Arizona weekly citizen., 1881-04-17
FAYETTEVILLE DISTRICT.
A Tri-weekly MaII-Many Claims Be ing Worked With Good Results The PIacers being Worked Success fully.

there is hardly a more newsy sheet than your WEEKLY CITIZEN, and es- pecially so to the miner who, shut up in the mountains, prizes any and all kinds ot news that tells him what bis neighbors are dong. l find that all the correspondents from other camps are wider awake than your humble servant, and if my letter Is not too long, l hope you wl'i in l room for it in ArizOna's livliest eX- ponent.
 A: last we have the gratifying knowledge that the mail route is es- tablished and hereafter we will have a trl-weeklY mail.
 Mir. R. R. Richardson in company with MT. GOrmley, of Pennsylvania, has made several visits 10 our camp, and has been riding about over he hills looking at the claims, and we are informed they feel very faToTably impressed with the outlook generally, They say they are coming back very soon, from which We Infer that they have found something 10 justify their investment and attention.
 Many other gentlemen who can tell good rock and permanent mines when they see them could find much To re- pay them for the trouble aud time II they only thought so and would come out among Us.
 All the men are busy on their re- speclive claims and many ate being fully repaid for their steady and uE- wuverIng perseverance,. IL Is fact thai without exception the locations that a short time ago were only good valuable mines.
 Our placer interests-and they are rich and plentiiul-are al present be- ing worked extensively by Mes>rs. Elliott and DOwper, cur new store Keepers, and Jas. H. Campbell, Of San Francisco. These gentlemen have large force Of MexIcans en- plOyed in preparing the dirt and wash ing out considerable gold dust daily. From what we cIn learn they will soon introduce new machinery that will handle the dirt in immense quan- titles and reimburse them hacdsum, ly for the expenYe and trouble they are at present under for thoroughly prospecting the ground.
 We have no doubt, with the enter prise they have so fur displayed, this improvement will take place very soon.
 The quartz claims are many, and we can only mention a few prominent ones at thIs writing.
 The Tuba, a two-fOOt vein of rich quartz, comes to the front as one of the best. Under the successful man- agement of L. B. Blanchard thIs mine has been made 10 give up con- siderable of its wealth, and there Is plenty more at the bottom of the shaft that looks richer than any taken out yet Assays as high at S2100 per ten have been made from the dumps of the Yuba.
 The General Hancock is a rich and handsome vein Of over two feet of quartz, and is principally gray cop per, the average of which assays be- tween six and seven hundred dollars They have begun sinking on their 2S- foot shaft, and the mine looks better every foot they go down.
 The work on the LycOming has been temporarily suspended. owing 10 the departure of NIT. Geer for the East. When they stopped last week the shaft was iii three feet of fine quartz at a depth of nineteen feet, and the ore body had increased to eight inches of almost solid metal. Assays from this depth have given an average of S295, and a picked assay returns $700 in silver and 15 per cent copper. Their shaft st the southwest eud is two and half feet wide, and ore for seven inches of chlOrides and black sulphurels of high grade.
 The Tagus, though 1t Is the oldest mine in the district, has had very lil- tie work uone on it yet, but since NIT. Blanchard has gotten hold of it there 1 has been good twO-lOOt ledge dis covered of the identical rock found in | the Tuba, it's nearest nelghOor. The ! claim, at it's present outlook, only | seems to need more development to l make it 8 valuable property.
 Major Fullerton suli pcrscveres ] with his work on lhe Fortunes Queen, ! and we are pleased 10 know he has . struck 2 rich copper lead, winch Is . widening out as the work progresses. ! The Major has displayed untiung Zeal in using up the bettcT part ui . twelve months ln getting 70 tnls new . md IL Is oO feet from the mouth ui !. nls sl Gft 10 Ihe ere body, ana the Iun- nels, cro>s-cuts and shafts remind one very much Of the passages and cham bei of the Aztec cave.
 The copper discovery made by Adolph piaz Tn 1873 aud known as the Warwick, IS pIovlI 2, gs the work I Is pushed by John Young, oi thls camp, 10 be more important than |, ut 1rst. They have 2U lee of solid metal, and the v idth Is not yet reached. This property Is "u he eastern slope of the range, about six miles north of here, and has thee r distinct leads within fifteen feet oi each other, running parallel. Only one of these has been prOspeCted SO lar.
 The Black Band, Nonpareil and Silver Blade are three mere promis- ing prospects. They are well situ- ated, in close proximity 10 some of the older and best developed claims, he Black Band more particularly, wing directly between the Shamrock md Plug Ugly, two of the most per mines in our district. IL Is lot full claim, being 200 feet at one md and 600 feet at the other, but rom it's favorable location it would ;eem that every foot of ground in it is faluabie.
 The Big Bug owned by Thos. Gar ler, is having work pushed on it. The lead IS four feet in ore at the iepth of sixteen feet, and assays S32 per ton is silver and between S3 auC A in gold.
 Messrs. Thompson, Bowman and others of our miners are the lucky owners of fine copper prospects in the licirity of the Warwick and Record copper mines up the range from here n the Helvetia district.