, 1864-03-19

- ARIZONA ~
Projected Explorations-T1le Gold
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:. Correspondence Q. the Evening Post.1 .
FoHr WnHr1E. Arizona, jan. Q, 1854.
:. This post Eas estabished by EaI 3: B. Willis.
cru,ber last. Companies G and Of that regiment,
under CaptE. Benson and llareraye, arc stationed
here; The locality chosen Is upon the Ccnesa
vcrde Tor San TFanciaeo.) The distance from the
| San Franciaco Mountain, where the road followed
Aot Ws 1sP1es t WhPP's q sns f9a
seventy miles soulhwesterly. To the, nearest
point upon the Colorado Of tho West, ex-
o5d sut ,d d79a ;Inns i as hundred miles
of thoee recently discovered, arc south about
thirty miles and 70 the Weaver aud Hcsiampa dig
at this point that Captain ranllon encamped last
.srmmtr. when csco1ting SGrFeyor General ClarE,
Of New Mexico. TO tho gold lelds.. Major Willis
found. The uicnega runs, through the Val Dc
CHINO; Il fs sixeablc brook. furnishing liberal
supply Of pure sweet water for The troops and the
lnimhs. FiftRood Is found ut distance Of two
miles, and at eight miles there is on abundsncc Of
large pine lumber. The troops arc tented, and
will eo remain until permanent site tur the fort
il selected.
Tho return OF two OF three merchant trains sent
from New Mexico With goods for the miners, to
which rcier7ed in letter from the Navajo Springs
as 81 on s. eG dfT ds At
tionR rather than from any failure in the nines OF
lack Of market for their goods. Several trains that
came r. w!th Major WINS hare bad excellent suc
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TINT he viii start for Santa Fe in few days to
hsloe OUT another ttain Flour IL worth thirty dol
ass per hundred IN the d,gng and otac pto,
e. such rites 1t will pay to bring trains from any
Captain Walker, the venerable mountainc:r and
miaeF, 1s now here. ne assure. me ttiat the lasE
,tldrawal Of any ono rom tho mines that While
enough for successful mining and that very lev
bare TO depend upon dry Wnshfng. He predicts
that whenever means q communie.tion and living
are provided. thousands Of miners will be found
whe1e there arc hundreds at present. In his dig
giHls there arc come three hundred men now At
s9.s, , md ,aSlng veil; the lowest average yic.d
M 1t several other plsses tho yield is known to be
much targg. Major Willis tells me that when re-
cently At te Rlaes be fousd Pe1rons who ws1e
gold is coaree. in pieces worth from one to afty
dollars. Anch Of it Is found In quartz leads Ex-
pe1ienced califcrntans here think some Of these
Iado State. Captain Weayer, from the Hcsiampa
AID Weaver aiggtngs, is also here, and has given
he L. ss q o ha a bss
leads arc not get ionud that they are east OF the
Ido Verde, and will eurpass any ever known 10 The
world; Large parties proposo to prospect in that
great SUCCESS. uesides gold, the groupings Of sl-
yer and copper about the Walker diggings ase OF
the most promising character.
a military express route has been opened from
here to Tucson ly way Of the Pimas Villages; time
t. the former place nTe dsys to he latter seven;
fom Tucson by military express to Mcellla, whence
mail stages 60 to Santa Fe and to the States. An
extension Of the mail service hom Albuquerque to
ra TnPps sns vii a4a nlb
ably be further extended to Los Angeles By way Of
.. good road from Zuni to the mines It mny conc
tlAt way. and around the rough country about the
San Francisco mountain, and the rougher region
westward from there, Whicn go annoyed both