Arizona weekly citizen., 1889-06-22
NEWS FROM THE NORTH.
Quiet Working of the Silver King. Pinal. the Deserted Village. Good Times in the Future Hoped for.
SILVER KING, June l2, 'S9.

EDITOR CITIZEN: There IS nothing
 to write from Silver King. There are about 28 men at work in the mine, but
 they don't know what they are doing.
 If they do they won't tell. The super
 intendent. MT. Comstock is very
 pleasant gentleman but said that any
 information concerning the Silver King, or its workings would have to come from MT. w. s. Lyle, the manager. A boiler
 and engine has recently been put to
 work in the mine, but what it is doing no one knows. The company evidentally
 expect to strike something somewhere
 sometime or they would not continue the
 work. Only one saloon is now running
 in the place, and the proprietor of that
 has already loosened his anchorage, and
 if the camp goes down another peg or two he will be off to the Reymert, whither all eyes are turned.
 The Reymert mines were visited to- day by the wandering reporter. They are situated one mile and a half from
 DeNoon, or the Reymert mill, where l wrote you last. I walked to the mine, up one side and down the other of an immense mountain. There was Mex ican just ahead of me all the way up the hill, riding burro, but he did not in vite me to ride, and when we reached the top of the mountain, as if he had | tantaliZed me enough, rode off towards a mining claim on the side of the noun tain. At the mines considerable activi- ty was manifested. Several new build ings are going up. Messrs. Williams and McQueen have a very nice saloon; MT. Steffy, formerly of Pinal, is build | ing another, and will move into it in a few days, Besides these several sub stantial residences are being erected. Messrs. Knight and Curry have credit able stock of merchandise in good new frame building and Mr. J. H. Brown pre- sides over the boarding house. The Key inert property consists of seven claims of 1900 feet each, running north and south, the camp being located on the claim farthest south. The forman of the mine was met and accompanied into the mine The tunnel is now over 800 feet into the mountain and after few feet in the mouth is passed the balance Is all in ore, and a large amount has been stepped out and
 run through the mill. Three men only
 are at work on this claim but two other
 claims are also being worked. The ore
 in all the seven claims is the same and
 shows a continuous ledge, the width of
 which, is known to be more. The bull
 lion produced of this ore is of superior
 quality and and the ore is not low grade
 by any means. The Reymert mine will
 be great property, but it will take con-
 siderable time to determine whether
 the ore will be reduced at the mines or at the river twelve miles away. That
 question will be determined by the sue cess attained in boring for water.
 Pinal was the next point visited to- day. It is a sorrowful and lonesome looking place now. At one time it was one of the liveliest little towns in Ari- zona. The people are nearly all gone now and the business houses are all empty with the exceptions of hotel, store, shoe shop, blacksmith shop and saloon. A few old timers of the camp still hang on and are living on the faith that is in them, to-wit; that they will strike it in the King again and that very soon, when they will see the be- loved town of Pinal come to the front larger and more prosperous. MT. Stetfy closed his saloon and will move it to Reymsrt said Do you know that l am absolutely sick at the idea of leaving this camp. I have been here a long time and made lots of money, much of which has been put into mining claims in the vicinity These old vacant houses are dear to me and hate to go away, and something tells me that I ought to stay and at night think about whether to- o-morrow will bring the good news that the King is its old self again"
 Such is the feeling among the people now left in Pinal One old fellow, that has been in the camp from the first and who was an old 49,er in California said:
 "Was this good camp once? Well you'd thought so about four years ago. Everything was on the rush, the mill a tootin', the stamps fallin', the roasters a rollin', and the men a workin'. The houses on Main street were ablaze with biz them days. You bet! Poor old Pinalm
 "Then every merchant was spreadin', the saloon keepers smilin', the black smith strikin', the shoemakers a peg gin, the barber scrapin', the faro deal CT "cashin" and the "tin horn" rustlin, but Poor old Pinalr'
 "You see them old rusty wagons standin' up there by the blacksmith shop, well they were all movin' then and it was grand sight to my eyes to see 'em comin' down main street, four of them with twenty-four mules-the wagons rumblin', the mules pullin', and the drivers cussin.' But shaw! what's the use talkin.' Yes I'll take somethin,' Been here II years and no one can say as ever took shingle off'rr a barkeep- CTS roof"
 Late In the evening the shoemaker, the blacksmith and the postmaster all goto on the street with bat and ball They would throw the ball up in the air and hit it as it came down. It seemed good sport to them and as I climb ed on the stage they were still at it.