Arizona citizen., 1875-03-27
LOCAL MINING AFFAIRS.

CnTuesday, MeSSrS. Carr, Hopkins and company, started their ten-stamp quartz mill from here on freight teams for the Ostrich mihe-about eighty miles south and west of Tucson. Some parts of the machinery amounting to ton or so, were ordered a couple of weeks ago by telegraph from San Francisco, and, they are expect ed here by the time the battery, engine, boiler, etc., can be put in position. So far as the machinery could be perfected, it was done hero at the shop of c. T. Etchell. The work of putting in position on the mill site, will be pushed ahead with all possible speed, so that on the arrival of the small parts from San Francisco, but a day or two will be required to have the mill in actual operation.
 Mir. D. B. Req came in early in the week from the new Santa Rita mountain district described in THE CITIZEN of March I3. He brought trifle over S26 in placer gold, {, the result of one and a half days wash ing with a rocker. He says he and those with him prospected the gulch. 2090 feet and found equally good pay all the way The gold has more or, less of quartz at tached to it., showing thu; it lies near gold ledges which. had been previously discov- cred. Some of this gold comes from veins Of light or white colored QuaE5B and part of it from a reddish decomposed kind. Jack Long, Harris and Sawyer commence ed prospecting there on the l6th, anu soon discovered placer gold in gulch on this side of the mountain from where found by Mir. Rea. They also discovered and located two argentiferous lodges on the lower spurs of the mountains, which look well. A couple of weeks ago, Messrs. Stibell and Coghlan were hunting in that section Of the country for sheep ranges, and.iu this pursuit discovered and located four or five silver veins about two miles away from the origina discoveries, MeSsrs, Choate and Elliott have discover ed and located two silver ledges. Proba- ply by this stime the new district has been regularly organized and local laws ~atl9pt- ed and we are promised a copy for print The 2snie Of the district we understand will be Santa Rita. When Mir. Req left there about a week ago, there were sixteen men, at work and full of hope with their prospects, MT. Rea Jeff here for Yuma on Wednesdays stage, and will soon come back and return to the new district again.
 Mir. O. w. Streeter and party have been steadily at work on the western extension Of the San Xavier mine, and we are in- formed that fine mine is being develop ed. They will soon begin to open up the original claim-or the 1900 feet for which patent was applied for 9 couple of years ago-the patent being withheld because of opposing counsel in behalf of Mary E. VaugHs
 A Mir. Atkinson, who was a resident of California before the discovery of gold there, and others have lately been pros pecting in Aribaipa canyon, east of san Pedro, and about week ago came to town with samples of ore from these locations: Leviathan, Imperial, Legal Tender, Man Zanita, Bazaar, Two Brothers, Mt. Trum- bull, Arizona, Talisman and Iowa. Some of these are very large and generally silver bearing, Assays run over Sl00 per ton. One sample from a vein not yet located, was assayed for copper with these results {: 26 3-l9 per cent. copper, SIS silver and S6 2 gold per ton. Samples from some of the locations, are free of base metals and will mill easily; others carry much lead, and some iron and lead. There is plenty of fine water in the canyon for milling, and the mountains are covered with grass; and about the head of the canyon, there is re- ported plenty Of wood. A mining district has been formed and recorder elected We would be glad to receive copy of the laws for publication, and also weekly re- ports of progress in developing the mines.
 Col. II. c. Hodge does up the Truman, Patagonia and Santa Rita mines in g. let ter published to-day.
 Eli P. Duffield brought us a sample of ore from the Rusk mine beyond San Xa- vier. An assay just made from ore now coming from the mine, shows it to contain sl25 gold and SlO6 silver per ton-or s231 value per 2000 pounds.
 E. N. Fish, D. A. Bennett, Ed. Marshall and William Wakefield left on Thursday or the Patagonia mines.
 Read the Florence dispatch for Pinal mining news.
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