The Arizona sentinel., 1878-07-06
NIeCrackIn and Signal.

generally known that it is hardly
 necessary to say much about it,
 except that McCrackin is spelled
 with an "i,o and not with an "e. "
 The ledge is a bold one, cropping
 over a high hill, far above all
 chance of water. In fact water
 for drinking has to be brought
 there from some distance. It is packed ill kegs on jackasses from
 @ spring five or six miles distant, and from CaStaneda'S well. dis tant some twelve miles. Here l Castaneda has access to a good
 grass range and keeps a number
 Of cattle, sheep and goats. The
 latter are crossed with AngOra
 blood, and are a remnant of 1900
 head that were started for AriZo-
 na across the California desert: between Dos Pallnas and Chucka-
 walla over 1200 of them died from
 eating some poisonous herb. The
 we'll is about eighty-five feet deep and furnishes an inexkaustible supply of delicious water.
 The ledge is nine miles from
 the quartz-mills on the Sandy.
 About ninety tons are extracted daily from the McCrackin, and about forty-fye from the Signal, the mine next adjoining to the North. The quantity of ore in sight is said to be immense, but as it all looks alike to the unprac- tised eye, the visitor cannot tell whether it yields Sl0 or Sl00 per ton. The experienced interview CT listens with caution to all state ments made about value of ores shown him. But he can readily see at the McCrackin that a few men are tearing down breasts of gre from ten to forty feet in width and sending it all to mill. The waste dump of the Signal is tri- fling, showing that this mine also mills it's ores without selection. Transportation to mill costs 8 and S6 per ton over very fair roads.
 The Signal mill, of ten stamps, and the McCrackin, of twenty, stand upon the banks of the San dy. Between them lies the town Of Signal; adjoining, and spread around the McCrackin mill, stands New Virginia. The dividing line between these embryo cities is not well defined, and the distinc- tioh must have been made fer "giory," rather than for conve= nience. Besides the mill, foun- dry, machine-shop, and smelting and refining furnaces, New Vir- glnia boasts of good drugstore and fine stock of surgical instru- meuts handled by an experienced 1 physician, Dr. E. Thieie. J. II. ! Behan, E. II. Smith (Fatty) and 1 Strauss Ca forn1er typo of the l Miner otfice), run first-rate hotel l and saloon. M. Guerin (of San Francisco boot and shoe faine) and 1 Levy, Koshiand & Go. have big stocks of goods. THE SENTINEL not long ago noticed shipment by Guerin of thirty halfsbarrels of butter, and hinted that the cUm- ing hot weather would cause it to be drawn for sale through faucet. dragged us down into a chilly cellar and told Us to try a piece of that butter; but having no cUld-chisel handy, we had to give it up. When he sells any perhaps he blasts it with giant powder. $. c. Fuller, who used to be at Yuma, has a pleasant sa- loon here. A restaurant, the Nc Crackin company's offices and a few scattering dwellings make up the rest of the town of New Vir- ginia.
 During the month of May the mill turned out withinI $50 Of S83,O00 worth of bullion. These figures are accurate. Thel; of ore crushed during ;