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ARIZONA GHOST TRAILS
ARIZONA GHOST TRAILS
by Richard J. Hinton 1969 Frontier Book Co., Publisher Fort Davis, Texas 79734 From The Handbook To Arizona c1877 Limited to 1000 copies Summary of Mining Laws, Federal, Territorial, and Local; Desert and Timber Lands; Homestead and Pre-emption Rights; Spanish and Railroad Grants. Land Offices. Officers of the Territory. Legislation on Irrigation. Artesian Wells, Mining, Etc. Routes, Distances, and Fares from and to all the Principal Points east and west, and in the Territory. Altitude of Import
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The Act of 1872
The Act of 1872
Is not compulsory upon miners. They are not obliged to procure a United States patent for their claims. Those who do not, hold exactly the same relations that they did before its passage, provided no adverse claim is interposed. The Revised Statutes of the United States, Sections 2,318 to 2,352, of Title “Mineral Lands”; also, “Miscellaneous” provisions ditto, embracing Sections 910, 2,238, 2,258, 2,386 and 2,406, provide that for...
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Quartz Mines
Quartz Mines
Any person who is a citizen of the United States, or who has declared his intention to become a citizen, and no others, may locate and hold a mining claim 1,500 linear feet along the course of any mineral vein or lode subject to location; or any association of persons, severally qualified as above, may make joint location of such claim of 1,500 feet; but in no event can a location of a vein or lode, made subsequent to the date mentioned, exceed 1,500 feet along the course thereof, whatever may b
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Possession and Enjoyment
Possession and Enjoyment
Of the surface inclosure, and of “all veins, lodes, and ledges which lie under the top or apex of such lines, extended downward vertically,” even though they in their descent extend outside the “side-lines of such surface locations.” The right to such outside parts of veins or ledges is confined to all that lies between “vertical planes drawn downward,” as described, so continued that these planes “will intersect” the exterior parts of the said “veins or ledges.” The surface of another’s claim c
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What Constitutes a Deposit.
What Constitutes a Deposit.
The word “deposit” has always been construed by the Land Office to be a general term, embracing veins, lodes, ledges, placers, and all other forms in which the valuable metals have ever been discovered. Whatever is recognized as a mineral by standard authorities, where the same is found in quality and quantity sufficient to render the land sought to be patented more valuable on this account than for purposes of agriculture, is treated by the Land Office as coming within the meaning of the act. L
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Miners’ Form of Notice.
Miners’ Form of Notice.
We hereby give notice that we have this —— day of —— a. d. , 187-, located this, the (“Centennial”) lode. We claim 1,500 feet in and along the vein, linear and horizontal measurement. We claim 1,200 feet along the vein, running in a northwesterly course from the discovery shaft, and 300 feet running along the vein southeasterly from the discovery shaft. We also claim 150 feet on each side of the vein from center of crevice as surface ground. The Act of 1872 provides that no lode-claim can be rec
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Recording Location.
Recording Location.
Within a reasonable time, after the location shall have been marked on the ground, notice thereof, accurately describing the claim in manner aforesaid, should be filed for record with the proper recorder of the district, who will thereupon issue the usual certificate of location. The district regulations or customs are followed in this regard. Within ninety days after location, a location certificate must be filed in the office of the Recorder, in the county in which the lode is situated, which
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Labor and Expenditures.
Labor and Expenditures.
In order to hold the possessory rights to a claim of 1,500 feet of a vein or lode located as aforesaid, the Act requires that until a patent shall have been issued therefor, not less than $100 worth of labor on the basis adopted by the local mining regulations shall be performed, or improvements made thereon, during each year; in default of which the claim will be subject to re-location by any other party having the necessary qualifications, unless the original locator, his heirs, assigns or leg
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Adverse Claims.
Adverse Claims.
The seventh section of the United States laws provides for adverse claims; fixes the time within which they shall be filed to have legal effect, and prescribes the manner of their adjustment. An adverse mining claim must be filed with the register of the same land office with whom the application for patent was filed, or in his absence, with the receiver, and within the sixty days’ period of newspaper publication of notice. It must be duly sworn to by the party or parties filing the adverse clai
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Tunnels.
Tunnels.
Tunnels run for the development of a vein or lode, or for the discovery of mines, give the owner or owners the right of possession of all veins or lodes within 3,000 feet from the face of the tunnel to the same extent as if discovered from the surface, i.e. , 1,500 feet on the lode; and locations on the line of such tunnels of veins or lodes not appearing on the surface, made by other parties after the commencement of the tunnel, and while the same is being prosecuted with reasonable diligence,
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Placer Claims.
