Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1878-01-29
LETTER FROM ARIZONA.

written you some weeks ago. The rea.
son for the neglect is easily stated.
The tent l was to occupy took two and
a half months to come from Yuma, a
distance of $50 miles, and / had to re-
ly on the protection Of a shanty made
OF willows set on end. Until within
the last few days the weather has been
for several weeks quite cold, and
the wind came through the walls of
my "wickiup" nicely cut up into
slices about as thick as beefsteak, and
made me feel anything but hot. All
that is over now, however, and so be-
ing comfortable, when l have a spare
hour / will give your readers a little
more information about this great
mineral region.
PROGRESS BEING MADE.
Several operators commanding
abundant means were here recently
two from San Francisco and M from
Pennsylvania and bought the mines
which Mr.. H. u. Bixby, formerly of
Eureka, had secured. A new mill is
to be built forth with, with roasting
furnaces and all the latest improve
ments. The mill superintendent is to
be Mr.. Thos. McMasters, who, as many
of Us Eurekans know, is one of the best
mill men on the. Pacific coast. MIR.
Bixby is to superintend the mines, and
from the splendid bullion showing
which will be made when the mill
goes into operation, / fear we will
get an influx OF "wild cat" specula
tors hat Will do no good to the coun-
try.
THE STONEWALL JACKSON
Has got a new Superintendent, Mr.. j.
f. Johnson, from San Francisco. /
know Mr.. johnson well, and can say
in his behalf that he is sure to make
that property productive if any man
ear make it.. The mine has been con
trolled for months by a set of fellows
who seemed to take delight in insult
ing every stranger VINO came within
their reach. MIR. Samuel McMasters
had a pistol presented at his head he-
Gauss he dared to go on the dump at
the mouth of the tunnel. Such stupid
conduct made the management SO
odious that the stock ceased to have
attractions for SAT- Francisco buyers.
There Will be no tomfoolery of that
sort under Mr.. Johnsou's administra-
ton. Ii he is not allowed to run the
mine as he pleases, he will resign.
PROGRESS MADE.
Several discoveries have been made
recently that promise to make the
lucky n rich. Two new claims,
a mile and a half northwest of Bixby's
camp, are yielding high grade ores,
and seem to improve as depth is at
tanned. A tunnel run into the Hidden
Treasure. or Mason group of mines,
has exposed, 100 feet down, a solid
BODY of S75 ore. / measured the paw
vein yesterday, and found it over Ga
feet, with no back-wall in sight. Some
new developments have been made on
the Sherman mine, which promise
we'll for the future. The Hannibal
lode, near Mem illanville, is yielding
very rich ore. But no matter what l
or any other person may write about
The promising nature OF the mines here!
the public requires some tangible proof
in addition to opinions and statements,
and that they are sure to get about
June next, when the Isabella mill starts
up on Bixby ore, and turns out silver
bars in a free and easy way.
MILL FIzZLE.
The Miami mill is a complete failure,
so far. The company is a $4,000 900
San Francisco incorporation, and
though it owns a good mine there Is
not ore enough available without
months of development work to keep
the stamps going single month. -Four
reverberatory furnaces were erected
but as Terry McGInniS had nothing to
do with them, they were provided with
only ore set of CRATE bars at one end
for the whole four. The arches were
built of adobes, and beng quite flat,
they fell in the other day before the
tire was kindled. There are five man
ayers around the mill, and not one OF
them knows anything about the roast
ing of ores or general milling business.
The mines of Arizona would requireto
be wondrously rich to stand a mana
gerial burden of the kind alluded to.
BEAUTIFUL DAYS.
AS | write, scores of birds are twit-
tering in happiness in the brush near
by. There is no wind and not a cloud
in the sky. The warmth of the sun
here is lust enough to make it pleasant
out of doors. The grass is s%pringlng
up on the hillsides, ami nature seems
everywhere to wear a look of cOntented
repose. There is a solemn, silent gran
deur in the rough old mountains as
they appear TO look out overthis sunny
land-just as they have looked for the
last million years. If your readers
tell me TO wait until the summer heat
comes, and then my favorable opinion
of he climate will be changed; | an
swer that men who have been here foi
two years tell me that they have worn
the same kind of clothes and hats in
summer as in winter. Wien this car
be done, neither the heat nor the cole
can be extreme. Our coolest nigh
this winter. so far. vas 1918 degrees
below the freezing point.
NEWSPAPER WANTED.
There is a fine field here for a live
journal. The district has probably by
far the greatest mining future before i
| ~ any tninaral sppflnn on the Pacific