The Arizona sentinel., 1882-02-25
PooRMAN'S DISTRICT.
Bronco Pays this Camp a Visit, and Tells what
 He has Seen.
PROSPECTS OF THE CAMP.
A Brief Description of the Dis trIct and some Of the most Promising
 PrOsBe ects.

EDITOR SENTINEL:-Your cor
 respondent, taking advantage o
 lh is perfect weather, when {
 swing down the long washes
 astride free and willing horse
 with just sufficient sharpness il
 the air to render the exercis,
 bracing and invigorating, is one
 of the few pleasures of an Arizo.
 ma winter, wended his undulat.
 ing way toward that camp of sol. id. tangible possibilities, Poor
 mans District. The knowledge that he was accompanied by that iireless rustler Of effevrescent dis. position, Howard Douglas, Mai Contractor, sufficeth to say the trip was an enjoyable one. At a poInt on the Colorado river oppo- site
 CALIFORNIA CAMP,
 Where two huge Pulo Verde trees, form an umbrageous shelter, is situated the primitive post office, where the Ehren- berg mail esrrier deposits in an open goods box the mail for Poorman, and from which it is removed by Bonine, an intelligent ano courteous Mexican, who with hls family has resided constantly and farmed on the California side of the river for nine years past. Having by a system of shouts and pistol shots attract. d BonIne's attention, he is soon seen parting the willows and arrow weeds on his passage to the stout, though symmet- rical skiff, which is soon skillfully pro- pelled to where with our unsaddled stock we await transportation. With saddles in the bow. one seated amidships, and Doug manipulating the tow lines, a few mlputes stemming Of tLe swift current as the stock with fared aostrils plow through the yellow waters, and We are "ot Arizona, and sooa oB a brisk trot to Bonine's conmodlous 'doby house on the California side, where, as our stock place themselves outside of few pounds of barley. we follow suit with an excel lently cooked dinner.
 ON THE TRAIL.
 At PM. again in the saddle. A sharp trot carries US, winding over the high me- sas near the river, which leaving in half hour r,we; descend into wide, hard bottdmed wash, up. which the trail leads until six miles has been attained, Here We water both man and beast at Gold Springs a well-like excavation in high ground just of the wash. where water can be found the year round, with just d little of that slippery, swedish flavor, peculiar to. slkali, though not so dis We are now entering tne mountains, and the trail takes its tor tunus way through gulches and small canyons, until rising on he divide, ycu See long, slehder and low set of hills, distinct from the mountains proper, jul into the mesa land to north, gradually blending with the undulat of the me- sa, and the location of the mines of
 PooRM1Ns DISTRICT
 Is before, you, being distant, from Silver District 30 miles, and from the river 15 miles. In half hour, the stone monu- meuts, marking the claim boundaries arc visible now over the point of the hills. A sharp turn up wide wash to south, and soon the cOmmodious and substanti- al quarters "f the Amelia Consolidated Mining Co.," loom up. and you are heart- fly welcomed by the resident partners Judge J.I. Grove and Col. Wilherel. These gentlemen deserve the fortune which is certainly awaiting them, for they have toiled ahd s:riven with indom- itablc will, at times with barely enough of food and drink to keep up the tapping on the drill head, while their partners Howard and Arthur Douglas, have rust led like Trojans to keep the pot boil ing. At the most critical period in theIr history, owing to the tangible friendship of the Hon. J. W. Darlington, they were enabled to pull through, (and by the way, this is but one instance many of Mir. Dorringten's method ofe h. couraL ing minlng.) A visit to the
 AMELIA MINE
 Disclosed as promising property, as any adjacent to Yuma. The incline shaft has attained depth of 150 feet on the granite footwall and ore showing from the surface continuously to bottom of shaft and 150 tons on the dump of mill- ing and smelling ore, assaying as high q s