Placer Claims.
The laws of the United States provide, also, that no location of a placer claim, made after July 9th, 1870, shall exceed 160 acres for any one person or association of persons, which location shall conform to the United States surveys. All placer claims located after May 10th, 1872, shall conform as nearly as practicable with the United States system of public surveys, and no such location shall include more than 20 acres for each individual claimant. These provisions of the law are construed by
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District Mining Regulations.
District Mining Regulations.
The following will serve as a model for the framing of district laws. They will vary a little in detail, according to the requirements of the locality....
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Bounds and Laws of —— District.
Bounds and Laws of —— District.
By virtue of a notice duly signed and posted, on —— 1877, a meeting of miners was held at place of posting notice on the —— inst., at which place and time the —— Mining District was formed. Mr. —— —— acted as Chairman, and —— —— acted as Secretary. Following are the laws passed to govern the district: 1. The mining district shall be called the —— Mining District. 2. The district shall embrace the following described and bounded territory: commencing at the easterly end of the —— —— Mine, and run
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Water Rights.
Water Rights.
The United States Revised Statutes provide: 1. That as a condition of sale in absence of legislation by Congress, the legislature of a State or Territory may provide rules for working mines, involving easements, drainage, and other necessary conditions; these to be expressed in the patent. 2. That all prior rights, arising from possession, in the use of water, and recognized by local laws, etc., or judicial decisions, shall be regarded as vested, and shall be protected. This right of way is also
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Mill Sites.
Mill Sites.
Land non-mineral in character, and not contiguous to the vein or lode, used by the locator and proprietor for mining or milling purposes, can be included in any application for patent, to an extent not to exceed five acres, and subject to examination and payment as fixed for the superficies of the lode. The owner of a quartz mill or reduction, not a mine owner in connection therewith, may also receive a mill-site patent. Such sites are located under the mining act, and in compliance with local l
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Homestead and Pre-emption.
Homestead and Pre-emption.
Homesteads. —Every head of a family, widow, single man or woman of the age of twenty-one years, who is a citizen of the United States, or who has declared his or her intention of becoming so, can enter upon 80 acres of government land within the limits of a railroad grant, or 160 acres outside said limits; and after a continuous residence upon it and cultivation for five years, an absolute title to the land will be given by the United States government, at a total cost of about $9 on 80 acres, o
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As Mineral,
As Mineral,
Can be entered by preëmption upon proof that mines or minerals are not contained therein. Lands found, after entry as agricultural, to contain valuable mineral deposits, such entry will be cancelled. Where, however, a patent has issued, and the land has been afterwards found to embrace a valuable deposit or lode, the title is valid, as the land has ceased to be part of the public domain. Proof, however, that the deposit, lode or mine was known before the patent issued will invalidate title there
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United States Land Office Fees.
United States Land Office Fees.
United States Land Office Registers and Receivers are permitted by law to charge the following fees: Under the laws of Arizona the County Recorders are authorized and required to keep a record of all mines and mineral deposits that are located. For this work they are entitled to receive for recording each claim: It is also provided by act of territorial legislature, approved November 9th, 1864, that persons in the military service of the United States may locate mineral claims, all local or dist
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Arizona Mine Mills.
Arizona Mine Mills.
Within the past few months there have been brought into Arizona the following quartz mills, all of which are now being set up, or are already in operation: Of the mills which have been in operation since and before last spring, we can recall the following: Yuma Sentinel, October....
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Table Showing the Value of any Amount of Gold Dust, from 1 grain to 10 ounces, at $16 to $23 per ounce.
Table Showing the Value of any Amount of Gold Dust, from 1 grain to 10 ounces, at $16 to $23 per ounce.
Out of a ton of ore from the Stonewall Jackson Mine, adjoining the General Lee, in the Globe District, (Arizona) there was extracted October 25th, by the Pacific Refinery, San Francisco, ten bars of silver valued at $3,800, which is over 36 per cent. metallic copper. At Clinton, Arizona, the great copper mining center, the Longfellow Company have two furnaces running, and turn out as high as 10,000 pounds of pig copper daily. The furnaces used are Bennett’s patent. Arizona has, without doubt, th
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The Ores of Gold and Silver.
The Ores of Gold and Silver.
