Prairie Diggings.... Prairie Diggings.... 1868 8 1 Water. 20,000 Gold.. Lacock & Co. The census reports Ruckels's mill to have 12 stamps, and unless the number of stamps has been de. ereased since 1869, when I visited the locality, this is the correct number. + According to the census the Prairie Diggings mill has now 10 stamps; the same authority mentions another mill in this cour. which must have been erected during 1870, viz, that of the John Day Company, 8 stamps. When I visited the coy in 1869, Hopkins's and Jewett's mills were both altered into saw-mills. (See last report, page 216.) *According to the statement of Mr. P. S. Buckminster, who visited this district for me in the latter part of 1869, the Victor mill had only 12 stamps and was standing idle. †The Monarch mill, with one French burr, one cast-iron grinder, two Varney pans, one settler, and one roasting furnace, is omitted here. *The census mentions the following arrastras in this county: Conly & Company, 1; J. W. Anderson, 1; J. H. Johnson & Son, 1; Temple, Wood & Company, 1. Gold.. Jones & Co. There are probably one hundred arrastras in tho Territory, some of which are propelled by water and others by horse-power. As water is sometimes short, and Indians occasionally steal the horses, arrastras of either class are often idle. Some are abandoned for fear of Indian assaults. running in Walker, Martinez, Bradshaw, Turkey Creek, Hassayampa and some other districts. In Mojave County there is one stamp-mill, that of the Morse Association, at Hardyville. It has ten Arrastras are now stamps, driven by steam, and the necessary pans and settlers. It was erected to work the gold ores from the celebrated Moss ledge, but is now idle. *The Big Bug mill has one arrastra and the Thunderbolt four. List of quartz mills-Continued, |