Arizona weekly miner., 1875-12-03

| oi CutOi SOol quality, total of 15O or 200 tons Mr. John Reese has the best hay farm, and on his ranch, which is the next south of the Agua Fra, there has been put up this year over 75 tons, worth here S20 per ton at least. One mile below Mr. Bowers is the grist and flour-mIl of L. Bashford. having one run of stone, and giving satisfaction. Mir. Perkins, the lessee of the mill, is now absent, and the power, which is water, is now running an arrastra and grinding gold-bearing rock from the Cornucopia mine, some 15 miles distant on the route to Camp Verde. What the re- suit will be is yet unknown, as a cleanup has not been made. The rock looks like good SEQ rock.
 have passed one day and two nights in the Big Bug mining district, making my home at the house of Mir. Chas. E. Hitch cock and lis agreeable and wcll-informed wife. MT. Hitchcock is now developing the "Isabella," fine gold-bcaring lode, which is up the Creek one mile from the home ot NIT. H. There are numerous well defined mineral-bearing lodes in the Big Bug dis trict, mostly gold bearing, but some of silver, all of which give promise of much wealth in the future when they are thoroughly work ed and good mills and furnaces are erected.
 The old Big Bug mine, now idle, has two shafts, each 0 feet deep. It Is a halfmile north of MT. EIitchcock's house, and when jaI per ton.
 The "Galenan mine, now idle, is one mile north ard has three shafts, respectively 65, s5, and l05 feet deep, with one drift of 75 feet, and one of l35 feet, all decomposed ore, of which 450 tons gave SIS per ton, and 100 tons of sulphuret ore Si0 per ton.
 The "Eugene," also idle, has shafts from 40 to 90 feet deep and has been worked at that depth the whole length of the claim 1,500 feet. Seven hundred tons gave an average of S14 per ton.
 The "Dvidend" has shaft 30 feet deer, and 60 tons yielded S2l per ton.
 The "Isabella," now being worked, gives, by different trials of average rock, Sl4 per ton. There are three shafts of 9, 30, and 50 feet deep, and on the dump pile at least 150 tons of equally good or better rock.
 The "Independence" shows good ore-ten tons giving an average of Sl4, and three tons selected, an average of S70 per ton.
 The above are all gold-bearing, besides which, many others equally good or better have been located within circuit of three miles. There are several good silverb bear ing lodes near by, among which the Silver Belt and its extensions promise remarkably well. The Twilight, a discovery of Mrs. Hitchcock'S, hope good things for when fully developed. Many others both gold and silver bearing, are in the immediate neighborbood, but time will not now per init of description of them.
 Like Lynx Creek and district, which l passed on my way here, the Big Bug Dis trict has had many good gold placers, which have been worked at intervals since 1S634 with much success. The time will come when both of these Creeks will be thor oughly worked out. Up to the present time Big Bug Creek has not really been worked at all, though gold has been found in paying quantities from its head for nearly or quite 36 miles down. There is heavy deposit of earth and boulders in its bed, too much to move and work successfully by individual miners, but the time must now soon come when it will no doubt be worked success fully.
 had intended writing something about the old and extensive ruins found in and about the Agua Fria Valley, but must defer until future number can be written.
 Respectfully, yours, II. C. HODGE.