Charles P. Stanton, geologist, writes to the Prescott “Miner,” under date of Nov. 9th, 1877, as follows: The great carboniferous basin of Arizona—and in all probability of the world—exists within 140 miles of Prescott. This immense coal deposit makes its first appearance in Southwestern Colorado and Northwestern New Mexico; but its great nucleus extends from Tierra Ausarilla, in Rio Arriba, New Mexico, to the Colorado River, a distance of 276 miles, and from the San Juan River, a distance of 138
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Weight and Specific Gravity of the Common Minerals.
Weight and Specific Gravity of the Common Minerals.
Note. —A vein of ore one inch thick, six feet long, and six feet high, will measure three cubic feet; two inches, six cubic feet, and so on in proportion, allowing three cubic feet for every inch of ore in the lode, six feet high and six feet long....
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Excellent Advice to the Emigrant Traveler
Excellent Advice to the Emigrant Traveler
Is given by the California Immigrant Union, No. 248 Montgomery Street, San Francisco, which, if heeded, will be of service: 1. Buy your tickets for passage on railroad or steamboat, only at the office, before starting. Many of the runners who offer tickets for sale in the streets are swindlers. If you intend to go in a steamer or ship, examine the vessel before getting your ticket, and engage a particular berth or room in a part of the vessel that is clean, well ventilated and just comfortably w
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Southern Pacific Railroad.
Southern Pacific Railroad.
Regular and Special Rates in U. S. Gold Coin for the “Loop Route.” 1 Allows stop-over privileges, at pleasure, upon notifying Conductors. 2 Includes the Tourists’ Trip from Merced to Yosemite and Return. 3 Limited to a continuous trip between San Francisco and Los Angeles. 4 Limited to a continuous trip between San Francisco and Los Angeles, on Third Class Trains. T. H. GOODMAN, General Pass. & Ticket Agent....
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Eastern Railroad Rates.
Eastern Railroad Rates.
FIRST-CLASS. EMIGRANT RATES. FREIGHT RATES. Household goods, trees and shrubbery, farm implements, wagons, stock, old mining tools, etc., emigrant’s account only, from Kansas City to Denver, Colorado Springs, and Pueblo, $100 per car; less than car loads, $1 per 100 lbs. To El Moro, $130 per car; less than car loads, $1.30 per 100 lbs. FROM MISSOURI RIVER TO COLORADO, EN ROUTE TO ARIZONA. First-Class Fare. —Atchison or Kansas City to Pueblo, Colorado Springs, and Denver, $35; Veta, $38; Cañon Ci
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United States Military Telegraph—California, Arizona and New Mexico Divisions.
United States Military Telegraph—California, Arizona and New Mexico Divisions.
TABLE OF DISTANCES. PRESCOTT BRANCH. APACHE BRANCH. Stage, Military, And Mine Roads, Stations, Towns, And Military Posts. Water, Wood, Grass, Etc., En Route. Compiled From The Best Military And Other Authorities....
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Military Routes.
Military Routes.
Numbers 1-9 include all the Routes north of the Gila River; Numbers 14-25 include all the routes south of the Gila River in Arizona, and the Routes from San Diego to Fort Yuma; Numbers 26-31 include the Routes from Arizona into New Mexico and Sonora, from Fort Whipple, A. T., to Fort Wingate, New Mexico, and the Routes from Camp Pinal and Camp Apache. ☞ When there is more than one route, the distance on the usual route is marked with an Asterisk (*). There is a difference of ten per cent. less,
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Camp Mojave to Willow Grove, A. T.
Camp Mojave to Willow Grove, A. T.
1½ miles beyond Beale’s Spring, where road crosses Sandy Wash, there is permanent and good water; ¼ mile to right of road, in the Wash, grass abundant; good camping ground. Wood near by, ¾ mile to left of road. Up the Wash are large bodies of good water. 3 miles before reaching Hualpais Spring, just after crossing Big Wash, good permanent water; grass and wood 1½ miles to right of road; good road nearly to the water. In coming from Willow Grove to Camp Mojave, in order to reach this camping grou
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Willow Grove to Prescott, A. T.
Willow Grove to Prescott, A. T.
Three miles beyond Camp near Muddy Cañon is an old government camping ground, with water all the year; wood and grass abundant. New road forks to the left, one mile beyond Camp. Two miles further is the Camp opposite the above mentioned water, one-fourth mile to right of road. Present camping ground well marked. This new road intersects old road one mile before reaching Anvil Rock; is smooth, and avoids the rocky hills on the old road, now very difficult for loaded teams. Both roads are boggy in
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Prescott, (Fort Whipple) to Camp Verde, A. T. Route 2.
Prescott, (Fort Whipple) to Camp Verde, A. T. Route 2.
