The Arizona sentinel., 1895-08-24
Along The Colorado.

The heavy rains that feil up tht river three weeks ago have given the placer miners such a chance at Los Trigos as they never had before in midsummer. The water holes and tanks are full of water.
 Five miners are at work for A Casares on the Red Cloud.
 The Tucson shelter has offered Guadalupe Martinez $66.30 per ton for the ores from his Silver Prince mine at Gatanal, in the western part of the Old Picacho Mining Distric+. |. The American Colony at Providencia has been prospecting in the Silver hills Ut Eureka, and for the Lost Gold mine in the ''Three HiIls," four miles east of Eureka.
 Adams and Curtis have struck very rich silver ore in the Silver King Mine in the White Gold Basin they have located the "Double Standard" |" on the same vein of ore.
 Very rich gold ore has been struck in several places, in the vein of crop pings, as that in which the rich strike was made in the Nina Rica mine at Picacho three weeks ago, showing that the strike is mnch more extensive than supposed at first.
 The crop of mesquit beans on the Hodges ranch opposite Castle Dome, is the largest ever seen in that locality. In many places they lie three and four inches deep under the large trees in that section.
 Joe Winters is prospecting near the Little Picacho, where he has found some very good free milling gold ore.
 A. Oasares, has had a force pros pecting for rich mine supposed to ex- ist between the Little Picacho and the Potholes, west of Buena Vista.
 The largest Gold nugget ever found near the Colorado river, was the one found in the gulch near the end lines of the Ponce de Leon and Prince Hal mines in the White Gold Basin at Picacho. It is the opinion of the placer miners that all of the coarse gold found in the Providencia Canyon came from the same vein, as none has ever been found above those mines.
 Prospectors along the river are preparing for lively work, as soon as the cool weather comes the latter part of next month.
 Capt. Polhamus has had some fine samples of the beautiful purple DOT phyry building stone at Picacho, taken out which he will send to Los Angeles to be tested and dressed. The old David Neahr quartz mill at P1cacho is built out of this stone. The pillar block on which rests one end of the shaft is in one piece finely cut 20 inches thick, feet high and feet wide at the base.
 A great many prospectors are going into the Fl Dorado Canyon district, where a few years ago, no less than TAO gold mining claims were located.
 z1TUdCTUs TIIrrr0o have been located near the mouth of Bill Williams Fork. The ore runs from SS to $35 per ton in free gold The veins are from s to 10 feet wide four miles from the Colorado river and rise to height of 5000 feet above it. The placer miners are resrming work at La Paz and along the Bell Williams Fork, the late rains having filled tEe holes and tanks with water
 San Francisco parties arenegotiating for the Maraquita mine, one of the favorties of that region.
 Tho prospects are good that the coming winter will be the busiest ever experienced along the Colorado river among the miners and prospectors.
 The sale of the Silver King mine in the White Gold Basln at Picacho to Capitalists who own one of the largest and most successful smeltlng plants in the east marks a new era for these mines along the Colorado river. The same parties have secured an option on the Silver Queen and the Walla WalIa silver mines near the Goshen 4bo pociY
 Guadalupe Martinez has sold his Silver King mine in the White Gold Basin to San Diego and Eastern Min ing men for Cash Terms private.