Arizona citizen., 1878-02-01
ARIZONA NOTES.
A Few Of the Leading Mining See ttOns - AsrIeuIfuraI Interests- AncieHt Irrigation Ditches-A Big Stream of Salt Water.

torlal Enterprise of January 15, gives
 the following notes:
 Bill Leet, an old Washoeite aud a mining man we'll known everywhere on the Pacific Coast, who recently ar rived here after an absence of three or four years in Arizona and other south ern mining countries, furnishes Us some interesting particulars in regard 10 several of the mining camps of Ari- Zona.
 In MOhave county are many valua-
 ble mines. Mineral Park, the county seat, is about 35O miles from Fort
 Yuma, and Is high up on the Colorado river. There are several good mining districts about Mineral Park. The principal of these are Cerbat and Chloride. At Mineral Park Jim Prll chard has a ten-stamp mill in opera ton, which is doing we'll
 The McCracken mine, about 100 miles southeast of Mineral Park, prom ises 10 become paying property at no distant day. The Signal Mining Com pany are on the same lode as the Me Cracken. They have in operation a tirstclass ten-stamp mill and the Me Craken Company have a tWenty-stamp mill about ready to start up, if il IS not already in operation. The ledge IS a 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 respectively. Water is abundant and the supply Of wood will last several years The mills are situated on the Big Sandy, a stream that empties into the Bill Williams fork of the Colorado. They are run by steam. Wood costs but six dollars per cord. and for at least three years to come there will be plenty of it at that price.
 Cedar Valley Mining District, in Muhave county, sixty miles south of Mineral Park, contains many small veins that are exceedingly rich in both gold and silver. The lodges are from one 10 two feet Tn width and most of. the ore taken from them is worked in irastras, great numbers of which are in operation at various points in the district
 Mineral Hill District, in the same county, contains many good mines The principal of these are not far from -he McCraken mine. The Centennial mines, eight to ten miles from the Me Craken, are very fine.
 In the Hualapai Mountains a new saw-mIll Is being erected at a point about thirty miles from Mineral Park Abou, forty miles east of Mineral Park, It Blackberry, 8 len stamp mill is in. operation on a mine that is paving well. One ot the owners or this mill is Uncle Bully Rdymund, locator Oi the Raymond and Ely mine, Ploche
 There are placer mines in a great many places throughout the country. These are wOrkeI by what is called ' dry washing" The work is p-iu- 'ipally done by MexicanS, who thus pan out" the dirt in wooden bowls
 In Gavapai county are many good mines. The Peck mine is one of the. pest of these They are now down 100 feet in splendid ore. They have ! new tcn-stamp mill. The principal yield of the ore is silver There are now good hoisting works on the Tiger nine, owned by eX-GOvernor Stafford, md the vein will now bo oronghiy' )rospected.
 The Tip Top mine, owned by Cash. yiler Charley Hoffman and others Tn ] san Francisco. bids fair tO be the best nine in the country They have a ten stamp mill about completed There. gre many placer diggings in this neigh. lorhOod. Timber-big pines, such as lre found in the Sierras-is abundant. Three saw-mills are here in operation, !. md there is seen a great deal of vigOr- )us prospecting.
 In the Globe District, Pinal county, ire many mines in all stages of dcvel-. jpment. Shafts are everywhere to be ;een that are down from ten or fifteen O one hundred feet At the Sionewall Jackson mine in this district they are aking out a great deal of native sil- ger. Here are three five-stamp mills |. wo two-stamp mills, and one ten-stamp nill The veins are generally small, put the ores they contain are very rich.
 In the Pioneer District is the famous Silver King mine, the ores of which gre concentrated ull they assay from 5000 to S2O00 per ton, when they are shipped tO San Francisco The ledge s about five feet in width and contains | great deal of horn silver, so pure hat a nail may be driven into it 10 the lead, as into mass of lead.
 AGRICULTURAL MATTERS.
 The principal grain growing dis ricts, this season, is on the upper Gila River and on Salt River. Salt River comes into the Gila at tic Pima Villa res. 200 miles from Fort Yuma. Much . nOre grain will be raised on the Salt River than on the Gila. The crop this .easOn will not be less than six mil ion bounds. There is water enough n the river Co irrigate six times the breadth of land that is m cultivation. The river is as large as would be four. uch rivers as the Carson and Truckee put together. X dozen ditches from welve tO twenty feet in width lead rom it, and the water they carry IS not missed from the stream.
 Along this stream are seen the re mains of ditches wider than the streets f this city that were dug ages and .ges ago. They looked about the same $ now when they were seen by the ,paniards who first visited The country. They are supposed 10 have been con tructed by race of people who oc- upied lhe country before the present indians obtained possession of it NO' ountry in the world is more cheaply nd conveniently irrigated. The land i , level and slopes exactly as it should lad it been made Co order it cluld not ave been better The water of Sllr iver is somewhat brackish. bu' nog To uch an extent as 10 injure i, for agri ultural purposes.