Arizona citizen., 1877-05-12

quick and cheap means of transit For the same reasons provisions must soon become lower in the mining camps, though I must say, in the towns l have visited, living is less dear than l expected to find it. At the hotels, board is $15 per week, and at board ing-houses Sl0 and upwards. As for capital, have in mind several San Francisco gentlemen who have invest ed largely in Arizona, and know of others who have their agents in the Territory now looking for favorable opportunities to invest.
 The fact is, Arizona, throughout its whole broad area, is one great mining camp. From its northern to its south ern extremity, and from its eastern tO it's western boundary, the Territory is Overrun by small prospecting parties. Thousands of miners are prospecting on their own hook. Every train of the Southern Pacific is bringing in new accessions from the old mining dis tricts, and predict that you will soon hear of " flush times and big strikes in Arizona. However. as to the latter, my prediction is verified before It is made. Several parties
 HAVE STRUCK BONANZAs
 Already in the Globe, Castle Dome, and McCracken districts, and it only remains to be shown that their ore ex- ists in large quantities to make them the peers of the bonanza Kings of the Washoe. In the Silver King mIne, which is in the Globe district, silver is found almost pure in it's crude state The shaft is down only some zoo feet at present, and the quantity of the ore IS only cOnjectured, but so confident are its owners of its great value that they probably would not dispose of It at any price. They pad some $3OO,OOO for one-half of the mine less than two years ago. It had prevIously been of fered for S300OO, without d taker Much of the ore from this mine as says as high as S34000 to the ton. The ore will average, l think, about 5000 to the ton. Most of it is shipped to San Francisco.
 Prospectors are coming into Tucson every day and reporting rich discover ieS, Tn proof of which they show spec linens of astounding richness, and mug gets of nearly or quite, pure silver. The Silver Nugget mine mentioned above assays in the thousands. The highest assays made gave respectively S19,0O0, S21, 900, and S27 900 to ,he ton. One batch of samples weighing ten pounds at at the mill yielded eight pounds of pure silver Another lot of fifteen sacks yielded over, $S,O00 10 the ton. Two assays made by the TerrItO- rIal assayers, MeSSrs. Faulkenau and Reese, gave respectively S1l,3l0 and S4, ,696 of silver to the t0n-no gold. Another mine just located four miles from the Silver Nugget assayed $17OO to the ton.
 South of this city many new devel- Opments are being made. the most not able being Tn the vicinity of the rich Yellow Jacket lode The new lode is traced for 15,000 feet, and Is from 100 to 300 feet wide. Over a dozen loca- tions have been made on the newly discovered claim. The quartz from these mines is both gold and silver bearing. The Umatilla shows a clear lY defined quartz vein 300 feet wide An assay of ore from this claim, made by w. A. Langley of Tucson, shows $475 in silver and $l13 in gold to tbe ton.
 SOUTHEAST OF TUCSON
 There are a number of locations in va rious stages of development. One thousand feet in the California mine on the Sea Serpent lode located Tn the Guija mountains was sold not long ago for SIO,0O0 In the Trench district a new body of ore was lately struck, which is very extensive and assays $400 to the ton. In the Alta district rich discoveries are reported. In the SalerO district three prominent claims are being worked. In the San Xavier district the sale of claim on the Green lode has just been effected tO a San Francisco company. And so 1t is Pima county. Very rich discoveries are constantly being made. and new claims daily located, and out siders are coming in on every stage to prospect or purchase.
 l shall speak more particularly of the other great mining districts in fu- ture letters. In this l only design to allude to the fast developing mining industry of Arizona in a general way, for the purpose of calling the attention of your readers to the fact that on the Pacific Slope
 ALL EYES ARE TURNED TOWARD
 ARIZONA,
 And that capital and labor are making all haste to this new, and but little de- veloped, but, unquestionably immense ly rich mineral region. l know of no place Tn the United States where q man with small capital has prospect of dOIng better for the next five years at least, than here, at mining, farming, or manufacturing.
 THE CLIMATE
 Is delightful and healthy in every DOT ton of the Territory. In the northern part, winch Is the most mountainous, there are slight falls of snow Tn winter but the thermometer rarely indicates a lower degree of temperature than g. In 1873, at Camp Mohave, as gather from report of the observations of al officer stationed there, the. coldest month was February, which shows mean temperature of 49.21 de- grees. The coldest day of the month was 3396 degrees. In the southern