The weekly Arizona miner., 1871-02-11
MINING INTELLIGENCE.
The News from Bradshaw Better and
 ".e .,". Better,
More Rich Ledge- Discovered, and a
 Town Site Laid on

before have our people been so excited, 80 | bucyant and 80 hopeful over a mining dscoY- cry as they are over that recently made in | Bradshaw district, and, really, they have just cause for all their great expectations" Here [ tofofe, all the excitemeDts in this portion oi tho Territory, at least, have been over dis coveriea of gold bearing lodes, but tho pres cut one is orer large, well-defned lodges of ore, containing vast amounts of silver, which ie is said, cAo be obtsined by the most simple process known tO miim~n.
 Now, we have not saen ,bese ledgcs. but we have seen hundreds Of pounds of the ore,
 and eaa testify that it was the richest silver
 ore ever seen by us, not excepting that from
 the CoRs,ock and Eberhardt mines, Of Ne.
 sada; and we are moi slone in the enjoyment of this opinion, for scores of old Nevada sill. yer miners share it with us, and are terribly excited over i'. Then, too, the DaBy careful
 assays made by Mir. Y. 4. Cook, of this place, confirm an opinions regarding the gges, rich i ness ot tho Ore, and, Of course, caused our citizens to rush frAniicaIiy to the district, in hopes of lseipg able to ind more rich ledges,
 eT locate extension claims upon those al 1 ready found. For wonder, VIC, who for
 many years, have been Inors of less on ihe
 rua after 'rieh things" have not become ex.
 cited oveF this, but, the sxcitemeu, has in.
 vAded tba MISEs office, carried of che nf our ] printers, and threatens to fake all she others. Should ;t so happea, our Dniy Toc0arAs will 1 be to ifoTe ta the rev Rl Dorado.
 1 From Messfs Collier, HAtk and others whe have jost returned here from visiting the
 guiBes, we learn that there were Aboat aBe . buBirei men In sbe districs, ADd thaf morr
 were constantly arriving. shafia were being
 sunk, and foat rook srsssd in srery direction. ] Postmaster Barnard, and other, o1 this place, bad stlscte4 snd located A sita for B Siiy, ss 4 high, level ssss, overlooking the 1 large creek whieh washes shs southwest foot
 ds the Bradshaw range.
 The parties ss work placer mining, in ths
 beds ot tae sseeks and guIehoa wsFu making
 good pay.
 1 fn fosrner ;ssnss of the MssEs, we have
 spoken of ike EgsA of people ,o this distfict, ha. did mt enter into details. We noE
 state rhs fAet ,ixt parties hare been passing
 ear ofice every day snd night for thc past
 week, and, at thiA writing, the town is al. uAn&t sseserted- ..'... '.:
 The county recorder has had bis hands
 foil, recording eisims sSd deeds, and nothing Is talked uf sn iBa streets, In storvs, saloons etc, bot Bradshaw" This heiDg the case ,he sequence is that feet Ia the Tiger, . " Del Pasco,n !" "HOn,ss. aad other ledges. arS considered very valuable. and ws very sn0ei regret oaS ill iaek ts not being the sAPp, poSsessur of low hundred. 0ar Sheriff, J IT. Behan, hss been offered sS,oo for hi eiain of 200 feet, and has refused the ofief Tho new uinsx are just oFes the Sierr' } i'rtesta range, Sa se ao nsiles south from Pres } colt, In weli-wassred, heavily tiTnbervd TO D zion, ,he climate of ~sIch Is mildsr thaa ihs { of Prescott. They are, perhaps, a triae far , ther from Wiekenbarg.
 should they pas out" bAlf as well ss
 expected, town wiit shortly spring up therS
 and the influence of tbs stream or gold sn'
 silver that wifi flow from them will have 3 good effect upon every town and settlemsn $ In the Territory
 e Flour csa ba laid down at the mines fo }, about fl2 per hundred, and other things ] n proportion. There will, Of ooarss, be ' s valry among the towns sOr the trade Of th }, district, but, VIC think our merhsnts will ss !. CUTS goodly share of it. <. {. IL is in contemplation te send several hu' ' dred rounds of the Ore to San Francisco fo s treatment, aud we hope chose contemplate ~ .ach mova will not delay in tAe matter. :. e Besides the great richness of the Tiger r. it's size is enDrmous. It crops out, in place s twenty feet above the surfacei is from so' s-j so eiebt feet thick, and has been traced f , nearly three miles. '.~ ' ,e Other Distriooa
 k. Our brother typo, Chaubcy Mitchell, wh e. for some time past, has been mining In Wa In ker District, at the head of Lynx creek, in iubilant over the prospects of the distrie He informs us tina, shelton has out ready { er crushing, several tons of decomposed VerHC o. ore, and that he recently got as nigh as Q ,i- hundred dollars Co as paa. The ore is sn q A tunnel, which is in about i5o feet, on u ch ledge. raystreak about two feet thick.
 The Pointer and Grant iodes were bei' e- worked, and the orc taken from them W id yield at least Sl0o per ton. Placer mine k. making good wages with rockers. a nd Big Bug mill running and paying.