Weekly Arizona citizen., 1880-07-24

epe-ial correspondence Of IHE CITIZEN.
 HABsuAw, July F Prom what can sec and learn of the situation in and around Washington Camp. it has 8 magnificent future. The noun tam which gives the camp its name. together with the foothills, is so be, wildcringly covered with mineral de- posits, and these surflce deposits have such an enormous extent that one is sometime in doubt as to whether the mineral or the country rock has the prepondeTance. I was told Of ledge Of very fair carbonate lock, which is so wide that two parallel locations had to be made iH order to take it all in As regards the extent of the dep asi,s. il can be said that the deepest workings those on the Belmont and Dayis-have shown that the ore improves both in quantity and quality as depth is reached, and this ought to encourage all of the claim-ho,ders to make their work tell in going down, instead Of sinking a few feet here, aud making a cut there, and altogether doing more work than would be necessary to drive down a shalt to a considerable depth. Reform in this respect is becoming very apparent, however, and ! think six months from now Washington Camp will make very proud show ing.
 The company of which ex-Congress- man Luttrell is the leading spirit have !" "c07raled" some very fine property in Washington, as well as in Harshaw. The Belmont is perhaps the best show ing at present. It has been worked for years. and the ore was packed into Sonora for treatment. It is on the same led ge as the "pool' claims men tioned in my last, and al one point the c. oppIngs show plainly led ge-width of 400 feet. Nothing is being done at present on this claim, as the company are engaged in opening up the Hol- land. a nearly parallel claim, also of great strength and size, and in grading an ore road from the two to he larger smelling works which they are erect ing near the Mexican line, about four miles distant. I did not have time 10 visit the smelling works, but was told that they would probatlY be finished inside of four weeks. This will be great point for Washington, for tue successful smelling Of her ores will attract 6 great deal of attention, and bring the necessary capital into the town. The singular feature of work e+ all inc claims here is the fact that II is not necessary to extract pound of waste. and at the Holland l saw on dump 300 tons of ore and not a vestage of A waste dump. The developments on the Holland consist mainly Of 60- foot shaft, at the bottom of which IS 25-foot crosscut, every inch of which i, in ore. and the end not yet There are fully 5000 tons of carbonate on Ihe different dumps, and 1000 tons of base ore tbe former of which is said to run from Ss5 to S125, and the latter s45 to s75 Mir. ". $. schley is the efficient Superintendent of the company's prop erty and am under many obligations 10 him for kind attentions
 The Mark Twain lies side by side ritb inc Davis, on the same hill, and hos an identical formation with its sis,or claim. A cross-cut has been run vest 2O feet at the bottom of 50-foot shaft and is all in ledge matter, car rying kidneys" of high grade galena' drift has been run 30 feet south on inc ledge, showing much the same ledre matter as in the cross-cut. An o.bor drift is seventy-fiye feet in the country rock to the west of the shalt. which is being run to tap parallel ,edre and if surface indications are any cri.erian this drift will soon n, be in q fine large body of carb0nates- There ara about 40 tons of ore on the dump which will average s7O, and altogether the prospect is a most promising one The owners are II. II. Bragg, M. ;. Sny- der, (the well-knOwn Jack snyder of walkers line) and Frank 5. Hall' and the property is under bond to Gen. William Meyers and associates' Chicago. The work is being con ducted by " B, Hopkins, under the suneryision of Lee H. Newton.