The weekly Arizona miner., 1881-05-27
Tc SILVER MoUNTAIE-TH MAMMOTH
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ED EIsEg:-In response to your request for some account of what we, ". \. Kelly, E. II. Weaver and nIyself, saw. while on d trip to the Mammoth mine, in Silver noun tain, from which We returned last evening, ! can only say that the journey Was barren of interesting incident on the way and there is little to be said of the country through which we I2ssel that Is not already known to a majority of your Yayapia readers.
 Leaving Prescott on Saturday morning VIC took dinner at Spe.ice's Palace Stati-n, and arrived at Alexandra in time for al early supper. fer E E!ich the exercise of travel am- p!y Ur-u,,res the a.Petiae, and the good things on our old Horsetown friend Donlan's table os amply satisfy.
 Here We left OUT buggy with Billy Slui- vernon, and on Sunday morning took horse aud hied our~elves away over Bill Simmons uew pack tIail, up War Eagle as.ch. over the run and down the mountain into Bradshaw Basin. Passing the Basin r,;I and thence following the wagon road ,o Bradshaw City. we hauited a moment to take in the surroundings and ascertslned that ot some twenty houses, some pi which are cdpaciuors and well built not one Is ill ha5itej. DesJ!ation rei@ns supreme n ;lle ci.v cf the Br.dshags. Not a creature WAS s:i.r;ne. ere. Here it was that astonizh- cd ny companions il the midst of their rev cries, on the changes time has wrought, by exc.aimins. ;s nearly in the language of Vol ney as Eiea.ory would permit:
 s.He7e, said I, ''once fourishei all op- u!ent city. Here was the seat of a host
 powerful empire, (of which Colyer, my fan cy pictured, was Emperor.) These walls, ! once peopled by a living multitude, are how ! but the liabitatinn of the bat and owl, and vet neither bat nor owl was visible. Si- : lencehc!d complete sway, me; even mouse stirred, etc From half to three-quarters 1 oi a mic down the south side of the noun ! tain brought us to the Tiger camp, mine and mill Sandy Hammond appears to be May or. ant greeted the Mayor of Prescott, whose
 visit va. merely informal, and had no oftic- ! iai significance, subsequently, no anvlls were
 fired, though Bob Grgsby, m charge of the ! hoistiur works would have blown the whistle | had he known of the Prescott Mayors ap-
 Eruach in time to get up steam. Mr. aaG ! lirs. Groves here keep an excellent hotel. and their two beaut;cl and accomplished daughters. Miss Minnie and Miss Florence, . .ld materially to the atJrdclIUn1o. the place. ! Iie population of the iiger camp has been ! very much reduced In number since our NlsI; .he,e trJ years ago. and al tlmes those who s-l.i remain have been discouraged and al- most ready to give the place upln des2aIr oi ever seeing the mine aEd mil Tn operation a1ain. but hope has still sustained them and Ulu ,hem hu.d on, until now there appears ,o he a Tr,syect of going to work aIlu on d permanent basis Those best acquainted ulth tue under ground workings of the figel al. Ilas. confident of i1s ultimate success.
 From Iiger to Hutchins camp, on Hutch ins gulch ln silver Mountain, IS some eigh, niles over d preclpiJous and sometimes dIT-
 bcu.t trail. Here we arrived at five ?. n. ana remained in camp that evening and
 uiy.t Sl4kei our horses on good grass and
 e.f.v Monday climbed the steep and brushy .ast side uf silver Mountain tD the Nam
 meth leG-e. where We spent the day uEGvi pilotage 0f John Hutohins, examining some
 O; the various openings he has made ln that
 .-r5aJlst Q. al t4e mineral bearing veins n Arizona. l,s proportions gre truly mon
 srr,u- in width. and ;rs groupings earend r
 .,.cra more t4.U two miles across ,A- ia"un
 tam. The ores ale low grade, 50 far as de- .ye.arai, ou, the quantity is bouualeas anl uaIe tLla c.lapeusates for the quality. I.ae .ni space ioIhii further description l. uf -.. aua-5 In tni, communication. a5 wei as Of tae trip hoMeward, which Eili ba re sr7rei gr another tnnc. '. J. l..
 FEE-rorT. May 2Gth, 1oSl.