Arizona weekly miner., 1875-10-29

nent structures in its course. Soon thu
 whole business portion of c street, from ths
 Odd Fellows building northward was a mas.
 of flames, with no adequate means at hand
 for checking the fire. The newspaper offices
 of the Territorial Enterprise, Evening Chron-
 lcle and Fooslight were totally destroyed
 From C street the fire swept across to Piper's
 opera House and adjoining building on
 street. when it became apparent that the
 railroad depot and Consolidated Virginia
 hoisting works were in danger Blowing up
 the intermediate houses was then resorted to
 but this attempt to arrest the progress of
 the flames was too late, the railroad depot
 succumbed and then in turn the hoisting
 works of the Consolidated Virginia mine to-
 gether with the 6O stamp mill and the stamp
 department of the new California mill were
 destroyed. It was hoped to save the Ophir
 works, and to that end giant powder was
 freely used, but as in the case of the Consol-
 dated Virginia, it was of no avail. Ophir
 works had just been completed and were the
 finest on the Comstock lode. were totally
 destroyed. Both Ophir and Con. Virginia shafts were bulkheaded so that the fire was
 kept out of the mines The Gould & Curry is safe, also the c tS c shaft. The Andes had close call but escaped. At this mo- ment it is impossible to estimate the loss. Over 10000 people are homeless ;' the wind is piercing cold and God only knows what they will do for shelter tonight The fire is fully under control at this time. and it's limits are defined. Nearly every decent building in Virginia City has been destroyed.
 San Francisco, Oct 26.-There was reg ular panic in the stock market this morning on the news of Virginia City fire. Mines in that section of Comstock lode dropped sud denly and heavily. The following were prices at morning board: Con- Va, 21O California, 56; Ophir. 3e; Gould & Curry, l5; Savage, 65. In the afternoon, when the 'cws came that the fire was under control. tocks rallied somewhat, and closing prices were as follows: Con. Va, 26O; California. '6; Ophir, A; Overman, 46; G. &C.l9; Savage, 75; B. & B. 42; Jacket, 70; Chol- ar, 62 Gold Hill stocks held their own. 'rown Point sold at 2, the same as yester- lay. How the market will stand tomorrow an interesting subject of speculation. To how the extent of decline on the bad news '-day, give you yesterdays quotations a. blows: Con. Va, 3l9; Gala, G3; Ophir. ?; Overman, 53; Savage, s2.
 Denver, Oct 25. Returns thus far receiy- from to-days election in this Territory low that the Republicans have carried the erritory, and that they will have a consid- able majority in constitutional convention. ( II points heard from so far report Republi- n majorities.
 Gold in New York ll51s@l154. Green 'cks in San Francisco, s6a and s74.
 TERRITORIAL. Florence, Oct. 25.-The town of Florence rising rapidly; buildings are under con. q 'uction on nearly every street. In our per- 'bulations to-day We counted l3 in course erection. Tie town has been crowded tn strangers during the past five weeks; my of them have families and arc obliged camp on the outskirts IS there is not gle room six by six vacant.
 The mercantile house of E. N. Fish & Co., sided over by Joe Collingwood, has com T, ted an extensive warehouse in addition to Al 'lr large and capacious store. Over 4O, 900 lnds mercantile freight were received by O s firm during the past week. In connec. with their store and ware rooms they 'e four large graneries, each containing E r loo,OOO pounds of barley and wheat. The smelling and refining works of Messrs things Rugges have been in operation
 and night for the past two months. Their - 1e of smelting and refining ores has given Ire satisfaction to all their patrons.
 he smetlng works of Ferguson & Coro- ,,,A A of North Florence, are also in full blast the ling out every now and then huge silver P ton. - he development of the mines in the Pinal rlct IS still encouraging. Shafts have III sunk on nine different lodes all of ch promise an inexhaustable resource.
 most famous is the Silver King p.,
 70 feet in length and two shafts have
 sunk through bowl of metal on the !, to depth of fifty feet The metal = n therefrom is surprisingly rich, and has wed the reputation by experts who pro- zee 1t unparalleled in this or any other RE itory. During the past four weeks, for. ms of ore were taken out of ore from hafts which. to say the least, will aver / me thousand dollars per ton. on. :. W. w. Jones, an interested partner in like mine, is busily engaged in sinking 1t, but what depth he has reached we - nable to say; the results are promising WILL ndlcate true Assure vein with an aver 7idth of six feet between walls, assay- om S4OO to Sl 900 per ton. There are hE one hundred tons of ore on the dunn Espe
 to be shipped to the smelting works. Pike ore is considered smelting ore, as it