Year: 1871

tlcular work under way. Bill Walsh is super intending Boyd's shaft, and sorting ore for. shipment, and is as- sisted in the latter business by Dunne, who is getting his 200 feet in the gulch prospected gratis, you see, by Riggs & Co. and Boyd. The ledge crops above the surface at Walshs shaft now 60 feet deep) about 10 feet wide; surface ore would pay to mill, so said, if there were mill on the ground. The bot tom of shaft shows the west wall per- feet, next to which is four feet of very hard quartz, all of which would per haps smelt or otherwise go $40 to $6O per ton; to the eastward there is clay "horse" of two or three feet in thick ness, when vein of very rich ore six to 10 inches through is found. The east wall is not yet reached, and how the ledge will terminate at the depth of 100 feet, remains to be seen. That is the depth intended as the initial prospect, beside the shipment of 20 tons to exhibit and reduce accordingly. Water will doubtless be found sufficient | plentiful. Riggs & Co.'s claim crops out b feet, with iron-stained quartz, as at the discovery Their shaft is down fully as deep as the other, but not on the ledge; expect to reach the lower casing soon by drifting, if not otherwise. Linn & Co.,, west of the Boyd claim, have struck rich Tiger ore 20 feet down; ledge narrow.

 It was peculiar satisfaction to find Walsh and Dunne there-the former cool and sarcastic in manner, and the latter full of dry humor, and both ex- perienced. We could talk the matter over with as much unreserve as a set of old surgeons dissecting corpse. The question of the 'Tiger" is one of depth of shaft and extent of drifts, more than shipments of culled ore. The latter Is merely incidental-the former essential. Such men as Walsh and Dunne are calmly hopeful--the majority of the community very san- guine of the future. It will require capital to prospect the district, and the claimants are generally poor, and have not been educated up to the point by experience to always 'take money for quartz" when offered, as rule. Don't Quibble as to amount, but take it. l can learn of no money to speak of be- ing taken yet, but some instances of its equivalent may be recorded. There is sad story of dull times prevalent, and labor is the only cheap article in the country; why living and ma terials generally should be nearly one-third more costly north than south Of the Gila, Is a mystery even to the oldest inhabitant. Bradshaw Is lucky in getting the few outsiders mentioned interested so early; they will soon set tie the point whether these discoveries will justify reduction works now, or will have to bide their time like other districts gone before-wait for rail roads, etc. am we'll pleased with the country north of the Gila, and will have something more to say of it in THE CITIZEN; but do let us print a little business sense as we go along. It will prove the better way.

 Of the other lodges in Bradshaw, the Gray Eagle-gold quartz; and the Eclipse, silver, are rich but narrow compared to the Tiger, but less work is done. The Vulture, at Wickenburg (abOut which 1 shall write next), satis- isfies me that gold quartz is destined to be an institution of no second rate import in Central Arizona. l repeat, however, for the benefit of many poor men I know, and who know me, that this is as dull as any other settled DOT tion of the coast, at present; that there is little or no rush here from Nevada or California, and that it is best for all that this is so. Capital will prospect the country for quartz in its own good time hereafter. It Will be several months before the Tiger claimants can know their fate on the present prospect.

 Thomas Miner, from Nevada, left for the Gila yesterday, expecting to make that his final rendezvous before moving on the Pinal, Mogollon and White mountain country in search of placer diggings. He don't carry the complete confidence of the community with him, but look on such cases in this way-if men will spend their own time in prospecting at all, whether they strike it or not, 1t should be sufficient excuse. They needn't look through miners eyes when on the ground, if they have any iudpment of their own.