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x LUTSKJii, r liiiu v, ouihvj iirizona. oaturaaiJ '-it' v-A flying Trip to Clube and Hack.Editor Citizen:—At your request I furnish a few notes of a flying trip to Globe City and back.The worst thiog about Globe is the way to get there. Several routes are at the option of the visitor, but the quick-I hiest, surest and most interesting is the one take n by me on a recent visit. viz,! ledge One hundred and fifty feet fur-a marvel. From parties Just in glow ing accounts of a late strike were ob ttnq). It 13 reported on the be*t of( pj authority that at a depth of 184 feet onlqoeo the working siiafi a ledge of ore three Sltn feet wide, assaying fflTb a ton, was.ueig! struck. This ledgt: was followed for qmui about forty feet, and a winze sunk in th thirty-five feet, all showing the sameimp*Thby stage to Florence, another stage to ti,er a|„ng the vein, another shaft one ly ah the Silver King and thence by pack hundred and thirty five feet deep is «p f““ train to Globe City J. \ Wilaon , parently in the same raetnl streak. ACo.*s stage leaves Florence three limes suiaing that the vein is continuous be-a week for Stiver King, passing) tween the shafts, and maintains its through Picket Post, and connects!character throughout for th.rty-ftvf with Sue's Express Line to Globe! jn depth, this will give over $1,.The time in ado is good, and no stop.000t000 in eight. Vet ihe owners areping is allowed except lor a meal at playing with this vast wealth with a Hewitts. twenty-ooe miles from FI or-|wbim an(1 a hlintj horse!alien pdil At i) pectin me unlitworlimumgreatcosat near Icnce. Our stage reached the Kiag Cox Copeland, on anew location 3 abo t7p. m . and we were immediate- adjoinin|; lbe Utah mine are fln,iinq! pr,,Vllarge masses of almost pure silver ou the surface ibnt are said to aurpaas the old Stonewall streak in richness. A jta g* piece on exhibition at the store of he. iT.i: at■eg.ly mounted on tattles and carried over ihe Stonoinan grade to the valley be yond, where we camped for the night. Hrigbt and early next morning we were off again on mule back, and for the first lime had an opportunity to look about. The trail is rough and winding in the extreme, and leads for the first five or six miles over and around hills green with grass and with more or less scattered juniper and oakerengnc a tie fnnmShyrock Hise weighs about ten w '}'$ pounds, and ia said to be £10 fine. Rich '^j^1 developments were reported In theMexican and other mines of the district, In the district there are .everal } eir; mills. The Miami, 10 sump mill, U ;lmate*thantheresituated at the forks of Pinal creek, (trees. A Ik tut five utile* from our aboul 8lx miies from town. The millmg,camping ground,n*M DEVfl/8 CANYONthewould run on custom work but for un [ unfortunate belief ihe miners cor lainex perdele**Arrgreatrert-Was reach' d. Great columns of saud-stone, some at least two hundred feet high, stand, In regular lines of buttle, as guards at the cafe of this inviting spot. Though the descent into the fa bled domains of IIis Satanic Majesty is proverbially rapid, a cautious «Je-jftcent over the smooth, hare rocks of | this trail was advised by old Saxe, the I ! leader of the train, and the mulesly have rega»ding its management Iu mnyher . timbc posesay. jE5si-nej :en i not ithe city itself, the Morrill A Ketc hum mill is idle, a* also is the Duryea patent. two stamp, steam-hammer milU built to run in connection with the *n ;n, Champion ininlt;* Tidwell and Nich. ritori oil’s five-stamp mill is running sac cessfnllv ut McMillenville, on Stone-wall ore, and the II ask in company have u new five-stamp mill nearly fin-mensipaiiii' were allowed a relief from the burden {*»*»«* near Globe City. Times in the “‘0 ; '7 of their riders. After passing this can di-'lrict are no‘ wr* livcly aI I»«enl. pnrplt; [ ■' von. a pleasant ride of some three bul expectations are greatClt[j ly lbe ionway tmiles brought us to the Pinal ranch. Coming from the district towards purplt;onthe site of old Camp Pinal. Nat Florence, there was more lime forofmdleder*•geou.hihedtslieon.lidofisheaylesolei*.toAtksidhere-u rally this is a beautiful spot, at the head of what is probably a branch of Pinto creek. The valley is greon with new grass, and quite a forest of juniper, oak and pine adds a