Year: 1869

Nevada May 8, 1869.

 EDITOR ARIZONA MiSER:-I now avail my self of the opportunity presented, of address in to your paper, full and complete state ment of actual facts connected with these mines

 Billy Gavin is here, and joins in with me in these statements of facts which we have found out by actual experience here. have been here, prospecting, from morning till night, diligently, for good mines and have succeeded in finding as good "base metal mnesn as any one here, but outside of the Eberhardt and one or two other noted mines, situated on high and barren peak extending over a space of only a few hundred yards in ! length, and, perhaps, one or two hundred in breadth, nothing worth mentioning has been found here. Still the whole world seems bound this way, and here now are thousands of poor, hard working men, lock ing about, almost destitute, and knowing not what to do or where next to go, There IS another class who devote all their time and attention towards feecing these poor devils out of their last penny. Consequently, the time is not far distant when a grand stam pede will be made from these horizontal for nations, to say nothing about the deprecia- ton in the value of real estate. Large towns have been built and costly buildings erected.

 Several parties have already left for Ari- zona and hundreds of others would strike for that country if they had the means. Billy Gavin has been on the opof Pogonp Flat, saw the Elephant, and, after dozen efforts to get back his lost wind begged to be excused and retired. He is now perfectly reconciled to the fact, like myself, that White Pine and her surroundings are stupendous humbugs, and the boys here have begun oallingi 'the he old bilk." No one, however, disputes the fact of there being several good silver mines or deposits here-but what can men expect from those mines who are not sharehoders-there- fore, out of every five hundred men who come here, only one, perhaps, out of that number will make anything. All the money that has been made up to the present hour excepting the bullion taken out of ore of two mines, has been made by sheer speculation ir unimproved town sites. It is a very rare thing that mine is sold for cash Every

 mans mine is as good as his neighbors, and

 the result is that nobody can sell.

 f If the mines here looked half as we'll a,

 the mines about Big Bug and the Hasa yampa appear, then we would all make oui eternal piles, but they are not here and SC t we will dispense with the hope of finding oul . fortunes here. In point of true merit ther, l is no comparison between the mines of youl n section of Arizona and these mines. Herr e anything is called a mine-a little cap rocl n interspersed with some green copper looking a stains, is described as a valuable mine, and S man looking at it (which is, by the way, thu I custom) pronounces it chloride"

 e Twill any day make sworn statement to tn, : truthfullness of the foregoing remarks abou

 White Pine. Billy says he will wind hi

 way back in a southerly course as soon as h. !, can get with prospecting party sufficient, n large to insure safety. Tell everybody to sta, l. where they are and let White Pine slide out O :, their minds. It is a wonderful big bilk. s J. NJ. BoGGs