The weekly Arizona miner., 1872-05-25
Minerals.

We copy the interesting statements given below. from the San Francisco WiniRg and Scientific Press:
 The following lots of ore were sampled by I. W. Thurman, 4l3 and 4l5 Mission street during the month of April: Two lots ot 2.l0S, and l65 sacks of copper ore from Bat tle Mountain, Nevada, and l2l sacks of lead and silver ore from the same place; l3S sacks of lead and silver ore from Mexico; 3l4 sacks of antimony, Mill City; from Arizona 3l sacks silver ore from Prescott District, 40 and I5 sacks from Wallapai, and 24 from Clark Dis trict. From Arizona mine, Nevada, 5S sacks silver ore and TO sacks from the Eureka mine, making in all 3,344 sacks.
 One hundred and fifty six tons of copper ore assaying from 26 to 30 per cent. was shipped to Liverpool on owners account; l6O tons of silver ore assaying from S2OO to $l $50 per ton was bought by Messrs. Selby k Co, and Cross & Co. Silver ores have been coming in freely from Arizona, and if we only had quick and cheap transportation from there we would have thousands of tons of good ores that would assay from $500 to S2 800 per ton. Freight is so high and 1t Is so long before the miners can get their returns that they feel unwilling to make shipments The freight at tEis time costs them about S10Q per ton, and 1t takes from two to three months from the time the ore starts from the mines before it can reach San Francisco. As soon as the ores arrive and can be crushed and sampled, the shippers and Messrs. Selby & Go. stand ready to buy aud pay the high est cash price for all the ores they can get. The wonder is that they ship at all under such disadvantageous circumstances, and proof of the richness of the mines Is evident from the fact of their making any profit at such hi yh rates of freight, etc.
 Copper ores are very scarce at this time and are badly wanted both for shipment and for the purpose of manufacturing into blue stone here. Parties who can ship ores to this market should do so as soon as possible, as the present prices will pay them we'll for all they can furnish. This is good outlook for our long neglected copper mines, and own CTS will no doubt get out ore as rapidly as possible.
 The foregoing is full of encouragement to Arizona Miners. It Is we'll known that our ores of silver, gold, lead and copper are large, numerous and rich, and when a railroad is built, and thereby transportation, labor and
 
 standard, there will be no limit to the work ing of our mines.
 r. The Copper mines on or near the Colorado have been worked on small scale for sever al years, but if surface indications are sustain ed by explorations in depth, Arizona must be one of the richest copper countries in the world The monstrous veins in the IIarcu- var mountains, east of the Colorado some 10 miles, on Copper creek between Prescott and Skull Valley, in the section between Brad shaw mountains and Phoenix, and the Mari icopa mine between Florence and Camp Gram show that the copper bearing belt in which large veins have been, in years past located and partially prospected, extends through sec tion of Central Arizona 300 miles long, by 200 miles in width, and in Southern Arizona, the ,Ajo, Santa Rita, and other copper mines that were worked by Mexicans years before the United States became possessed of this country, show that we are coppered well throughout our whole area. Our copper ores nearly all carry large percentage of gold, and, must in time, become very valuable
 Seven years ago, probably more than one hundred different copper lodes were located in Yavapai county, none of which have since been at all developed.
 We advise our mining friends not to allow their titles to these mines to run out for want of little timely labor, for the day will soon come when these copper mines will be con- sidered one of the main foundations ot our mineral wealth.