tornado Gold Mining company, of which James B. Girand, of Phoenix, is president and managing director and Daniel H. McGraw, of Nevada, is vice president and general manager. The new company holds about 60 claims in the Dripping Springs country. Lee's property has been reported as being one of the richest of the Tornado group.

After a hike of two miles over a steep path across "Mount Anonymous," which looms upward about 1,500 feet from its base, the correspondent reached Lee's place. There is a cut six feet wide which exposes a vein that Lee says is probably 40 feet wide, judging from the place where the limestone formation begins. The correspondent asked Lee to put some of the ore through a rocker or cradle so that first-hand information could be obtained regarding the ore contents. The mining man replied that his hands were not in condition to do the work. Whereupon Ed L. Pomeroy, a mining man, and L. B. Johnson, a prospector, both of Mesa, volunteered to do the work under Lee's direction. Lee did not take advantage of the offer and the matter was dropped.