The weekly Arizona miner., 1878-03-15
WALKERS DISTRICT.


 EDITOR MrxER:--I would like to borrow half dozen columns of your paper for on' issue, but perhaps as many inches wouls be less trouble to you, and perhaps as mucl as would interest your subscribers, if no quite so much satisfaction to poor, Arlzoni
 4ger.
 1t appears that there are almost constant, quartz speculators, capitalists, mining anC mil men coming into the country, and thai some one, perhaps more than one. Tn Ol about Prescott, that will stick up his nos. to them and scent in the direction in whicl he is most interested, and lead the hunfei inthat direction. They go the rounds, and have seen at if all; but the old Walker dis trict has never seen them; and if there i, anything said about going to Lynx Creek they say, .No, no, that's too old, its played out, they have been trying for long time and have put up mills, but they have all bursted.n Please allow me to explain:
 There has been but one 10-stamp mill and two pieces of mills erected in this dis trlct. The men did not start in at the pig end of the horn, ss some do, and come out at the small end; but they, generally speak ing, started in broke, and came out in the same condition-the result of horn-spoon or surface prospect. Those mill men owned the mines for which the mill was intend ed, therefore that mine was he mine. They could find gold and work free gold ores, bat when they struck sulplurets they were at the end of their row. There is not a shadow of doubt but there are scores of better claims now lying vacant than those m. uhich paifia ruara aroctaI n1 ha time those claims were worked, flour was worth $4 per cwt, and bacon was worth from 00to D cents per pound, besides loss of stock by Indians, etc.
 Governor Mccormick estimated, in 1885, that there had been up to that time not less than $l .500, 900 taken out in this distinct And it is positive fact that there has been but little or no prospecting for silver in this district until recently, which develop ulcnts demonstrate that at no great depth silver predominates, and ore is found in many of the claims that assays from $l00 to $300, near the surface. It is a we'll estab- lished fact that the deeper silver vein is the richer the ore. l have worked on vein that doubled its assay for every twelve feet. This district has great advantages over others of the Territory, in the abundance of wood, water and grass. and taken in connection with the fact of the veins being true Assure veins, the mining expert, on acquainting himself, will at once recognise them.
 Now, my friend we are not uneasy, we know that we have good mines, that too, right st home, and are satisfied that capital will find its way to us, that too, soon. We know that the farmers are dependent on the mines to certain extent, and are wishing us success. Then are we not all miners, the and other business men not ex- ceptedi Then mining is the life of the country. Now MT. Miners give us your hand and let us all jogg along together and be happy to-day for tomorrow we may die, md to all enquirers, who may ask, where are 'uch and such mems minesg. They are put here on Lynx Creek or in that district, which is altogether a mistake. If you go 'ix miles east of Prescott, you will strike Lynx Creek, and you will be in Lynx Creek | District. If you go nine or ten miles south- | asst of Prescott, you will strike Walker,s | iulch, which is the extreme head of Lynx creek, also the Agua Fria, then you are in | Walker district, where you can see the ap- | ,arentiy secreted spot. and where lodges can ,e seen that vary in width, from one inch | O ten feeet. Some are better at the surface | n gold, and some in silver, ana some carry ,aiene and gray carbonates, and all carry | nore or less of both gold and silver, and his too in the same district that was here fifteen years ago, and is here til yet but ike the organ grinder, unnoticed, yet the listrict is alive and the miners are getting 'etter, and say they never intend to die as ong as they live, and we say that we are atisfied that we are in rich mineral coun- ", and that we are surrounded by rich dis ricts, such as Hassayampa. Turkey Creek, iumbug, Peck, Bradshaw, Henry Ward ,eecher, Big Bug, Alexander's Potato Patch nd many other bugs, and we can tell the eople abroad that this is geat country for tugs, even for gold and silver bugs, and if his letter from Walkers bug is published nd live to see it. it will be the first time hat have seen Walker district in print for lany years. C. Y.S.
 Walker District, March. 5, 1878.