The Arizona sentinel., 1895-08-17

aptly named from the vast de- posits of silver embraced within it's limits. This district was first dis covered and opened up by Walter Millar, Neils Johnson and Gus Crawford, grub-staked by Hon. l Geo. w. Norton, in the winter of 1877. A shipment of ore was made short time afterwards, and the result of its working at once attracted attention to that section. In 1878 w. H. Hammond, Charles Buncham and George Rolwer, dls- covered and located the Red Cloud mine, which they shortly after wards sold for one hundred thous- and dollars. Then came the sale of the Black Rock and Pacific mines for one hundred and fifty five thousand dollars, and the dis trict at once came to the front as a bullion producer.
 The camp became an exceeding l ly lively one, with stores, numer- ous saloons, and various places of amusements, and every claim own- CT in the district became satisfied that he had the richest kind of mine. A town was established and named Silent. A tri- weekly stage connected the town with the outside world and everything was booming.
 Unfortunately the owners of the Red Cloud and Black Rock and Pacific mines conceived the idea that the reduction of the ore was smelling proposition, and they put up two large smelling plants which proved failures owing to a lack of proper huxes and bad management. Another thing that initiated large ly against the present success of the camp was the Munchausen tales and published letters emanat- ing from holders of claims and others. The widest distortion of facts were spoken and written of the various properties within the district, and some of them read like tales from the Arabian Nights. The strangest part of it all, was that the takers and writers be- lieved all they said and wrote. Everybody had mineral on the brain, and had it in such quantity that it produced a sort of mental unbalanced.
 The result was that parties visit ing the camp, attracted by all these wonderful accounts of untold wealth, became disgusted by the tremendous fall from fiction into reality and refused to examine at all, or if they did it was with biased mind. Thus good properties remained unsold and idle and in time a heavy reaction set in, when the development of the Clip mine set the ball rolling again, This mine was originally located by Joe Mendivil and afterwards sold by him to Milton Santee for the sum of $50. The latter sold the prop erty, for $11, 300, to A. G. Hubbard and George Bowers, who afterwards acquired the celebrated Harqua Hala mines. An interest was also held by Hiram Shipman for short time. This mine became wonder Iful producer, through it's stamp mill, and Silver District took on rcV lease of life.
 Bowers and Hubbard netted some $6OO,OOO from the Clip, before the steady decrease in the price of silver forced the mine and, in fact, the entire district into idleness. The smelters had long since shut down, in fact they were never needed, and one by one the business houses and Isaloons closed their doors and the town ofSilent became silent indeed. 1 Since then Silver District has been devoted to desultory chloriding, the concentrates being shipped to San Francisco for reduction.
 Should silver again take the place in the financial world it once had this district will immediately spring