Arizona citizen. [volume] (Tucson, Pima County, A.T. [i.e. Ariz.]) 1870-1880, 1871-02-25
LETTERS FROM PRESCOTT.
All About the Immensely Rich
sStrike' of Gold and Silver Mines
i'm BRADSHAW Mountains.

'Tis long lane that hath no turning
and after the dullest fall and winter
we have ever known within the MEM
ory of the oldest inhabitant' of Pres
cott, a great sensation has stirred us
up during the week ending to-day. 1t
happened thus-a party of four expe-
rienced miners have been prospecting
south of the Bradshaw mountains for
some weeks past, and at last struck it
near the head OF Humbug creek, in
the shape OF d large vein of silver bear
ing galena They examined the vein
carefully, chose their portion, made
their locations, and then took their
tools and dug hole about three feet
deep on the lode and from the ore tax
Ell from the hole loaded their animals,
and came to Prescott, bringing 400 or
800 pounds Of the best silver ore ever
seen in this locality. All the miners
here who know anything of silver ores,
were sure it was good at first sight,
and all who understood the process
were allowed to take their pick of sam
pies for assay and working tests, and
the results OF half a dozen such trials
of the average ore, were yields of from
900 to $3.50 Of pure silver per ton.
One Of the richest samples worked by
melting, gave $1,000 per ton in sill
yer. These products with the state
ments of the fortunate discOverers that
the vein on the surface was from s to
20 feet wide and plain to be seen for 2
miles or more III length, reused the
dormant blood OF the oldest prospectors
III town. MessrS. Hammond, Morland
and their companions came to town on
saturday, the 2oth INST, and the ore
tests We're made that day and Sunday,
and from Monday morning till Wedn-
esday night string OF horses, mules,
Jacks and men lined the trail leading
towards the Bradshaw. Laughabl
scenes were enacted, and great the de-
mand for riding and pack-anilnals.
Of those who knew the country and
had located in the neighborhood on
silver Veins in 1865, many stood not
upon the order Of their going but left
on Monday-with some newcomers i'll
their train; others who have pooh
poohed at every little stir for the last
four years; stole away quietly after
Monday night had set in, and when
such We're found missing on Tuesday
morning, others caught the fever AMI
followed on, till on Wednesday it
seemed that the town was nearly deser-
ted. The exodus from Tucson for the
Burro mines last spr1ng was some
thing in the same line | presume.
There is a good cause for this excite
ment IN the fact that this lode Is stu
ated III the immediate vicinity of the
immense silver bearing lodes on Silver
Mountain, which were discovered and
located in 1865, and are as large as
the lodes in the Burro mountains,
though the average assays from them,
made here and in San Francisco, were
not rich enough to induce capitalists
to venture into all Indian country, and
the locaters being poor men, little has
been done towards developing the lodes
though in any other country, such
prospects on the surface as from $12 to /
1868 per ton, in silver, from lodes
varying from 20 to 100 feet In width,
and cropping out 10 to 20 feet above
the earth for more than a mile. would
have caused an outlay of thousands on
thousands Of dollars to open the veins.
in the expectation almost certain to
be rewarded of finding richer ore at |
lower depths. But here in Arizona,
something of extraordinary richness
must be found and plenty of it before
the outside barbarians will believe in
our report of the land. So when this
vein, which is named the Tiger, turned
out ore worth over $1,000 per ton, It's
no wonder that the old 65ers who 10
Gated the Mammoth, Marsh, Antietam,
Huff, SNOWFALL and other lodes in Sill
yer Mountain, which they have shep-
herded for five years, thinking their
time is coming, concluded to rush out
and protect their claims from jumpers
during the excitement. So they went
from among us. When they come
back if their reports are good or bad,
you shall have line or two on the
point from II.
PREsCoTT, Feb. 10th, 1S71.-Last
week the Tiger lode excitement was
Tho 10 +;o,, of my, o,,;c+1o o,T