The weekly Arizona miner., 1868-10-31
Mohave County.

county, we are enabled c. lay before our rad err. the following batch of well written, inter- cs,ng items;
 Tnr TfsHATrtcrP MfNr--This mincs sit uated about six miles from tho mouth of Fl l Dorado Canyon. Mohave county, this Terri | tory. Several years ago there was consider | able money expended in developing it. There | is a shaft sunk on the main ledge to the depth | of one hundred feet or more. and tunnel l between two and three hundred feet in length, 1 connects with the shaft, but for a year or more it has been lying idle, owing to some disanection among the ownrrs. The Inst hundred tons taken from the mine and crushed, i without asserting yielded over one hundred dollars per ton Recently, the firm of Ste l phen Otis X Co., of san Francisco, who own ten stamp mill at the mouth of the canyon, leased the mine and have now sixteen men engaged in getting out rock. The rocf that they are now extracting is reported 70 be immensely rich in silver It is strictlya sil yer ledge and is considered by persons il that vicinity, second to no other mine on thu Pa cifc slope. Mir. Otis is experimenting both the mine and the mill From what can learn, have no doubt about the mine plying well, and if it should, large town will be very apt to spring up at that point, or the Colorado.
 THE people of this county complain bit terly about their mail matter They iay it takes one month to get an answer to their letters sent to Prescott; six weeks from Tue son, and never less than that from San Tran cisco Letters and papers sent from the East,
 ria Salt Lake City, reach them in about twcn-
 ty days, while from "Friscon if generally
 takes twenty five and thirty. There is
 screw loose somewhere and the Postal Agent
 should ferret 1t out.
 REruRNED.-N. s. Lewis, formerly ncm-
 Der of the Legislature from this county. who f has been residing in California ever sine he mis-represented the people of this cosnty, } has returned to Arizona and taken up bis abode at Fl Dorado Canyon. If he has any ! political aspirations he should continue his ! journey to Tucson.
 
 EIardyville, who follow the river trail along which all the good Indians live, now demand
 an escort and declare they will not carry the mail unless an escort is furnished. As the military is short of escorts we presume the ' citizens of Mohaye will have to go without any mail until more troops arriyc,or the Post office Department makes different arrange
 ments.
 l. GOVERNMENT CoNrRAcr. .-C Capt Rowell e has received the contract for transporting
 Government freight from Camp Mohave to s Camp Willow Grove, at the rate of 39s cents n per pound. He is nov engaged in fulfilling T the contract
 It THE financial condition of this county i. H now pretty good, as | learn from the Treas
 urer, The present indebtedness does not ex i' ceed, interest and aIl, over eight hundred
 dollars, and when the Collector pays in th,
 amount now due the county 1t will be entirely " out of debt The county has no public build V ings and is only at the expense of rentin, " one room. As long as the present member
 DA NAaN APyAiN VI lHot1 itiilail power 'n there viii be none erected until there is sui s ficient funds on hand to cover all expense. IT. TAXABLE PRoPFRrv.-The taxable proper - ty of this county for the year 1868 amount ld to SG9,S70, being a decrease in twelve month to of S55,l There is as much wealth in th' e. county this year as there was last, but owinl of to the Indian troubles, far less valuation i ed placed upon both real and personal proyerty sh The San Francisco Moss Ledge Companl at give in the largest amount, and WIn. H. liar he dy and W. W. Dodge, the next The balanc, in range from $500 up to s3,ooo.
 sd SAN FRAScrsco Moss LEDGE Co. - Thi E company is composed principally of New ne York capitalists and their operations hav CT been confined to MoLaye county. Some tw 'o years ago they purchased the celebrated "Mos VI Ledge situated in the San Francisco Minini IT. District of this county, for the sum c
 S96,OO0, They then erected ten staml
 mill, together with all necessary outhouses
 for doing a large business. on the banks of tn ~ Colorado river, about one-haf mile aboy d llardyyille, at a cost of about S3O0O0. Dur |. ing the erection of the mill, they had larg .s force at work upon the mine, and succeeder
 in running a tunnel between two and thre , hundred feet, striking the main ledge at .- depth of about eighty feet 4 great man