Weekly Arizona citizen., 1880-12-11
eREArERvmLE DISTRICT.
4 Newsy Letter from the Santa Rita Mountains - Encouraging Reports from Reliable Source A Nisit to tke Camp from Col. Thomas Price and His Favorable Opinion.
GRFArFRv1LLF DISTRICT.

GREATERVILLE DISIhlCI,
 Santa Rita Mountains, Dec. 4.
 EDIToR CITIZEN You say you are always glad to hear from the outsl ie camps, and line or two concerning the developments and improvements going on around us here l hope will not be amiss Our camp, though ap- parently dormant and idle, has been slowly and quietly shaping itself to soon take a place in the front rank oi the rich camps iu Southern Arizona. The Santa Rita Mountains, as you no doubt know very well, are the most pleasant and best-umbered range ID this section, and our soil is free from all underbrush. There is a rich growth of grass everywhere, and groves of white and black oak and cedar abound on every hand, furnish ing wood in plenty for the winters fire, or fuel for machinery requiring It. No volcanic formations occur, ard the formation of the ground Is black loam and gravel, discol0red by iron and other mineral decomposition, giving it a deep red or yellow hue. IL IS a false idea tO think that there is no water in this range. Wherever the miner or prospectOr has taken the trouble to sink a few feet below the surface. a supply of water has always been found All the camps about here have plenty of water-some ot them as many as three wells. For the past four or five months prospect ing aud mining generally has seemed gr,rra and within that time some very promising and well-detined Assure veins Of rich quartz have been struck.
 A rich strike-the sublime name oi which calls it first to my mInd-is the Juruping Jack. This claim was To- caled some time ago by J. c. Phebe and John NJ. Williams. The vein, however, was only struck last week after a persistent search by these gen. tlemen for 8 long time past. They have two feet of quartz which carries quantities of black sulphurets and galena. with Q lttle chlurIdes. No assays have yet been made, but those gentlemen have every reason 10 feel satisfied, as the rock is certainly away above the average. l am informed there is third lucky owner in this claim-our old friend and host, George Rayfcld, of the Palace Hotel, in your city.
 Another rich lead has been lately found by Messrs Hutchins and Gear, on the Tucson sIde of tue mountains facing Browns station, in the Santa Cruz valley. This is a large and dis tinCt vein of quartz ana chlorides, cropping ont 1jUO feet between walls of granite and poTphyry, 2S Inches. Assays average between S301 and SiuO per lon. and wOIk is steadily pushing The bottom uf the shaft down. They have niue-fo0t incline on the south west end of the claim and a three-iOot hole on the center of the claim and divide cutting the ledge four fee down on the northeast end. All these opcnirrs show a true Assure ledge in solid granite for four feet either side. It is Indeed a valuable property,
 The same gentlemen have found gold ledge on the Shamrock Hill above the Greaterviiie piacers. The rock shows fine gold, and the ledge Is eight inches wide at two feet in depth. They call this the Lucky Venture.
 The Homestake is another promls- ing silver lead. IL is l3 inches wide on the surface and is of the exact na- fpre ss the rock from the Jumping lack Mr. Thomas Whitton, who is the discoyerer, says he will try 10 de- veIop it before long, and 1t looks from the strength of the croppings to be drstclass ledge.
 Among ihc older locations in our district is the Shamrock, rich three foot quartz lead rear Greaterviile, and tbc pfoperly of MT. Sam katZenstein, of Charleston. and l.. ZeCkendOri, of New York. This mine has m incline of 0 feet and is in Q good body of pa taucr and galena
 MT. Kalzenslein is also working men on the rich gold ledge belonging 10 him called Plug Ogly.
 The Pawneel Is another very yalu- able prnperty, owned by Tucson par ties-Messrs Belknap and McCleary and others. rhey have a tunnel on this claim some lS0 feet long, and the showing is most satisfactory 70 the owners.
 There are many other gooH anu well defined belts of mineral, including the hills and mountains about here, and ii is our earnest hope that some Of the many men of capital rushing 10 one or two of the already over crowded camps in this lower country will turn their footsteps out OHr way, and It they aIe not pleased with the prospects, continue their journey on to Tomb stone OF Paiaaolla or Bisbee or prJ Rlancn This I- on their route by car riaae OF private conveyance oi any kind and we can certainly show them rich rock from true Assure veins.
 Since I wrote the above Col Ihos. Prico the well-known and highly esteemed metallurgist anu assayer of san Francisco, has been here exam iping and taking samples from some of our older and best-developed mines. MT Price thinks Grea'erville District has better facilities as to wood and water aud higher grade ores than any In Southern Arizona. We neeG devcIopment-that is all-and we look for q movement here soon.