Arizona citizen., 1877-11-30
That Other Opinion.

1 The Atlas correspondent wnose Just
 alusiOn to Florence we noticed last
 week, continued his journey up into the Globe country. He made an ex- tended trip through that District, ex- amIned the mines thoroughly and then submitted a careful and honest opinion of what be had seen.
 In our notes on the bonanzas of Ari- zona we have thought it advisable now and then to clip the opinions expressed in popular papers in order to impress upon our readers that our "mining talk'' is not mere home "brag." There fore we have submitted some of J. D. Els. remarks on the Silver King, and the following are some of the Atlas correspondent notes on the Stonewall Jackson vein, and the Richmond Basin, and first of the Stonewall Jackson, or McMlllen claim, he says:
 Through the courtesy of Thomas Riley, the foreman of the mine, 1 was enabled to go through the mine and make thorough inspection. A shaft had been sunk on the mine to the depth of ninety feet, showing metal in a solid seam of silver from within five feet of the surface to the bottom of the shaft, from two to nine inches in thick ness.
 This vein lies upon the foot-wall of the mother vein of the country, and so far as developed, shows to be over three hundred feet in length of metal. 1 estimated the amount of silver above the fifty-five foot level and three hun dred feet in length 10 be over two mil lion seven hundred thousand dollars, estimating the veins as averaging two inches in width All of the deepest workings show the vein to be from four to nine inches in thickness. Two shipments of ore, of three tons each, have already been sent from this mine The ore is estimated to be worth from fifteen to twenty thousand dollars per ton. l learn from G. N. Freeman, Sec retary of the Company at the mine, the exact cost of extracting the first three tons taken after the mine was pur- chased. The total was twenty-five hun dred and seventy-tive dollars. The three tons were worth at least fCrty-five thousand dollars. 1 saw large slabs of solid metal taken from this mine, which weighed from two hundred and fifty to three hundred pounds each. | had an essay made from the best ore from the Stonewall Jackson mine. which produced per ton thirtY-two thousand four hundred and eighty-six dollars and nine-twO cents l had sev- eral essays made, which ran from if teen 10 twenty-four thousand dollars per ton.
 RICHMOND BASIN.
 This peculiar formation is located twelve miles from Globe City, and on the west side of the Apache Mountains. It is small depression of their base.
 A portion of the ledges of this lo-I calIty lie horizontal In these flat ledges is found, in large quantity, chloride, or horn silver, lying next 10 the bedrock, above which is strata of loam, from three to ten feet in depth. There have been taken out from this class of mines, S125, ,0O0 in l ores, that run from $j000 to $15,0O0 per ton, and S50,000 will cover all the incurred in taking out this amount of ore. Several men have be- come rich from the products of their placer silver mines in this Basin. Still, !. there are hundreds of thousands re- maining in thIs class of mines. There are thousands of tons of loamy matter l which will yield from $100 to $500 per ton by mill process. There are some well-defned veins in this same Basin, one of which is the McMOrris | Mine, ledge of from four to six feet in width. The ore in this mine, from wall to wall, will average over $200 per ton. From the past records of this Basin and it's present condition, 1 con | clude that its future will be the reali- zation of a bright promise. There can be no doubt about it.