Year: 1871

my last letter, little worthy of notice

 has occurred in Prescott; the town is

 in fact more dull and quiet than at

 any previous time since it has been

 a town, owing to the Bradshaw min

 ing excitement having taken away

 nearly all the population that could

 leave. Nothing else is talked of but the

 mines; nearly all the business in

 town is in connection with the mines,

 the blacksmith's are making gads and

 drills, ironing buckets, &c. &c; pack

 trains are coming and going constant

 ly. Scarcely day goes by without

 the departure of party of from three

 to ten men bound for the mines, either

 on business or from curiosity; many

 return after an absence of @ week or

 ten days, having made the trip

 through the principal mining camps

 on Bradshaw mountains.

 Late arrivals from the mines, have

 brought most encouraging reports

 from the older locations, and news of recent discoveries of both gold and

 silver lodes of great richness, at g. dis

 tance of several miles from the Tiger

 lode. Several narrow gold bearing quartz veins have been found On the

 southern slope of the mountains, among the foot hills along Humbug creek.

 The veins are from 10 to 20 inches wide and very rich in a coarse quality of free gold. Specimens were brought to town which were good to look upon. The lucky finders were party of placer miners who have been working all winter in the gulches near the Del Pasco mine, and water commencing to fail, were prospecting for diggings on Humbug Creek. They propose building arastrars and going tc work at once OH quartz. The finding of these rich veins has given quite all impetus to prospecting,. and much confidence to those parties just opening stores in Bradshaw, as their working will quickly give a supply of gold dust which is good to buy bacon and whisky with and is appreciated by dealers in those art icles. The pioneer saloon keeper from Bradshaw, while in town few days since, was heard to say that "every- thing out there is lovely, and reminds one of old times in California why the boys at work on the Grey Eagle pan out the decomposed rock they take out of their shaft and get gold enough for whisky money" How high is dat?

 Since the public has become satisfied of the richness of Bradshaw and Tiger districts in minerals, considerable diff ference of opinion has existed as to where the principal settlement, the town, should be located now the question seems to be settled for the present. A town has been surveyed in the pine timber on the top of the southern ridge of the Bradshaw mts., where never failing springs give a | good supply of the purest water. The town is very properly called Bradshaw, and is located in a central place. 1 Two stores, restaurant, two saloons, an assay office, and butcher shop are already built and occupied, and many | other buildings are being erected and the prospects are that by next fall Bradshaw will be lively place. A wagon road is being built to the town, from Minnehaha Flat, and 1t will be l the point of supply for the surround ing country.

 During the past week several gentle l men have arrived from Nevada, and 1 taken their departure for the mines. 1 From them we learn that large num- Der of miners from Nevada and Utah, 1 may be expected here within sixty 1 days; also that if the mines are as rich as Arizonans say they are, there will be plenty of money found for in- vestment in and development of them. From California, we learn the same news, and understand that recent pur- chases of feet in some of the principal lodes have been made for parties res- ident in San Francisco. There is 8 general belief here that these mines do not need putting, that they can sneak for themselves. and as Stubhle-I