The weekly Arizona miner., 1881-06-17
Ra ilroad-Immense MLne-
NULTURK CITY, ARIzOKA.

June l4tA- lco1. DEAR Sn-The probability of an early construction of railroad, connecting the
 1. T. & S F. and the A. lS P. Railrcad
 prompts me 10 call your kind attention to the advantage to be gained by building such connecting branch through the section of
 this Territory from which write L. you. The Nuiture mines are already established on a firm basis and are being worked very e1teDziyely. A large eighty stamp mill Is
 in operation day and night on the ores taken from a vein forty fee; wide This enter prise Is not of temporary character, but will certainly continue for a long time to come, if we take into consideration only the present condition of the mines. Themasses of ore now ready to be milled render II likely that the present number of stamps here will soon be increased to one hundred
 and sixty 1GO) or two hundred goo stamps while further developments of the mines are
 being steadily pushed, and are opening the
 mines very extensively An enterprise of such present and prospective magnitude,
 and furnishing employment for a compara-
 lively large community, will certainly be
 much encouraged and developed by the further advantage of having a railroad at hand.
 Such a railroad would promote the deyel- opment and successful working of the huge
 MontezuIna lead mine near Seymour, which only needs railroad facilities for its proper development. The extensive work already done on this mine, shows q vein fourteen
 feet thick, of fine quality of lead The proportion of silver in the ores Is too small
 to warrant the expense of transportation by means to the present nearest point of rail road. but the mine will be pr-htably worked
 for the lead alone contained in it, if railroad
 facilities can be secured. and the ores are specially suitable for hu4.
 would also call your attention tathe fact that, Tn the country east of Seymour and east of Wickenburg, covering a tract of about twenty miles, there are numerous cop per mines which will certainly be worked proftably if railroad transportation can be had within reasonable distance Extensive explorations by prospectors prove that these
 veins are numerous and will produce largely.
 Many excellent veins of gold bearing quartz have been discovered in the section known as the White Picacho, some ten miles
 cast of Seymour. These veins extend over an area six or seven mile. in cir cumference. are numerous, and ale worked profit fitaby by occasional arastras, and, with rail
 road facilities at hand, will doubtless be
 worked by milling processes ona large scale. That entire district extending from the vi cinity of Antelope to Martinez Creek needs
 only the impetus of cheap transportation to develop its extensive mineral resources, for il abounds in many mines of lov-grade ore, as well as in some very rich deposits In fact the extension of the railroad westerly or north westerly 10 the Colorado River l. most desirable, for all the region extending north westerly to the Colorado River Is rich in mineral deposits. and forms by far the largest gold-bearinz district known in the Territory of Arizona, yielding also abund- antly in lead, copper, iron and other min erals. The isolated condition Gf many of its part, and the uncertain and inconyenient means of transportation now at hand. at present retard its progress. But the pro posed oouf.e of the railroad would at once
 benefit such mining camps as Oroyille, and the large and valuable gold district extend ing along the west end of the Haqua- Hela mountains. To the right of this distr.c, the Haquaya mountains and surrounding couutry are rich i'll copper and other min erals, and only require cheap transportation
 for their successful development.
 The topography of the country shows the
 proposed route to be emnentlv practicable
 as the contemplated route would be mostly over level plains yet it would skirt the most important and promising mineral belt ot
 Arizona. it is certainly only question of time when railroad y,ll he built acrusa this great section. and therefore beg your care ful consideration If the facts enumerated. and whose importance would warrant a far more emphatic statement than l here give them.
 will be happy to furnish any additional data you may desire, and sincerely trust that the object here proposed will receive the aid and benefit of your powerful Iutu-
 Q ce and earnest e. operation.