Arizona weekly miner., 1876-03-31
C. C. Bean in San Francisco.


 view between the reporter of that paper and
 our townsman C. c. Bean, Esq., President of ] the Peck Mining Company. It will be ob-
 served that at the time of this interview
 Bean had not heard of the latest extraordi-
 n4rily rich development in that mine:
 1C. C. Bean. of Yavapai county, Arizona,
 arrived in this city few days ago from the
 Territory, and furnishes some interesting in-
 formation relative to the mineral resources
 of the Peck mining district. The Peck
 mine, of which Mir Ben is President, is in
 the heart of the district, twenty-seven miles 1 from the town of Prescott, the county seat of Yavapai. It is situated in the last main | foothills on the northeast face of the Brad | shaw mountains, at an elevation Of 5000
 feet above the sea level and 1 300 feet below
 the timber range The Peck mineral belt
 was discovered by gentleman of that name
 and an owner in the present Peck mine. on
 the 17th day of June last. It embraces five parallel ledges, and three inner ones having
 been pre-empted by the Peck Company. | The discovery was purely accidental. The
 existence of the lodges had been known for
 many years, the croppings standing boldly in ridges 150 feet above the country rock, but
 the capping being covered with black crust
 ofiron-stohe, they were supposed to be veins
 of that mineral, and were always spoken of as such by prospectors who had explored
 that section of the Territory. One day Mr. Peck while out on prospecting tour. stum- bed across these immense out-croppings of so-called iron-stone, but being ignorant of the nature of the deposit, knocked of a chip with his prospecting hammer, and was aston ished to find that the iron crust was thin, and beneath it the vein carried chloride of silver in large quantities. MT. Bean says that they have taken out of the ledge and sold $3O.000 worth of ore and received the money for it; have 5,000 worth of ore on the way here now, and at the time he left the mine there was from 100 to 150 tons of sec ond grade ore on the dump, worth from $500 to $600 per ton, making over $100,O00 worth of ore taken out from the mine since its discovery This has been accomplished, he says, without the aid of any machinery, and without any financial assistance. When he left the mine, few days ago, the shaft was down 135 feet, and from the bottom of it ore was being taken out which assays $2O,- 900 to the ton. The ore-body at that depth is IA inches in width. This shaft has also demonstrated that the yellow dirt at the top increases in richness with increasing depth. At the surface it assays $22 per ton, but at depth of l35 feet, Mir. Bean says it assays over $75 per ton. The vein matter is repre- sented to be soft, lying between walls of por- phyry. The shaft has been sunk to its pres ent depth without the aid of gad, or the explosion of a single charge of powder.
 The Peck mineral belt is about one and one-half miles in width, extending from the Big Bug district on the north through the Bradshaw mountains on the south, embracing the we'll known Tiger mine, and running through Silver mountain to Castle creek. Its main features are the five immense quart zite dykes, already described, known as the Peck series These lodges have been traced for a distance of 5000 linear feet. The workings of the Peck Company are on knoll about $50 feet above the level of a running stream, through which tunnel has been commenced to be run, which will be a thousand feet in length, extending from the northern to the southern base of the hill. The stream contains sufficient water, MT. Bean says, to run ten stamp mill, and the adjacent mountains will furnish an inexhaus- tible supply of timber for all purposes, As says made of the chlorides ore contained in the lodges range all the way from $l 200 to $21,00O per ton. Rich specimens of the ore are on exhibition at the Cosmopolitan Hotel, and attract good deal of attention from those interested in rich silver ores.
 CLIMATE AND SETTLEMENT.
 Mir. Bean has been resident of Arizona for eight years He bears testimony to the salubrity of its climate. They have had about two feet of snow this winter on the north hillsides; but on the 18th of January he gathered wild flowers within fifty feet of a snow bank. Settlement of the aIable graz ing lands of the Territory is steadily progress ing. About one hundred families have set tied in the Salt River, Verde and Gila River valleys during the past summer, and there are sixty families now on the way to the Ter ritory for the same purpose. The agricultu ral resources of the Territory as we'll as the true value of its mineral lands are only be- ginning to be properly understood.
 The journey to Arizona is no longer the formidable one it used to be. The terrors of the parched desert are fast disappearing be- fore the progress of railroad building. The ! trip was made by NIT. Bean from Prescott to Whitewater, the present southern terminus of the Southern Pacific Railroad on the eastern | confines of the Colorado Desert, in three | days, and from Whitewater to San Francisco | in two and half days. It is not long since | it took as many weeks to reach Prescott from 1 this city. The work of building is progress ing rapidly on the line of the Southern Pa cific. MT. Bean says that if the company | keeps up the present rate of construction the i will be completed to the Colorado river at Fort Yuma by the 1st of November. | Track-laying as far as Agua Calienta, fifteen miles from Whitewater, will be finished by the end of the present week. Agua Calienta will be the first station in the desert. The finishing of the road to Fort Yuma will be hailed with much satisfaction in the Terri tory, as it will give them the long desired rapid communication with the rest of the country"