The weekly Arizona miner., 1872-05-18

us that he had more than % assay. ,,a. ing tests rlade of bis ore, at San E.sss. St. Louis, Philadelphia, New York ,.5 CT, cities, and that not one single te.t ks to yield return less than S60O so ner in gold and silver, while some of ,ts 'oa gave return away up in the thousands ',s' c. took us to another excavation oz ,l. h adian, in which the vein showed ,o .@ s@ vantage. The discovery bcatioa-IaSs. is in the hands ot few men, who are xu,s. realize handsomely from it.
 Having done the Canadian. NC A., on foot, to climb the steep hills. Ia ns, ~s agreeable exercise for our fat friend P.nsay who, however, made the trip.n m ,,ssSI der, and got back to his horse mip. breath and moisture.
 An Arastra.
 The next point of interest met with x. the cabin and arasta of Griffin. Als.,,S and others. "Griff nwas at Prscn,, -, Aleck and his comrades were mipis,.. to the inner man when we arrived. vh;l. ,1s old horse whose dnty it was to @rmr ,as arasta was standing stock -still.r ,olf.,;se away to good purpose. About two ion. !, ore from the Cornucopia mine had been ,,,. traed, and the concentration" cept,n;,.. much gold and silver, was piled up. ,x,i,;,s Patio arnalgamation. The ore of the Co,,r copia is immensely rich; there is fine snr;,. of water at the arasta, and, we believe. aS orc will pay we'll, even when worked up S, the slow arastra process.
 Alcyon.
 We climb still higher, between tall. be,u.. ful red and fir pines, until the Alcyon.-, compact looking ledge of rich rock-isrscb. ed and "cOntents noted"
 Cornucopia.
 An, here we are at the Cornucopia min. and rich treat it is to feast our eyes un,r its metallic frontispiece. There is one y,,y rich streak or stratum which yields hundred, of dollars to the ton, and other s,ratums no, quite so rich.
 The Lone Star, North Star, Uncle Joe apI other ledges are next pointed out ,o us. We. in our great greed and ver,iancy, wished to locate on all of them, but were informed that they were located far beyond any distance we would agree to travel, which knowledre satisfied Us that we were "too late.n
 The Benjamin
 A short walk, over nice trail. throuch grassy mountains, and We stood upon bill. overlooking one of those busy scenes which lazy man likes so much to witness. That prodigious little mine-the Benjamin-ws in full view, and brawny armed men were seen below us. hard at work, disfguring the Ben. with picks, gads, shovels and vindictivs powder. 1t was such . scene as we would like to superintend, especially that portion of the work, which consists of laying aside, care- fully, the richest of the ore, which, We were told, was too rich for poor d-unce like us to talk about. A great deal of work had been done on this mine, at a very favorable place for working it, and huge piles of 1pay stone" were visible cn every hand Two pretty deep shafts, one long tunnel and sev- eral open cuts unveiled the ledgr, which, at all points, has an average thickness of iest,
 Messrs. Walsh, Anderson and Akes took considerable pains to make ms acquainted with the Benjamin, which acquaintance has strengthened our former sturdy faith in { great mineral resources of Arizona, which re- sources, when properly developed, and made use of, will enrich all who may have finger in the pie.
 We very much regretted our inability to go through the whole district 'nd see all ot the lodges upon which work had been per- formed, but hope to do so at some future time.
 The district is easy of access, by wagon, from Prescott is exceedingly we'll tlmbered and watered and small mill, with furnaces, would soon give it a reputation equal to aI' most any paying district in California or Ne vada.
 Let us hope that capitalists will soon come and help the miners of Benjamin Distinct 'o realize their fondest hopes.
 Bradshaw District.
 A recent letter from Vim. A. Linn, of the Tiger, inforns us that the new shaft on the discovery location was sunk to- depth oi about fifty feet and that the vein in said shaft was exceedingly good.
 The shaft on the Benton was down about 40 feet, at which depth there was an immense pile of very rich ore.
 Mir. Linn had just returned from visiting the Del Pasco mill and mine, Of winch DC speaks very favorably. He gives the Super intendent--T. W. Brooks-considcrabl praiss for managing ability. .u
 From Wickenburg, the news is that blll Smiths workmen had "struek7 water, nes' the Vulture mine.
 The news from Wallapai Mining Disfrlct' Mohave county, is in effect that eSery conn- dence was felt in mines and furnaces.
 Placer miners near Prescott, are dong we'll.