The weekly Arizona miner., 1873-04-05
Mining Items.

As the snow which fell the last or Feb ruary has melted away, so the supply of water in car mountain streams las cores diminished and unless mQre rain fall, will not aBIrd water for suicins more than cpupls of weeks longer
 Several uf the placer Eliners have made good strikes and al have done reasonably well.
 Messrs. Lount & Alters, on their gulch diggings near lIassayampa creek, last week took out S2jO.
 Cole X Johnson, on Lynx creek, in the claim they bought from Wm. Crawford, took out, up to last Sunday, SIOO.
 loyeiny S Co., were averaging SEQ per day to the man, in their hydraulic clajuh
 The miners on Big Bug are doing well.
 All the miners are praying for more rain.
 As our advertising columns show, the quartz miner, who have done sufficient work on their claims, are taking steps to secure government titRs.
 The extension of time by Congress for thiT teen month, in which to do the work rcquir- ed under tine national law, is very satisfactory ] to Arizona miners, most Of whom are poUr men Who would haze been worried by the law .s- !, previously stood, not being able to hire the labor done which the law called for, before May 10, 1873.
 Messrs. :. /, Pierce, Ring Watson and a dozen other men--somc old settlers, some new comers-propOse to start on Thursday the 10th inst, to prospect in the Final noun tains for placer diggings.
 Some of the party have been in there twice and were forced to leave by Indians. Now, they do not anticipate any tronble. Tho party will hold a meeting tonight, to mak' the necessary arrangements
 II N...l.. port everything as looking we'll in Wallapa district business good and mining circles jublant.
 4 roaSter is in process of erection at Min eral Park, on the operations of which great expectations are based.
 Jesse Jackson arrived, Thursday evening and reports tha; his company had crushc, f0 tons of War Eagle ore at the Del PasCt mill, which had paid very well, and the! have some G0 tons of selected ore on th, dump, estimated to be worth Sj0. per ton.
 Our correspondent from Cerbat, under dat of April lsi. says that business there is get ting lively that the miners at Stockton NOr top of Cerbat range) have made road iron their camp to Wallapai Valley, to take ma chinery up for the Cupel and Tiger Company and urges the building of road to Stockton from Cerbat.
 Such a road would shorten the distance be tween liardyyille and Prescott some twelv' miles.
 A silver bar from the Mineral Park mill weighing lG lbs. 4 oz., had just been receive, at Cerbat by Cory X Potts.
 Another shipment of fine ores from the e and Lone Star mines, was soon to be made.
 The following account of results attendin; the recent explorations of old mines in Pima county, Is from the Tucson Citizen of Marcl 29th:
 Within the past few days, C. O. Browr and others have been exploring some ol l mines about 45 miles north west from Tucson.
 From Mr. B's account which is general and somewhat in detail, the locality is one ni great interest both to the curiosity seeker ant money maker. The party do not think they discovered the extent of the abandoned mine: thereaway, but are sure of having seen about a hundred which had once been extensively worked, sou,e of which showed excavations in cuts, sbafis and tunnels. that to make now adays would cost at least Sl00,0O0 At the mouths of some tunnels and shafts, the dumE piles are immense tO this day. The smoott walls which once encaSc1 veins of ore are ex posed in many places, firm and perfect. The shafts and tunnels are so filled in with crum- bling stone and earth, that it Is difficult to determine the depth Of any; but it is certain that thousands of men have been employed there for many years. Appearances indicate that the ore was generally taken elsewhere for reduction. What the component parts o the ore are, or whether it was copper silver gold or all combined, that induced the ole work there, are now subjects of uncertainty Copper ore is now seen in abundance and o almost pure quality. Hundreds of tons are in sight; of which every pound shows the virgin ore, which seems to argue that silve or gold, or both were the objects the miner more than [. hundred years ago. There Is nc evidence of the use of powder or modern mining appliances at these mines; but ston hammers lie about in abundance
 MT Brown and party were SO fsvorabl, impressed with the value of the mines, tha , they made claim tn number.