Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1875-07-02

! iowihS characteristic epistle from we'll
known resident of this place, now in
another and hotter cline. We print it
/ verbatim
PIANIST, MoHAvR. A. T.,
June 9TH, A. d. 1875.
FRIEND MAC According 10 promise,
now take time 10 scratch few lines to
you. We are about i've hundred miles
direct south from Phoebe, on the Bill
| Wllllams fork OF the Colorado, in one of
the hottest places on Gods earth, 1870
degrees IN the sun. This place is a new
camp, twelve miles from the Colorado
river. Colonel D. f. Buel is building
a two-story smelling works, and has con.
tracted fer 10 smelt ore for the Nc
Cracker mine for one year from the LIST
of July next. The Colonel has good
contract. My health has been good since
leaving Bullionville. We were long
time coming; had to lay over a great deal
TO rest the animals. The roads are the
worst have ever seen, and have seen
bad ones. Rocks and sand Lord God!
You b,t Now for the mining camps in
general, and the citizens of Arizona in
particular The first mining town We
| came TO was the town of Chloride;
about twenty adobe houses. Considera-
| bic work in a small way has been done
some years ago at this place. but now
only three men are residing at the place.
and had to turn over one OF them to
see if he was dead, they were so id
| lazy. Seven miles more and we come to
| Mineral Park. The same has been done
at this place in the way of mining, with
the exception of the Keystone mine.
They are working nine men on the Key
stone; have steam pump, but id little
water to take out; do it all with small
donkey engine. About fifty houses, three
saloons, two small stores-all same as
Schaffers. Eight miles further south,
the town of Ceibat, the county seat; ff-
teen or twenty houses; population, one
to each house. o, Lord! forgive me;
deliver me from these towns. Mining at
this place has bsen carried on the same
as at the other places. No life no en-
ergy, no money. Beans straight and
Mohave squaws is their diet. How in
hell they can epjoy such o life, God
only knows. One hundred miles south
is the town of Greenwood. This is the
place Toppy johnson was blowing so
much nbout,th gold mines; six saloons,
one butcher shop. two small stores
nothing to sell, and not one ID cent to
purchase with if they had anything to
sell Bob Stein and some others pur-
CHASED the quartz mill that was at Har-
dyville, and put it up at this place to
work gold rock. When they had worked
about twenty-five tons they discovered
that the rock had no gold in it. This
was, most undoubtedly, an oversight of
Roberts, something that most any man
would look to see-if the rock contained
anything-before building a tens stamp
mill; but for Arizona it seemed it was
only necessary to put up mill and 90
ahead. The consequence was the mill
had to shut down, and up went the town
OF Greenwood-gcne in. Fifteen miles
from this place is the great McCracken
mine, or the Comstock of Ari-
IONA; and Comstock it really is.
Ii Is situated on very high
barren looking mountain The crop
pings where they are working stand up
from 20 to 40 feet high. I really do not
know the width but it is wide and at 81
feet it measures II feet of $3.50 to $500
ore assay. They are working about 80
men and will work more as SOON as the
smelters start up. The Bateman mine
mas about 70 men at work in splendid
rocK, 10 assays averaged Sl38 taken from
oU teet deep. AT the foot of the noun
tam on the south side is town laid out
called New Virginia, has been laid out
since | came down. No water nearer
the mines than 4 miles nor nearer the
town than miles, and that small
spring that the population now at the
mines and town consume nearly all of il.
water sells Mt the mines at Ia cents per
gallon and at the town at 25 cents. The
next nearest is at Fisher Springs, Is
miles through sand to 10 inches deep.
and then at this place 20 miles from the
mines. The man who has taken the
contract to haul the ore will be Mt this
place on or about the 18th with 20
S-muIe teams. 1t will keep him busy to
Keep the furnaces going with that num-
Der, then there must be wood teams and
coal teams.
Now for our town Planet. This place
bnei has named after the copper mines
known by that name about one mile
from here that has been worked by Mex-
leans for IL years. Buel has commenced
laying out the place. The location is a
very pretty one, level and plenty of cot
t0nwood and willows as well as sand.
The lots are 25xl00 and 16 to block.
Whether it will ever amount to ANYTHING
OF town or not remains to be known
hereafter, yet town or no town he ia get
ting $50 lot. He sold 16 one day and
20 the next, and gave your humble ser
want two In the center of the best block.
oh ic lof
Material for building is scarce, that is
lumber. No whipsaws, no sawmills,
$500 to $3.50 per M. Stockades and
adobes. willows. etc. Six houses now
going up, saloons, boarding house, |
butcher shop, no store. Lou Felsenthall
Is now at San Francisco after a stock OF
goods. Buel will build him an adobe
house next week. At the Spanish town
at the Planet mines bacon, id poor,
4O cents, sugar 90 cents. tobacco SO per
pound, tea So, coffee 81, and freight is
only, from San Francisco to within 70
miles of this place, $50 per ton. No
store, no opposition. Should like much
to have letter from you and all my old
friends. Let me know how all is going
on. Give my respects to Nc and Andy
Simpson, Barrett, Joe Conway, Shaefer,
Sultan, Capt. Garden and everybody,
and furthermore you can tell them that
unless they want to be in hell to remain
where they are for year longer. This
is no place for white man and id
poor for Niger. Excuse the writing
as ! have nothing but the ground for a
desk. Hoping you are well, l am as
ever your friend, 4
DE-. ScHIMMERHoRN.