The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1876-11-25
LETTER FROM COL. HODGE.

was handed to us by the writer
several weeks ago, just before his
departure for California. but was
accidentally mislaid. 1t is just as
good now:
FLORENCE, A. T. Oct. Sth, 1876.
Editor SP5ltif1eL.-
This pleasant little town, the
county seat of Pinal county, has
improved much since my visit a
year since. Being the natural
outlet from the Silver King and
the Globe District, Iuiners, pro-
Spectors. visitors and capitalists
are continually going and coming
to and from the mines, and most
of them pass more or less time
here. To accommodate the pub.
lie, hotel accommodations have
been enlarged, stores and saloons
have multiplied, and new houses
are being erected. VIM. III. Long,
one OF the original owners of the
Silver King, is erecting fine
building opposite and west of the
COlllngwoOd store, the school
house is now nearly completed
and the school will open under
favorable circumstances with Mr..
Nash as teacher. Mr.. Nash is
lately from Ehrenberg and form
erIy from Yuma. The school
house is fine adobe building
26X40 feet and Is feet in highth
in the clear, aud pleasantly locat-
ed. The hotel of the town, by
Mr.. Elliot, is well KEPT and doing
good business. The proprietor
has satisfied both citizens and
strangers that he knows how 10
do it. The farmers have been
quite prosperous the present year,
and in the ella Valley including
the Pima Villages, by estimate
there will be some 100000 Tbs. of
wheat and barley and over 2,000,-
900 lbs Of corn. Two Touring
mills are in operations, and third
one nearly completed. But the
mines are the great topic of con-
verSatiOn and interest and this in.
tereSt increases from day to day
and from week to week. The Sill
yer King which | visited again a
few days since is looking better
and better. My belief in its per-
manency is far more firm than a
year since, and from a close eX-
animation of it now, | should not
be surprised to find it a year hence
rivaling the great bonanza mines
of the world. From an eXamina-
ton of the books of the company
[ found that prior to the first in
slant they had shipped to San
Francisco over 16I tons of ore
which has sold for an average of
over $1,000 per ton. For the
amount Of work done in the work
ing of the mine, the product ex-
ceeds that of any mine of which l
have seen any record ia the min
ing history OF the world. Here
are two shafts, one Of 1G5 and one
Of 40 feet, one tunnel has been run
through the vein a distance of
$50 feet. These shafts and tunnel
with ore drifts and a few feet
worked off the apex OF the hill
includes all the work done 10 OBJ
tain over 81 50, 600 Of first class ore,
besides which there is now on the
dump pile over 1000 tons of ore
which will average $3.50 per ton,
worth in the aggregate S150,000.
There is now in sack of selected
ore over one ton Of antimOnial sill
yer, Dugget silver and silver
glance, which is worth $4,000 or
a total value in ore mined to date
Oct. 1st, 1922, 1000. Let the world
beat this if ii can While at the
mine | saw in a small cut down
and from the tunnel to the west,
a vein Of ore two feet thick which
assays from $1,000 to $1,000 per
ton. The vein matter is 81 feet
wide and filled all through its
width with rich strataS of the
same kind of ore. The whole 81
feet is mined and assorted. The
mine is 80 miles northeast from
Florence. and the Globe District
is about 40 miles north of east from
the Silver King. This district
now gives promise Of becoming
one Of the most famous mining
districts in the known world. In
a strip of country I'm wide by
Ism. long scores of distinct Iodes
have been discovered and located,
and more or less work performed
on them. and all of them show
wonderful rich veins of silver as.
saying from $500 to much over
S., 900 per ton. Some rich gold
veins have also been discovered,
and many OF the silver lOdes car
ry more or less gold. Large and
splendid veins of copper have
also been found in the district and
with the gold, silver. copper and
lead. with good water and wood,