Captain Foster, Assistant Quartermaster, reported this road in 1874 as the only practicable one for loaded wagons, between Fort Whipple and Camp Verde....
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Prescott to Date Creek, A. T.
Prescott to Date Creek, A. T.
By a rough trail from Fort Whipple over Granite Mountains to Ehle’s Ranch (Skull Valley) the distance is estimated at eighteen miles. There is another trail leading over this range entering Skull Valley at its upper end, (Dickson’s Ranch) three and one-half miles from Ehle’s. This trail is three or four miles longer than the other, but is not so rough. In winter the short trail (so-called) is often obstructed by snow. These trails are used by the “Mail Carrier.”...
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Dos Palmas (S. P. R. R.) to Ehrenberg, A. T.
Dos Palmas (S. P. R. R.) to Ehrenberg, A. T.
Irrigated lands in Southern Arizona will readily produce two crops of grain each year, and several of alfalfa. Some lands, belonging to the Pima Indians, as well as fields about Tucson and the ranches of the Santa Cruz and San Pedro Valleys, are known to have been in continuous cultivation for at least from two to three hundred years. Water fertilizes and restores the soil. The valley of the Gila, under analysis, shows more phosphorates and other fertilizers than that of the Nile. A sand storm o
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Camp McDowell to Maricopa Wells, A. T.
Camp McDowell to Maricopa Wells, A. T.
During the winter the Gila is usually and the Salinas occasionally, unfordable....
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Camp McDowell to Camp Grant, A. T.
Camp McDowell to Camp Grant, A. T.
At Prescott, clerks receive from $50 to $125 per month, with board often thrown in; carpenters and painters, from $4 to $6 per day; masons, from $6 to $8, and in some cases, when a man is possessed of superior skill, as high as $10 per day; ranch hands, herders, cow-boys, from $25 to $50 per month, and board; common laborers, from $2 to $3 per day; domestic servants, men and women, from $25 to $40 per month; but as yet there is no great demand....
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Maricopa Wells to Camp Grant, A. T.
Maricopa Wells to Camp Grant, A. T.
The road from Maricopa Wells to Pima Villages is cut up with small gullies, from 1 to 4 feet deep, with steep sides, which, in rainy seasons, are muddy and troublesome. The left fork leads up the Gila to Adamsville, 2½ miles distant, where are two stores, a mill, etc., and thence to Ruggles and Ewing’s Ranch, (4 miles) where is a store; here the road intersects the road between Camps McDowell and Grant. Camp Grant to Camp Goodwin.—In very rainy seasons it is necessary to go via Tucson, distance
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Maricopa Wells.
Maricopa Wells.
This is a stage station, with stores, etc., of importance. It is the point of divergence for branch stages to Phœnix, Camp McDowell, and Camp Verde. Fuller, in his Treatise on Silver Mines, says: “Wherever, in any part of the world, silver mines have been worked they are worked now, unless closed for war, invasion of Indians, etc. We know of no silver mines in the world that have given out.” In support of this position, he instances the mines of Mexico, the old Spanish mines, (opened before Humb
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Maricopa Wells to Tucson, A. T.
Maricopa Wells to Tucson, A. T.
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Camp Grant to Tucson, A. T.
Camp Grant to Tucson, A. T.
The Rio San Pedro is sometimes impassable in winter on account of high water. The first nine miles of the road is in a cañon, level, and very sandy; the rest of the road to Cañon del Oro is hilly, ascending till near the cañon, when there is a long, steep descent. Three miles beyond Cañon del Oro the road enters the bed of a stream, usually dry; and continues in it to within a half mile of Dry Camp. At the foot of the mountains, opposite Dry Camp, say one and a half miles distant, are the ruins
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Tucson to Camp Bowie, A. T.
Tucson to Camp Bowie, A. T.
The grasses in Arizona nearly all come up from the root, unlike those of California, which grow from the seed. Therefore, in Arizona, if there should be a year without rain, stock would not die of starvation. The nutritious gramma grass does not appear to run to seed at all....
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Tucson, A. T., to Guaymas, Mexico.
Tucson, A. T., to Guaymas, Mexico.
[ESTIMATED.] The road from Tucson to Guaymas, except 15 miles south of Calabasas, where it is heavy in wet weather, is one of the finest on the Pacific coast....
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Tucson, A. T., to Port La Libertad, Mexico.
Tucson, A. T., to Port La Libertad, Mexico.
Heavy blankets are a necessity in Arizona; the nights are always cool, even in the height of the “heated term.” Woolen undergarments are desirable at all times....
