Arizona citizen., 1875-09-11
Yavapai County.
From The Miner of September 3:

From The Miner or september ,:
 Yavapai county is likely to be hin dermost in the race for superiority in the way of display at the Centennial. Not because she is wanting in material to make an exhi5ition equal to the best, but because her people to not appear to- appreciate the importance of plac-
 Sg her before the world in her true Representative light We have mines equal perhaps to any on earth in rich ness, not being worked to any consid- erable extent it is true, for want of cap ital, but they are owned and held by those who have an interest in their be- ing advertised and who could easily furnish the Commission with samples of ore from them that would excite the admiration if not the cupidity of min ing men and capitalists from every quarter of the globe, and yet the Com mittee on whom was imposed the duty of receiving, boxing and shipping con tributions for Yavapai, has as yet noth- ing at all to do. The Committee is ready and willing to do its duty with out fee or reward, and surely those more directly interested as owners of mines will respond to their appeal Bring your offerings either to Colonel Head at c. P. Head < Co.'s, Colonel Bigelow at the Nifty, or to this office, and they will be exhibited to the gaze of an admiring world, in 1876
 Last Sunday, Johnson & Co.,, took advantage of the stopping of their mill to scrape the plates and horn spoon what they could out the batteries, with out removing the castings. The result was a bar weighing fifty ounces and worth $S50 The mill had run six days.
 School will begin on Monday, Sep tember 20. Hereafter the trustees have arranged that the school year shall con- sist of three terms of thirteen weeks erch, which will give a vacation at Christmas, and ten weeks vacation commencing July 1.
 Gen. Kautz had been on a visit to the Peck lode and on his return gave The Miner the following:
 "I was little disappointed to find no greater development of this rich lead, but on reflection, perhaps my ex- pectations were too great. Only about ten tons of first-class ore have been talk en out, and about twice as much of low grade. But as roads had to be made and material to be supplied, per haps more could not be accomplished with the limited means of the proprie- tors. Whilst the vein has not increas- ed in size, it has not diminished either in the size of the vein or character of the ore, and several shafts, ten or twelve feet in depth, at points for several hun dred feet along the lode show the same character and quantity of ore as in the discovery shaft. 1 have, however, had my confidence greatly increased in the extent and richness of the belt and have no doubt that many more disccv- cries will be made We visited the principal discoveries made since my last visit The Silver Prince gives as fair a prospect on the surface as did the Peck This, with the Evening Star and other discoveries, show that the belt is extensive, and intelligent pros pecting will soon lead to numerous other discoveries. But for want of good roads for transporting the neces- sary materials, some time must elapse before the region will become the pop ulOus mining camp that it is destined to be-"