Arizona citizen. [volume] (Tucson, Pima County, A.T. [i.e. Ariz.]) 1870-1880, 1876-05-13
Local Mining News.

Tuesday Of this week from 4 visit 10
Florence, and says that town begins f,
! look like a Nevada mining town, The
miners constantly bringing in samples
and quantities of ore from new and old
claims IN the Globe district, obtaining
the result from Jennings & Cos ASSAY
office and smelling furnace, making
their purchases and returning to their
mines The Globe district furnishes
the most hopeful signs of ultimate
prosperity that have ever appeared in
tins section. Not that there is any one
extraordinarily rich development in the
in the way of mines, like the Silver
King, but that there are so many leads.
already discovered and constantly be
found, on which poor man can hang
his hopes of at least a good living
Judge Summers was noting the ore
constantly being brought 10 jennings
in large and small quantities, and to
his surprise the rock average, right
along, from six bits " to two dollars a
pound in metal. He knows one man
who previously to January was driv-
/ ing a team for a living, but left off
teaming and went to prospecting and
has been dr;f1-1 among the moumains
and lodges since Lately he brought
in Some 800 pounds of rock from sew
eral lodges disco-ered by him IN the
extreme northern part of the Globe
There were rich veins of pure silver
running through the rock and it was
very rich 1t is not known what the
ore assayed but is known that the
ldiscoverer was offered $4,000 in cash by
a party Of means for one of his claims.
This Is only mentioned as An instance
Of the chances in mining. We know
of many who have been iGdustriously
prospecting and working fora year past
IN the same section and it is doubtful
if they are any better off than when
they commenced. But many have
struck ii, and many are continuing to.
find good leads, and the Globe is un-f
doubleday ore Of the finest mineral
fields in Arizona or anywhere on the
coast, and were not capital swallowed
up and monopoliezed by the latter at
fractions Of the Comstock, the great
exhibit made by the Globe AMI other,
Arizona mines would have long since.
dram to themselves a rich stream of
developing capital from San Francisco
Munson Is Young, mine owners in
the Globe district, have lately sold to
Mr.. Howlan, of San Francisco, q
interest in three different claims, for.
$4,000 Mr.. Howlan is Of extended ex-
perience and well known in mines and
mining in Nevada and Utah. He is
very favorably impressed with the.
mines in the Globe and viii immedi-
ately bring on from California a mil
and furnace attached, to work on the
claims in which he has bought interests.
He says the ore in the Globe mines is
similar TO that Of eastern Nevada and
I Utah and he believes he can work il
with complete success with his in
tended plan of a mill and furnace at
tac6ed. Mr.. Howlan left for San Fran
cisco on the Stl instant and will re
turn in the early part Of June. He is
working and investing in company
with other men Of capital, and being so
favorably impressed with the Globe
mines he will carry with him good re
ports, and he says when he returns
there will be others with him
From the Santa Ritas there is little.
heard but complaint about want of.
water The water is growing beauti-
fully less and the only relief to be
hoped for is the summer rains. If the
clouds which have been drifting up
from the four corners of the earth for.
week past would only bring some
rain with them, many heart would
rejoice. But it is too early yet to ex-
pect any rain. Placer gold from the
Santa Ritas has been brought in during
the past week to the amount of thirty
nine ounces and sold to Messrs. Lord
& Williams, l. NJ. Jacobs & Co., Z. \.
Fish & Co, and Wood Brothers.