Arizona citizen., 1874-01-24

LnlrIy miles sOutn or Sacat0n. They nave done considerable work in developing it and preparing for smelting the ore. They have sunk shaft thirty feet deep which exhibits a ledge five feet in width. All who have seen the ore say it is very rich in lead and silver. Some months ago, they built furnace at Sacaton and are now putting one up within mile of the mine, believing it more advantageous to reduce the ore as near the mine as prac- tlcable.
 Much work has been done in Pinal dis trict about twenty-five miles beyond Florence in Maricopa county; but as it was performed by citizens of Florence and Sanford in this county, mention thereof in this connection is right. Among those who have expended time and cash in that district, we believe are Richard & Co.,, Joseph Collingwood, B. w. Reagan, H. B. Summers, D. c. Thompson and Capt. Rodgers. MT. Rod gers has recently taken fourteen tons of ere from the Silver Queen mine for ship ment to San Francisco, and we understand it is now on the way. Pinal district was discovered while the Apaches were there numerous and hostile, and more than once the adventurous miners had their animals stolen by the savages; and for the information of those who live in the old settled parts of the country, and tread upon Brussels carpets, and eat with legs under mahogany tables, and don't know anything of frontier life and it's necessi- ties, that pioneer prospectors and miners are almost as helpless without horses, mules or donkeys, as sailors at sea with out ship.
 Montezuma district lies about thirty
 five miles southwest of Tucson. For two years past prospecting and work have been done in it, and mostly at the expense and under the direction of s. Hughes, Fully, Ochoa & Co.,, H. s. Stevens, A. Lazard, Jose Fontez and Miguel Alvarez. The Margarita, Montezuma, Esperanza, and Plomosa are the mines upon which the largest amount of work has been done. The parties named have, without being exact to dollar, expended on these mines S43OO. Applications have been made for patent to the Margarita and Monte znma, surveys made and the papers in each case ought to be in Washington be- fore now. The Margarita has three shafts in depth respectively 25, 20 and IS feet; the Montezuma has two shafts-one g and the other 25 feet deep; the Es- peranza has three shafts each I6 feet deep, and a tunnel started low down on the mountain, intended to tap the ledge at considerable depth. Each of these claims has more or less prospecting along the line of the vein. The Plomosa has q shaft 50 feet deep and Q contract is let to men now at work to sink it 50 feet deeper. The Isabela is only prospected some along the lode, but the owners have closed Q contract with men who left here last Wednesday, to sink q shaft 75 feet deep. Eleven men have gone to do the work of these two contracts. The parties named have also procured 800 rawhide sacks which are to be immediately filled with ore from the mines described, and sent to San Francisco for reduction. Assays of ores, made by the State Assay office of California in San Francisco, show in the Esperanza, silver S146.05 and traces of gold; Plomosa, silver per ton $169.64 and traces of gold; Margarita silver $153.9l and no gold; Montezuma, silver S70.6S and no gold.
 Other men have expended labor and money in Montezuma district within 1873, but their names and description of work, are not known to us.
 But few miles south of Montezuma district is an extensive gold bearing ledge rediscovered early in 1873 by citizens of Tucson. It is one that was extensively worked many years ago-so many that none now living can give any definite date thereof. It is evident that hundreds of thousands of dollars of gold have been taken out of that lead which is now call ed the Orc Blanco. During the past year as many as twenty-two arTastrars were at