Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1892 — Lost Mines In Arizona. [ARTICLE]

Lost Mines In Arizona.

The legends of lost mines of fabulous wealth in Pima county ure almost numberless, and it might be truthfully added general mythical. The old timers can tell them by the hour, and a few have been shown glitteriug evidences in confirmation of the wonderful tales reluctantly recited with superstitious dread of the results of their perfidy by almost superannuated Indiuns and Mexicans. That the precious metals were mined on a large scale in the dim past, says the Arizona Enterprise, the many remaining evidences already discovered fully verify, yet the investigation of those that chance ha* revealed has seldom proved financially suceussful. Old arrastras, covered with the decay of centuries, and crude smelting furnaces that have almost returned to the dusty destiny of all matter speak of industries onco in active operation that history, and even aboriginal tradition, fails to mention. It would seem that if the crude and primitive methods then in vogue could profitably recover the precious metals from their rocky matrices modern machinery would find it an ersy task to reap fortunes from the old mines, yet, as before stated, the hopeful promise* have seldom been fulfilled in pursuing heir development.