The weekly Arizona miner., 1873-04-05
Walker District.

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 This district is named after the pioneer of he Prescott region, Joseph Walker, who' with whole patty of prospectors, m leoJ, ollowed the Hassayampa river into the Sicr- n Pricta. and crossed over into the valley Oi Lynx Greek, where they found rich placcrs These diggings have been worked more Or ess ever since, and support quite number ,f miners at the present time. Most Oi the iiggngs on the upper creek have, however, been worked over, but lower down where the valley widcns out considerably, much ground remains to be worked The diihcnftv m this lower part of the creek is the insuihciency of the water supply, the size of the stream be- ing greatly diminished by the excessive cvap- ! oration going on during most of the year, where the valley leaves the main mountain and enters the lower foothills, which are not covered with timber The material of which these hills aie composed, the metamorphic slates. catse also the loss of much water by sinking
 During the last year the great drought has hindercd placer mining very much, and none of the four hydraulic claims along the creek have been in operation, while the shallow placers have been worked to some extent du- ring about four months.
 A great many quartz veins carrying gold have been located, and more or less openedin this district. but few were being worked when | visited the district, and both mills which have been erected here were idle The dis ! trict is one of the most dangerous in regard to Indians, who in the woods and behind the
 rocks find excellent opportunities of watch ing and waiting for a good chance to either
 steal the stock or kill the miners themselves
 with impunity. Both of these performances
 take place only too often, and as long as thls
 state of affairs lasts, outside capital will be
 slow to invest here and to extend helping hand to the poor miner. Another cause of
 the stagnatiOn of mining here is the occur
 renee of sulphurcts at nconsidcrable depth | in the veins, which cannot be proiitably work ed with the present high cost of transporta-
 tion by any well known process.
 The Flag is a quartz vein at the head or | Lynx creek in Quartzite. It strikes northeast .and southwest, and dips s5o southeast. The ore is porous, and of brown color, and has a width of II inches The vein is opened { by two open cuts in opposite hill sides, and was worked during last summer by Mr. (. '. Shelton, who beneiiciited the ore in his ar rastro lower down the creek. It yields hand somely, but IS not near as rich as the ore of i the Vernon, also owned by the same gentle man, who preferred rO turn his attention to that vein.
 The Plymouth, a yien in the granite, west of and close to the Eureka mill is opened by little prospecting shaft 10 feet deep. It strikes northeast and southwest, and dips 95o northwest. There are two bodies of ore. sep arated by horse two feet wide, exposed in the shaft the ore on the foot-wallii Is inches wide, and that on the hanging wall J inches. The ore is iron stained, porous quartz, which prospects very well, but an actual lI. arc smooth and well defined. The Vernon is parallel to the foregoing, but dips fiatter. It is narrow but very rich vein. The width of pay ore is in most places only inches, but it bulges out sometimes to two feet. It is opened along its strike for COG feet or more, and ore is taken out to a depth of from to 20 feet. A tunnel l25 feet long is driven in on the vein from a ravine near the northeast end of the claim, which cannot have in any place more than 50 feet of stopping ground above it. Rhc last run of ore from this mine produced in Mr. SheltUn's arrastras from 12 tons little less than S2,0O0. The gold is worth Sl7 per ounce.
 Tbe Box Elder is located on a hill north west of and parallel to the one on which the two aforementioned veins are located. It strikes parallel to those just described, but stands vertical. It is opened for 500 feet by all OpcH cut, anu ueTc cDttItlN SlTlppcb OI ue- composed ore. Its width here is to f feet, but in the bottom of a shaft so feet deep, near the northeast end of the claim, the vein has widened out to six feet. The decomposed ore has yielded from from S25 to $40 per ton, | but already at a depth of l7 feet sulphurets of l iron, copper, zinc and lead made their appear ance. One portion of the vein inches wide, consists of solid galena, and at least 20 inches of the vein consists of sulphurets sufficiently concentrated 10 need no dressing for smct- ing. At least Do per cent of the vein are sul- phurets, and in trial during last summer these yielded by roasting and subsequent aiDalgamatiOn S3j per ton, although the roasting was done imperfcctly. To MT. Tier nan, who conducted the test, am indebted | for this information.
 | About 50 feet southwest Of S0-foot shaft, the | ytin narrows down 10 few inches and the crev. | ice is occupied by a mixture of solid galena and ! copper pyTites, which assay 70 dollars per ton ! In silver, and contain only trace of gold. Only 21 feet further toward the southwest, the vein opens out again to l l2 feet, and carries boron, quartz, which is however, also poor In gold. Fur ther on the contents in gold increase until, the | open cut, the quartz yields as above stated. The original location Is 800 feet In length, but the vein has been traced across atiluent of Lynx creek, and on tue opposite hill, where it Is feet wide, and shows sulphurcts already feet from | the surface This vein can be worked to some ex tent by tunnels on its course, which would bring
 In 2OO feet of stopplng-sround on one hill and lOt ! on the other.
 The Monitor Is q vein between ihc Box Elder and Vernon, and parallel 70 both, but Is opened
 further 10 the northeast. An Open cut 20 feel
 long exposes . vein Uf rather solid looking quartz
 with brown spots Of iron ore. which are rich in
 free gold The gold is of fine slze. like that Of all 1 the Lynx creek veins, with Inc exception Of that 1 from the Tie-Te and Accidental.
 The Pine Mountain, an Irregular vein in granite
 Nyif tl. tI aFFttf tI,uf
 tans quartz with coarse, cubcal iron pyriIes. and
 much zine beude. IL has been tested for 400 feel
 In length, and has not yet yielded more than Sl0 to Sl2 per ton.
 The Tie Tie runs nearer north and south than the remainder Of the veins Of this district, nnC finally turns entirely northwest at right angles to the common strike. tying together, as the miners
 say inc other veins, whence its nanc. In the first
 mentioned portion it dips east s5- and aftcrward
 northeast. lt Is open on the southwest end of thC location by an open cut 70 feet long and 25 feel deep, and shows an irregular crcylce, with many horses in it. In the shaft, however, the vein i,
 solid, and at depth of IS feet, feet wide On