Arizona citizen., 1877-08-11
PinaI County Mining Progress.

ing mining items:
 Most of the work in the Silver King
 mine is suspended for the present, for
 the reason that the company have upon
 their dumps more ore than can be con- cenuated in the next twelve months
 and as there is no other machinery for
 working or reducing these ores there
 is neither room for nor profit in piling ii
 upon the dumps The mine never
 looked more promising than it does at
 this time The concentration works to
 "a charm and two more of these ma chimes have been ordered from San
 Francisco.
 The Silver Bell, located about five
 miles from the Silver King and owned
 by Whillow & Co.,, is being rapidly developed, showing a large and eX-
 ceedingly rich lode. It bids fair to IT.
 val the celebrated King.
 Several other mines i'll thIs district are being prospect with good results. A number of locations have recently
 been made in the Superstition Noun tainS. about twelve miles northwest from the Silver King, winch give promise of b coming valuable mines. Seven miles north of Camp Pinal a promising mining district is beng opened. One of these mines was re gently sold to San Francisco compa- ny. Active prospecting is being car ried on in the main Pinal mountains and two new mining districts have recently been formed on the western slope of them. There are now about twenty-five miners at work in Mineral Creek district, with the most flattering prospects. The lodes are large and well defined and the ores assay from $l00 to S1,G00 per ton in silver One man had several tons on the dump that gave an average assay of $900 per ton. These mines are located about forty miles from Florence, near the Gi- Ia valley. Another district still east of Mineral Creek, has been organized by Putnam and others Nuggets of nearly pure silver are frequently found in thls district, that seem to have been brok- en off and detached from the lodes, and as far as the lodes have been prospect ed, they show very high grade ore.
 Explorations in Globe district have been extended through the mines to about twenty miles in length by at least twelve in width \ belt of min- eral has been discovered running from Pinal Creek in a northeasterly direc- ton about twenty miles. Locations have been made upon this belt nearly all the way, and quantities of nearly pure silver have been taken out at va rious points tine entlrc distance The most notable locations are the mines in Richmond Basin, owned principal Iy by McMorrls, Styles, Dickey, Chill son Bros, Miller and others.
 The Stonewall Jackson location is near the northeastern end of the belt and is probably the richest discovery yet made in the district The owners, McMillan and Harris, have sunk ai shaft on the foot wall seventy feet leep. They have found a continuous crevice following the wall, of metal which is about so per cent. silver. From this shaft, they have taken out Ilready, without drifting or stoping, about $SO,OO0 in silver, and at tie bot .om of the shaft the silver crevice is wider and quite as rich as at any other Do.nt Between the foot and hanging walls, and above this silver crevice, ! there appears to be a large lode of low grade ore, and such seems to be the con lition along the entire belt; but so far, most of the developments have been confined to following the rich crevice.
 The owners of the Sherman mine, about five miles from the Stonewall, ! boasts of having taken out the largest ,ilver nugget, one piece weighing 450 pounds, supposed to be at least half ,Ilvcr.
 Richmond Basin has been perhaps he best poor mans camp in the dis rict. The Chilson Bros. have taken put and shipped at least SjO,0OO worth ,f ore, running into the thousands per on. McMorris and Styles took $10,- 100 from shaft less than forty feet lcep, and the prospects are better as hey go down. Alvayney and Dickey, Miller & Co, and many others have .lso taken out large quantities of rich llt- ilt lulNlG NIdllil Ol tAiAo NAAoNA ANA II will consist of the lower grade ores hat will pay a fair margin above the of mining and milling, as this will give employment to a large nun, ,er of people and distribute the mon V.
 Two new mills are in process of con- one at the Champion mine. y J. D. Wilson X O., and one at the orks of Pinal Creek, by Townsend x 70. When completed, they will be in very respect frst-class mills It is be- ieved that these mills will be kept onstautly at work in good ore, and if Q, they will give life and value to.