Arizona weekly miner., 1875-10-22
REGENT SILVER DISCOVERIES u
 THE VICINITY OF PRESCOTT.

EDITOR MINER :-I am constantly reeeiy
 ing letters of inquiry respecting the recen
 silver discoveries in this vicinity, asking fo
 information respecting their location, extent ]. facilities for working, climate, etc. Havin, spent the most of my time for the last si,
 months in prospecting, and having visited . most of the mining districts in this county l will endeayer, through the columns O
 your paper to answer some of their inquiries , In order that parties residing out of the
 Territory may understand the situation o affairs here, and comprehend why so little
 progress has been made during the past ten years I must premise that the early pros- pectors hunted more for gold than silver ore, and that until within the past eighteen months very little prospecting could be done with any safety. Up to the time when the Indians were conquered and forced to go upon Reservations, prospectors had more need of rifles than pick and shovel Rich silver ores were known to exist in this sec tion, but as gold ores were more available they were mostly sought for, silver ores be- ing neglected.
 The first recent silver discovery was made only few months since in Big Bug mining district, about l5 miles southeast of Prescott, where rich silver ores had been previously known to exist. This first discovery was singularly enough named
 "THE SILVER BELT"
 Subsequent discoveries have proved this mine to be on silver belt two miles wide and about twenty miles long; this nine be- ing on the northeastern end eff belt which | commences at the Agua Fria Valley, run ming southwest through the mountains on the head-waters of the Big Bug, Lynx, Fur key, and Hassayampa Creeks to Walnut Grove,-a distance of about 9 miles.
 THE SILVER BELT MINE
 Is located about half way between Agua Fria Valley and the Big Bug mill, l5 miles southeast of Prescott. On it a shaft has been sunk to the depth of S5 feet, showing a continuous vein with we'll defined wall-rock, is considered evidence of true Assure veins--a continuous gouge of tale. About ten tons of first-class ore, assaying S6OO per ton, has been shipped to San Fran cisco, and there is now on the dump from 40 to 50 tons of ore that assays from $50 to $500 per tsn. ( Several extensions have been located on ' he vein, and parallel with it are several ' 'eins located which show ores that assay | rom $50 to 5000 per ten.
 THE GOPHER MINE, | 'ituated about two miles southwest of the 'lver Belt mine, was discovered the latter [ art of May. A shaft 60 feet deep shows a ontinuous vein of ore that assays from $50 o 9 S450 per ton O Several other veins have been discovered | various points from three to ten miles that show on the surface ores nat assay from $50 to $4OO per ton. Among I lose recent discoveries are several galena al eins from one to two feet wide, the ores e om which give assays from $25 to $50 per B 'n. One of those veins, situated about p' UT miles southeast of the Big Bug mill, al ops out about foot high for distance of Sl veral hundred feet, the vein of solid galena ns tually forming dam to the water in CT vine which it crosses. A blind prospector pl Ould have tumbled over such vein. it On the head-waters of Big Bug, Lynx. lj d Hassayampa Creeks have seen on the mi rface galena ores (all carrying from S25 to a 0 per ton in silver) enough to run the lar tn st of smelting works, and all situated near of tier and in the midst of pine forests. lar The Davis mine, situate on the eastern tw anch of the Hassayampa, 20 miles south st of the Silver Belt mine, shows the ex- so' It of the First Silver Belt. About five hn les southeast of the belt have been de- ibing, and running parallel with it from uo V. pper Mountain, on the Agua Fria to the .'' adshaw Mountains on the southwest end distance of about 9 miles-runs what 'V' ,aled the ply
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 the is belt is about two miles wide, and is re- tro rkably we'll defined by the geological for tr, s'S' VII SiNoti oiuS, anu uN tuc lIutneDSc punt of quartzite dykes that run regularly allel with eact other for miles, and can be ., D cropping out hundreds of feet high. "h ,ding up like old ruined cathedrals. TUT, last of the belt and running into Copper -;u untain is belt of copper mines. Some rco ~ Copper Mountain have been recently o. ned and prove to be very valuable, yield s,.. ores that assay from 40 to GO per cent. wh,
 THE PECK MINE.
 ,. tray his bonanza mine, the first discovery on m eastern silver belt, was located about the v;o, of July. It is situated at the base of the r;r. dshaw Mountains, about 40 miles south ina, of Prescott. visited this mine in con- fore 7 with Gen. Kautz, a few days after it's overy. His opinion respecting this dis T, ny, published in the MINER at the time ,,;. been remarkably verified by the subse. .- 1t developments. In a few days of ,h. al work the owners of this mine took ro,,