The weekly Arizona miner., 1878-02-08
BILL LEEr.s COMBINATIONS.

" M. Leet, has returned to Virginia City Nev, and gives the Territorial Enterprise an account of his four years experience and observations in Mexico and Arizona. As Mr. Leet is we'll known in this County and Mohaye, it may be well to copy the follow. ing:
 In Mohave county are many valuable mines. There are several good mining dis tricts about Mineral Park. The priocipalo oi these are Ceabat and Chloride At Mineral Park Jim Pritchard has ten-stamp mill in operation, which is doing we'll.
 The McCrackin mine, promises to become a paying property at no distant day. The Signal Mining Company are on the same lode as the McCrackin They have in operation frst-class ten-stamp mill and the McCrackin Company have twenty stamp about ready to start up, if it is not already in operation. The ledge is 6 very large one, and yields free milling ore paying an average of S70 per ton. This has been the average during the past six months at the Signal mill. The mills are situated nine and twelve miles from the mine re- specfiyely. Water is abundant and the sup ply of wood will last several years. The mills are situated on the Big Sandy, stream that empties into the Bill Williams fork of the Colorado. They run by steam. Wood costs but six dollars per cord, and for at least three years to come there will be plen- ty of 1t at that price.
 Cedar Valley Mining District, in Mohaye county, sixty miles south of Mineral Park, contains many small veins that are exceed ingly rch in both gold and silver. The lodges are from one to two feet in width and most of the ore taken from them is worked in arastras, great numbers of which are in operation at various points in the dis trict.
 Mineral Hill District, in the same county, contains many good mines. The principal of these are not far from the McCrackin mine. The Centennial mines, eight to ten miles from the McCrackin, are very fine.
 About forty miles east of Mineral Park, in Blackberry, ten-stamp mill Is in operation on a mine that is paying we'll.
 Tn Yavapai county are many good mines. The Peck mine is one of the best of these. They are now down 400 feet in splendid ore. They have new ten-stamp mill. The princi- pal yield of the ore is silver. There are now good hoisting works on tho Tiger mine, owned by ex-Governor Stafford, and the vein will now be thoroughly prospected.
 The Tiptop mine, owned by Gashweiler, Charley Hoffman and others in San Francisco bid fair to be the best mine in the country. They have ten-stamp mill about com pleted. There are many placer diggings In this neighborhood Timber-blg pines, such as are found in the Sierras- is abun- dant. Three saw mills are here in operation, and there is seen a great deal of vigorous prospecting,
 AGRICULTURAL MATTERS.
 The principal grain-growing districts, this season, is on the upper Gila Biver and on Salt River. Salt River comes into the Gila at the Pima Villages, 200 miles from Fort Yuma. Much moro grain will be raised on the Salt River than on the Gila. The crop this season will not be less than six milli0f, pounds. There is water enough in the river to irrigate six times the breadth of land that is in cultivation. The river is as large as would be four such rivers as the Carson and Truckee put together. A dozen ditches from twelve tn twenty feet in width lead from it, and the water they carry IS net missed from the stream.
 Along this stream are seen the remains of ditches wider than the streets of this eity, that were dug ages and ages ago. They looked about the same as now, when they were seen by the Spaniards who first visited the country. They are supposed to have been constructed by race of people who occupied the country before the present h. dians obtained possession of it. No country in the world is more cheaply and conven- Iently irrigated. The land is level and slopes exactly as 1t should. Had 1t been made to order it could not have been better. The water of Salt River is somewhat brack- ish. but not to such an extent as to inlure 1t for agricultural purposes.
 RIVER OF sAI4 WAFER,
 It'was long supposed that the brackish- ness of Salt River was caused by the stream running over bed of salt somewhere along it's course, Its waters arc pure and fresh from where it heads in the White Mogns tains to within fifty miles of where It emp. ties into the Gila. Fifty miles from its function with the Gils there comes into 1t 8 stream of water that is intensely salt. This stream pours out of the side of large mountain and is from twenty to thirty feet desp. It is very rapid and pours into the Salt River a great volume of water.
 Here could easily be manufactured sqiii- cient salt to supply all the markets of the world, All that would be necessary would be to dig ditehes and lead the brine to ba- sins in the nearest deserts. The heat of the sun would make the salt, Were there 2 railroad near the stream. ils waters would doubtless soon be turned and led to i'm. mense evaporating ponds. It is supposed that the interior of the mountain cut of which the stream flows is largely composed of rock salt,