Year: 1872

Coover. Both these gentlemen have

 had large experience Ill building and

 conducting furnaces at CerrO Gordo,

 and are sanguine that no such exten-

 sive and rich field for mining opera

 tions has yet been found on the coast

 Other furnaces and mills will be

 transported from San Francisco. It is

 not unreasonable to suppose popula-

 tion of 5000 will be there before this

 year closes. Three towns have been

 started, and already boarding houses

 and saloons are in full blast in each.

 Chloride is located in the northern

 part of the district and is pleasantly

 situated. Four miles south Is Mineral

 Park, nearly surrounded by high hills

 and is very appropriately named.

 Five miles further south is Is Cerbat,

 also in, pleasant location. There

 does not seem, as yet. to be that bitter

 ness which generally exists between

 rival towns. Each man seems to feel

 that his town has sufficient resources

 near by to in time draw the county

 seat without much talk about it-and

 perchance the Capitol of the Territory;

 and should the Capitol at Washington

 get to gadding about, it might just as

 well move to the Great Colorado, as

 to stop on the turbid waters of the

 Mississippi.

 It has been the intention of the

 Central Pacific Railroad Company to

 run branch of the 35th parallel to

 the Colorado as soon as the business

 would pay. If the road were now i'll

 running order, it would probably be

 one of the best paying on the coast.

 The country is much in need of more

 mail facilities. No mail is carried to

 the mines, and all matter has to be

 brought from Hardyville by express

 or private hands; and only a horse

 back mail is carried up and down the

 rive once a week. The route of this

 mail could be changed with little or

 no inconvenience to the contractor, sc as to run through the mines; but a new contract should be at once let to carry mail from Prescott to Califor- mia via this district. As it is now sit uated, 1t requires from six weeks tc two months to communicate by letter with Prescott and Tucson, or with Sar

 Francisco. This delay is simply ruin- ous on the business of the country. Il is surely to be hoped when Uncle Samuel reflects what hard stru ggle these hardy miners have, and arc making to open this immense treas ury, and how largely 1t will contribute to his wealth, that he will without de- lay give them needed mail facilities The attention of mining men and capitalists has been turned that way and there seems to be no fear but Hualpai district alone will give some idea to the outside world of the inn mense mineral wealth of Arizona The little history here given of its dis

 covery and abandonment, will imparr some notion of how difficult it ha: ,, been to even hold possession of any portion of this Territory. As before stated, this district Is within twenty miles of navigable river, and yet fol years the SaVaSeS helu undlSputeu sway and no white man could live there Nearly every mountain in the Terri tory. is threaded with veins of golc and silver, and the time is fast ap- preaching when the adventurous 5 miners of California, Oregon, Ne vada, Idaho and Montana will come here in such numbers that we will bt able to hold, if in no other way, and develope all our resources. Anumbel of men are now working placer mines l. on the bars of the Colorado, abont 7i miles from Hualpai district. They ,, report making from $4 to S20 per day with rockers, and it is thought the dig gings will prove extensive. Little ol no work can be done on account oi high water from May until August.