Tombstone epitaph., 1890-02-15
TERRITORIAL MINING ITEMS.
4 Resume of What Is Being Done in the
 Different Sections of Arizona.
YAVAPAI.

of ruby silver from new strike In the neighborhood of the Fortuna mine. Soto has 100 pounds more, which will be shipped to Frisco with his first lot, It looks like very rich truck. .-Phenix | Herald.
 White Picacho district, near Wicken- burg, IS attracting prosPectors and miners. LeGges there are of good size and pretty rich. Dr. Jones, of Maricopa county, was there short time ago, arranging for working some of the mines.
 The Congress, Martinez district, IS the wonder of the decade. Those who sold it to Diamond Joe Reynolds thought they did well, but they have ever since regretted that they made the trade. IL is opened to depth of about 800 feet and rich gold ore abounds everywhere. A California expert recently examined 1t and, we are told, found millions in sight. The companY's 20 stamp mill is kept constantly at work and a train of wag- ons is hauling car loads of sulphurets to Prescott for shipment to the East Owners of mines Tn Weaver and Wal nut Grove districts keep on developing them, with the hope that the right kind of plant will soon be set up and enable them to realize.
 Talk is that the United Verde smelt- CTS, al Jerome, will start in making bull | lion on March Ist. The mines and smelters will give employment to about one hundred men.
 People keep on saying that the best mines in this immediate section are around the heads of the Hasssyampa, Big Bug and Lynx creek, I2 or B miles south of Prescott. This is pretty safe opinion "The woods" over there are filled with mines.
 A. l. Hudson & Co.'S mines on Ash creek are quite promising. A gold ledge has sampled $50 per ton in free gold He has some 20 tons on the dump. He is running a tunnel and sinking shafts.
 More of Culver's large teams, with gold sulphurets from the Congress mine, arrived here yesterday.
 A Walnut Grove gentleman says that placer miners are bringing in large quan- titles of gold to that place.-Courier. YUMA.
 MT. L. C. Moreland, of the Picacho district, arrived in Yuma on Wednesday last, remaining several days. He reports be'ween twelve and fifteen men working m various parts of the district, The ground becoming dryer, dry washing is resumed, the dirt being handled much easier now than for some time back. The placers are all paying reasonably. Last year but little work was done, ow- ing to the unusual scarcity of water, out this season the ''tinajas" are filled and drinking water is plentiful, thus doing away with the necessity of going to the Colorado, four miles distant, for sup ply. It is anticipated that much greater mining activity will follow during the present year.
 MT. Moreland is the resident super intendent of the properties belonging to the St. Louis and Laguna Mining Com pany. A great deal of prospecting was done by him Tn the main Picacho gulch, which empties into the Colorado river, resulting in show of one cent 10 the pan and often as high as ten cents, but so far he has been unable to reach the bed rock in the center, owing to the un- deriving water necessitating the placing of adequate pumping works. TLe gulch is about four miles long and from 10 feet to I5o yards wide. The upper portion being shallow was proven very rich in early days and, it is said, over S2o,ooo in gold was taken from small bar. The average depth to bed rock, asCertained by several shafts, is about twenty feet, the overlylng ground consisting of very fine gravel with occasional large bould- CTS. The dirt, primarily, is made up of washings from gold-bearing porphyritic and quartzose rocks. MT. Moreland is now prospecting to ascertain the general grade of the bed rock, with the idea in view of eventually building bed rock Hume. A large pumping plant will soon be constructed and, by an ingenious con- trivance, the water will be utilized sev- eral times over, thus obviating a great expense.
 In the near neighborhood gold, silver and copper ores have been found. There are lodges of the latter the returns from assays made in St. Louis recently show ing $29 in silver and from 43 to 75 per cent in copper. Without question grand future is in store for the district.- Times
 Important new mineral discoveries have been made recently upon the Colo rado river that will bring vast sums of money into the county. We are unable, for various reasons, to give a detailed account of these discoveries at present, but promise a full explanation in due