Arizona citizen., 1877-07-21

] perfectly intact and as uninjured by
 the great heat as the children in the scriptural fiery furnace. He rubbed
 his eyes and looked and waited. The ore melted, the smelling went on, the
 copper plate wIthstOOd the heat 10 per lection and great discovery was
 made The rough theory is that the
 air from the outside acting upon the
 easily hardening copper plate, keeps il
 from melting and really transforms II
 into a natural rind or crust. It was
 a homeopathic remedy, in a sense, and
 perfectly etfectual as Mr Lesinsky has
 now found by long tired use. He lines
 his furnaces with copper plates; these
 last several months and when rendered
 useless by slag, &c., are easily and cheaply replaced. He has applied
 for patent and it is to be hoped that he will reap rich reward for this
 great though so simple discovery.
 Leaving Clifton, the road to the LOngfellow mine leads around steep
 high hills some six miles to the mine.
 Over this the teams go to and fro, car rying water and supplies to the mine and going back loaded with ore. The
 road has beer built at great expense and for two-thirds of its extent it is dug out of and lies along the sides of precipitous hills The mine lies on the east slope of solid mountain of copper At the foot of this mountain, three tunnels have been run in at in tervals, and commencing in the finest kind of copper ore, they penetrate and find no limit, in any direction, to the ore body. It is undoubtedly the best developed mine in the Territory. Above the tunnels, on the steep hill side, are the miners hulS and the house of the Superintendent, Mr. w. R. Mccormick Adjoining the Longfellow, on the west is the Yankie mine, already patented, and on the soUihwes. is the MonteZu- ma, also patented. Thence consider ably 10 the west is the Copper Noun tain, the Regulus, the Arizona Central, and on the extreme west are the ThOm- son and some dozen other mines. ali surveyed and either patented or in process of obtaining patent The only one of them now being worked is the Thomson. Mir Gleason, the Superin- tendent of the Thomson, has a camp on the Fresco, below Clifton, and his have men and machinery on the ground and have already made large expenditures on roads and in opening up their mine.
 But the great work of Clifton dis trict Is that done SO quietly during the past four years by the firm of II. Lesinsky & Co. There in the far east ern part of the Territory, miles and miles away from everywhere, in an al most inaccessible mountain fastness, a few enterprising spirits have initiated and perfected a mining enterprise that puts to the blush all the mining done in the more accessible and richer parts of our Territory. While we have been talking about capital coming in here and helping us develop our rich gold and silver mines, H. Lesinsky & Co. have put their money in their wallet and have gone into the inhospitable and taken up a copper mine, the product of which is now worth somew.ere around l9 cents a pound, and they have created the thriving dis trict of Clifton and support directly by their mine some 1000 people. Day and night the furnace chimneys belch ou: their fire and smoke, and the busy throngs of men move hither and thIth- CT, and the barren mountains produce bread for the thousand. There isn't. any money in it, to speak of, and if copper keeps falling, the company may yet have 10 close down until the ap- proach of a railroad lessens freight and makes the production of copper at the present increasing Iy low figures. But what the company have already so unostentatiously done, stamps them as the most enterprising and progressive capitalists of Arizona. The individual members of the com pany have long been known and es- .eemed for their socIal and mental qualities.
 We wish we had space to write of all the admirable results of Clifton inning, but there are so many things md one can merely skim over the sur 'ace in letter like this. J. L. II.
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