Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1888-06-27
EUREKA DIS rRiT.
Interesting News from New and
 Prosperous Mining Camp.

Interesting News rom a WeW ana
 Prosperous Mining Camp.
 EDITOR JOURNAL MINER :-The recent movements of Col. A. w. Smith in the direction of this, the Eureka mining dis tricf, caused your correspondent to roll his blankets and mount on top of a freight wagon bound for Mountain Springs. The object of the wagon was to haul supplies to and from the mines of the camp to the sampler at Prescott My object Is the reduction of the in- ternal revenue, by mixing more water with the corn, wine and oil Of your beautiful city, thereby adding to the hanpiness of Grover and our demo cratic friends, by reducing the surplus, and also guarding against deficit that might be brought about by the com . bined efforts of Grover and myself, by his free trade, and my reduction oi the internal revenue, by sending out ores that could be manufactured into the 'uOildTs Oi OUI ooNc hopS W say, Well done."
 This dlst,diccr- IS situated about @ miles west from Prescott, and near the divide between the Santa Maria river and Burns creek The mines of this company, Waters, Smith, RybOn and Wilson, are twelve in number, and situa- ted on the top of the mountain near old "Gray Back" so named by Dr. Jones, Dick Gird and others in 1866, when they first struck mineral here. The mines of this company are all grouped together in the foothills among the cedars, close to a never-fail- ing spring of water, good grass, ana easy of access by wagon road, close 10 the big copper property of Lawler ~ Oo. on Copper creek, and on the same mineral belt of the celebrated Hillside mine of Riggs X Lawler, the belt being .ncased between two large dykes oi copper. the one on the west being a good. strong vein of copper, carrying from 20 to 30 ounces of silver, owned by John Long, and called the copper Queen: the one on the east being big ledge of copper and silver, owned py N N Kelly, Fred Gaines, and Mor- TOW S Caldwell, and is d fine prospect, carving copper, silver and lead. Ihls property should be mere fully devel- oped. as some of the owners are abund- antly able, and by doing so they would greatly help Morrow and Caldwell, who made their locations for them, and would at the same time repay them with big profits in the bullion output and the increased market for home products.
 The mines of Waters, Smith, Rybon and Wilson had been partially devel- oped by Mir. Waters, the locator, before tnv Colonel took hold of them, and who induced Mr. Rybon and Wilson, Oi your city, to take hold with him and bring them to the front by further develop ment, and testing the ores by shipping and reducing them, thereby proving to their own satisfaction the exact and from the present outlook of the quantity and quality of the ores their iabors will meet with reward far be- yond their expectations. They are now
  working seven men, sinking and taking out ore and sending 1t to the Prescott sampler. Ten thousand pounds will accompany this letter. You may say 1t IS slow mail, but such is life Tn the far west. If it is too long on the road, slip 1t in as an associated press dis- patch. There are three of the mines that are being worked at present-Sil- yer Queen, Wilson and Hamer. The Silver Queen has shaft down 50 feet on strong contact vein, the contact being porphyry and diosite. It Is a sulpho-caroonate of lead, carrying from 90 to 100 ounces of silver, and from 20 to 40 per cent. of lead. The pay streak Is from Is inches to B feet. The Wilson is continuation of the same, adjoining the Queen on the south, with q 6O-foot shaft of the same ore. The Hamer and Cad has 3o-foot shalt of a higher grade of lead, though not as vet so much in silver, 1t going about I ounces of silver and 60 per cent. lead, with n good, strong vein. The ore dump is A beauty to look at. and is increasing very fast as they sink.
 This belt will be the coming camp Of the northern part of the territory soon. Fred Maroney is working on the Red Cloud, with a good showing oi galena ore. Several prospectors are here, and you need not be surprised 10 hear of some new strikes soon l have already extended this beyond what | had intended, so will stop. j. k.
 Eureka District, June 17, lSSs.