The weekly Arizona miner., 1873-06-14
Mines and Mining.
Yavapai County.

Ne are ptcRsel tO DC auIe tO state tuat 'he Io.stamp mill belonging to Mr. P. W. Smith, which is situotcd on Hassayampa creek, be- low Wickenburg is paying well. Since it's first start, month or more 1gO, it has run with great regularity, giving support, direct Iy and indirectly, to about GO persons, besides l giving employment to several teams. NIT. ! Smith superintends the work, and neither ! money, time nor labor is wasted by him or his assistants. He has abundance of good ore, so that there is not the slightest danger ot suspen- sion of operations. The suit which the Vulture Mining Com pany have brought against him, for posses sion of some of his ground, does not appear Co effect his equanimity. We wish bm that unbounded success, which, as an old pioneer and energetic developer of the mineral re- sources of this Territory, be SO we'll deserves. Mir. B. Sexton, of the Vulture mining company, is here He informs us that he may soon visit New York and perhaps, London, to complete negotiations with company of English capitalists who, he says, have agreed to take stock in mine and mill, and furnish means to work both in good shape. The property, which for several years produced at least one-half million year, is now idle, but may not, cannot, long remain so.
 l. Wickenburg are preparing to ship copper ore to San Francisco.
 The arastra men of Weaver district are as busy and successful ever. Several bars of their gold have just been shown to us
 Fred. Henry is taking out some fine ore from mine in Walnut Grove district.
 In the Black Hills, little east of Prescott, Willard Rice, Col. Cany, MT. Jaycox Mir. Poland and others, have recently been feel ing" of some of their mines, and talk of working their ores in arastras.
 MT. Sheckles arrived here a day or two ago from Tiger and Pine Grove districts, in Brad shaw mountains with batch of good news. Jackson & Co. were, as usual, making money out of the War Eagle lode, which Mir. 5. pronounces a magnificent lode.
 Men were talking of starting a shaft on the California lode.
 Jackson & Co., had struck water in their we'll and it was down but 20 feet-not to the bedrock.
 Mohave County.
 Any person who will take the trouble to read the communication which we to-day publish on the outside of this paper, and which was written by citizen of Cerbat will soon learn the high estimation in which the mines of our sister county are held by old miners and prospectors who "know them like a book"
 We, too, know sonnet thing about said mines and have always endeavored to attract th' attention of miners and capitalists to them to the end that they would be properly worked. That our efforts in this direction have not been barren of good results, ii proven by the number of men now in tho district, by the quantity of rich ore that ha' been extracted and worked there and in Sar Francisco, by the bullion that is in circula tion, and last, but not least, by the splendid reputation said mines have among the miner and capitalists of California and Nevada, anC elsewhere. Consequently, we cannot bC charged with desire to belittle the richnes of any of said mines by fulsOme praise o mines in the vicinity of Prescott, as such proceeding would be partial to one section O the Territory, and if there is one thing aboy another that the MINER can claim credit for it is its impartiality in speaking Of the min eral resources of every section thereof.
 Believing that this will be conceded, an having plunged Mr. A. E. Davis into ho water, by having squeezed from him the a. sertion that the ore of the Tiger dump, Tigc district, in this county, was the richest eve .. seen by him in any district, or words to tha effect, we now, in justice to that gentleman explain and remark as follows:
 We added "refuse," as the ore of the dun was placed there because owners of the mir thought it would not pay to ship it to Sa Francisco, and because said owners had, u til recently, looked upon it as poor quali' of ore. Now, however, after long exposu to the elements, it shows it's real cbaracte and, although we have no "old clothes' bet upon it. superior richness, Vor Pop, can, if he wishes to raise a foolish questio find scores of men who will risk their all bet such as he has proposed.
 But, enough, Mir Davis has more intere in Wallapai district than in Tiger, and as V for reasons which VOz POpIi ought to ha dvined, questioned him into making the { sertiou which has so nettled V. P, that inl individual and all who think like him, mu shoot their arrows at us.