Year: 1875

MOhave County.

 Here is another interesting letter from the McCracken mine, Mohave county, of date April s:

 EDITOR CITIzEN:-The mines here are looking wonderfully well. Main shaft on the Senator is down over eighty feet, and shows a fine body of rich ore. The tunnel on the Alta is in over one hundred feet, with remarkably rich ore, as is the same in the case of the Senator tunnel, now in seventy-five feet These mines are on the main McCracken lode, here over thirty five feet wide. The Atlanta mine, owned by Abe Bateman. l am confident is one Of the best mines in the country. Although not on the McCracken lode, it is on vein running parallel to and almost as large as the mother vein. It is certainly as rich as any silver mine in the land. The ore is exceedingly rich, and the vein is all ore. There are now over one hundred tons on the dump. and the shaft is but sixty feet deep. The ledge is twenty feet wide in places and crops out boldly & long dis tance.

 A great deal Of work is being done on many other mines here and north and south of here. in this and adjoining dis rictS. MeSsrs. Raines & Stein, agents for Senators Jones and Stewart of Nevada, were here a short time ago and bought several mines, paying large prices and making arrangementss to have large amount of work done. Times are begin ming to be lively and money is commence ing to circulate freely.

 We have here mines rivaling in size and richness the far famed Washoe mines. We have also the same capitalists at work. .. All who have seen these mines predict a brilliant future for them, and prophecy greater things even than have been seen on the Comstock. People from Nevada, California, New Mexico and other parts are fiocking in 10 the harvest. May they not be disappointed. PAUL WEBER. CERBAT, April F, 1875. EDITOR CITIzEN:-I started last week to give you such news as this portion of the Territory could furnish, but was cut short l by the arrival of the buck board. You may well suppose our people are jubilant | over the news that we are to have d semi weekly mail from San Bernardino. Such | increased facilities for travel and commu- nication, together with the various bonan- gas now being opened in our quartz ledg- es, give us great assurance of prosperity. ! Speaking of bonanZas leads me 10 state that within the past two days some of our | prospectors have discovered what they | claim to be cinnabar on the north side of 1 Cerbat range, and about five miles from Chloride. have not seen any of the ore 1 but am told a small amount of quicksil-

 yer has really been extracted from some | of the specimens brought in.

 The latest news from San Francisco is to | the effect that Jackson McCracken has r6 ceived his money for his great mine n> ar the Sandy. AS near as am informed, the | amount received, or that was to be paid is | in the neighborhood of $75,00O. This is the 1 most i'm portant sale that has been effect ed in our county at least since the sale of the Moss mine. The l0-stamp mil at Greenwood has been stopped. Those most acquainted with the subject allege ] several reasons for the stoppage, but it is presumed these will all be overcome on | Mir. Stein's return from San Francisco.

 The mine is still being worked and the ore hauled to the mill. Work on the 5-stamp mill at Mineral Park is being | pushed rapidly forward, and large force

 of hands is employed on the Keystone

 mine. This mine is supplied with the

 best of machinery for pumping, hoisting,

 etc., and when the mill is completed, will

 think, constitute the most thorough and

 best paying mining enterprise in the Ter

 ritory. The operations of this company

 have infused a great deal of life into Min | eral Park. Davis & Randall have a fine

 stock of merchandise on hand, and am l informed that BreOn Spear are just in receipt of one hundred and twenty tons of | general merchandise. The town supports an excellent restaurant kept by Gross &