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Roads and Distances from the Colorado River (en route from Utah) South to Prescott.
Roads and Distances from the Colorado River (en route from Utah) South to Prescott.
No. 1. From Colorado Crossing, via Truxton Springs....
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Roads and Distances from the Colorado River South to Prescott.
Roads and Distances from the Colorado River South to Prescott.
No. II. From Mouth of Rio Virgen, via Virgin and Beale’s Springs. No III. From Moqui-Pueblos Trail, via Mouth of Paria Creek. Road from Virgin to Mountain Spring generally good. From Moqui-Pueblos trail to Cascades and from Cosnino Tanks distances were taken from map, and for road distances (though correction was made) are probably too small. The trail used from Cascades on Colorado Chiquito to wagon road is perfectly practicable for wagon; hence good mail-road to Prescott. Good camping ground a
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From Tubac.
From Tubac.
(Principal point in the Santa Cruz Valley, Santa Rita mining region.)...
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Railroad and Stage to Prescott.
Railroad and Stage to Prescott.
The cheaper route to Prescott is from San Francisco via Dos Palmas, (160 miles east of Los Angeles) and stage thence through or via Ehrenburg—Dos Palmas to Prescott being about 200 miles. Express trains leave San Francisco daily at 4 P. M. —arrive at Dos Palmas 2:10 A. M. second night. Third class trains leave San Francisco daily at 4:30 P. M. —arrive at Dos Palmas at 2:10 P. M. third night. Stage leaves Dos Palmas immediately after arrival of the train, every other night. There are two rates of
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Local Distances in Pima County.
Local Distances in Pima County.
The famous Turquoise Mine is in New Mexico, near the Arizona line. It comprises two enormous open quarries, perhaps 200 feet in depth at the deepest point, and covering an area of several acres. They must have been produced with great labor, since there are no traces anywhere of the use of tools or gunpowder. Tradition refers these workings to a period of greater antiquity than the Spanish occupation, and declares them to have been executed by the Aztec inhabitants of the regions who preceded th
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Temperatures and Rainfall.
Temperatures and Rainfall.
At Florence, July, 1877, the thermometer stood at 100 to 115 deg. In Gila Valley, near the mouth of San Pedro, August and September, 1876, 50 deg. at sunrise; 105 deg. at 2 P. M. ; early in October, 30 deg. at sunrise—90 deg. at 2 P. M.; close of October, 15 deg. at sunrise—90 deg. at 2 P. M. In Gila Valley, on the New Mexico and Arizona line, October 17th, 1876, at sunrise, 28 deg.—at base of mountain range, ten miles distant, 40 deg.; Oct. 18th, at sunrise, 14 deg.—4,500 feet altitude; Oct. 19
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Table of Altitudes—Principal Points in Arizona.
Table of Altitudes—Principal Points in Arizona.
The surveyors for the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fé Railroad have pressed work beyond Cimarron, New Mexico, and expect to extend their surveys as far as Tucson, Arizona, during the present winter. The building of the road, however, will depend largely upon the corporation’s ability in obtaining a land (or other) subsidy from Congress....
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Mining Districts in Yavapai County.
Mining Districts in Yavapai County.
N. B.—A number of companies have also been incorporated in California and elsewhere, for the purpose of mining in Arizona....
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Composition of Soils in Arizona.
Composition of Soils in Arizona.
(Accompanying Geological Report, Wheeler Expedition, 1875.) Among the secondary precious stones that have been found in Arizona are black and green tourmalines, peridots, beautiful garnets of every tint, bloodstone, jaspers and agate of every character, while fire and white opals are found in certain localities. Zircona, in crystals, very minute, of the cube form, and in masses, has been discovered. Sufficient vein matter has not been found to determine any rich deposit of fine crystals....
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Tabular Statement of Indian Affairs in Arizona,
Tabular Statement of Indian Affairs in Arizona,
Showing Population, Products, Stock, Education, etc., on the several Reservations, including the Navajo....
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Arizona Business Directory.
Arizona Business Directory.
[The list is arranged according to post offices, and classified according to counties. It is not presented as an accurate and complete one, but it is the best that could be obtained, owing to the carelessness and indifference of those who should be most interested in forwarding the information solicited.] TERRITORIAL OFFICERS. COMMISSIONERS OF DEEDS. NOTARIES PUBLIC. DIRECTORS. CORRESPONDENTS. (48 miles from Florence.) (12 miles below Florence.) Added periods between the dollar and cents in the
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Images of Tables
Images of Tables
Image of Rainfall table....
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