The weekly Arizona miner., 1872-03-30
MINES AND MINING.
Mohave County.

that attention from miners, prospectors: mill men and others, which its inexhaustibl, mineral and other resources justly merit Less than one year ago there were not to ex ceed fifteen white persons in Wallapai Dis trict, and at the last general election, in 1870 the total vote of the entire county, Wa much less than one hundred. Now, afte the lapse of some months, we can state, pos itiyely, that there are in the county nearly if not all of, 1000 men, which number i constantly being augmented by fresh arrivali from California, Nevada and other States And, most of the people are to be found ir the Cerbat range of mountains, which ha' been organized as a mining district, and is no doubt, the richest mineral range, accord ing to size, in this or any geographical divis ion of the Pacific Slope. The mountains and district are about thirty miles in length by from four to six miles in width, and or either side of it are fine, grassy valleys capa- ble of producing all that is needed to sustain man and beast Timber is quite abundant throughout the district, and there is sufficient water for every purpose.
 The climate, too, is healthy, and, we may say temperate, for, although the elevation of the place above the Colorado River valleys Is not to exceed 5000 feet, this elevation ex- empts Wallapai District from the scorching heat that, during the summer months, burns mud pies on and near the banks of the Colo rado River, from which navigable stream Wallapai is distant about 90 miles.
 We have said that the district is, perhaps the richest of its size, of any district of the Pacific Slope, and it is, for, go where one will, up or down it, paying lodges are seen and crossed at almost every hundred yards, and then it must be recollected, that but little prospecting has yet been done for "blind lodges" |. C. lodges that are covered up by the debris from the mountain tops.
 Once, the Indians had it all their own way at Wallapai, and their way was to kill every venturesome white man who ventured into the district. This is all changed now. The Whites have matters and things their own way, and there is, to-day, in Wallapai, that certain safety for life and property the want of which stops tine wheels of progress in our own section of the Territory. Thanks to this state of affairs, as well as to the close proximity of the district to navagable riv- CT to California and Nevada, one quartz mill is already running; another is being erected furnaces are going up; towns, of pretty fail size, dot the district; cabins are everywhere to be met with; shafts and tunnels are nu merous; capital is finding its way to the district, and, of course, its people are hope ful, cheerful and prosperous.
 This pleases us, who, owing to drouth hostile Indians and isolation, have not quite so bright present We like to know that ou fellow citizens of another mining section O the Territory are all right, and shall labo harder than ever before to "put ourselves 1T their places"
 Nor is Wallapai District the only mnera bearing section of Mohave county, but it il quite sufficient, for the present, and to it, wt hope enterprising men will cling until it be comes "too old for adventurous spirits.
 The fiuding of the old Montezuma mine an account of which we published last week has added new interest to Wallapai District for all ancient accounts agree in placing { very high estimate upon the value of the old mine which supplied the Missions of South ern California with vast quantities of silver
 Yuma County.
 Below Mohave county, on the Colorado river, Yuma county, rich in metals, minerals grazing and agricultural lands-is, just now attracting considerable attention Her rich placer mines are far from being worked out and her scores of rich lodges of gold, silver and copper, are not fairly perforated.
 The miners of Castle Dome district, anG others adjacent to the Colorado are stil sending their rich ores down to the sea, ir steamboats and barges belonging to the Col orado Steam Navigation Company, whicl company is now, by the way, straining ever. point to nurse the youthful enterprise of ou people.
 Marioopa County.
 This young county, through which courses the Gila and Salt Rivers, has, in addition t its great farming and grazing resources,-' great expanse of mining country, one section of which--the Pinal District, is spoken of as follows, by Carl B. Heyne, an assayer ana mining expert in whose ability we have great faith. Mir. H. says in late number of tho Tucson Citizen:
 "About six miles east from Florence, or the wagon road to Pinal Camp, the traveller meets with those formations of the primitive geological period which are, according to the geological records, the principal bearers o' metalierous minerals. Foremost is the mica slate which for at least ten miles is wis bic at both sides of the road and forms the greater part of the plains between the Su- perstltions, Pinal and Gila River mountains, Nearer towards the Pinal range lean altern- ately clay, clorite and tale slate All these different states (the principal matrixes of