The Weekly Arizonian., 1870-04-02
THE NEW SILVER MINE.
The Richest as we'll as the Most Ex- tensive Mineral Deposit
 Ever Discovered.

This mine which is in New Mexico some b
 miles from the Arizona line is most marvel
 lous deposit of ere. Tiiings received last
 Wednesday from the prospecting party who
 left this place some twelve days previously
 prove that the reports of the San Francisco papers. so for from exaggerating, have failed to convey any adequate idea of the extent a nd richness of this deposit From observations
 made by the party mentioned it would appear that it is not an ordinary lode, but mountain of quartz, the base of which covers an area of somewhat more than 400 GOO square yards and the height of which is not less than 1000 feet From the base of the mountain 'Spurs" shoot forth in almost every direction. some of which have been traced to a very Considerable dis tance. By the simplest processes of assaying the Groupings" have yielded as high as S2OO to the ton, while fragments from the main body of the rock have yielded as high as $2,3OO to the ton.
 The following IS an extract from a letter to
 Mr. Hodges, written by one of the party i've have reached the mine, and hopeful though we were at starting out Yet We were not pre- pared to witness anything so infinitely be ond our expectations Here, above ground, lice sufficient quartz to keep score of mills iu constant operation for whole lifetime.
 This news has almost depOpuated the town Every one is rushing to the mine and still the cry is "come come There is enough for all' The first party who went thither con sisted of some 20 or 30 and on Friday an additional 20 or 30 left for the scene Every body is excited and of those who remained in town we find groups assembled at every corner talking mine and apparently obiivious of everything else.
 AN EXPLOSION On Saturday evening last a disastrous explosion of gunpowdsr occurred at store-house belonging to Lord x Wilhans situated on Hodges street. A load Of hay which had been deposited in the yard, wjhio 2 few feet of the store-hcuse dJor. on Saturday morning, accidentally caught fire about rocn. when party ot man reprjed tc the Spoi fer 'he purpose teX:iuaui>hngt the fire. They had just arrive and commenced 0peratiO'.a when the fire communicated win three ktgs of gum powder within Ikn huiIdirg and produces one of the grandest as well a5 una of the most ies tructiYe scenes imaginable. The building constructed of adO0eS, WIS ilsiahty torn to atoms, the walls being thrown To |. distance of twelve or fifteen feet and fragments of the roof carried to the height Of 10 or 50 feet into the air So soon as the ciond ot smck ke and dust had cleared away most melancholy spectacle presented itself In one banckDned smoking, burning mass lay boxes ba skets, tables, chairs and portions of the roof of the building. Three boxes containing rife ammu- nition had just caught fire from some burn- ing furniture when a Mexican, whose name we have been unable to learn, observing the danger ---ihero being a couple of hundred per son assembled around the ruin-heroicaliy rushed to the srot, seized the boxes one after another, and carried than out upon the street As he passed through the crowd bearing the charred boxes laden with death, we could not avoid noticing his thread-bare suit, and felt that there, indeed. were heart and nerv e worthy of higher sphere in life.
 The property lost, which, it IS thought, will amount to several thousand dollars was that of the Arizona Mining Como pany A large quantity of acids and many of the papers belonging to tte Company are | among the missing articles.
 Fortunately no pc rson was hurt albeit DOT
 ions of the building were hurled among those engaged in removing the hay.
 THAT SPEECH Owing to the press of mat. CT in last issue we were unable 10 give even ynopsis of the speech of Don Leopo Ido Car llo, upon the occasion of the departure of Gen. )evin The Don was brief, but to the point, and lpon returning to town, (having been one of he party by which the General was escorted ave a social entertainment to his friends, at lis residence. He has our thanks for that ex> hange by which we found ourself comfortably eated in buggy and by which the Don found imself astride the angular back of most ex- raordinary quadraped
 A PAPAGo DEMONSTRATION On Sunday last one or 10 Pspago women, carrying baskets fwood from forest ofmesquet some three miles rom town, were met by two Mexlcans who, it , alleged, attempted to commit an outrage pon one of the women. So soon as their mentions became obvious one of the Tomen dropped her basked and "put out for he Papago Village, about two miles distant, 9 inform her lord and the other braves of he ccurrence No sooner had she communicate d the startling intelligence than some 30 wars ious started for the scene of desecrstion, ann I ,,;.L r;aas bovvs and arrous cluos rocks ]