Arizona miner., 1868-02-08
MINING NEWS.
BIC CHUNK OF GOLD FOUND.
Our Placer Mines not yet Played Out"

own and work claim in the recently discovered gulch four miles south of Prescott found piece of pure. solid gold. weighing exactly fifty eight dollars and fifty ccuts allowing seventeen dol lars for the ounce. Besides this piece they took out on the same day. finer gold to the amount of nineteen dollars. The Judge called at the MINER office on Tuesday evening to show us bis big piece. but as we were out. we missed seeing it, and cannot describe it. Our partner says it was a splendid piece. and the sight Of it made him feel like laying down his stick and rule and sal lying out to pick up purer and more valuable metal than type metal but We cooled his ardor by relating to him little story about "a bird in the hand etc, and he concluded to still "click, click away at inc thankless. ccaselcss business of type setting. but We imagined We could hear him repeat. in a mourniul voice. the following sorrowiul lines
 'Crok aud clsiicr md rattle and din,
 The long night out and the long day in-
 Woe and veal tomorrow
 SALE oF MINING PROPERTY -Wm. :. Little and Edward c. Taylor. on Tuesday last purchased, for the sum of three thousand dollars from Her bert and Nathan E. Bowers, the placer mining property known as the Excelsior Ditch and Min ing propcrty,' situated on Lynx creek, about seven miles east from Prescott and on Friday morning. started with teams loaded wi;h lumber and shingles for house. tools and provisions, and determination to do their Jewel bcst' in roJbng the rich gravel banks Of their new purchase. Both gentlemen are old California miners. understand the business well. aud will, we hope. be successful in finding lots of gold. Henry A. BiCclow. who formerly worked these diggincs assures us that they are rich and of great extent They intend to use a hose and pipe in washing down the banks. some of which are forty feet in depth. Should tue diggiugs pan out manfuily and freely, they will enlarge the ditch. and attack the monster gravel pteSrS in regular Timbuctoo style. But. moralzing aside, the way our placer miners are doing this winter goes to prove that he pldcers are not r1rbef Otd. and it is really encouraging tO hear of their sue cess When quartz first entered the brain of our people they f,lt disposed to give the cold shoulder to surface digging for gold. and made up their minds at once to go after it right into its mothers womb and tear or pound it out of is matriX, but they soon found that it required something besides water. sluices. rockers, pans, picks and shovels to extract the gold ont of the quartz, and they are now going back 10 first prin ciples. and using their influence in electinnecrng pay out of the creeks and giilches. with very good success. Other parties, who are working in this gulch, are doing well, and there is not a man that is not making from three to five and ten dollars per day.
 George Lount is still working his dggngs, close to town. and we understand be is getting enough gold to pay him fair wages.
 SUNDAY last, wagon and party of Prescott gents went up to Walkers for the purpose of hauling down to togn, and from thence 10 the Sterling mill, concentrator. They returned to Prescott Monday evening, and on Tuesday the conceBtrator was taken over to the mill, where. just now, everything wears busy aspect. and prospects look well. Messrs. Reed and Rich ardson are working like beavers. fixing up the mill and machinery, and tic miners are taking out plenty of good rock. It is but justice io Mir. Richardson, sho is an old Ncvadan, to state. that in quartz-mill knowledge and the successful working of the "pay-stone' he is not surpassed by any engineer upon the coast. His California and Nevada experience, together with his sound. hard sense. fit him for subjugating our rcbellious ores When be left Austin to come to Arizona, he left good situation in Reese River and since his arrival here, he has been badly butfc,ed by head winds of an adverse fate, but he has never allowed himself ever for moment to be set back. or throwI into Respondent mood. From first to last he declared himself satisfied that our quartz was richer than any be had ever before seen and he has recently lent his aid in proving it. Of course, 10 Reed belongs the honor and | glory of working successfully Sterling sulphu. i rets. but that gentleman admits freely. and is | proud to make known the great assistance ren. dered him by Mir. Richardson. May their united efforts meet with entire success.
 RICH ORE.-Fred Henry, while in Prescott Q short time ago. informed us that piece of rock ! from ledge which he discovered and located at Walnut Grove in 1884, which piece he sent tC San Francisco for the purpose of having it as sayed, and from which he recently received 8 return of contents, yielded 59 per cent. of silver I some gold and lead He says there k plenty O. such rock in the ledge He is now trying to fN up his business at Phnnx, the new settlement on Salt River, and come up to the Grove and | work it.
 ! RfG Rt-G DIsTRTCr The uyrcr funnql in h. Eugcnie lode is now in 106 feet The ledge i, very thick and free gold can occasionally, be seer in the rock Geo. F. Berry, last week, sent u,
 three beautiful specimens of sulphuret ore, whiei
 he took out of this ledge. One of them is com
 posed of black diamond shaped sulphurets, tn,
 edges and outside faces Of which covered
 with very beautiful figures. The sulphuret ore
 when roasted, yields plenty of gold.
 The placer miners are putting in their bigges
 llcks. Lewis & Thomas was the only company
 that had cleaned up when our informant, JohI
 Garner, leit and he says they got ten dollars t'
 the hand The other companies, also, expect t'
 get good pay.
 Messrs. Gray and Kustel are on their way herr
 from California. As soon as they arrive VI f opine, Big Bug mining stock will take rise
 The mill will be started to work and chlorna f ton works will be erected.
 HAssAYAMPA DIsrRIoT.-work on the "Chase
 Is still being carried on. We.haye not heard, o late, how the lode looks.
 = Joe Young has hauled three tons of Chance rock to the Sterling mill, which will be Sorke 1, by MT. Reed next week. The owners expect [
 realize largely from this rock.
 The Sterling lode is yielding plenty of rich rock We have no news, this week, from Walker , District.
 DR. SzARyAsH. formerly of Arizona. is living a >. Rio Vista, California. He has recently writer to A. J. Moeller, of this place. instructing tha
 gentleman to send him two copies of the MINEl