Arizona citizen., 1876-02-05
Local Mining News.

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 from the Santa Rita Placers, this week on A short business visit NIT. Weliscl is a merchant at the placer settlement has been there for four or five months past. and has had the best means of as . pertaining the value and extent of thu gold fields and permanency of tho Idiggings. He says there is entire ig norance here in the matter of these placers. Certain parties have gon' there expecting to find gold as it wa: found in early days in California, ir great abundance on top of the ground and to be obtained for the picking up and of course were disappointed and have left the fields carrying evil reports with them. Those who have staid there and been willing to work are making money, and, even under the discouragement of an entire absence of rain sInce September, are becoming more and more encouraged at the pros poets and the results of their daily toll.
 These placers are not surface dig gings, although considerable gold has been found at shallow depth. But developments have proven that to get at the heart of these deposits the strip ping and drifting must go we'll into the earth. After getting the pay dirt, the difficulty is the water. But here again, the miners have found that hard work will counteract the difficulty to an extent Every camp, of which there are about six, with some $50 miners, has its reservoir, and two good rains during the rainy season will furnish sufficient water, for present demands, during the next ensuing five or six months.
 Mir Welisch says that he estimates that between $GO,OOO and sSO,OOO have been taken out Tn gold dust Tn these placers for the one year they have been worked. Given q good rainy season. and he believes the fields would pro- duce an average of $1, POO per day, with the present working force. Space will not now permit description of the different camps and leading men. There is plenty of hard work and good pay. Living is as cheap as in Tucson. MT. Welisch says that flour is sold there with a slight addition for freight over town price, while other provisions. clothing and dry goods average as low as Tucson prices. The scarcity of rain has compelled more extensive digging for water, with blasting, resulting in success.
 There can be no doubt of the value of the placers, but work Is required One man in three months, took out SS,OOO. This is an isolated case, but there are mary cases Ofless and yet large success. Fred Hughes, lately, started drifting on hill which others had abandoned, because they could not find gold with pen-knife, and in one days work took out s16. We shall yet hear great tidings from the Santa Ritas. From the Old Mine, information 'omes that the ore looks better than yer. The vein now shows from four O five feet in width of very high grade Dre The new discoveries near the Cerro Colorado, of Messrs Hays, Conlv and thers, are very rich. We have refer ed to these discoveries several times Dr. k. A. Wilbur reports visiting the l. Ocality last week. He says the boys f ave struck it this time. The vein n uns north and south, shows large and il lain for the distance of four miles. s rops out in places, in a mass of rich s uartz, to the heigth of twenty feet. q A letter from Tom Roddick, at the 'ellow Jacket, of February ?. states 'r the information of parties interest II l, that the amount of work required u V law has been done on the Black | oat mine for 1876. Also the same for b le Empire. The Yellow Jacket is a e iccess according to NIT. Ayres esti- u -a'e. The ore, after paying milling. u icrages S35 per ton, and thousands of II ms to work. The first scrape up, after p hours run, on the first instant m lowed twenty-five ounces of dry amal. g nm. NIT. Roddick says. at close of tier: "l have richer ore now than N IS ever before been found in the mine q, n the main lead there is plenty of sa ee gold in sight" =, The purchases in placer gold from ro lnta Rita this week have been. T. in . Jacobs & O., $500 worth; J. IT. h, rchibald, SlOO worth; E. N. Fish X n, D. s2OO worth; Zeckendorff Bros ten ,. nces. Herman Welisch brought in " ist to the amount of $500, from Santa ,o ta- There are other amounts but of llch We can getno positive informa r., n.
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