Weekly Arizona citizen., 1880-08-14

scn piSteu 'o the nrst station on the !52-foot level. From this a cr1ss.cut Is 22 feet in the direction of the vein which dips to the east. and ii is he. ileVed that 1t will be tapped at dis lance of Is feet from the present face
 The company have the most complete ana convenient 5-stamp mill eyer visited, some two and a half miles down the gulch. This, NIT. Lennon informed me, was built in order to en able the property to become se;f-sus. talnlng from the start. IL commenced to make its noisy hustle for the frat iime on July 1st, and up 10 the 24th mad stamped out S100O0 in bullion. in spite of the delays consequent on starting, and a week s suspension from cloud-burst having washed ont the ore road. l had the pleasure of seeing the stamp " No. $ put on bar dur ing my visit, and felt that that was the sort of thing which was tn he,p the country out l learned, moreover. that as soon as the miue justified sucb course, large mill would be built m the gu!ch directly below the mine That such 6 mill would pay would ap pear from the statement that aside from the present pay streak of two and halt and three feet, the ledge m"tter shows OF the surface some 300 feet wide, which pays at 8 depth from Sl0 to $50 per ion. On the surface lie from lJ00 tp 20O0 tons of decom posed dirt, which assays from 80 10 $50 per ton. So it would seem that the Nugget Is pretty fine property
 The first eastern extension of the Mack Morris is the La Plata. ! heard il stated that It was being placei on lhe eastern market by Major Bald win. It has an S0loot shaft on a vein winch shows at the surface feet of pay ore, and at the bottom of the shalt 10 feet and three inches-so I am told. The ore is Of the same char acter as distinguishes the Mack Nor rls-sllver glance, native silver and ruby silver above, and white quartz carrying glance below, the water level.
 While in the Basin l was shown a specimen of ore from the Dundee, q claim winch lies about two mics north Of the camp. This specimen was Q large one, and showed that the pay streak from which it came must have been four inches thick. IL was one solid piece of chlOrIdes, horn silver and malleable silver. principally the latter, ant was assured that it would assay S16,OO0. l heard a great deal about the Dundee, during my stay, and intended to accept the invitation of NIT. Brewster, the owner, to visit the property, but failed for want of time The work done on the claim consists of fl foot shaft, and in addition the owner has stripped the ledge for so feet revealing the vein 10 be about four feet wide, all pay ore, and carrying the rich streak of ore, as described above, averaging four inches in width. The hanging wall shows we'll, but sui ficient depth has not been reached 10 clearly define the vein. The ledge rCns northeast and southwest, and on the west side a blanket vein of the same character leads to the conclusion that, as in many of the mines in the Basin, the ledge must have stood much higher and been toppied over by the action of the clements.
 In company with W. " Harrod l crossed the Basin to the Silver Gulch, owned by that gentleman and Messrs. Hutchins and Yates. This is another of the many very fine prospects Tn this camp, and is on one of the rich spurs of the Mack Morris vein which tra- verse the Basin. The work on the T-s n previous 10 late very heavy ram the vein had been stripped for distance of fully l00 feet, but ihe wash had filled the guich tO such an extent that ir only one place could good view be had of the vein. This, however, was most satisfactory. The ledge at tbis point is about two and a half feet wide, is composed of gneiss and car rieS slrealls of rich silver glance. One of these sireaks lies next the hanging wall. which is we'll defined, and aver ares about four inches in width.
 Lying 600 feet 10 the east of the Nugget is the MarengO. This is with out doubt a very promising prospect, and If the owners had means to de velop il there is reason to believe It would become one of the fine mines of the Basin This, like many of iis i'm mediate neighhor-. can show ore that is wOrlh Sl per pound.
 With all my heart 1 hope that Rich mond Basin may have her share oi the money that. I believe. is coming io Arizona to help the miners out, and l feel sure she will do herself proud when tue time comes. l..