Prescott Evening Courier, December 19, 1907

Fifty-three Pound Brick on

Exhibition at Prescott

National Bank

For the first time in his life, the Courier man yesterday held in his hands $20,000 worth of gold and felt almost as pleased over it as if he owned it for it was a solid and unquestioned proof of the richness and prosperity of Yavapai county as it is a Yavapai county product, having been brought in from the great Octave camp yesterday by Mr. E. K. Hum, who comes from a camp and section where the wheels of mining industry are humming in no uncertain manner, and this fifty-three pound gold bar brought in by Hum is the pleasing proof of the hum. The gold bar will be on exhibition at the Prescott National bank all day today, where the public can call and see it. This was what Mr. Fredericks, our home grown banker, said yesterday.

The Ocatve people are the kind who do things, and if it takes a few hundred thousand dollars to tickle the bowels of the earth to move them to pass out the gold bricks they are the boys who do the tickling.

Right now they are making ready to put in a great electric power plant at Wickenburg, which will give power to and light up the Octave camp, as well as many other tributary camps in that particularly rich both placer and quartz section. This electric plant, it is stated, will require eight months' time to complete.

These same Octave people own the Mudhole mine, at Walker, another very promising property, which is only a few miles from Prescott. It is stated that work will be resumed on this property in the near future, and this is particularly good news for Prescott and vicinity.