190 NEW TRACKS IN NORTH AMERICA. 
bullets of native manufacture which contained a larger per-} 
centage of silver than of lead. | 
From the San Francisco Mountains to the Aquarius Range, 
seventy-five miles east of the Colorado River, the proposed line 
passes to the north of the ascertained and developed — 
wealth, which is abundant in that extensive section of central | 
Arizona, of which Prescott is the mining capital. This is, | 
however, readily reached by a branch of easy grades, sixty | 
miles in length, which can be cheaply built down the Val de | 
Chino; and a fork can be extended thence to the Wicken- |/ 
burgh mining region. i 
In this district the most promising mine is the Vulture, | 
which yields about 25,000 dollars a month, and in which | 
seventy-five men (mostly Mexicans) are employed. ( 
The following statement will show at a glance how hard it \ 
is for even a first-class mine to pay largely in these regions | 
whilst they remain shut out as they are from the rest of “ | 
world. q 
Voutture Mine anp Mrty.—Monturty Expenses 
Payroll. Pa eee eae ee ee eA 
Incidentals . . i a + 23,020 
Hauling ore, 864 tons, ‘at 10 dollars ee a ere 
uel A RES | 
Tritetoat on capital invested . Se pee oe ge B18 
total monthly expense SB TO 
Monruty Returns. 
864 tons, yielding 30 dollars per ton . , ‘ . 25,920 
Net monthly profit . . ; - ‘ ‘ : "3,165 
On both sides of the Colorado River north and south of | 
Fort Mojave are mines of gold, silver, and copper, the value 
- which is greatly enhanced by their proximity to this 
_ strea: which will thus serve as a most valuable feeder to the { 
