Arizona silver belt., 1878-10-03
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 To the weBtward of the Caskes lode and she traII phsch passes it 10 the Silver Belle, there are two claias. whose hedges show very goods pros poets for mines. On the Orion there is l4-foos shaft, showing sell defined ledge of carbonate ore. of which there IS about five tons on tho dump and where there is smother Opaning, the ledge which runs par. allel wIsh the first ia two feet wide. of apparently gooS ore. The south- west extension ef the Orion is the Hastle, with 25-foot shaft on a well defined lode of milling ore from three to four feet vide.
 The country about here, from the surface formation being mostly of a soft variety of syenite, consists of low, rounded hills aud level valleys. thiekly covered with grass and scrub. The lodges are generally visible on the surface, and their are a number of claims 0n them with openings of various depths, showing the lodes to be well defined and froIn three to six feet wide. Tile oress as shonn on the varlOus dumps, are generally ear bonate, carrying considerable galena, but seldom more than $100 in silver.
 About a lnile and a half up the trail from PinAl creek is the Silver Belle mine, which IS now 6elng worked by three parties from San Francisco. On the claim there IS q shaft sunk 40 feet on a rich strata which runs into the main ledge, and from that and various other openings made upon 1t there has been taken several tons of good ore, some of which was smelted at the Wheat6elds furnace returning $z59 Der 1on. They are nov at work running taa- nel to cut the nam ledge, having got in 75 feet, and there IS goo8 pros poets that the lessses will w.sA 5esei- opment have good paymg nine.
 To the westward of sbis though there is a number of lelges aud claims which look well, there .s hssle beyond assessment Voyk done on. them.
 About 2,000 feet northeast from the Silver Belle sbatt .s si.e Excelsior $. M Co.'s clam. Ihefs e sev- sral ledges which rug aroagh n. The largest of when uaa some seFy rich surface ore, wila goage of brown spar, conmon Co number of the ledges about hese Ae Com pany sunk shafg aooaa l89 feet deep on the ledge, a1lea carried small punches of ore sas showed smooth, well dennea ealls water in faster th4a hey could handle 1t, although she indications for hndmg body oi ore wele very They state another shaft, winch got down aoou. 3J feeL, when the promoters of tue Company having sold ali the.r stock, declined putting up any more ot Ehe money for shares, reasoning, no doubt, that 1t wss much better in their pockets than beng spent ID the development of nIne in winch they had very bEtie interest 50 lhings lie idle, nnul the stockholders can be induced to pay an assessmens-about 70 per cent. of winch wlil likely be spenr on tue mine, the balance gong . where the woodbne EwIneIh y
 The next claim northeast is the Red Rover, with stroug ledge which has yielded some very reh ore There is 35-foot shalt at one point, and at another they have gone down 70 feet and drlfsed 30 feet to tap par allel ledge
 The next claim on this group Of lodges IS the Morning Star, which has a 50- foot shaft on lt. Some very rich ore was taken from 1t, and from d quantity reduced at the Miami milf, the returns were Sl54 per ton.