Arizona citizen., 1879-11-22
Rean Remarks br q R,a JOnrnnl.

Mean Remarks 6y q Gig Journal
 The Engineering and Mining Jour nal answers inquiries as to some mines in Arizona thus:
 The Gilded Age is another concern that has been somewhat largely adver- tlsed, but failed to iuslify the state ments made of it, and there are some others in the same catagory. The mines in Arizona have been very ex- tensively pulled, but few of them have done much in the way Of bullion There are extremely rich mines no doubt. but there are also, and probably for that very reason, a great many " wild cats and undeservIug claims brought here to the east.
 Tombstone people will hardly care to have their property classed with " mines as the Gilded Age. But the Journal patronizes tine country a little when it says: We learn that in the Contention mine, while sinking the shaft discovery ,gas made of a body of rich ore on the 18th inst. (October). This find is about 20O feet down the shalt, and Is said to be quite promi>- ing" It mentions the Toughnur, which is represented as valuable property" And further:
 We hear of the Naumkeag which Was recently sold Tor $2J,0v0, and is intended IUr the San Francisco market. IL has shalt .0 feet deep. with a drift from the bottom lUU leet long, ana shows considerable high grade ore.
 The Grand Central is said 10 be a good mine with bad management. Il will probably be offered in ,ne east.
 The Empire may Tn tune, be d good mine, but there are few who know i, That now believe 50. It is not upon 3, |" continuation oi the Contention vein ds Is sometimes represented, and ln- deed, there h some GOuDtS as 10 WhelL- CT IL is on any vein.
 It strikes Us that the above is a care. less and unGigniiied way for a great paper to speak oi matters on which il claims Jo be next to iniallible author iJy To read it's remarks about the Contention one would naturally inter that the owners had been doing 2JJ feet of prospecting and had been re- warded by a quite promising de posit at that depih, instead of the fart which is that neither shafts or level. have ever been of from fo 1T 10 eleven feet of orc, and that 2V0J tons of high grade ore Is on the dumps waiting for the mill. The black eye which is administered to the Grand Central is very good, when it is considered that the property is Just being opened and never has had any management al all. The remarks about the Empire smack of the long-ongued gossip thsl floats about many the quid nunces ol mining camp. As 10 wildcats, we think some distinctions ought 10 be drawn. 4 prospect, which Is offered as such, at prospect prices, and which from the nature oI the ease, as 1t lie: entirely open 10 the inspection of eve ryJody, can deceive no one, ought mol to be stigmalized ill that way by any man who from his own observation decides that it is not worl" his money IL is only few weeks since a confess ed expert examined the Head Ceutel and refused to recommeT it, but an other man came along and spent few hundred dollars on tand proved il t' be very valuable indeed. Only abou year ago it is said, a man who haC located the Hermosa, after the best ez IaminatiOn he could give il, that h' kicked down his monuments in disguS and abandoned ,Le whole thing. Nov ! he would give his hundred thousand 1 dollars to be back again. The iact is 'that there is no expert living who cal ! say wiih certainty that any surface
 prospect i. wiik-cat,' because th' term implies a fraud which cannot e. ;-r