Arizona citizen., 1871-04-22

Espinosa, crossing 1t twice, and proba- bly, halts near Moreland's cabin and claim on the Tiger, where the lode crosses the stream and crops out above the ground 10 feet thick and 20 feet high. Here the pilgrim rests. 9th CTS leave the main trail at Battle Flat, turn westward and go around the west end of the Mts., into Minnehaha Flat, through country of small hills, over trail much easier than the other, were it little less brushy, though 1t is probably two miles longer. The third trail is the old one to Walnut Grove, following the wagon road to the Sterling Mill, then taking over the hills to the wagon road in the Grove and following that to Minne- haha Flat, from which point a trail just made, on an easy grade for four miles, leads to the Tiger cabins. A better trail and good wagon road s or 10 miles nearer over an easier grade can be made between the two last des- cribed, and it will doubtless be done during the spring or summer. Wag- ons now follow the old road through Walnut Grove into Minnehaha Flat within four miles of the Tiger, by clrcuteous route about 70 miles in length. Our informant ayers that he ''took 1t on foot from Moreland's s for a few days and travelled over rougher piece of country, and saw more quartz in that time, than he ever slw before ill the same extent of country that old miners from Oregon, California, Montana and Nevada, hustled him round to see lodges, called the Tiger, Lion, Benton, Cougar, Weasel, Grey Eagle, Badger, Reindeer, Leopard and numberless others with .beastly, fishy and fowl names, till his legs were weary, and his boots worn out; that the miners aforesaid all swore they never saw such rich country before, that the Colnstock on the surface couldn't begin with the Tiger, that there was not in White Pine a single vein which promised to be as perma- nent and good,a mine as the Eclipse, and that the Lorenna had streaks of ore two inches wide, that assayed $20,- GOO per ton, and all the rest of the ore ill the vein, two feet wide, was worth $500 per ton; that the gold lodges in the basin had as much richness as would make town as big as Grass Valley, Cal, in five years, were they anywhere but in Arizona, and finally that every ragged, long, hungry miner he met, would show him specimens of rock which had been roasted in the fire till the silver had oozed out, and stood in blisters and globules all over the surface, and leering at him, would say "this came out of my claim on the - and there's lots of 1t on top, and if it holds out till l git down on it fifty feet, I've got all 1 want" Last ly, he believed all the boys told him while he was with them, and got crazy and though he din'nt know spar from sienite, he tried to look wise, and ex- amined the bits of rock which were shown to him as chlorides, argentifer- ous galena, petanca, pure horn silver, etc. etc., and praised them as good in dications, good as he ever saw, good as the Comstock, and closed himself out by buying few feet in an exten- sion on the Tiger-just that he might be able to say, he had an interest in Bradshaw mines. So he came home and after resting and condensing his observations, says:
 The top of Bradshaw Mts. seems to be granite, lower down on the sides, belts of slate run across the country apparently a long ways, from east to west; that the quartz and mineral veins run nearly north and south across or through slate, granite, and everything else, sticking up above the ground and easily followed, for from one to two miles; that all the lodes have quite steep dip to the west; that there are two systems of veins, with a high granite hill between them, about a mile apart; that the largest veins in the western belt, are the Ti- ger, Benton and Lion, which can be traced from the basin over the ridge down into the foothills; that the largest and best lookiug in the eastern belt, arethe Eclipse, Cougar, Lorenna, etc., presenting the same general fea- lures. In every gulch, there is water sufficient for men and animals in the basin, and in Minnehaha flat, enough for mills, and plenty of fine pine tim