Show NOGALES GOLD excitement los angeles times rich strikes of placer gold in and around nogales ariz recently made have set that town and surrounding district in a state of frenzied excitement so says A ernest garcia south los angeles street who arrived from the border town yesterday 1 I am surprised that los angeles has not heard about the strike said garcia last night it it is the principal subject of conversation throughout the southern part of arizona just now and many are rushing to nogales by train and automobile I 1 staked out a claim before I 1 came away it is said that samples taken at random on the surfaces when tested give values of from 20 to in gold per ton these values represent dirt tested east west north and south of the town within a radius of probably a mi e the excitement following the strike has caused everybody from government officials stationed there to mexican laborers to take up claims the discovery was brought about in a queer manner according to mr garcia As the story goes alphonse bacheller Bac heiler an old timer once saved a papago indians life and the indian never forgot his benefactor on his dying bed as a last request he asked his son to find bacheller Bac heiler and show him where the riches of the tribe lay at the white mans feet the papago tribe inhabited at one time all of southern arizona and northern sonora and it had often been told that they had washed gold from the dirt of what is now the nogales townsite but no credence was given to the story by the white men who sett ed in the district with the arrival of the white men the indians retreated southward to the altar district in sonora bacheller bachelier with several friends accompanied the panagos Pa son to the location of the ground that the dying papago has told his son contained immense riches here they staked out claims which was noticed by the community resulting in a general staking the investigation by expert mining men that followed definitely settled the richness of the strike asserts garcia and now ml min n ingmen from all over arizona are flocking into nogales and the population of the town is growing with every incoming train conservation mining men who have arrived in the town it is understood have estimated that the claims will average 11 to the ton in gold which will give a wide margin of profit in the operations computed at 2 per ton |