charm. Here Messrs. Buchanan and Iron have established themselves, and keep a station and farm unsurpassed by any in the Territory. They are industrious, ga-ahcad men, and with the aid of Mrs. and Miss Iron have made a stopping place fwmed beyond any other iu Pinal county. Passengers to and from Globe frequently take the rough trail in preference lo the stage road by Rivlook about at the Silver King andbillsMrpopulj Picket Post. Around the King quite work a settlement has sprung up, and from teemc here to Globe alltravel is over thej c‘|lc Sionernan grade, thus proving that road is not absolutely valueless. Twen-nonetavonty men are employed on the Silver who I King, sloping down Uie bill on which ^elie;the outcrop was found, and the oremindA rimmaintains its richness. Seven teams rewarare engaged in hauling the ore to the mills at Picket Post. The morning we were at the mine, it was reported that King rock had been struck ia ihe North King, at a depth of 11* feet. IfCoagerside merely to drink the cool, sweet j «* »»•*« » of inaptitude, it willmilk and eat the floe, light bread far- completely demolish the theory thatOil!WrgelfcrcruRevnished, withother dainties, nt all meals ‘be King is merely a blow out and willat this station.From here the trail leads over billsj boom. At nnd into canyons that seem to be pul in simply to make up distance, and is often so winding and zig-zag that it closely res* inbles the Kentucky fence that wasMdoing in Atul golnff out,Somethin* there nr thereabout, leaving a person Mill Indoubt.Whether going in or going out.*' he And was built so crooked that when a ng hog crawled under from the outside he ne still found himself on the outside. For about four miles nothing can be seen but huge boulders of granite piled in every direction. Ten miles from Pi-uai ranch is the next stopping place,THE BbOOPT TASKS,The scene of King Woolsey’s famous Pinole treaty. At this point ihe mules are turned out to grass, and a place in a double-seated springJoss wagon furnished. Because it is deemed necessary to get into the wagon in a hurry, that is1 soon make things in Pioneer districtroluiiminisTheIU*e» d.lolibrickalmIU34w*lieal-rv.tele.mtoPICKET 1W,Six miles down the canyon from th«?King, the King 10 stamp mill and thej^*-’ ° *70 five stamp are pounding away. Thej9 latter mill has been engaged to work \ King ore. and then the mine will have fifteen stamps running and the divi. deads be correspondingly increased.!08 v There is certainly ore enough on the (I*7-*-dumps to keep both mills running a year nnd a half. Picket Post is an tc: , live, busy town, pleasantly located and ],r'^ evidently very prosperous From ajor“er quarry near by. a whitish sandstone! rock is ••btHincil that issosoft when T1 IVfirst exposed na to admit of beingwith Ichopped by an axe into blocks that j make handsome and strong building jD ^ maurial. About five miles distant ir'^ Baldwin’s five-aiamp mill is running on ore from the Eureka mine.The whole country from Florence towill r pletl WeMcMillenville is filling up with a busy, gram no sign that one will get nwav ironic industrious people who are fast mak- 1 dlately—at least we found it so. Ev.j mg a wealthy and prosperous county.30 ery experiment tried on n baulky horse Candidates are now ranging through ^hotried on one of the team, from this section continuously. At Globe t ventns wasJn. hauling and pushing the wag »n to ty-»ly ing his tail rlott to the bit and mak of inc him spin about like a top, and allof without success until a rope was placwe met Campbell and Davis, Congres-]on ’*l! sional aspirants, and each is sanguine, * Davis addrestcs the ptn»- ,nm\nped amund his hocks and sawed backof success, pie of each camp nnd is evidently nix i making many friends. From t!a«* talkbervA r«upland forth till it cut throucli the hide we coaM hew about, public. pinion hoagpainpmThat finiShed him and he left in a hur seem* to be much divided and no can [(j,.par ry. From the tanks the road leads J didate seems to have any decided ma-, open down the wheal field bottom to Globe! jority of adherents. J H F k*down the City, a distance of about twelve milesflLoflK CITYXfihll nnltrr^.dcpar ami i everv
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Tucson Arizona Citizen
Tucson, Arizona, US
Sat, Oct 05, 1878
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