Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-04-12
QUIJOTOA.
An Encouraging Outlook for the New
 Camp.

Just now there is no excitement at Pima county's bonanza camp. The first rush Of five or six hundred laborers, made some two months ago. is over. The miners and prospectors, finding the bonanza companies were not ready to employ them, have left for more promis- ing fields of immediate remuneration, By looking over the files of the CITIZEN for the past three months It will be seen this was what these laboring men were warned against, but in vain. A great many went there without previously ob- tanning proper information and taking sufficient reflection. Their scanty means were soon exhausted, and necessity has compelled them to emigrate. The CITI- ZEN and other local papers were full of information on all these points. bat it seemed to be pouring oil on fire to give such advice. No confidence was placed ln the newspaper reports. Time has proved their truthtulness, and for once. at least, the newspapers were right. The bad characters, the drones and leeches. who always follow in the wake of any new excitement and cling to a new camp Ike barnacles to a ships bottom, are also seeking more exciting fields, for which the good people of Quiiotos are devoutly thankful.
 The bonanza companies are prospect lng Ben Nevis as vigorously as ever. Ills silver crowned helmet has given every mining expert who visited there confidence that the mineral goes down. On the summit shoots of solid, high grade ore rise to night of thirty feet. It will be remembered that Davis and Mckay shipped five tons of ore from the summit that netted $500 to the ton.
 At the Horses Mouth, peculiar rent n the ledge, 1l5 feet below the summit, cut IS being run in on as high grade ore as at the summit. So 1t Is posi- tive fact that the bonanza vein goes down ll5 feet. Let it be known that they have ore on the 1l5 foot level.
 The Casa Grande Chief and Loco motive mines are at the base of Ben Nevis on the west side, thousand feet below the summit. They show large veins of good ore. A fourth interest m the Locomotive sold for Sl0,000.
 The bonanza vein IS in quartz seam running through the largest known porphyry dike on the Pacific coast. These evidences were sufficient 10 in- duce Meckay and Flood to divide their attention with the favored Comstock and spend some money (about S7,000 per month) in prospecting the center fl the mountain. Tunneling IS a question of hit or miss. Ore bodies may be pas sed by. If any one of the five tunnels find ore the Comstock will have it's greatest rival, and If the ore body IS Of considerable size they will rank among the great mines of the world.
 The great night of the palisades de- celved the contractors as to the distance they had to go, and they find now after three months work they are only just under the edge of the summit, and are now where they thought they were three months ago
 The tunnels contain strangers, and one tunnel has unexpectedly found quite a good sized ore body, which averages S57. This tunnel IS on the POO. foot level
 There are good mines, like the Brittle Silver, Silver Bullion, French, Emerald, and score If others, outside of the bo- nanza mines, which will make Qui, otos a good camp If not an ounce of silver ever comes out of Ben Nevis.