Arizona weekly miner., 1875-02-19
MINES AND MINING.

with his train of burros Sunday evening last, after trip of l4 days. He travelled almost the entire distance on snow-shoes, and re- ports from to ) feet of snow on Bradshaw Mountains and Turkey Creek. From him we have the pleasing information that Black Jack and Sam Weir, after sinking shaft on the Mcdaniel, Hutchinson & Hellngs' inter est or the Cougar lode distance of D feet, have exposed to view 5-foot vein of ore which eclipses in richness anything yet pros pected in that section. Dan had in his pos session small chunk of fiEe gold containing S9.5O, which he and his partner, James Fine, had extracted from pounds of the rock taken out of the California lode On Tues day Dan started back for his home in the mountains with his train loaded with provi- sions and feeling jubilant over encouraging prospects for the coming Spring.
 In anticipation of bo ountiful supply of water throughout our mining camps this Spring, we hear of several parties making preparations to erect water-wheels adjacent to their various mining interests,-amongst others Messrs. Collier and Roach will leave in day or two, in their own interest to- gether with that of Messrs. Luke and Safen berg, to Pine Grove district, Bradshaw, where they propose to erect a 49-foOt wheel with power sufficient to run six arTastras. It will be located in the Basin and for the purpose of crushing ore from the Hunter, Belfast and other surrounding valuable lodes. May success attend them.
 Theo. Boggs was in town after provisions, tools, etc., Wendsday and Thursday and re- ports fair prospects at Copper Mountain, where he and J. M Roberts have located some 5000 feet on a copper lode which is be- lieved to be rich also in silver. They obtain a white metal, in large quantities, by heat | ing in common fire, but have had no assays. Mir. Boggs brought in some fifty pounds to have tested. and as soon as the result is as- certrined we are promised the figures for publication Mir. Roberts sent us speci- men of the copper ore which he had roasted, and it is so full of metallic copper that it hangs together after being broken. Beggs tells us that the only question is as to the
 
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 l NEWS FROM THE SANDY.
 Mark w. Musgrove, a young lawyer from Prescott. has been taking a look at the | Cedar district and returned on Saturday 1 He did not visit the McCracken mine, but heard most encouraging accounts of it. He made his headquarters at Greenwood City, where Mir. Stein is erecting l0-stamp mill with capacity for twenty. They are also pre- preparing to put up another mill which Is to have twenty stamps, and are opening road, (which is about completely, from the Greenwod mine to these mills-a distance o seven miles. The pay roll of the Green wood Co. has on it the names of sxty-fivt men, who are under the immediate charg, of Mir. Johnson from whom Mir. Musgroye gathered the following facts with reference to his Company: One assay of If lbs. O rock yielded S55 per ton, being the lowest they have yet obtained Seventy-eigh tons of the ore, worked in San Francisco yielded $200 per ton; and sixty-iive ton miled S6O per ton. Mir. Johnson pro nounces this mine q true tissue vein mas much as there is well defined slate easing on one side, yet they have run cut twelve feet wide, twelve feet long and forty fee deep and have not cut through the vein, con sequently it is impossible to tell how wide the vein IS as yet. They shipped 23 tons o unassorted ore to San Francisco, whicl assayed $62 per ton, as per certificate ot assa. which Mir Johnson exhibited.
 The Greenwood Mining Co.-Stein su perintendent-and the San Francisco Co. o the McCracken lode-Mc Nevin superintend ent-are about to start Company store a Greenwood City, on the Sandy. Other par ties arc erecting two stone buildings ther for mercantile purposes, and Mir. M. Met, blacksmith, is on his way in to start shol There is already a saloon open and doing
 hourishing business. There are no churche; theaters or school-houses as yet, but thes requisites will follow in due course of time There are large numbers of people ther and on the way-say some six hundred al
 ready on the ground. Montana and Piocht Nevada, seem to be best represented thu far.
 ANOTHER BONANZA.
 Pod Pierce and John Reese have discoV cred a gold ledge four miles from Greer wood, on the Date Creek trail, that the f believe to be equal to the McCrackcn. W
 shall hear more from it in time for our mex