Yavapai County AZ Archives History - Businesses .....Black Canyon Mining District 1881
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BLACK CANON,  YAVAPAI COUNTY.

  This district lies immediately east of Humbug and Pine Grove Districts, on the
eastern slope of the Bradshaw Mountains. The ledges in this section are almost
exclusively gold-bearing; the formation, slate and granite. The Valanciana mine,
the oldest location in the district, was discovered in 1860 by Hutchinson and
Carpenter. It has yielded about $45,000. The Iconoclast, owned by Wickenberg and
Cochran, has a vein 16 feet wide, which averages $25 per ton. As the ore is
crushed by an arastra, only that which has been closely assorted is worked. This
gives $100 per ton. The Clipper, owned by Curtis and Trotter, is also worked by
an arastra, and yields $100 per ton. The Gillespie has a six-foot vein, which is
said to average $40 per ton. Sufficient rock is taken out to keep two arastras
running. The Nigger Brown mine, owned by John Anderson, has ore which pays about
$25 per ton. There are altogether about sixty locations in the district, many of
which have been sufficiently prospected to prove that they possess good milling
ore. No mills have yet been erected, all the ore being worked by the slow
process of arastras. Wood is scarce, and lumber has to be hauled 25 miles.


Additional Comments:

Extracted from:

RIZONA BUSINESS DIRECTORY AND GAZETTEER;
CONTAINING THE
Names and Post-Office Addresses of all Merchants, Manufacturers and Professional
Men in the Territory of Arizona;

TERRITORIAL, COUNTY, CITY AND TOWN OFFICERS.

A DESCRIPTION OF THE DIFFERENT MINING DISTRICTS AND THE NAMES OF MINING
SUPERINTENDENTS.

ALSO, A GAZETTEER OF THE COUNTIES, CITIES AND TOWNS,
Giving a full exhibit of their Mineral, Agricultural and Manufacturing Resources.

WITH AN APPENDIX,

CONTAINING THE NAMES AND ADDRESSES OF WHOLESALE MERCHANTS AND MANUFACTURERS IN
THE CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO.

W. C. DISTURNELL,
COMPILER AND PUBLISHER,
534 California Street, San Francisco, Cal.
BACON & COMPANY, PRINTERS.
l88l.


Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1881,
By W. C. DISTURNELL,
In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, Washington, D. C.


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