Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-10-01
Arizona items.

The subjoined are clipped from
the Yuma Sentinel of September
2Sth.
Another mill for crushing sugar
cane has gone to Salt river, con-
signed to c. Il. Hayden. The one
that came here for VIM. Crisman
some months ago left here on
Wednesday.
The placer mines above Aubrey,
and near Liverpool Landing, have
been entirely worked out and
abandoned. Gold was found, in
paying quantities. only in four
small gulches.
Copper and lead ores rich in sill.
yer have been successfully smelted
into bars by an experimental fur
mace at Mule Pass, Pima county. A
new furnace is now to be put up
there for working the ores on
scale proportioned to the extent of
the deposits. Water, grass and
fuel are plenty, and everything
promises we'll for a thrifty camp.
A few renegade Chiricahua In
dians got to sneaking around in the
mountains along the Gila, near the
New Mexico boundary. Sept. 18th,
they were struck by Lieut.. Perrine,
who had followed their trail with a
party Of scouts. By long and
hard marches he overlook them
near old Fort w est, were he killed
two of them and captured several
horses. He lost one scout, killed.
B. w. Reagan, former half own
er of the celebrated Silver King
mine. now owns the gold mine
from which Rowe used tO take such
rich quartz. 1t lies about two
miles from the Golden Star mill,
Maricopa county, and has close al
hand every facility for easy and
profitable reduction of its ores.
We are informed that Reagan has
contracted for ten stamp mill for
it, and that he will be out here
next week to arrange for its trans.
portation and erection.
1t is esi imated by comp peteni
men that over $3.50, 900 have been
expended in Pima county by East.
ern capitalists during the past few
months in the purchase of mines,
mill-sites and lands. The same at
fractions for capital are to bt
found in other counties OF Arizona;
but these have not made such eff
forts as Pima has to invite mon
eyed men and to afford them facil
tiles for travelling around and see.
ing things for themselves. Liber.
allty in this direction is we'll in.
vested.
A remarkable specimen of mete.
oric iron, more like steel, has been
brought in here from the Mohave
desert. 1t weighs about a pound,
and carries free gold, of which
nearly dollar appears on its sur
face. 1t is not magnetic and has
successfully resisted simple and
compound baths of acid. In this
respect it resembles specular iron;
but in no other. One of its sur.
faces shows fracture that reveals
crystalline structure, and its color
which is a steel gray tinged with
yellow. Ithas defied the best cold
chisels In the blacksmith shop, and
has not broken or Clipped under
heavy blows. If it's composition
can be initiated, there will be pro-
duced the hardest and toughest al
10y known.
The waters of the Colorado river
have fallen very rapidly of late,
causing many changes in the chan
mel. Sediment has again settled op
posite the ways, making them en-
tirely unavailable for repair
of steamboats, or barges. A few flat
rocks form reef, projecting from
Penitentiary Point, that throws
the current toward the California
bank, making still water and a bar
at the ways. A box or two of gianl
powder would break up these rocks
so that they could be moved out OF
the way, and thus admit Of more OF
the current being turned against
the Yuma bank. The prison gang
was set to work, on Thursday, to
move out the smaller rocks, and II
crew Is putting in a wing-dam
above the heads. This work will
cause great improvement, but II
will need some blasting to make
the good permanent one.