Arizona citizen., 1875-09-25

veins are opened from 8 few feet to 2 few hundred in depth, with now anc then some tunnels; and at nearly al are many tons of ore worth from fifty to several hundred dollars per ton
 Because of high cost of transportation and inexperience and want of capita
 to erect suitable reduction works silver ores that will not pay above fifty dollars per ton are now worth, less in your State, Nevada, Utah anc Colorado, ores of half that value art now very proftably reduced. Within thirteen miles of this town Is a veir of silver orc which has been explored to depth of one hundred feet. At tempts to work the ore here have beer proftIess, and yet several tons of i were shipped to your city and worked with net result of some ninety dol lars per ton to the shippers. Messrs Lee & Scott obtained a patent fol the mine and are letting it lie idle fol cheaper transportation. l could point out others equally rich, but untouch- ed for the same reason.
 GOTD SEWER AND HEAD
 i Gold veins and placers cover DOT, tions of Yuma, Mohave, Yavapai and Pima counties. At this time placers are proftably worked in all these but Mohave, and gold quartz veins in all The placers about Prescott are too high in the mountains to admit of leading water to them from the larger streams, yet each year and all the year many men continue to work them at more or less profit. At depth of from twenty to forty feet, the gold veins about Prescott change to sulphurets similar to those of Colorado, and tc some extent silver appears. The lodes are from two to five feet in width and generally we'll defined. Costly smelting furnaces will be required tc successfully work the ores of the veins below the depths above mentioned But the ore is abundant, and in you1 State would be yielding profits. The Ostrich vein, sixty miles southeast ol Tucson, was discovered last year, and now one 1O-Stamp mill and several arrastrars are grinding ore and making money for the owners. On the top fl i5 mostly goiG, put at a depth of sixty feet silver appears, so that pans have to be put in the mill. The vein is from two to ten feet wide, as discover ed, for four miles.
 The report has gone abroad that the great Vulture gold lode, near Wickenburg, is too barren for profits. Let's s see about it. I am not familiar with its erliest history, but after its first failure, by a judgment of court ii was put in the hands of Goldwate1 Brothers, who run 1t short time, paid all expenses and nearly $10O,00O of debts, when. by the terms of their possession, they gave it up. It then went into Eastern management and failed again, as is reasonably believed by extravaganza in purchase of need less machinery and failure to hon. estly account for the proceeds; for soon after Gin 1873 P. W. Smith started a IO-stamp mill under great difficulties, and from the very same lode, and inn mediately adjacent to the Vulture works. He has made 8 success which is making him rich. The ores are hauled about ten miles to the mill, and about all the water used at the mine hauled the same distance. It is also reported that those familiar with the old Vulture products and manage ments, are now in San Francisco care fully preparing to revive that great mine and its 40-stamp mill.
 The gold placers of the Santa Rita mountains, sixty miles south of Tucson continue to yield under the most unfa vorable circumstances, from $2 to $20 and even S100 per day to the man. A number of nuggets worth from $40 to $120 have been recently brought here this last week one of $109 was found The extent of this placer country is not known, for it is weekly being dis covered larger At this time mines are worked over an area of fully six by twenty miles; and in most instances the dirt is sacked and carried upon ami mals from half to three miles to wa ter and washed in the common rocker
 Lead ore with silver from forty to $100 per ton, abounds in Yuma coun- ty, near the Colorado, and is now being sent to your city via the Colorado river and Gulf of California, and according to the sworn returns to the County As sessOr, profits are realized. In Pinal county, south of the Pima and Marico- pa reservation, this class of ore seems to be ineXhaustible. On our southern border, the Patagonia or Mowry Sil- yer mines, upon which many thou sands have been recklessly expended, and out of which enOuUh for DrOfit has