Arizona weekly miner., 1874-03-20
MINES AND AIMING.

Nmhins but fierce. Indian wars can now retard the mineral progress of Arizona. and these we do pot look for, so long as Gen Crook holds command of the small military force in the Territory. A very wet winter has aroused the old spirit of go-aheadative- .-russ in the breasts of our miners, and, with prospects for the speedy erection of mills, furnaces, etc, miners and others reason that the future looks promising. <
 The fall and winters working, with. tue 10 stamp mill at wickenburg, the numerous arrastras in Yavapai; Pima and Mohave counties, the smeitiug fe-nace in Yuma, at Castle Dome, aad the hundreds of rockers, sluices and hydraulic pipes, have more than satisfied all who were, or are, in any way, in terested. The yield, in gold and slver,ea all this working and of all these appliances, is not of course, known with any degree of cer,aiaty, but, judging by the gold that bas found it's way to Prescott and thou to san Francisco, we may ssfeIy set down tte-!seid of gold and silye, since last Christmas, at Sl5O.0OO leaving out of all question amounts srftf- ners and the value of about 100 tons of ore shipped to San Francisco from Mohave and Pima counties.
 Miners have now the assurance of three months supply of water, and those living and working within radius of 45 miles of Prescott will, in that time, take out in the neighborhood of S100,000, as their claims are pretty well opened and quite rich.
 At the end of this time, we confidently expect to see between 900 and 800 men in Bradshaw mining district, at work on tue Tiger, Benton, War Eagle and other great mines there, as, by that time no less than three companies say they will commence ac- tive operations there. Mir Wright, who left here yesterday morning, started away more than pleased with what he obserted in Brad shaw district, and the general belief here IS that his tribe will purchase the Tiger. Small matter, however, should they fail to come rp to their agreement, as the agent of mother company stands ready to purchase cad work the mine, should Messrs Ganahl, Wight and others see fit to crawl out of their "'bonded" promise. A mine like the Tifrr, that is traceable for miles; that has .sielded ore worth nearly S1 900 per ton; tiat has on its dump about 800 tons of ore, worth, at least, SlO0 per ton; that has shiI Jed 35 tons of ore to San Francisco, which ,etted the com Aany over $16,000; all of which ore came
 t of shaftsAaittle over 100 feet in depth,
 hot likely go begging at this greedy
 ne.in the w0HSs bsstorya Another strong mducement is locations in the midst of many other ri hines, and in a country where wood. VI and grass are abundant. { Besides this W for mining life and ac- .4Swen na@ v nspes-sopvs ihAs.the vul- ture company will soon do something, and, our faith that the arrastras now being driven by water-wheels in Big Bug, Hassayampa, Walker and other districts will do we'll for their owners land the country is unbounded.
 Going to Mohave county, we find that, since the fear of long war with the Ilualpais has faded, miners have gone to work as if no danger of this kind threatened. The. furnace recently erected at Castle Deme'is just the trick to work much of the ores of Mohave county, and as the owners of said furnace offer to purchase all ores which they car master, market is thus opened to the miners of Alohsve and other counties of the Territory. The boats of the Colorado Steam Navigation Company will step and take on ores at any place on the river, so that there is now no excuse for idle ness on the part of owners of lodes carrying argentiferous lead ores.
 Taken all in all, our Territory is not so ground down as crpakers would make 1t aI- pear. True, Government contractors and some Indian agents are and have been doing all they can to ruin it but, with Crook to keep it from being turned into an estate of the Interior Department ; with our mining, farming. grazing and other resources; with the chanoes-now good-foy> the speedy Goa. pletion of the SoutherD~ Pacific railroad, we are of the opiniod That all true Arizonans can still dsfyf Devil, Columbus Delano, Gen Hoxard, pr Tonner and Postmaster Ge9cTh oreswell. &