The weekly Arizona miner., 1878-08-02
m. D.Assa cold rssla.

We condense from letter to the New York Tribune, dated Deadwood, July Sd, 1878, the following details concerning the new, but already developed field of the precious metals ofmineral wealth generally. Already, within the short period oftwelve
 months, says the writer, forty-eight quartz mills, sggregsting s10 stamps, with ca- pacity of nearly 1000 tons of ore per twenty -four hours, have been constructed
 The gulches and pine-covered mountain
 sides are fairly ringing with the unceasing
 din made by them. To fully impress upon
 readers the extent of this activity in region
 so recently wrested from hostile possession,
 it may be we'll to state that the miners of
 the Black Hills have in their first year set
 more mills and stamps to crushing ores
 than are to be found in Colorado and Utah combined; more than are in Montana, Ida
 ko. Arizona and New Mexico combined. Quartz mills m process of construction month ago and projected will this Summer
 swell the number to fifty-five with total of nearly 1,200 stamps. The capital already
 invested in mills and mines aggregates fully
 @, ,000, 900. The yield of quartz mines dur lng this year of preparation and experiment
 was estimated af from el ,500, 900 to $2, 2,000,- 900; the placer mines contributing as much more.
 Evidences of the march and empire to the great Northwest are so constantly and fore ibly manifest that one who followed Gen ,. Crook in his recent years of weary Indian campaigning through the deepest American wilderness, cannot but marvel. Here, where a little more than two years ago the strong est savage race held proud possession and hsughtily demanded $S0, ,000, 900 for this mere fraction of his home, is city of {, 900 busy people, with the telegraph, the daily mail to nearly all points of the compass, and railway communications inevitable in the near future. At this point of nights bivouac near the mouth of Tongue River, eighteen months ago, where the Sioux be- lieved themselves invincible, town called Miles City has grown to the proportions of nearly 1000 souls. It seems only yesterday since the valley of the Little Horn was washed by the blood of Custer and his men, and savage horde departed, glorying in
 their victory; but titled fields of prosperous farmers are there too. In January of this yea. no little excitement was caused by the oAoSoNcAg VI nitscf klluCo 1CoA tlic ucdu Ol Powder River, where just one year before General Crooks forces fought one of the hardest battles of the Sioux war. The spot, new SO we'll known on the frontier as "Mur- phys Ranch," on the Clear Fork of the Powder River, was for many years one of the Indians choicest camping places, and the broad and beautiful valley is there fairly strewn with tepee poles and other remnants of the aborgine's favorite habitation. Flocks and herds have been pushed northward, far beyond the Platte. up along the Cheyenne and Big Horn road; ranches being scattered along at all the crossings of the streams from the Union Pacific Railroad through to the Big Horn River, distance of 400 miles The telegraph also is stretched from Chey- enne to Camp Mckinney, oa Powder River -wherc the Sioux ten years ago, burned and plundered old Fort Reno-and the whole region is thus placed on gossiping terms with the outside world.-[ Mining Record.