Arizona weekly miner., 1875-02-05
MINING IN YAYAPAI COYNTY.
ITS EXTENT WATER FACILITIES, AND o7R.
 FIR ADFANTAGES

| A" ottSuPtiiiS to Sct hiiOtindtioh CunCtTn
 ing mining affairs in the vicinity of Prescott
 we have experienced some difficulty owing
 to the late storms, and items are not plenty | The late snow storm has almost blockaded
 the roads and trails, and bu. few of the hon.
 est miners have been in town for two weeks
 On the heads of Big Bug, Turkey Creek,
 Lynx Creek, and the Hassayampa the snow
 is over four feet deep, and, though the nights are very cold, the warm February sun is melting it rapidly and all the mountain streams are running full, and consequently
 the placer miners are in high glee, and doing
 we'll
 Smith < Marcutt, at the old Excelsior claims, on Lower Lynx Creek, are piping and sustaining the reputation of the claim, as twenty dollar digginss. All the way up the Creek, parties who have been throwing up dirt during the Fall, and drifting out the ''pay grit" are now washing with suices, and making money.
 On the Hassayampa, Gorton X Co.,, who are working below the mouth of Groom's Creek, have struck some rich spots, and were in town Monday, for provisions, with considerable dust, and we'll pleased with their prospects.
 On the Big Bug, parties are working un- der the old Osborn ditch and at the Mexi- can claims below, making good wages.
 Several parties who have not been en- gagged in placer mines since 1868 have gone out during the past week, to work on spots they had staked out. for six years past. There is so much snow in the mountains, that wa ter, for the next four months, is assured, and doubtless more placer gold will be taken out this Spring than for five years past.
 In quartz mining, the heavy suows are, at present, an obstruction, though sure to be beneficiaI in the end. From the Crook mine we learn, through different sources, that the pay holds out as well as ever. In view of the certainty of water in the East Fork uf the Hassayampa, near the mine, the claim owners are preparing to crush their ore by water-power. Fuller & Go. -four in the Company) arc putting up 20-foot overshot wheel. White, Philips X Cary have a hurdy- -gurdy nearly completed, and Moore X Stone have another almost ready for work, with which they propose to do custom work. Those who have been running arrastras in the mountains, by horsepower, are very generally forced to suspend operations tenn porarily, and send their animals down to the ranches for food, as the grass is all covered up. Mir. F. Fender, one of the best mill wrights in this county, is putting up the wheels at the Crook mine, above mentioned, and all parties who have water-power adja- cent to their mines, should follow the exam pie of the Crook boys, and get power that requires no feeding, and will work day and night without rest.
 From all sides we hear only goed reports concerning the mines and hopes founded on good basis of a prosperous season ahead. Very little show is made here of the bullion and placer dust produced in this county, but the amount is not inconsiderable. Mr. A. Eilers, whom many of the readers of the MINER will remember as the Mining Con- missioner who was here three or four years ago, lately wrote to Col. II. A. Bigelow, to send him statement of the bullion product of Yavapai county during the year 1874, and the Col. has interviewed the merchants and saloon keepers of Prescott, and finds that the amount of bullion and placer dust ship ped to San Francisco during the past year, was $l26,600: The product of Smiths mill, which has been running steadily the whole year, with the placer gold from Wea- yer, Antelope and other mining sections south of Prescott, which passes through the hands of the Wickenburg merchants, raises the total prodsct of our mines in 1874, to S221 900 as nearly as can be ascertained, and this amount is almost entirely in gold. There are no works in the county for the reduction of silver ores, and it is only during the past year that miners have been safe in working and keeping animals in the noun tains. This year we expect to be able to report very marked progress in the devel- opment of mines in the county and the whole Territory. An examination of the speci- mems of silver ores in Prescott which have been gathered from various mines in the vi- cinity, induces us to believe that in the near future this county will be good field for heavy mining operators.