The weekly Arizona miner., 1870-10-22

GN,. in thisyicnitv. arc formed of granite, and there j., a great dc1l of float quartz.
 Nf,rfia3. S SB'eaber l1.-Five o'clock in the morning f5und us rcody to travel We turned our backs upon the Sacred Gill,' and enter ing San Simeon Valley. just a- t.c sun was
 getting out of lis blankets, which must nave been worn threadblrr, or made damp ny me
 recent rains. for the old fire got presented 1 rather chilly appearance. M'er 'aNt'U's ! some f,tlsa mia, wc reached some water ! huly-. sl.Et lalu ar' o't'|f '.- i.-i-i .hi Ic- l freshel themselves. By this time the sun
 had grown warm aui aS there was not so much a, a mesquite tree ln sight ol camp ln
 the valley our little party had to pile cl''r toypther under thc wagons and amhuianrts But it did mol take the animals long Co hll tbcmsclye. with the rich grasses which grew all over the valley, and after filing Inc can teens. etc. we hitehcd up, started, went about ! fifteen miles and made a dry camp. pis l tan-c travelled, about hufy ules.
 ! Cufrg. S.rf4Lef lS opened bright and bcautiful. and we were not long in getting ! on the roal A some of our party had been to Camp Bowie. prominent landmarks near that plst were pointed out, and we knew that the place w~ not iAr on Col Stone man. who was one ot the first Americans Co travel through this region, recognized the la- nous Stciu's Peak, Cathedral kn-k, pF ti- ibs-,s, etc. We passed Graham Mountain,
 which had stack to us, or, rather we to H,
 since leaving Camp Goodwin, and saw be-
 tween it and the Chirccahm Mountains, a loDr. nqgrnw valley. through which thc route of tue 32i parallel railroad passes, and known as Gailr1ad Pass. We soon entered Ewe'ls.
 now Apache Pass, and memory feyerting Co the hlrr,d deeds that had therein been en-
 acted. hv Aplchcs a feeling oi insecurity
 1 came o,er us and our eyes kept busy watch |. for the ret.skiRs The ruai from S1u Simeon
 valley. winls around through narrow pass
 or canon. along the bel of a creek for suing
 five ur six miles. when it asceuas iolins anls
 Bowie Is located up a onc of ,nose hIil>, a
 little south 0t the road, ani a short disianc,
 east Cf the spring which form ile creek. lr going up 70 the post, We pa-sed the ten siamI
 quartz mil 9f the Apache Pass Mining Coil 2 pauy, which, fJr want Ut water, was then ' lying idle. lt was about 10 o'clock in th,
 forenoon when our amb0lauceB drew up il
 front of the officers quarter, aal we wcu, v quaGtcred as follows; Col. Sfoneman an, z Maiar Co4swcll. with Captain K F B truard ' Doctor Wiriz and oursrlL with Captain Ger {; ald Russell and 0r W. II Smith, anl we as u sure tbc reader that ail fired sumptuously During the afternoon, Dr Smith plotted u e around the post, and pointed ont almost ev - erytliug that was worth seeing. As th
 post traders store Of Tully, Ochoa, & Co
 was thc first institution met with, wr entere'
 1t. expecting to get maimcd or wounded, io
 we knew that sydney R DeLoug, ono of tL
 iirm, who had charge Of it, had go d ressot
 for not loving u- too well Now, most of ou
 Territorial readers will recoilcct the fact tha
 Mir. DeLong edited the Tucs1n dd:5aaa io ,n a long time that during that tune tEe Ari n. s0naa and MlSER had several wordy enoour = tcrs; that the Tucson paper generally gut th .' best of us, and that's just what we expecte as wouId influence Mr. DcLong tO nash u n- into pulp But luckily, be bad gone shur IT. distance from home, and we marched boldl a- through the promises and Tario0k Of th er numerous good things offered us by bis q. a. comaodating and generous assistants. Th lg buildIng-a large adobc--was srrupulousl .t, cIean. and well filed with everything use ln by soldiers and citizens. Inc rOom was - fine Q billiard table as any in the TeIritur E, which had been brought all the way from $ Ny Louis, Mo, at considerable cost. liAyiu a seen all the sis shts here, we started down hil Ne \ few steps brought us Co the spring., aroar a. which a portion of the California 'oluu Of once had q brisk fight with Indians, f ms possession of the water. We believe q K head of tle column had reached within rii be shot of the water, when il recriyed voll, ng of bullets anl arrows from the Indian coluu
 which was posted on the hlll-tops, behir 1ls rocks under tue famous chief, Chirs. W be do not now recollect more about this iig Tor than that several Americans lO-t their liy he in it. and the whole column was stayed in ch onward march until few hoNitzers we ig brought up, placel m position, and Lo, q Ter accursed Indian, sbelled out of bis f0rtifc ln- tions
 rn- Leaving this spot, we soon arrived at q ln- quartz m,ll, which presented very pOyert he stricken appearance There being no cove dy ing over the machinery, stamps, dies, engr 'ed etc, were badly rusted, and the whole cp -be cern was fast becoming worthless. lnstin In led us 10 the dump pile, whore lay about yer ton of refuse ore, in pieces of which, our ey ds detected several "colors and small piec nd of gold The ledge crops out of a hi The mountain not far from the mill, and is, ihe doubt. a good one. The country rock in | yer vicinity |, limestone, but the greater pOrti lbe of the Chiricahua range is granite. We we lth told that the owners of the mill intended len move it to Bear creek-dstant four miles les where there is plenty of water the year rour All Tn answer to questions asked a party ns Rio Grande Mexictns who were making aC .lt. bes around the mill, we were told that " e len lors " of gold had been found in several p ans ces in the range: that south of Bowie, [ ihe mountain was much higher and covered wi is large pinetrecs. But" said they, "I l. ADaoJtes aaariy malo," which told the wb' on, story, that they were afraid to explore | he mountains for richer diggings.
 sm The next thing that attracted our ate y.r ton was the graveyard, in which reposed lth bodies of many persons who had lost th