Arizona citizen., 1878-03-08

enough of the work and development of the district, to form any decided Judgment as to either the present or probable future of the district. The people-merchants and all-have i'm plicit faith in the richness of their leads of gold, silver and copper, the latter two metals being the prominent ones. Several mills and furnaces have been built, but more or less mistakes of judgement have So far rendered them all of little account. Necessary changes are in contemplation, and some of them will soon be made. Adobe furnaces are to give away to those of firmer material. Concentrators must, it is believed, supplant all pans. The place is very inaccessible. Flour
 is $10 per 100 pounds and other neces- sities in proportion. The Putnam road
 is good one for light loads, but not for heavily laden teams; and this is said with an acknowledgment that it
 is almost a wonderful piece of work
 for comparatively poor individuals to
 undertake with but a few thousand
 dollars of aid from the enterprising
 people of Florence. Heavy rains will
 very likely damage the grade in can
 yons. It is built mostly through can.
 yons, gulches and along "backbones, ''
 and is a safe road for travel. There
 are many almost abrupt ascents and
 descents, but no dangerously narrow
 or sidling grades. It is said only a
 few thousand dollars are required to
 reduce or avoid the heavier grades
 The very existence of the road IS g
 compliment to the energy of the build
 CTS, and a proof of their unbnunded
 faith in the richness of Globe District
 Our 4-horse team was driven over tho
 road from Globe to Riverside in lit
 tie less than ten hours travelling time
 and no one regards the distance les
 than fifty miles, and five hours were consumed in making the remaining
 thirty to Florence.
 The trip from Florence to and iron
 Pioneer District was made in two days
 and hence like all the rest of our ob
 servatiOns, but superficial, yet som'
 decided impressions were left upol
 each. The distance to Hewitt, is twen ty-two miles; thence 10 Picket Post
 eight; thence to King mine ant village, five more; making in al thlrty-fve. The excellent character the road made it an easy task to driv to the King and back to Picket Pos in one day, and in five hours the mex day, to drive to Florence. The roa . is hard, smooth and almost level t . within a few rods of the King mine and nearly all the many mines of tn - district are almost as easily reache by teams. The roads can never % - much out of repair, and it IS said tha l. MT. A. Mason estimates that $2S,0O will be sufficient to build good grad oyer the Pinal range to Globe Distric If true, the saving in distance and tn passage of it through the pine flores l would seem to insure it's constructio - ere long. It would more than save il cost in one year to miners and mil : men. Lumber now sells at Globe Git e for S1OO per thousand feet, and woo at from 8 10 $6 per cord, and at lea as high in Pioneer District-perhaT e lumber sells higher. The new roa j. would surely greatly reduce the CO e of both, and they are indispensable in mining But even if this road ca T be constructed at such comparativcI H small cost to its worth, the Putma u road will not be useless by any mean C unless the prospects of the mine '- near the line of the latter are vel d deceptive. Some of the most valuab IS discoveries are reported near the sun l. init of the Pinal range, and also ne a the Putnam road. But the road bu: D. ness will adjust itself to necesslti 'i created by further and more thoroue 'r developments.
 P But two reduction works have be- " built in Pioneer District, and both a VI now unqualified successes; the fv 'i stamp mlll with it's Frue concentrate y at Picket Post, and owned by the s y yer King Company, has been a succe Ut from the day of it's completion to tl !" present. It runs like clock, al daily works from twelve to fifte, I' tons-concentrating about seven in
 one-as per information given us. 1T o mill rarely stops an hour except i' clean up. It is simple in constructio 0 and IS said to leave only from ten i' seventeen dollars per ton in the ta
 ings. The ore now worked IS t 0 lower grades of the King mine, ie which some 2500 tons are yet on { v dump. The mills capacity is soon al be doubled. Col. James M. Barn 1" was there personally examining. T le only his own large interests in t se mine and mill property, but the o "" "" look generally. He acts like m ie conscious of possessing good thing ie to an eminent degree. Why, he a y associates keep the mine from pub IL inspection, and are reducing the l' n- instead of high grade ores, form re .,o,rndrum in the district, and to sOI