Arizona weekly miner., 1874-12-31
MINES AND MINING.
YAvAPaI COUNTY.

D. M. Scott, who, by the way, Is one of the survivors of the famous Battle Flat fight; he, very ''frontierly" extended his hand and, taking us into the store of Wm. NJ. Buffum, showed us his "dustn and gave the following cheering information: Himself and partner had, a few days ago, cleaned up their arastra, after eighteen tons Of their Vesuvius ore had been crushed in it, and there, before us, in Buffum's showcase, lay the ''result"-two large chunks of gold, worth, anywhere in the world, Sl,656. And such gold! Why, it was beautiful; the most beautiful lead gold we had ever seen or ever expect to see. We have said that this result was obtained in new arastra, and stlll stick it. Now, all miners know the creyices in new arastra will take in and hold gold. Very well, then, the Scott family didn't explore said creyices for gold.
 We hazard nothing in stating that there is now in their arastra crevices gold to the value of S200, which brings the yield, per ton, of their rock, up to $l03. They have crushed great deal of ore that yielded more than this; but this yield is not bad, even for the Vesuvus, which is, eminently a poor mans ledge, since it pays poor men to work it even by the slow arastra process. Their deepest shaft is now about sixty feet, at which depth they have about 24 inches of rock that is literally ''lousy" with gold. Upon their return home, they will start a drift to explore their claim northward, where they have every reason to expect abundance of rich rock.
 Beside the gold already spoken of, we saw at Buifum's store another lot of gold from the Vesuvius, which was brought here about four weeks ago by $. P. White, for mer owner in the mine.
 ANOTHER Coop MINE.-Henry White, of the General Crook mine, in Hassayampa district, was in town few days ago and left at BufFum's store piece of gold, about the size of a cocoa-nut, which he recently took out of some General Crook ore. Mir. Ed. Johnson, one of the discoyerers of this won derfully rich mine, came 10 town since MT. Whites departure and informed us that the cold weather has stopped arastraing, but that owners of claims are hard at work taking out ore.
 TIE VULTURE.-Bill Smiths l0-stamp mill is running, by day and night, crushing ore from the famous Vuiture lode, near Wick enburg, and we have a hint that ~GIii's mill will soon have company, srnce one of the wealthiest and-.nost persever;ng, stop-at- nothing r:.izens of our Territory has made up h:s mind to work the old Yulture Com pany's portion of the mine.
 Bradshaw district continues to yield up its treasures. The War Eagle lode, which is now it's main producing mine, is doing the fair thing by all who are interviewing it for cash, the brayest of whom. Messrs. Goodwin X McKinnen, are indebted to the War Eagle for considerable cash. l.. $. Junior and oth CTS are taking ores out of several mines in the district.
 The miners of Big Bug district are still as mice, so We must set them down as doing well, since lucky miners arc rarely talking ores.
 Lynx Creek miners are waiting for the weather to moderate. They are pretty well up in the clouds and can't do much in this cold spell.
 Buffum has, in his store, not less than S6,Q0O in gold; B. II. Weaver has about Sl,000; Campbell has $l ,000; Head X Co.,, Bashford & Co, II. Asher < Co. and other firms have enough to warrant us in asserting that the amount of gold now in Prescott is in the neighborhood of 5000, every dollar of which has been taken out inside of month, and by very small number Of miners. This gold will soon find its way to San Francisco and, perhaps, figure in next mining report as California gold.
 Mr Ballou, the man who packs goods of all descriptions to our miners, started, yes terday, with a train lode of provisions for owners of the General Crook mine.
 Messrs HutchisUn X Thorne have pur- chased, from Messrs Hogle and Faut, an in- terest in the Silver Belt lode, Big Bug dis trict.
 Owners of claims who have done the necessary work to hold their claims, have commenced to notify delinquent sharehold- CTS that they must 'ante' or lose their in terests.
 Willard Rice is going down to Verde, to look after his salt mine.
 Notices of location are in demand. We, yesterday, received an order for fifty, which was about all We had printed, but, the form is now in type and we can furnish any num- Der of the useful blanks.
 MoHAyE COUNTY.
 Letters from tLis county, already pub lished, contain good news.
 l.. E. St James has favored us with a fine specimen of silver ore from Jackson Nc Crackin's ledge, near Big Sandy creek, which ledge is both large and rich.
 Another gentleman has given us piece of gold ore from the old Moss lode, in which gold is plainly visible.
 The fact that Mohave county miners are from Panamint is satisfactory eyi- dence that they think they "can do better" at home.
 PIMA COUNTY.
 The Tucson Citizen tells of gold and silver bullion. in quantities to please everybody: