Yuma County AZ Archives History - Businesses .....Poorman's Mining District 1881
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POORMAN'S, YUMA COUNTY.

  This new district, situated in the western part of the county, has recently
attracted considerable attention, and prospecting on a number of locations is
vigorously going on, notwithstanding the hot weather and the difficulty of
obtaining wood and water. The latter obstacles can, however, be overcome by the
erection of mills and furnaces on the Colorado River, and the construction of a
wagon road from the mines to that point. The ledges in this district are large
and well-defined, the croppings frequently standing up for long distances, eight
to ten feet in height. Float ore is found in great abundance, and with good
facilities for reduction, there is but little doubt that large quantities of it
could be profitably worked. The ores are generally of a smelting quality,
although free milling ore is also found.

  Considerable prospecting has been done on the Amelia, and recently the owners
have commenced sinking a new shaft four by six feet, on the ledge. It is now
down thirty feet, all the way in good ore, with about eighteen inches of fine
galena, which will average 100 ounces to the ton. The company have erected a
boarding-house and blacksmiths' shop and are now prepared to push developments
vigorously. The Boston is an adjoining claim, on which a vein of high-grade
chloride and sulphuret ore was recently discovered. The Diamond, a short
distance off, is located on a ledge nearly parallel with the Amelia, and thirty
feet in width, showing a six-inch vein of very rich ore. Opposite to the
Diamond, at a short distance, is the Florence Caton, which has three ledges
cropping out of the ground, in places, ten feet in height, and it is claimed
that these croppings will all pay. The Luz is the north-east extension of the
Diamond; the croppings on this mine rise twenty feet above the mesa, and are
thirty feet in thickness. In addition to the above, are the Brilliant, Russell,
Myers, Hoodlum, and Thistle Dew, which are said to be valuable locations.


Additional Comments:

Extracted from:

ARIZONA 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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