Arizona citizen., 1877-10-06
MOHAvE COUNTY.
About the MeCrReken Mine-signRl
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no more busy place in Arizona today,
 than aong the Big Sandy in the vIcin- ! ity of McCracken Hill. This hill,
 which has already acquired quite al
 reputation for the vast wealth stored
 within it, will, ere long, doubtless, be
 known everywhere as second only tol
 Mount Davidson, on the slope of which
 is found the great Comstock Lode.
 Near the summit and passing clear
 through the hill, IS the vast mass of
 mineral, silver bearing rock forming
 the McCracken lode. On the east side
 of the summit, the Signal Mining
 Company, represented here by the Su-
 perintendent of the mine. Wm. M
 Leet, is busy at work, developing their
 claim, building roads and contrivancesI
 10 hoist ore, etc, while on the west
 side. the McCracken, or more proper | ly tie Senator Consolidated company,
 is at work on~the original McCrackenI
 claim. From the mines to this place,
 the site of the mills and the nearest
 water, is a fraction over eight miles,
 This place, the town of Signal, isl
 being built upon q little mesa in the
 center of a wash coming down from
 McCracken Hill in an easterly direc-
 ton to the Big Sandy, and occupies
 all the ground between the Signal and
 Senator Consolidated mlll-sites, and isl
 distant about four miles from Green
 wood. The Signal mill, on the south edge of town, is completed, with the exception of the smoke-stack, and isl expected 10 be running in a couple of days and crushing fifty tons of ore daily. Work has been commenced on the Senator Consolidated or new Me Cracken mill foundation on the north edge. The machinery is now at Au
 brey landing and the lumber for the
 building on the road between here and l Prescott This mill will have twenty stamps and will crush from seventy five to one hundred tons of ore daily. | The old McCracken mill, ten stamps, | is now running on tailIngs at Green wood with Geo. W Fox, formerly of Nevada, as superintendent. Town-lOts ! here, sold by Richard Gird and T. E.
 Walker, are being disposed of rapidly and houses are goi-g up, not one at time but by whole streets. Settlers are coming in in crowds from all direc
 tions, and it is confidently expected that within a year, we will not only have one of the most fiourishing but one of the largest settlements in the Territory.
 l write you these items, not to show up our section for IL can and does speak for itself, but to again draw attention 10 what may appear the hackneyed sub ject of mails in MOhave. For over a year past, the various papers of the Territory have called attention to our isolation and pronounced it a shame that such a rich and growing section as Mohaye county had no adequate mails. The result has been that a con- tract has been let to carry mails once a week from Aubrey landing on the Col Orado, via Greenwood to Mineral Park, but thIs is by no means sufficient when it is recOllected how irregularly and how seldom the steamers ascend the river to Aubrey. What we now want is regular mail connection with the balance of Arizona, by the most satis- factory and quickest route, viz: A line from Greenwood to WIckenburg in Maricopa county, via Date Creek. With the exception of the little traffic up and down the Sandy, all tr, vel and freight from Arizona proper 10 Green wood, passes over the road from Wick . enburg. To bring the one hundred and fifty thousand feet of lumber need ed for the Senator Consolidated mill from Prescott, Sam Miller, the team ster, has to come first to Wickenburgl and then across by Date Creek. To- better do this, he has built a new and much shorter road part of the way. By far the greatest part of our grain and flour already comes from the Salt River valley, via Wickenburg, and this ! is no Inconsiderable item. Train after train loaded with four or grain, comes in from Phenix, and it is al- ready acknowledged that the Sandy is , to be one of the greatest markets for the immense crops of Salt River val ( icy Some direct communication should certainly be had with our base of sup plies. Again, the fact that all freight ( for Prescott and vicinity will soon be landed at Aubrey, instead of at Eh- and pass over the much short ' CT road through Signal and Date Creek, , has got beyond the hypothetical stage 2 and will soon be accomplished
 These considerations, leaving out the , presence here, within a year, of some c thousands more industrious and we'll provided settlers, il is believed. should be sufficient to show the great Decessi- iy for the establishment of the propos- ed ,nail-ruute. Why, and this is an [ incident in the matter not ordinarily d known, the people here have already 9 stated that they would contribute up- .