The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-09-07
SILVER KING MINING CAMP, .
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interesting concerning this remote sec
ton, so long unfavorably looked upon
as country infested with savages.
snakes, sneaks, and the dangers of six
shooters and starvation.
Arizona but few years ago was not
a very safe and comfortable place TO be
in, but time is the infallible remedy for
} most evils, so we may attribute better
state OF things here now to the natural
changes incident thereto. The indom-
table pluck and energy of the American
pioneer has outlivcd the bane of SAVAGE
prosecutions, until now the less initia-
tive and more timid NAV sit securely
enthroned upon the pondcrous chariot
of progress and witness the star of her
zenith peep DER the horizon out from
under the clouds of silver lining. Al
ready the shrill notes of the locomotive
sound along her western borders, and
from where | am writing the steam
whistle of a quartz mill may be heard
responsive to the echoes that sportivelv
/, play among the hills. Steam threshers
are humming far and near in the little
! valleys that cradle her running streams
all denoting the cheerful certainty of
: advancing civilization.
Brushing aside the tissue of eenerali-
ties, we will give you some interesting
facts, always found, but seldom seen
from the distance while gazing upon
the golden picture of richly endowed
mining camp.
The Silver King district is located in
the Pinal Mountains, Pinal county.
about thirty miles north of Florence,
the county seat, on the Gila river. 1t
derives its name from the Silver King
mine, the nucleus and grand center of
attraction i'll this locality 1t was locat-
f ed two years ago by four poor men
since which time they have taken out
two million dollars worth of ore, with
out the aid of machinery more than n
common windlass, rope, and rawhide
bucket. OF this ore they have shipped
one hundred tons to San Francisco. net
, ting them five hundred thousand dollars
, in gold coin.
The depth attained now is three hum
dred feet, where the vein still continues
rich and of the average width of forty
feet. The richest ore coming out of
this mine assays as high as twenty thous-
and dollars per ton. Four thousand
tons of ore lying on the dump gives an
, average assay of three hundred dollars
pertOn. This quality of ore is being
worked here by small mill just erected
, blythe company.
The inside of this wonderful mine in
every shaft, wintz and drift, presents
picture rivalling in splendor any thing
ever revealed by Aladdin's mysterious
lamp. 1t is perfect silver palace, gilt
tering with every variety of prismatic
beauty. Silver glance ores hang in its
walls i'll solid blocks, rejecting as Won
pass the blaze of the torch in blue, pur-
pie and green, while massive pillars
and punches of pearly white quartz ce-
mented with sheets of virgin silver, as
, highly polished as new coin from the
/ mint, almost change the scene into
doubts of its reality. In addition to
, this are festoons of crystals, studded
with flowers of metallic silver and COP
per, resembling gold more wonderfully
, and beautifully wrought than the power
of man can ever devise. Notwithstand-
ing this mine has been actively worked
, for more than year, and little town
, has sprung up, the natural home of the
? workmen employed, every thing seems
? to retain in large degree the wild at
ributes of solitude where the red man
, and beasts of prey love to dwell AT
night the bowling coyotes gather on the
surrounding hills and keep all nervous
individuals in state of blasphemous
s wakefulness till morn. The poor Indi-
p ans come in now and then to beg and
steal, or appropriate to themselves such
things as they need; and, by the way,
l ',aIa In ~ ','oco ancient ihuiVlu-
5 h"t ' rha.; Mnn nv. s.ea' iloil II Wnite man
ouS Ihcuii"'isni anu neuralgia.
(, ..L,oa or @ .i.a,e .his spring, ana untii vege-
oao,os ~ 9. mature OH ,ie "lia riV-
oaiomIatad % % uo; ~. VIZ ,i no. oi u qualiy
Q 1aaGu Gni;san';u " eA:i.c 'hc envy OF an oid
I Caiioininn. C:n:'a. AriAona strawperries and
t 0nI.""a.i ,;i,It w. 1r,ohcn' morning, noon ana
a ns' nsa IL III y 'Srsh ,r ,liis is "reu Deans
B.. a"u ahouo Ja.om Eoco :. ~ one VINO mas Deen
st,anoo.s a.,oi ~ - n1' so VERY hlru; put
e It;o S,omi anu liiu iault WIN the
~ - snoa;, ~ nuw h'inl.s camp.
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: :li,la.e ~ summer, put very pleasant
e sto"d sn mi',.e1 1eo Ohe uay iast week mercury
d stooV ~ t;s - ues' az rort una, JUST now
;. .nu '.n;,.o5 .o,,iinas vi 'Ie southern racine
n d.. S,', .H;@ H, au'ancilg mo tms territory.
: ni ;,i ',as siiiie ne one year IL Is expected 1t
d WI, iea:n ;iti riorence, mus bringing TINS
h o;naI oannP "i'hi" 'hir'y hhies OF san Fran
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