The weekly Arizona miner., 1872-10-26
MINES AND MINING.
Mohave County.

The news from the several mining districts in this county, as recently related to us oy Wrn. II. Hardy, is very good When Mr. Hardy left Wallapai district, the shaft on the Fairfield was down ll5 feet; the vein was eight or nine feet thick rock rich. Wa ter was coming in.
 The Empire Company had two shafts on the Empire mine, each over hundred feet deep; ledge some twelve feet thick.
 The Cupcl, Little Tiger and other lodes were producing very valuable ore. NJ. F.. Smith had large number of men prospecting his mines. He, himself, was thinking, seriously, of procuring a mill and Stetefcldt furnace
 letter from Camp Beale Springs, of Oct. Is, is as follows:
 To the Editor of the Arizona Miner:
 An expedition, consisting of R. w. Groom, Judge Wm. J. Berry, Samuel Pierson, 4. E. Peterson and Mir. Silverthorn, ex-Sherif of San Francisco county, left here yesterday morning for the Gunsght district, some forty miles southeast of this place, with the inten- tion to sack ore and ship it from the nearest point on the river. They had two months outfit and evidently mean business.
 Col. Barney, who was here with MT. Hook CT, beef contractor, on his way to Arizona City, promised the Judge to make a steam boat landing at any place the latter might select on tho river.
 About thirty citizens from Mineral Park, Chloride and Cerbat, followed them, hoping to locate and make their fortunes. The l T,,I,, Ia bod oh; ua room for all.
 Gov. Stafford, who visited many mines in the district (Wallapa), made a speech to the miners, which greatly encouraged them to pcrsverc in their noble work. Yuma County.
 MT Borgcr's mill, near Ehrenberg, was run ming at date of last letter, and prospects for success were very favorable.
 Marioopa County.
 Rich rock is every day being found in the mountains near Phoenix and other points.
 Pima County.
 The people of this county are in grent glee over recent rich finds of gold and silver, and many of them are braving all danger from Apache murderers in order to reach the mines, which are on both sides of the line between our Territory and the Mexican State of Sonora.
 Mir. Sam. McClatchy, a reliable gentleman who arrived here recently, from Pima, says he will return immediately and go out to those mines, which, he says, are the richest ever seen by him. Two weeks ago, forty arastras were running The ore is so rich that it can be whittIed with knife.
 Yavapai County,
 MT. Fred. Henry has favored us with a piece of the ore of the Marcus mine, in Wea- yer district, which mine is paying well by arastra process. The ore is fine grained, red, and desulphurized.
 Jack Johnson and Mir. Junior have found @ very rich, large silvcr-bearing lode, in Bradshaw district, huge pieces of which are on exhibition at Moeller's saloon. It is de- cidedly the richest silver ore seen by us in many day Johnson has named it the "Lost Cause"
 Near Wickenburg, Mcssrs. P. W. Smith and Peter Taylor have several men at work, sinking for water, etc, and are preparing to erect mill to crush ore from the Vulturc lode.
 Mir. Smith has recently returned from Cal ifornia, where he purchased machinery, tools, provisions, etc.
 The placer miners of our county are, as usual taking out considerable gold.
 The prospect from every section of the Territory, is quite favorable for prosperous mining year.
 The Diamonds Are said to be here, sure. G. w. Roberts and his fellow voyagers have recently returned to San Francisco, from the diggings, and set the town crazy again, with stories of precious stones, which they say are in a region which men cannot live and work, in winter time. Ex-Surveyor-Gen. Bost, Chas. Meyers and John Boyd, were of the party, and all tell the same tale. No clue to the location of the fields has yet been published. The Chronicle for days and days, devotes several columns to the question. The CIl, Bulletin and other San Francisco papers handle the question with gloves.
 Roberts and Janin say Slack, formerly of Prescott, is the discoverer of the diamonds, and let Roberts and others into the secret for S100,000.