Year: 1867

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 lies hidden among the sand and gravel of their beds. A party of four men, at work on the upper Hassayampa. washed out, last week, the nice sum of one hundred dollars. The MeXicans on lower Lynx creek, are do- ing very wel-making from three dollars to five dollars per day with rockers and pans. The placer campaign will soon commence on Big Bug, upper Lynx creek, Black canon and other places and we expect to have Co chronicle some big strikes. Q. Allen and Theodore Boggs are preparing to work gulch iggings in Big Bug. Lewis & Thomas and ! Anderson * Osborn, will, a, soon as more wa ter comes. start in to work their rich claims on Big Bug, and great many other placer miners arc getting ready to "go fer" the root of all evil

 ! The Weaver, or Antelope Hill, diggings still hold out. Nearly one hundred Mexcans are now at work there. and notwithstanding the fact that it is the oldest camp in Central Arizona, it still pays first rate. Ditches have been cut and water carried, when it is to be had, on some excellent ground. It will take scores of years 10 work out the diggings in the vicinity of Weaver.

 We have often wondered why some party of men do not combine together, take water out of Lynx creek, and work the scores or eulches at the Mexican Camp on Lynx creek, six miles from Prescott. There can be no doubt of their richness. In 1863 and 'G4 a great many Mexicans and few white men packed dirt to tAe creek from these gulches, washed 1t in pans and made good wages for ! long time. We know of guches in that vi | cinity that paid as high as an ounce of gold ! to the pan. Of course the richest portions ] Of most of these guichcs are "workcd out" ! that is, the dirt in them will not pay for pack ing half mile, in fifty pound sack, upon a mans shoulder, and washing it iu pan, but al ef hem will pay well if properly worked with sluices. From now until the latter part of June next, Lynx creek will afford several sluce-heads of water there is plenty oi good timber on the ground out of which to make lumber. but as ditch would be easily constructed-yery little if any fuming being required, it might be quicker and cheaper to purchase lumber at the mill. The gold of that land is good" plentiful, and coarse, and we hope some of our miners will sail into it. Were we not welded to scribbling and stick ing type. we would tie to these gulches mighty fast.

 Another good place to try ones luck is Wolf creek, the main tributary of Black Canon, which rises in the high mssa south of the headwaters of Lynx and Big Bug creeks, and cast until it emptie- into Black Canon. It is a respectable sized creek and affords, during the winter and spring seasons. as much, if not more than ten sluice-heads of water, and scarcely ever less than one sluice- head. It courses through an auriferous coun- try and contains gold In the fall of 'C4 we, oursclf, banned out, in about one day and Q quarter, the snug little sum of S40 in coarse gold We found 1t in the bed of the stream. and, although the streak gave out" it is not likely that that was all the gold in the creek, and we cannot help but think there must be some more left. We found this at a point in the creek about one-half mile above Hack berry Camp.

 Turkey creek, which might properly be

 

 contains gold, but how much we do not know. It rises south of Wolf creek, in country in ? which there are great many gold and silver bearing lodges, passes close to the famous Bully Bueno lode in Turkey creek district. Both below and above the point at which Wolf creek emptcs into Black cafion, there are great many gulches that we know will pay fair wages Some of them have been worked by Mexicans who made them pay well. Close to Dr. Willings old camp there are several gulches in which we have known persons to pick up, from of the naked bed , rock, pieces weighing from Sl 10 80 Except in the winter season, these guiches contain , no water, which is one reason why they have not been worked. Of course, we have not mentioned the creeks south of Black canon, which rise in the Bradshaw mountain, and as a great many of them are known to contain gold, prospecting party might do well to give them a trial.

 QUARTZ MINING,

 Although at present under a cloud, is carried on vigorously at various points. The Yulture mine, near Wickenburg, about sixty miles west from Prescott, continues to pay well. The Vulture Mining Co.'s 20 stamp mill is kept pounding away night and day. The fye-stamp mill at this place is not yet running, but will be started 10 work as soon as the owners receive belting from San Fran