Arizona citizen., 1879-01-11
MInIng items.

s . about three weeks since, has been pro
 pecting in Davldson's canyon. Som
 two miles from Davidson's Springs b : struck a ledge and sunk seven feet O . it. He now has vein of ore som two and a half feet wide and assay by Salazar give $264 in silver. Ther is copper enough in the ore 10 pay tn working.
 l c. A Elliott, from Indianapolis, wh
 is here to examine and report for otl
 CTS, is going to Arivaca to look at tn
 Revenue, St Louis and Antelop
 claims If the inspection is satisfaC
 tory, and upon report to that effec
 from Mir. Elliott, company will com
 plete its organization aud purchas
 said claims and proceed to systemat
 ically open them up. The claims ar | bonded.
 Governor Stafford and Mir. Franl
 Corbin were at the Golden Gate mine
 the first part of this week, whence
 they will go to the Tombstone. It i:
 the intention to put working par
 ty on the Golden Gate, which is on the
 northeast end of the Santa Ritas and
 not far from the placers, and is a very
 promising location.
 The Tombstone mill and machinery
 is coming up the road as fast as tht
 great weight and heavy roads from the
 late rains will allow. Richard Giro
 arrived in Tucson New Years Eve
 from San Francisco. New Years
 morning Messrs. Gird and Vosburg Jeff
 for the Tombstone. The war horses of this company are probably now ou
 the ground all together,-Messrs. Gird
 the Schieffellons, Vosburg, COrbin and
 SaffOrd,-aud with the saw mill al
 ready in operation and the lumber sliding to the mill and the machinery trundling along as fast as Providence will permit and ore enough in sight 10 make the owners rich and give us all a slice, the prospect is pretty fair There may be difficulties ahead yet ore has to be practically worked be fore you know what you've got; but there can be no reasonable doubt that the Glrd mines are a success and a fortune to every one having hand in them.
 Messrs. White, Parsons and party have gone 10 the Contention grounds .nis week. The company is in full stock issued and mill and ou the way. There will be a fifty cent assessment on the stock of this company shortly, to pay for first working of the mine; but the Conlen- ton is one of the best mines in the Tombstone and will pay dividends as soon as it is put on its feet.
 MT. A. $. Whi e, superintendent of the Calabasas company, tells us they have complete machine en-rOute for boring artisan wells. It is coming in charge of J. II. Quiggle, proficient n artesian machinery. It was made n Joliet, Illinois, and is the most per ect and effective of it's kind. Will each here some time in February and )e erected on the grounds of the con- Dany at CalabasaS, some fifty miles outhwest of Tucson. The superin- endent is confident that the machine Eill successfully penetrate any forma- ion known to exist here. Will fur ish water for irrigation and mining
 Mr Sykes, also of the Calabasas com any, is shortly expected here with ,. L. Sullivan and MT. Hopkins of San francisco. NIT. Sullivan is the father n-law of Senator John P. Jones.
 Judge s. w Blakely, who arrived ere last Monday, reports rich gold trike in Queens creek, Pioneer dis -ict, in Pinal county. He showed us ne piece of rock full of free gold, nd says the rock which shows no free old at all has been assayed and goes lto the thousands. In the latter part December, on the ground of this iscovery, they were cutting under a liver vein which they had, when they truck a parallel vein carrying this oli rock. The assay of one piece of , ock showing no free gold goes little , yer S13,OO0 in gold and some $40 in , liver. Elsewhere in Pioneer, we learn that q le mines are looking better as they 0 down and several have been lately : onded to eastern parties.
 The McMillen ten-stamp mill, going ! y way of Yuma, Tucson and San Car s, is expected to pass through Tucson V ly day now. Col. James NJ Barney will be at the q liver King the last of this month or . Lrly in February and all outstanding ! counts will be cleared of.