Arizona miner., 1867-12-28

seem & if they were now about to be rewarded Cor the capital and labor invested by them. We sincerely hope so, as better or more de- serving men do not breathe the air of Arizona. Placer miners doing well. Plenty of water in creeks.
 Mn. WM c. REED has again commenced work on the Sterling" mine. He will first try lot of tailings which are supposed to contain considerable gold. The engineers and carpenters are now at work, getting the mill in order, and SO soon as he works the taiings, be will put miners to work getting out ore. Mir. Reed has tried this mine bciore and from some cause. did not succeed in sav- ing the gold. Since that time he has been to California. examined the various processes used in that State e work sulphuret ores, tested " Sterling" ore himself, and Lad oth CTS test it for him Co his complete satisfac tion He had forty pounds of it ground in a varney pan. which yielded s9,i6, which would make the yield per ton, $473,00, prov ing, it as he confidently believes it to be, the richest mine in America. It is his intention, 'yc understand, to irst crush the rock in the battery, and then grind it as fine as possible in a Moores pan. We earnestly hope he will be successful this time, and that his energy and perseverance will be amply rewarded, not merely for his own sake, but also for the sake of the hundreds of people this mine would in one way and another, support. It is within a short distance of Prescott, and it's success ful working would do more for Central Ari- zona in six month than the Capital has ever done for us. Let us encourage an honest and worthy man. as we believe Mir. Reed to be. and by so doing. advance the best interests of the Territory. L-t TO one throw cold water upon his efforts to develop this mine and build up the country because be was not at first successful. Hundreds of men with thousand times more capital than he had to operate with. failed at first to make rich mines pay. Our ores are new, strange, and some of them very rebellious; our country Is far away from fonndries and workshops, and an operator has tO wriggle and labor under dis advantages unknown to California, Ncvaja of Colorado operators. Let our people consider these things, be patient and hopeful, sink up on, or run tunnels in their lodges. encourage each other and the good time will surely come. We have, in addition to scores of rich quartz mines, pleEty of good agricultural and grazing lands. an abundance of timber, and ihc best climate on the continent, and with all these, it would be strange, indeed, if we do not soon take big start on the road to prosperity "God helps those who help them elYes.'
 MEssRs. RoDDIcK < YoUNG are making things boil over in the Hassayampa district. Roddick called into the office last Sunday for the MINER, and presented us with beauti- ful specimen of silver rock taken out of their lode,-the "Chance, at depth of forty four feet The pay rock is two feet in width the rock is the most beautiful we have ever seen, and contains plenty of silver. One of them banned eleven ounces of silver and gold out of a painful of decomPosed and crushed
 rock the other evening There is no blow about this. it is as true as that George Wash ! ington was the greatest and truest patriot | that ever God created. They have not, a. ] yet struck water. Since writing the above
 the boys have banned out oyer twenty-onc ! ounces more.
 Quqrtz Mountain Distrie'.--The new placers ! four and half miles south from Prescott
 are shelling out first rate. One day last week ] Messrs. England and Bridges cleaned up S23
 Judge Brooks, \. B. Smith, and several oth-
 CTS are making, every day, from three to six ] dollars to the hand. Of course this is not a
 very large sum, but it is much better to make ! this amount than to lie idle and wait " foI
 the country to come out Last Sunday ws
 noticed several parties going out of town ir
 the direction of the new diggings, with pack
 animals loaded with provisions, rockers, etc ]