Arizona weekly citizen., 1881-12-04
CABABI MINING DISTRICT.
Tho Prospects Of the District and Development O. it's Mines-The Boom Coming The New Wagon Road to tho 6unsight.

! Special Correspondence Of the CITIZEN.
 CABABI, December 1.-I must give you
 a little "bis" about our somewhat neg lected district while the "bloated capi
 tahsts" from all ports of the world are
 rushing in wild haste to Tombstone Parshaw and other favored portions oI
 the Territory. We of Cababi are quietly but perseveringly preparing @ highly
 perfumed bouquet for their dainty noses.
 We cannot, as vet, cali attention to the
 size and value of our bars of silver bull
 lien but the dumps of our mines are be- ginning to show the stuff that they are
 made of, and We do not despair but that
 the tide will some day turn n our direc-
 tiOn. The last few months have shown
 a decided activity: some sales have been
 made; some mines are being developed with view of sale in the immediate fu- ture. while work is being done others for the reason that their great merit deserve it.
 The Golden King shaft Is now down about ninety feet, with a constantly in creasIng pay streak. At eighty-five feet water was struck in the shaft, but owing to the solid formation of the country rock 1t Is only seepage water and comes in slowly. Mir. J. Murray Bailey, Super intendeHt, is at the mine pushing the work as rapidly as circumstances will ad- mt. The work will be continued, we are told, until the depth of one hundred feet Is reached and a lj0-fOot drift run on the ledge from the bottom of the shaft. If the ore continues to increase in value and quality as it has to the present workings the owners may con- gratUlate themselves on the possession of so fine property. Mir. Bailey informs us that the Company intend building mill on the mine as soon as develop ment win justify the expenditure.
 The contract on the Papago mine is finished, and the vein at % feet has proven the opposite of disappointment to its owner, the same high-grade ore continuing unbroken to the bottom, and the mIne bios fs.i7 - turn ont large quantities of it in the future
 The St. Louis Company is at present doing nothing, on account of some hitch Tn the business of incorporation, but it Is supposed that the idleness will be of short duration.
 Col. James has force of men doing assessment work on the Buck mine, the Morning Star and others belonging to the company that he represents.
 Hlll DeArInlt also has a gang of men at work on the Chonita and others, owned by himself and Don Diego Yae- ger of Yuma.
 Several other parties are busy with assessment work, thereby evincing their thorough confidence in the value of the district
 The presence of so many different working parties gives the camp an ap- pearance of liveliness that for years it has been stranger to.
 The working party on the new county road to GunsIght district are rapidly nearing Cababi, completing as they come this way what will be one of the best wagon roads in tine county.
 Speaking Of this road reminds me that the Star of this week contained an article from the pen of some chronic crOaker, whose grand ignorance of the | subject he upon wrote was only equalled l by the lack of modesty displayed in ! drawing attention to that ignorance | through the public press. This ecceu- l tl aA Otdtto Nllt AllE out of the county road to the Gunslght mine | through the town of PeltOn, and n his | departs so far from the truth | as to state that there Is no water on the | road via Cababi, except at very long | stretches. If the writer will take a trip | with me over the road I will show him | at least eight place 'here living water | can be had any mo- in the year, and l the longest stretcL without water is | twenty miles, and that is from the Santa . Cruz river to the Roble Bros's well on | the plains, and over one of the best roads | in the county. He will also find the dls- | tance via Cababi some thirty miles near ar than via Pelton, which could sassss.sTT ass-s1sssT,. be otherwise, as the road ''noariv an ,;r Ine between a Gc5soifi- and tine Glnsight. Jlr .l-il-" ""5;ii5ny scribbler must now strictly dhere to the truth if he hopes to have my weight placed on his statement.
 I hope before long to be able to send ny letters from Cababi district per Uncle Sam's mail, and about the same ime to have much more news to send n them. Very truly, R. H. c.