The weekly Arizona miner., 1868-11-07
What our People are Doing.

that IS now being waged against as, our peo- pie keep on improving, and property of every description is increasing in value Town lots that, three months ago. would not sell for Sl00, bring, now, from $500 to SGOO, and ta- voritc lots fronting the plaza are eagerly sought after at any price. Improved ranches are also in demand and mining stocks are looking up. Since the date of our last num- Der. some or new houses have been start ed. and we learn that Mir Martin will soon commence the erection of brick building, fronting the plaza. Theodore Otto is build ing Q barber shopand bath-house on the north west corner of the plaza Moves & Curtis have commenced the erection of another house adjoining the large two story house, which they have recently built and are now finish ing. C. T. Rogers has just completed for himself a cozy little bachelors hail, adjoin- ing the store of Gray S Co.,, and A. G. Dunn has commenced the building an addition to his butcher shop. We also understand that Mir. Jos. Kerr is contemplating the erection of large wagon and wheel-rght shop on the lot fronting Allen & Whites store. At Wick enburg. houses arc being erected every week. The farmers, too, are improving, as is cyidcnc- ed bv the loads of lumber which are daily drawn through town, and from the way in which orders are being filed at the mills Moves tS Curtis Quartz Mountain Mill is kept running all the time, and yet they can not supply the demand The Willow Creek Co.'S Mil is also kept busy at work, but so far has not been able to keep up with the demands of its customers.
 QUARTZ MINING
 Is being steadily prosecuted at the Sterling, the Chase and at Walker District. At latest accounts from the Sterling the new incline shaft was down over 40 feet in the ledge, and at that depth a chamber, 90 feet in length, had been run n upon the ledge, which has 1 disclosed a splendid looking vein Of rich sui- phuret ore At points in this chamber, the ! ledge measures 9 feet, but its general thick ness averages, fully, 4is feet. Two shifts of hands are now employed in this chamber, and ore is being taken out to,erably fast There ! is some water in the mine, but not enough to cause much trouble in working it. llr. Bor l ger, the Superintendent, stays at the mine all l the time, attending to business, and if eXpe rience in mining and close attention to busi- ness deserve success, he ought to have it. The furnace will soon be completed, vats, etc, set up and the mill turned loose, when, of course, we will soon after know something about chlornation. When last in Prescott, the eX- perienced foreman of the Sterling mine, T. ". Brooks, told us tkat never before had he seen such immensely rich gold ore as he was taking out of the Sterling, and that his confidence was unbounded in the success Of this enterprise.
 THE CHASE.
 A few days ago, Mir A. 0. Moves, who with George Curtis, his partner, has been engaged in prospecting this mine for some time past, brought into our office a fine, large specimen of rock, sample of that taken out of the tunnel which has been run into the vein a distance of 200 feet Tho sample was of va rious colors, and looked very much like the richest Washoe silver rock, but Mir. Moves as sured us that the predominant metal diffused through it was gold, and that it ,carried lots of it in the small sulphurets and diminutiye cellules visible to the eye. It, like the Ster ling. and, we believe, like all mines in this section of Yavapai County, is a "sulphuret' mine, and should the chlorination process prove success, we know of scores of such mines that will pay to work. it is the intefi- tion of Mcssrs Moves 6 Curtis to keep on running the tunnel until they strike the shaft The ledge is now fully feet in width, with nice wais and clay seam We cannot help but commend the spirit of enterprise that has made these gentlemen keep moving, while others, as we'll able, have Jagged behind. Un, til recently, in this tunnel, little quartz has been taken out, and to tell the honest truth, but little show for ledge presented itself, and matters looked discouraging, neyerthe- less, they kept on and are now rewarded with a good sized, good looking, and, we hope, rich ledge. When it is known that, SO far, their tunnel has been run through ground be- longing to other parties, their perseverance and go-aheadatiyeness cannot but be applaud ed by all who labor for the development of our mines. Mr. Anderson and Chris Bentle did the work in this tunnel, and, although the rock was hard and the water plenty, they have cleared over 5000 in six months.
 French & Turner are work ing away on the Tie-Tie, in Walkers District, and Mr. Graves and partners went up there, re-