The weekly Arizona miner., 1871-02-25
MINING NEWS.
Prospects Growing Brighter.
Good News From All Quarters.

slnco tho recent discoveries in Bradshaw Dis trict, and the fall of "the beautiful snow.n We, who bad almost "given up the ghost.n now feel like young mule in spring time, or like the pIlOi of Mississippi steamboat after winning race. And why should wo uo,. after having lived so long upon 'short graSs," and dritted around in an eddy, too weak and feeble to get out of jt, The fact is. our min. CTS have struck richer things than oil. or gov ernment contracts, and we must be excused for sharing in the Joy whick ills their de. lighted souls. And these rich dggings are not confined to oHe spot, as in other mining countries. They arc everywhere, in noun tain from fifty to seventy five miles m length by about twenty-f in width. But, the richest spot of all Is in Bradshaw District. thirty or thirty five miles south from Pres. colt, where scores of hardy, eager miners, are now digging and prospecting like beavers, on nearly as many rich gold and silver ledges. the richest--most popular of which is the Tiger But, as "glittering geDcEsli,ies are not what the public crave, we will give facts, and stick by them as firmly as we have stuck by opr rich Territory in her darkest days, which We firmly believe are ended.
 These facts are that the Tiger lode crops out oi tbe ground, and is located in olaitns of POO feet each, fur over three miles: that the width Of the ledge is from foar to thirty feet i; that the orc assays from tsOO to SC 600 7cr ton in silver; that native silver is to be seen all through Che rock: that, before hole five feet in. depth had been sunk upon it, as high as $2j pet foot was offered and refused foy t, and shat, st shis writing, after it has under. gone thorough prospecting in various places, the poorest claim owner Is not anxious ,O sell for less thaR from s30 to tj0 per foot. Now, when is is known, that heretofore, feet ia ths nches, gold ledgcs here have never oom maDded more than slj foot, persons at distance ean form A pretty correct idea of the high estims,son placed upoa the Tiges, by miners and spectators. Aad 1t is not alone upon the Tiger that our people base their hopes Of riches and prosperity. lis sister bedges-ths Tigre~s, Lion, Hunter, Del Paseo, Esp'nosa, etc, arc nearly, H not quite as rich, aud all are being worked upon. Cali fonians and SevadAns will soon have an op- poriunity for testing the trsthfalBess of our remarks, as E, J. Cook. Mr Riggs, and other well-known gcutlemea are about to ship sey- erAi boxes of the ore to San Francisco and Virginia City, for assay and inspection
 Befofo the excitement reacbed its highest George ". Bowers purchased lGO feet from j. II. Behan for Sl ,0O0, and lj0 feet fross W. c. Collier, for sl. l.50O, and would no, now take ten times these amounts for his interests. Mir Bosers hAs not yet seen the ledge, be, however, acted upon the advice os his friend, Mir. Riggs, an experienced Nevada miner, who has asserted time and again, that the Tiger is ricber and better than the Comstock, or that any other lode seen by hin, and he is backed up in this opinson by Mr. Clark, s practical miner and assayer, from California, who has jus, returned from visiting the mine, Aiso, by F A. Cook, our resident sssayer F, q. Christie, Washington French, Mir. iIo- gle and scores of others.
 Other Dissrictx.
 The news from the other districts is also very good. Mfr. Cray of the Big Bug Min ing Company, came to town late last week, "laughing all over," having just made the largest cleanup of gold dust ever made at his mill, which has been running and paying for over year past. He brought over some of the ore,--for shipment to New York, k,--a sam pie of which we have seen at the store of Levi Bashford, and which we pronounce very rich. But short time will elApse until the Company will he enabled to make improve ments in milling that will more than double the present yield of gold, and give employ ment to double the number of men now a; work for the company. In word, Big Bug is soon going to develop big.
 y.s Walker District
 Messrs. Shelton, Pointer, and other min CTS are hard at work taking out ore, and arastraing it, and have promised to send us accounts of results as soon as they clean up. Shelton has gold ore that will go sl 900 to the ton, and says hc would not sell his ledge the vernon--for Sl00,OOO. Mir. Pointer is just about as independent, bis ledge being !" good enough for anybody"
 Hassayampa District.
 The Davis" lode is, at present, the scnsa- tion over on the Hassayampa It is large, well defined vein, and pays Sloo per ton in gold.
 We are without news from Wickenburg, Weaver, Walnut Grove and other home dis tricts.