Arizona weekly enterprise., 1882-04-15
Msning Notes.

COuipdhlieU Ilo surveying party OI Col' Chambers Scott, in the interest of the Pacific Improvement Company, on the survey of the branch road of the Southern Pacific from Tucson to Port Lobos, says that the line of the proposed route is rich in mineral, soil, wood and water De posits of nitrate of potash in the Sonoita valley, nitrate of soda near to Quito Vaca, and of good flint coal at Sassaba, the lat ter of great extent, were encountered by him in Sonora, while tin ore, running as high as ninety-fve per cent, was amongst the Arizona finds. Fire clay, gold and silver ledges, besmerite (from which Bes- semer steel is manufactured), and cinna- bar at Zepadas, complete the rich min eral exhibit of the country which ahgns the contemplated branch road. .-Nugget.
 The bullion output of Tombstone dis l trict for the month of March foots up as l follows
 -Contentlon -S16O 315 Tombstone NJ. & M. Co............ 115O00 l Grand Central ................... 115 900
 
 Boston Mill (estimated) ............ 10000 l Total. al............ ............. S467, sos NOTE. The return for Contention is based upon the receipts at the office in | San Francisco up to the 18th of March, as published in the San Francisco Daily Exchange of April Sd, the amount being S145, ,O07, the remaining three days being estimated upon the basis of the average yield for those twenty-eight days. The statement will be lower than the actual output, for the reason that no allowance IS made for the elean-up at the end of the month. -Epitaph.
 We have vethoroughly examinedproperties at McNIillen which promise better results than the Stonewall Jackson mine has as yet given, although there is TO doubt but that this mine, under intelligent and active management, would become dividend paying. Northwest of the Stonewall, and above the Hannibal and Washington mines on the same lead, is conical hill, loftier than any other surrounding McMillen, which appears to be permeated with min eral veins. There are located upon this hill the Nevada, North Star and Fair Play claims which cover the whole hill with their "spurs and angles. Upon these claims, belonging to Con Crowley and Ed. Gleason, good deal of intelligent development work has been done. On the Nevada tunnel 245 feet in length cutting the ledge from the northwest 160 feet below the surface croppings, discloses lode ten feet in width, the average assay of which is twenty ounces. Another tunnel at the upper end of the same ledge, running into it from the opposite side, forty feet in length, cutting the lead about 70 feet below the surface, discloses about four teen feet of ledge matter of the same av- craze assay. Northwestward of the Ne vada is the North Star location, with two parallel lodges, about 28 feet apart, each about four feet ill width, one of the leads being cut about so feet below the surface | by tunnel 125 feet in length; also having a slxty-foot shaft about the center of the mine, while on the parallel lead drift has been made on the lead of 130 feet, the ore bodies averaging from fifteen to forty five ounces Higher up is the Fair Play, on which an open cut, the length of which we do not remember, eighteen feet deep, has been run, and a shaft fifteen feet else where sunk, both of which disclose ledge about six feet in width, from which the ores assayed have given from % to 2,000 ounces per ton. Taken together, this group of mines seems the most promising Tn that district. It is apparently noun tain of ore, aud we would like to see the properties in hands capable of efficient work, feeling confident they would reap riches from them, and lift McMillen dis trict into prominence once more.-Chron- icLe.