Arizona weekly citizen., 1881-02-06
ARIVACA.
A Camp that Must BOOm-GOod Mines and Plenty of fThem-DevelOpmen now going on.
speelal corre.pondence of the CITIZEN.

Special Correspondence Of the CITIZEN.
 ARIvACA, January 30.
 EDITOR CITIZEN: 1 reached here shortly after sundOwn Friday even ing. The stage drive was thoroughly enjoyable, and for the benefit of .your distant readers, 1 may state that short ly after passing Browns Station at San Ritas 20 miles, the country pass ed through is very different from any thing have seen in Arizona. Large grassy plains and low undulstIng hills covered with verdure, on which as the chatty driver remarks, ter rible lot of stock range end feed, are traveTsed right to this town. There are several large ranches on the road and a good deal of cultivated land near the homesteads The same sort Oi country stretches along the Valley of Arivaca, which runs northwest from the town right to the foot of the Rocky Barbachiya mountains, 22 miles from here.
 Arivaca is not as large a town as l had expected. Its growth has been but slow, and 1 hear one of the req sons for this was the shortsighted pol icy of some of the property holders, which they now bitterly regret, of not offering sufficient inducements 10 intending settlers and the fear of con- petition of new stores with those al- ready In existence.
 Mining is of course the occupation of most of the inhabitants, Eut even in this Arivaca has not kept pace with other towns in Arizona. IL is unfOr- tunate that the capital which has found its way here has SD far not re- turned that success which the pros poets indicated, and with the excep- ton of the Con. Arizona mine, none of the properties sold 10 Eastern com panies are at work. Brigllter pros- poets though are not far ahead and no long time will elapse before some of the recent prospects now being opened up are taken hold of and protitably worked by men of means. l have visited many of these claims and an- hex for information Of your readers detailed list of some Of the most im- portant
 There are three mills here, none of which are at present running, from various causes. The Arivac9 mlll, situated about half mic from the town, is at present owned by the Ari- yaca Mill Company of Chicago, Ills. The buildings are large and substan- tially built. They have ten- stamp mill, but as the stamps are only $50 pounds, they are found to be made auate to the hard rock of the country. New S50-pound stamps have been or dered, and when work is begun l prophecy bright future for this mill, especially if the directors offer far terms to the many prospectors that have claims In the vicinity, all of whom would gladly sell their ores to a custom mill. Prospectors and mill owners would then he mutually ben efited.
 A cOncentrator and complete lix- iviatIon works are attached to thls mill, and when once in good working order, large quantity of ore can be daily treated and turned into bullion.
 They have on hand a lot of 200 tons of ore from the Fl PlOmO mine, So- nora, waititing to be worked. l say good luck and success 10 the Ariyaca mill. In addltiOu to custom work, the company own several claims in the Barbachiva Mountains. which they intend to work and reduce at their mill, one of which is known as Fourth of July. They also own Achilles, in the Sierra Colorado Mountains, for which a good future is predicted.
 The McCafferty mill owned by the Con. Arizona Mill and Mining Com pany, is about one and half miles from the town down the valley. It is a new and substantial 10-stamp mill, but. as i'll all new mills, there are al- ways some alterations to be made. IL is not working at present, although Q few days will suffice 10 put it in work ing order.
 Derre S Townsend's mill has ten stamps, two combination amalgam ators and one settler, rOck-crusher and self-feeder. It will not be long before the mill changes hands, when, no doubt, it will find it's way oa to some claim or be set 10 work 10 treat ores and depend on a custom trade. To be complete, an Ore-rOaster and perhaps a more powerful engine will have 10 be added, when it will be able to hold its own against any other mill ID the neighborhood.
 From all have seen of the Ariyaca District. I feel sure there is a large amount os mineral that will, before long, be brought 10 hght, and that, whatever merits Arivaca possesses as a mining camp belong to her solely on the sure basis of intrinsic value, as the district has not had the advantage ac corded to so many other camps of being brought to public notice by un- due pulling in the papers, or by other methods used to make camp boom. Wood costs about B. 50 per cord. Water is good, and when you know where to work for it, plentiful. There is a brewery in town, Kept by Jack Macholz, real fighting veteran of the war, whose beer is good, but, l l fear, whose trade is so far only linn ited one.
 The Arivaca Hotel IS a comfortable place, kept by a Frenchman, who has not forgotten the method of placing a good supper before his guests. You will hear of me next from Orc Blanco. till when l am, yours truly, ARTHUR LANG. Mining Notes.
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