Arizona citizen., 1875-09-25
THE CITIZEN.
Local Mining Affairs.

There is great activity in mining matters. The Pinal mines must be at tracting many people for Weston < Long have increased their stage service from tri-weekly to daily as will be seen by advertisement. We hear from various sources, that there is very prospect of sale of the Silver King to parties who will use capital in its thorough development. Charles O.. Brown and Col. W. c. Boyle returned here by stage of Tuesday. MT. Brown says he has done but very little work on the Athens during his last time spent there; that he has sunk a well mostly through rock between forty and forty-five feet deep, and obtained plenty of excellent water within few rods of the Athens. Another hundred pounds of Athens ore worked at Flor ence yielded nineteen pounds of nice silver which lon Thursday) was at Wood Brothers. MT. Brown expects to return to the mine next Monday.
 There Is some prospect of a compro- mise between the Quacharty and Saca- ton claimants Should it so turn out, the mine will pass into new hands that will work it on a scale according to its merits, and from various parties we hear that the ground in dispute shows abundance of rich ore and true vein.
 The Salero mining company expect to start work on some of their mining property early next month. Colonel Boyle assures us that James C. 1ru- man, general manager, has $1OO,OOO cash to begin with, and our dispatches show that he arrived in San Francisco on the 2Oth, and he was expected to leave that city for Tucson on last Wed nesday. Col. Boyle understands that eastern representatives of the Guaymas and Tucson railway are coming with MT. Truman.
 MT. J. D. Wilson, who represents in himself and other San Francisco men mining experience and capital, IS eX- aming the mines of Pinal and Pima counties He has been at Pinal and the Quacharty or Sacaton, and early this week, he, Gov. Stafford, Charles E. Custiss and E. N. Fish went out to the Patagonia or Enterprise, for some time past worked by Messrs. Fish & Bennett. Of course MT. Wilson will not blab around what his views and purposes are, but his appearance in dicates a man of sense and earnest business capacity and it will be rather surprising if he does not take hold ot some one of the mines he visits and put it in paying condition-for we earnestly believe that any of several will pay we'll with proper machinery -Aasonerly handled The Virginia City mines which are now paying millions of profits every month, never would have accomplished anything but the financial ruin of their operators, had they undertook and continued to work the ores by cheap and unscientific pro cesses. Hundreds of thousands of dollars were expended.upon the largest paying mines before a cent of profit was made. With sufficient develop ment and proper processes, we firmly believe many of our mines would pay large profits on all capital required.
 George J. Roskruge has spent a couple of weeks in the Santa Rita and Huachuca mountains, and he discov- cred an old mine which he believes to be the "Elias "-out of which, ac- cording to Spanish government records, six millions of dollars in silver have been taken. Until we hear more par ticulars, we shall say little of this dis aouaru