The weekly Arizona miner., 1873-05-10
MOHAVE COUNTY.
Life, Prosperity, Good Prospects.
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 CERRAr, Mohave County, May 5. 1873. To Ae Eiit0r cf he Arizona Miner:
 1 have time this evening to note down few items:
 Times are lively. The District Court cotn- its session yesterday morning, Judge Porter on the bench. Grand Jury promptly appeared. Excellent charge by the Judge. Grand jury went to work
 In personal appearance this grand jury would compare favorable with the same mum Der of men in any town in the United States. Said grand jury is composed of l9 men. Very few, if any, black sheep in the crowd but honest, God.learing, law-abiding citizens, who came up at the call of the law, tO do ther duty honestly and fearlessly, no matter how unpleasant that duty may be.
 The criminal calender had some four or five capital cases. Civil calendar also very large.
 Members of the bar present, as follows Messrs. Davis, Murphy, Burns, fleming, Blakely and Berry.
 The grand jury last evening brought in bill against Patrick T. Lany, for murder. Case set for trial tomorrow. From the
  be protracted one.
 Mining prospects excellent. The heart of the people is big and good.
 No more Indian troubles are apprehended out here. Men go where they please without fear and in perfect security. Let us thank God for this great boon of peace and security, at last, after so many of our brave fellow pic. neers have fallen in the strife.
 This security has given just what 1t is natural it should give--a great impetus to prosperity. This prosperity has resulted, and IS every week resulting in new and rich dis coveries in this wonderfully rich silver bear ing country.
 Cory & Potts are continually shipping rich ore to San Francisco from the '63, Lone Star, Little Chief, Jackson, Reindeer and other mines, and the returns are satisfactory and cheering in the highest degree.
 New and rich discoveries are being made in the Wallapai mountains,
 You have recently noticed the Hope lode. Previous to the discovery of that rich mine, Wm. T. Grant discovered a large and rich ledge in said mountains, four miles from the Wallapai Springs, in a region where there is any quantity of wood and water within one mile of the ledge. The ore assays from $50 to $500 per ton, and the ledge is six feet wide. You can drive ten mule team up to the mine without doing any work on the road This is in Maynard district, one mile and half from Major Wheeler's camp. In fact, everywhere in these mountains, when an effort has been made, it has been re- warded by discovery that in California or Nevada would have set the whole country ablaze with excitement, but it excites nobody here. We well know that our time is coming. And We also know that many of those mining sharps and capitalists who are operating in California and Nevada, with their hundreds of thousands of dollars on lodges that they think are ''some pumpkins" when they as- say from twenty to forty dollars per ton. l say we know that the time is coming, and is almost here, when these same smarties will regret that they have not paid little stten- ton to Arizona, where we pay no attention to any ledge that does not go into the hundreds, and many of them to thousands of dollars per ton. But we ask no odds of any of them | now. Alter much tfibulation, our Indian | troubles ended, knowing the just wealth of our mines, and handling the splendid returns . that we receive from our ore sent to San | Francisco, we are able to row our own boat.
 If intelligent mining men and capitalists come among US, we will treat them we'll, but | we won't go begging them to come any more. | That's played out.
 The GunsIght Company are still shipping | ore to San Francisco. Besides Al tons now | there, ten tons are now ready to ship, of | choice, selected ore, and there are now some | 20 or 10 thousand dollars worth of ore on the | dump. "How is that for High!'
 Hardy's iive-stamp mill, at Mineral Park, | now let to other hands, is doing splendidly; ! turning out the silver bricks in magnificent | style, to the great satisfaction of all good and | true miners, who know that all We require is | the necessary machinery, and the knowledge | and skill to run it, to show the world that ! we possess mines of incomparable wealth.
 Our old friends, Cory and Potts, are doing | a good business here, and they deserve their | success, enjoying as they do the respect and | confidence of all good men in the community. |
 The location of the county seat at this place | has given an impetus to local bushes. Ho- | tels and saloons are being opened in sufficient | number to supply the demand for such neces- sary institutions, and altogether "the bird is | considerably elevated" VILE.