The Arizona sentinel., 1877-08-18
FINAL COUNTY.
An old Nevada Mans Description
 --Rich Silver Mines--COpper for the WOrld--WOuderfuI DevelOp-

We are indebted to Gov. Stafford, who has recently examined the mines north of Florence. for the following interesting items:
 Most of the work on the Silver King mine is suspended at present for the req son that the company have lying upon their dump more ore than can be coneen- trated in the next twelve months, and as there is no other machinery for working or reducing these ores, there is neither room nor profit in piling it upon the dumps The mine never looked more promising than it does at the present time, and the concentrator works to a charm. Three more concentrators have been ordered from San Francisco.
 The Silver Belle, located about five fIiiles from the Silver King and owned by Whit low & Co:, is being rapidly developed, showing large and exceedingly rich lode: u DlQS ldlT GO IlNdl IHc CeIouidtCu OhNOi King. Several other mines in this district are being prospected with good results.
 A number of locations have recently been made in the Superstition Mountains, about twelve miles northwest fire m the Sil- yer King, that give promise of becoming valuable mines
 1 Seven miles north of Camp Pinal a promising mining district is being opened One of these mines was recently sold to q San Francisco company.
 Active prospecting is being carried on Tn the main Pinal mountains, and two new mining districts have recently been formed on the western slope of these mountains.
 There are now about twenty-five miners St work in the Mineral Creek district, with the most fattering prospects. The lodes are large and well defined, and assay from S1OO to s10GO per ton in silver. One man has several tons on the dump that gave an average assay of $500 per ton. The ese mines are located about forty miles from Florence near the Gila valley.
 Another district still east of Mineral Creek has been organized by Putnam and others. Nuggets of nearly pure silver are frequently found in this district that seem to have been detached from the lodes, and so far as the lodes have been prospected they show very high grade ore.
 Explorations in the Globe district have extended those mines to about twenty miles in length by at least twelve miles in width. A belt of mineral has been dis covered running from Pinal Creek in 8 northeasterly direction about twenty miles Locations Lave been made on this belt nearly all the way, and quantities of al- most pure silver have been taken out at various points along the entire distance. The most notable locations are the mines in Richmond Basin, owned principally by McMorris, Styles, Alvaney, Dickey, ChilsOn Bros., Miller and others, and the Sherman and Stonewall Jackson mines. The latter location is near the northeastern end of the belt, and is probably the richest dis covery yet made in the district. The own CTS, McMillan & Harris, have sunk a shaft on the foot wall seventy feet deep. They have found continuous crevice, following the wall, of metal which is about so per Gent. silver. From this shaft they have ta- ken out already, without drifting or stop ing, about S6O,0OO in silver, and at the bot tom of the shaft the silver creVice is wide and quite as rich as at any other point. Be- tween the footwall and the hanging wall, and above this crevice, there appears to be a large vein of low grade ore, and such seems to be the condition along the entire belt, but so far most of the developments have been confined to following the rich crevices The Sherman mine, about five miles from the Stonewall, boasts of having taken out the largest silver nugget, one piece weighing 45O pounds, supposed to be at least half silver Richmond Basin has been, perhaps, the best poor mans camp in the district The Chilson Bros. have taken out and shipped at least s5OOOO of ore going into the thousands. McMor- ris and Styles took S10,0OO from shaft less than forty feet deep and the pros; poets are better as they go down. Alvaney and Dickey Miller & Co.,, and many oth- CTS have also taken out large quantities of rich ore, The future wealth of the dis triet will consist of the lower graue ores which will pay fair margin above; the ex- pense of mining and milling, as this will give employment to a large number of :, people and distribute the money.
 Two new mills are in process of con- struction; one on the Champion mine, by J.-S Wilson & Co.,, and oIe at the forks of