The weekly Arizona miner., 1872-02-24
MINES AND MINING.

! Tbav have sistruck 1t" richer toah ever Ie- fore in the Tiger, and every person m any wav connected with that great silver mine feels sshappy as big sunaower."
 We have gazed, with wonder and pleasure, unop several pounds of the ore-recentiy ,ro,obt here. from the mine, by Messrs Fl Cook and G. w. Bowers, and have had our usually hopeful spirit exalted 'muchly," by So doing It is not ore; 1t Is silver, ana sbouId the mine continue as rich as it IS now, dur;nr the next years working of it, its own CT, will be Rothschilds, in point of wealth Nh nonsence about this. The mine is really and truly, so far as it has been prospected, the richest and most promising silver mine in the world, and it is now open to depth of about 1SO feet, by shaft, besides by cuts and tunnels. The ore will, of course, be shipped to San Francisco, and, perhaps, from that place to Europe, for treatment, and if it fails to astonish the natives" any "Frybur ger " who may please, will be at liberty to : call us lawyer, and to spell the word any way he may please.
 Beautiful coils and threads of native silver, heavy black sulphurets and pretty ruby ore now constitute the product of the mine, which is of great thickness.
 The Lorenna, Benton, and other lodes near the Tiger are not far behind it in point of richness.
 In Pine Grove District, the Del Pasco is yielding plenty of rich free-gold rock, upon which Jackson, Shoup & Co.'S stamp mill is running 10 hours of every day,--that being the greatest number of hours which the pres ent supply of water will run the mill. T. w. Brooks, the Superintendent, started over day or two ago, with some five or six men, to work at mine and mill.
 On Lynx Creek, there are between fifty and sixty placer miners, all of whom have been making fair wages. A great deal of rich pay dirt is piled up, awaiting sufficient water to enable owners of said dirt to run it through sluices.
 Parties of men arc at work in Black Canon Creek, with results which are, as yet, unknown to us.
 In Walnut Grove District, John White and others are busy erecting furnace and taking out ore.
 In Wickenburg District, the Vulturc mill is, as usual, pounding away. Bill Smith is prospecting for water at point near the Vul- ture mnc which mine is too well known as the largest and richest gold mine in the world for us to say aught abont it, in this article. Mohave County.
 The mining news from WalIapai District is good, very good. The miners down there have good lodges, and know well how to work them The trouble has been that tools and provisions have been scarce, as will be seen by the letter which we puoftsn in rr1-- other column.
 ! We have no news from Yuma county, but we have every reason to believe that the mill which Mr. Burger IS erecting, near Etiren berg, will soon be up and running.
 In Pima county, several parties of men have recently employed their time in look ing at mines, and we hope that, ere long, some of said parties will roll up their sleeves and go to work. Maricopa,
 The youngest county in the Territory, ap- pears to have a brilliant mining era before her, as will be seen by the following extract from letter recently received by us from OFT old, tried and true friend, N. Deardslce, formerly of Prescott and Bradshaw. His re- remarks are as follows:
 am now employed by the Silver Queen Mining Company, and, according to the cal culations of the company, expect to start for San Francisco some time next month, with twenty tons of Silver Queen ore. l think the company have that quantity out. The company have twelve men at work, and Pro- 1 lessor Heyne is assaying the ores.
 We are situated thirty miles from Florence, Pima county, in Maricopa county, about twelve miles from the base of the Pinal Mountains, on beautiful running stream of diving" water. The Silver Queen mine is about one mile from the water, on top of high mountain, and shows heavy croppings for over 400 yards. The lode contains sul- phide of silver and sulphide of copper in large quantities.
 The engine and some other machinery be- longing to the Sterling Mill, which was burn ed to the ground, some time ago, were brought to town this week. S. May, who went out to get the machinery ready for transportation, says the engine can be re- paired and that some of the stamps can be fixed.
 D. O'Leary and few friends will soon make another search after the old silver mine known to exist north of the San Fran cisco mountain, which mine, it is well-known, furnished the old Missions of Arizona and Southern California with most of the silver used by their proprietors.
 Could we but receive generous supply of water, great deal of gold would be taken out the coming spring, and had we mills, men and reduction works capable of work