The Weekly Arizonian., 1870-04-09
THE WEEKLY ARIE0NAN
APRIL L9,.......-.................ls7o.
THE BURRo MINES.

less the greatest mrerti treasure ever wit messed by The eyes Of man. We last week gave description of the mines aud stated at the same time that they were in New Mexico As regards their location there is, however, 8 doubt; 1t being stated by some thst they lie few milea West or tha line describing the boundary betaeen the two Territories, and by others that they are East of the same line. It is however. matter which involves more of cu- rio,iry than of real interest as to the Territory iu which they are situated So long as their existence IS decided fact they will be certain 10 cause imrDlg grafton, and thereby bring sbou. the early development of this Territory
 Many oflhe olt pioneers who, having never lost confidence in Arizona a rich mineral country, have remained with her through all her varied troubles for period of more than fourteen year:, are now, at length, sbout to reap the reward Of their fidelity to the land from which so many of less stern will have fed in terror So great was the fear inspired by the numerous accounts of Apache ravages iu Arizona that notiling less than truly mar vellous discovery could ever overcome the fears and dstrust of tsiders, in so much as to in- huence them to engage in prospecting the country, much less to engage in working it's mines which had already been discovered.
 Noperson whohas travelled through Arizona will deny that it exhibits better appearance, as a gold and silver caring country, than cny other place on this continent, And not only in s geological point of view doas this appear ance manifest ilself; for, if we turn our attsu- ton to the past, and look for evidence from the work of others who were here in past ages, we 6nd records, of an imrerishable type, left by the hands of men, but of what race. or at what date must, perhaps, for ever rcmain mystery, North of the Rio Giia, iA the widest, the most unknown aud 6esolate districts of the Territory, the explorer lruqueutly meets with ruins of human habi,ations-the style of architecture going to prove that such were not the hablta- tions of the present worthless race of people generally regarded al aborigues. In the neighborhool of mines are also frequently found a peculiar class of ruins which, judging from the evidences ihatths stones of which they were bult betray, of having been submitted to the action of fire, are supposed to be those of smelling furnaces ot an obsolete pattern.
 The mines under cons nsdeiaton furnish an- other evidence of early explorations made among the mineral districts of Arizona. A. several points the rock bears evidence of hay ing been hammered by rudo implements, while detached fragments strewn around at such Eether unsuccessful At one point where tho rock is ofa shattered charac cter, . cave or tun- nel has been discovered, Upon removing th' the loose stones by which tho entrance was par iially conceded the horizontal depth wal found 10 be about sevea feet On either side the rock was found to be of a more solid char. acter and wonderfully rich.
 About one hundred yards from the main lod stands the ruin Of a stone building of an ex' ceediugy rude style of architecture. Thi building would doubtless long since have beer 
 structed on the usual plan found to exist in tn other ru ns; but its walls are infinitely nor massive, and seem az impc7isheble as the rocl itself; on the whole, the structure is one Whicl nought in nature save the shock of Gn earth quake could be considered sufficiently powerful to disturb The cedar timbers of the roof ar still in good state 0: preservation, and might in their present situation, remain so for cen turies-rnmovod, as they are, from the ground and exposed to no ether destroying influence than those wind and rain.
 s Nor wia the wonderful stories told by som of our old people be hereafter regarded ss mer fantasy, az in lbe past One of our old me- a Mexican, now in his sixtieth year, and wh
 was born npon the spot where he now live says he remembers the time, while ha was v
 boy, when the inhabitants went regularly
 the mountains with the;r buYr0s and atier U
 absence of three days reiIrpel-he lsrge bs!
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