The weekly Arizona miner., 1869-11-27

tcr-umpcrs, the mill would have paid from the start, and been running to-day. As 1t ! has turned out, it were better for the com many and the Territory that it had never been erected. The company was swindlcd out of its money; the storc-keepers, laborers ana mechanics of this place were cheated, and none but the aforesaid agents and one or two owners of mining ground were benefited by it. We hope its fate will be warning to all green, Eastern mining companies who may hereafter engage in mining in this Territory, and prompt them to avoid sedning sharks, instead of practical miners and mll-men to superintcnd matters for them. The cabins stood unmolested We took a look at thatin which Gus Begole and another man were attacked by Indians, a couple of years ago. The Indians built fire against the door, In hopes of setting fire to the cabin and busting or burning its inmates, neither of which they accomplished, Gus put out tho fire, and while engaged in doing 90 was shot and badly wounded by an Indian. Nevertheless, he and his comrade kept the savages at bay, and finally forced them to abandon the contest. After the excitement and danger of the tight was over, Begole's wound was found to be quite dangerous, and his comrade started for Prescott, distance of about 90 miles, for a physician. Here was display of courage and humanity such as we rarely hear of X wounded man agreeing to remain alone, sur rounded by hostile Indians, while his com rade-no less brave-traveled to this town, secured medical and other aid, and returned, Having seen all we cared to see of the ruins and the old log cabins, we struck out towards Minnchaha or Pine Flat, which we expected | to reach that afternoon. But, we missed the rough time of it. We, howeyergot within sight of Battle Flat" place famous in the annals of this region. There it was that in ! '63 Fred Henry, and four other men, were attacked by force of nearly 200 Indians. Fred. and his comrades, who were out pros pectipg, had cncamped for the night in a ravine, and while innocently snoozing, the Indians were busily at work all around them, erecting Qualifications, and otherwise prepar- ing to shed the blood for which their savage souls thirsted. Daylight came, and as it's first beams descended upon the innocent seepers, bullets and arrows fell thick as hail around them. Diabolical yells followed the first discharge of missiles. The whites awoke, grasped their weapons, when some of them
 found out that they were wounded too se-
 verely to be able to use them, but those that
 were not wounded returned the fire of the
 Indians, and kept returning it., for nearly three
 hours, when the Indians withdrew. Henry
 and another man then made their way tc
 Walnut Groye-wounded as they were--re
 lated the sorrowful tale, when Jack W. Swil
 ling raised party, went out and brought ir
 the wounded. The fight was the most des
 peratc that has ever taken place in this Ter
 ritory, between whites and Indians. The
 Indians lost heavily in killed and wounded
 and every white man in the party received
 wounds.
 We have said that we lost the trail neal
 Battle Flat. So we did, and got into very
 'bad snap," while descending the canyon o
 Ash Creek. But we finally got out of it, en campcd for the night, and, next day, reached the southern base of Silver Mountain. Tn, following day we ascended the mountain, ex amined some of the lodes, descended to tn, other side through terrible brushy thickets encamped and rested awhile. As this regior of our county Is, as yet, almost unknown our readers will pardon us for attempting |, description of it and its lodes. It is nearl, 50 miles south of Prescott, about the sam, distance northeast of Wickenburg, and i5 O 20 miles east of Walnut Grove, It was frs prospected in 1881. The principal, richest and largest lodes are; The Mammoth, Mon terey, Huff and Snow Ball, all of which con tain gold and silver in paying quantities The Mammoth is really mammoth in size. 1 crops out a distance of three miles, and, il
 some places, measures l13 feet in width The Monterey, in places, is f00 feet thick The Huff and Snowfall are not quite $,
 big as the Mammoth or Monterey. The Hui
 is richest in silver, having assayed SG4O.O
 per ton in that metal There is n striking , similarity in the ores of the various ledges il the district. The country rock, in our judg z ment, is granite-porphyritic micaeous an, feldspathic. But little work has been dom
 upon these lodges. The district is somewha
 isolated, and "hard to get at" yet good wag
 on roads can be made to it, and the owner
 of the mines should immediately construc | onp from Walnut Grove .ba ,aara,t ea.tta