Year: 1876

mile from the ledge, where water i ], plentifully obtained by digging ten feet and not far below the camp, it comes |, ] the surface. Wood is not very abundan l, nearer than four miles, although plen l tiful for camping purposes right at tho

 camp and all round about it. MessrS Favorite and Poindexter were building

 two raStras at the camp, and will work

 the rich chloride ore found at the old

 works before mentioned. They arc

 confident of success and SO are MesSrS ConlY and Hayes. Mir. Favorite will

 at once move his family to the new

 camp, where he will also keep various

 articles of most needed merchandise for Sale-having made purchases in ! Tucson this week. About two miles

 above, is camp in which some rastras are running on gold ore obtained Tn

 the Guija mountain. The camp is composed of few Mexican families.

 | OSTRICH MILL AND CONTIGUOUS MINES. Fifteen miles in southerly direction from Hayes Camp and seventy-five a | little west of south of Tucson, the Os- ! trich mill and various mines of great promise are located. The mill is one of ten stamps with the usual appliances for working gold ore. It is now being put in oIder for silver ore by the Lixi- viahOn process heretofore fully describ- ed in THE CITIZEN. At present, there

 is not sufficient water to supply the mill while working gold ore above five to seven hours in twenty-fOur, but MT Bartlett, in general charge, assured Us that there was plenty to keep the mill running steadily on silver ore with

 which it will soon be supplied from the Old ifine. Furnaces have been built and successfully tried in re- ducing this ore, and it only remains to complete couple of large tanks for settling, to have everything ready for daily operations. Mir Bartlett will transport the ore six miles from the | Old Mine to the mill on peck-train

 under his own charge. The evidences of success with this ore, are two practi- cal tests in the mill and furnaces, with

 nothing but barrels for tanks, under 1 the management Of Prof. Arey, one lot of ore being worked up to g. per cent. of the fire assay and the other 91-and

 the barrels are not good substitutes for tanks. Should the mine develope what at present seems certain, it is in con temptation 10 erect a mill on an eligible site with plenty of water and within one mile of the mine We had not time to visit the mine, but all who have examined it, agree that tits surely true vein, and there Is no question but the ore is worth from S25 to even above S1O,OOO per ton.

 The day we were at the mill, it ran about seven hours and everything moved smoothly and was conducted with the least possible expense con sistent with efficiency. It was running on lot of croppings from the Yellow Jacket-a mine on the Ostrich lode and two and half miles from the mill

 Some thirty tons out of fifty had been crushed. and enough amalgam had been cleaned up to leave no doubt in the mind of any one that the average product would be at least $35 per ton, and this gives large profit to the min CT, notwithstanding the ore had to be packed on animals the first mile from the mine and taken thence to the mill by wagon Tom Roddick, principal owner in the Yellow Jacket, furnished this ore on his own account, saving at the same time that if it would pay, he could safely enter into contract to de- liver three thousand tons and mostly of much richer ore, and we are sure he can. His main shaft is down sixty feet, and shows a very large vein of solid ore every pound of which will pay handsomely, judged by numerous lots reduced in rastras and especially by the present run in the mill then there is a cropping of ten or more feet thick and twenty high, entirely above ground and from which the ore now being milled was taken. Gov. Stafford has probably examined more gold and sil- yer mines than any man in Arizona, and very likely as many as any one on the Pacific coast, and he does not hesi- tate to say that the Yellow Jacket mine is one of great worth-judged by the development and practical results now obtained. We have been in thousands of shafts and tunnels on veins or tIie precious metals, and regard the Yellow Jacket as very valuable and one that will not fail to pay its owners largely

 and exert q most beneficial influence in mining affairs hereabouts. We understand that Toni Roddick, Dr. Handy, and others connected with the Ostrich mill, are the owners. There Is considerable available water in a gulch just above and below the mine, enough we think ii properly collected and man. aged to run a small gold mill, and wood is abundant No work is now being done upon the Ostrich and other .,o;,,- ,-bicb may DrOve equal in value