Arizona weekly citizen., 1881-01-15
A Mint at Tncsnn-

the Legislature will present to Con- gress, at the request of the Tucson City Council, asking the establishment of a branch mint at Tucson, will be 8 justifiable request, and should receive due attention at the hands of the Gen. eral Government. The bullion pro- duction of Arizona in 1879 was but little over one million dollars. In 1880 the production of the mines of Arizona reached nearly four millions and a half-being nearly qusdrupled. Arizona, from an almost insignificant position in this regard, sprang in one year 10 the fifth place in point of bull lion production. The developments now in progress and contemplated will undoubtedly, in 1881. award our Territory a station which shall be still closer 10 the first in the ranks. We give a few estimates of the production of the metals for the coming year, which We shall base solely on the re- duction works now erected or In course of erection, endeavoring not to overrate, and to allow for the possi- bilities of failure.
 Tombstone District is now produc- ing about quarter of a million monthly. Two additional mines will soon add their quota to the list-the Grand Central and Head Centre | both assured mines, the former of which about the first of next month will add the work of 30 stamps on ore of proved value, while works for the Head Centre will soon be erected. With the mills now erected or actually contemplated, to say nothing of the numerous mines being opened, some of which must add their output be- fore 1882, we estimate that the pro- ducts of Tombstone District will show, at the end of the present year, to have averaged S450, 900 monthly, or total for the year of $5, 400, 900.
 In Pima county, Patagonia District comes next to Tombstone in point of production. The Hermosa mill is running night and day, and Is pro- ducing nearly S90,000 monthly-say a -o,,.I ,,,;l1;or for the uaar Tho Holland smelter is now running sue cessfully, and IS producing in the neighborhood of a thousand dollars daily-say S350, 900 fer the year. h. creased machinery, we believe, has been ordered for this property. The ". c. Davis mine will soon have Q cotton shelter in operation, and We estimate that the mine will produce placing the estimate very low-S150,- 900 this year. Other works are also contemplated for Washington Camp ores-notably those of the purchasers of the pool" who, as soon as prac- ticable, will have st least one, and possibly two 60-ton furnaces in opera. tionr. Altogether, we believe that we place our estimate low when we pre-. dict at least the total for Patagonia in 1881 at s2,OOOOOO.
 Arivaca District, long under cloud, is again coming to the front, with its sister district of Orc Blanco. The Con. Arizona l0-stamp mill has just commenced working the hIgh-grade ore of the mine, and the Derre & Townsend custom mill, and the Ari- vsca mill ss we'll, commence the year with bright prospects. In few days the Orion l0-stamp mill at Orc Blanco will commence the production of bull lion, and estimating the latter at $500, 900 for the year is low enough. Taken as whole, it IS safe to credit the two districts with $1, ,O00, 900 tor the year.
 Grouping the scattering districts which comprise (either erected or in course of erection) the San Xavier, the Texas Consolidated of California Dis- trIct, the small mill in Old Hat Dis trict, the gold mill at Dos Cabesas, and the several small reduction works in different parts of the county-we believe that we may safely estimate 8 product of at least a quarter of a mil lion. sThe above does not comprise the Copper Queen mine at Bisbee, which is producing at the rate of about million in copper yearly; or the Neptune and Copper Prince Com- panies' works, now being erected, which will produce at least as much more. Thus ve have a total produc- tion in Pima county of Gn round num- bers) Sl0,500, ,O00-to say nothing of the bright prospects of many prospec- tors, which must undoubtedly amount to much before the close of the year, if we may be allowed to judge by the records of the past year.
 Pinal county comes next. The great Silver King mine will produce in concentrations, in ore and in bullion-at least a million. The gold mines st Globe will give at least, with their combined twenty stamps, anoth- CT million. The mills of the McMor- ris, Champion, Stouewall Jackson, Irene, Isabella, the old 70 mill, and others now running or nearly erected, having capacity of more than fifty stamps all told, should produce at least two millions more, making 6 total for Pinal county of S4,000,00o.
 As to the products of the other