The Weekly Arizonian., 1870-07-16


 $5O000 per ton-ths rock yielding in some instance as high as $3000. % and in no instance lover than $50 co per ton. Building pro- gresses apace there being now according te reports T. ado6s houses ready for occupation and many in process of erection Claim jump- ing has commenced; and few ifany of those who posted their notices and then left theiF claims to take care of themselves have now single square inch Provisions are reported abundant snd spirits superabundant
 4 letter from the gold mines at Camp Date Creek to the Elko Independent gives glow ing description of the lodges in that district The following is an extract;
 The Cornucopia runs northwest, with nor.herly pitch of g degrees, It crops out ! 20 feet above the surface for distance of one mile, with pure native gold visible all over it. 1 This Is the Host ledge supposed to have been discovered some tenyears ago by man named l Leehie, who was soon atterward killed by the ] Indians oa returning to the ledge with party of men from California. Tn the gulch under the ledge fifty cents to the pan Is being washed out be Mexicans. The ledge is 200 feet wide. The Queen of Palmyra IS southeast of the Cor nucopia about half 8 mile, and runs up canyon between two high peaks, of mountain. The trend and dip are the same as the Core nucOpia. The quartz Of this ledge Is ali cog- cred with native gold, and the surrounding dirt yields seyenty-Gve cents to one dollar per pan. The Martinez is within 200 yards of the Queen of Palmyra, and was the first ledge ID the district discovered by some Mexican hunters. It isrich in gold, and covered with pyrites, Due west from the Martinez is the Iayfower, distant about 700 yards. The ore of this mine IS Ike that of the Real del Monte i full of little cells, crammed with gold ss fno as tha finest four which, by shaking the quartz, drops out One assay from this vein went sixty-hYa thousand dollars to tue ton. This ledge, like the balance, commences in a fiat valley and runs over small rolling hills to the range. The Real del Monte is situated between two great mOGntain peaks, and runs on the smooth surface cf s!op- ing li,l toward the sag which divides the tWo ranges; crops out some twelve feet, and can be. traced 5000 feet on ike surface; is fuI of native gold, and also has the characterize ;jc honeyoomb cellau the Quartz, which are ! filled with fire gold. Wood and water ara abundant at the very base ef the mountain oG which this nina IS situated. The Monte zuma is Of the same character Of quarts as the Martinez. The B0ena Vista i8 situated at the head of a Eavine oil sag between two perpendicular peaks. The quartz of shs yaiu has a decomposed, feIr ein0ps ap pe&rarce, is very rich, and yields in the arastra $3 eco to g. 900 per week. The for> nation here IS gneis5 and granite, the ledges run eaatsrly and west-lY, with a northecly 1 dip, and are about l50 feet wide. Four aras- .ras have been built and ara turning out from &3,000 to 94O0O per week each, None but Mezicans in the district"
 F. AUSTIN, EsQ., arrived from Camp Grant on Tuesday From him Te learn that Indians are constantly proving around ii that eigh- bOrhoOd. They have adopted @ new method of stealing which rather "gets the better of the rancbmen. This consists in making nightly raids upon the cornGelda, thrashing out the grain upon the ground and then carrying it of. Fred. believes the Apache to be sound lo- gician and thinks that he acts thus on the pre- sumption that even lha red man should enjoy the fruits of his labor. Ar LARGE On Monday evening prisoner Ill tut COulGJ JaAI--t1 4AtdLAOi pun an accusation of stealing, or something worse --concluded to set himself at hberty and did so by accomplishing feat of marvellous dox- terity. While in the jail yard, in company with the other prisoners, for the purpose of bathing, he walked with apparent carelessness to cor ner of the yard, when springing up he fastened himself to the wall c IG monkey, placed one hand on the top, some nino feet from the ground, and vaulted across What he did next no living deputy constable knows for although 1 be was discovered in the act of getting away, 1 and albeit pursued by Libby who skirmisbed around the adjacent streets at 2-40 speed cursing like Vandal tho while--he has not since been seen and it is safe to suppose tha. he is at present rioting among hi5 fellows at some town of the neighboriDg republic,
 MAILS A change has been ins tituted in the mail arrangements on the route between Tucson and La i AesiIla. The mail which here- tofore left on Fridays, ?. h., and arrived on Wednesdays, a. m, noTlea7es on Fridays a. m. and arrives on Tuesdays 8. IT, We are pleased AL. .I. al '