Arizona citizen., 1871-08-12
Arizona Citizen.
TUCSON, MACOUNTY, ARIZONA
Saturday,, August 12, 1871.
COLORADO RIVER MINES.

COLORADO XIV Elk MIN ESs
 We clip the following letter from The Los Angeles News. It gives an encouraging account of that section of Arizona, but not much more so than disinterested men of scientific attain ments and practical experience have done:
 MoJAvE CITY, A. T., July s, 1871. For several years past 1t has been known that valuable silver mines ex- isted in the Cerbat Range in Mojave county, Arizona. In 1865 a mining district was formed called the Sacra- mento District, but all work was stop ped, as soon after the Hualpais h. dians became hostile and 1t considered unsafe for parties to prospect in that region. For two years past these h. dians have been at peace and no depredations have been committed by them, and in October last party was organized at Mojave City and sent out to prospect and locate mines; they were eminently Successful and discov- cred many exceedingly rich lodges of argentiferous galena, also of rich ores containing chlorides and sulphide of silver, several lodges in gold were also found and @ shipment from one of these to San Francisco was worked with good results and was favorably spoken of by experts both as regarded its yield and the ease with which it could be worked.
 THE HUALPAIS DISTRICT.
 This district has been reorganized and is now called the Hualpais Dis trict, MT. w. Y. Fee being recorder.
 There are three mining camps, Cerbat, Mineral Park, and Panowa.
 Cerbat is the oldest settlement and is distant from Hardyville about 30 miles; good wagon road, part of it a toll road, connects the two places. Wood and water are abundant, and excellent grazing is found in the foot hills and the wide Sacramento Valley. Horses and cattle run out loose and keep fat all the year. The winters are rather cold, snow occasionally falls on the mountains, the summer is pleasant, hot in the days with cool nights. The climate Is very healthy as there is no malaria.
 THE MINES.
 The mines that at first attracted at tention were the large and boldly defined lodges of argentiferous galena that crop out and can be traced for miles; all these ledg ges are rich in silver, assaying from fifty to three hundred dollars per ton, while the lead is from 60 to 70 per cent. The ore can be easily smelted. Much work has been done on the mines here :; several deep shafts have been sunk and the lodges hold out we'll and seem to be true Assure veins. On the Van derbilt, ledge of gold and silver bearing quartz, a shaft 50 feet in depth has been sunk. The ledge is fully three feet in thickness; the qual- ity of the ore is improving; it assays from three to six hundred dollars ton. The Five Forks ledge has shaft of twenty feet with four foot vein of good pay rock, working from one hundred and fifty to three hundred dollars per ton. A quantity of this ore has been worked in San Francisco and the owners have now out large quantity awaiting shipment. There are numerous other lodges that will pay well but sufficient work, has not been done on them to test their value.
 THE GALENA HEDGES.
 Some of the Galena lodges, the Union, Champion, Morgan and others, contain from fifty to one hundred and fifty dollars per ton in silver while the lead is about 60 or 70 per cent.
 These ores would pay to ship but the parties owing them prefer to reduce them on the ground, as wood is abundant and easy of access already for erecting g. smelting furnace have been made.
 NEW DISCOVERIES.
 At Mineral Park, distant from Cerbat in a northerly direction about five miles, very rich belt of lodges have been found. These crop out chiefly ln large flat covered with cedar timber. The ores contain chlo-