Arizona citizen., 1875-07-24
YaVapai County.
From The Miner July 16:

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 On Monday afternoon the rain pour ed down in torrents, washing the streets clean and raising the creek two or three feet in a few minutes time, and yet we are told that it Onl y reached a few miles from town. Chino Valley did not get any of it; at Agua Fria it only sprinkled, and John Dixon from Skull Valley and Solomon Jackson from Kirkland say they had no rain in either of those places, where 1t was badly needed.
 A terrible thunder-shOwer visited us on Wednesday night and lasted two or three hours, drenching the earth and lighting up the sky with dazzling glare that almost struck one blind to look upon its vivid flashes. Timid people recOiled at the sound of the "thunder drums" on the mountains, and the dwellers by the streams in the low lands sought safety from the flood by flight to more elevated positions. Granite. creek, ordinarily a modest lit tie brooklet, suddenly assumed mon strous proportions, and it's flood came down with a rush and roar that crea- ted considerable alarm for the safety of buildings along it's banks.
 Tenders mill on Turkey creek, is being pushed ahead. The timbers are all out for the building, Mr. Fender is doing the principal part of the work himself. The battery of the old Bully BuenO mill will be used, and the Bully Bueno mine will furnish the ore.
 Remember that all houses ill Pres colt where stove-pipes are used are re quired to be provided with chimneys by the 1st of September They cant all be built at once, and it is time some were commencing The Village COun- Cil are determined to enforce the ordi- nance.
 The stone foundation of L. Bash ford & Co.'s brick stores is finished, Hill & Allen having laid the last stone yesterday afternoon. The brick work will probably begin on Monday.
 Geo. W. Curtis informs us rbat the rain on Wednesday night caused the creek to wash out the bridges and damage the road near his saw-mill. He estimates his damages at about $500.
 Gen. A. v. Kautz gives his opinion to The Miner of the Peck mine - the very rich discovery reported by tele- graph two weeks ago, in which c. C.. Bean and others are locaters. The General and a party visited the mines in Bradshaw, and here is what he says of the Peck;
 The lode Is on the summit of a spur of the Bradshaw mountains running north of east. There are three mas sive lodges of purpleish quartz, paral- Tel and projecting above the surface, often twenty feet high. The distance between these lodges is about fifty or sixty feet. On the south side of the south ledge, on the hanging wall, is the point of discovery where the dis .coverers are now working and taking out the wonderfully rich ore from a pay streak about two feet wide. We found several tens of this ore already on the dump pile, and no signs of run ming out. Of course, it is impossible without work for anyone to tell how long it will pay, or how much of this very rich ore exists. The parties at work were apprehensive of it's being too rich to last. They stated, howev- CT, that the same character of ore had been traced at opposite sides of the mountain on the same side of the ledge. Whilst the very rich ore may be limited, 1 have every evidence that this discovery will lead to the dovel- opment of extensive and valuable sil- yer lodes. In all my experience I have never been in region where the lodges are so well defined and so extensive. From the point where we struck 1t to the Peck lode, the trail from Black canyon passes over one ledge after another, the course and width of which can be traced from one mountain to another as far as the eye can reach. These lodges start within fifteen degrees of 8 vertical
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