Arizona citizen., 1878-05-24
In the santa Rita Mountains.
CAMP ToLrEo. May B, 1878.

F ing Company and is pleasantly located 2 on the southwestern slope of the great ] Santa Rita Mountain chain. The hills here about are low and rolling, slop ing off gradually to the valley of the Santa Cruz. and are traversed by many I large and promising lodges. Two mn ling districts have been formed in this l. immediate vicinity; the largest and most westerly being known as the English or Tyndall, and the other as
 the Aztec District. Within the limit:
 of the first named are included the mines of the Salero hill, and very many adjoining claims, and the old r Hacienda de Santa Rita. These mines have been worked at intervals for many years, and the numerous graves,
 marking the final resting places of the
 brave and hardy toilers, tell true and fearful tale of the fate that awaited intruders into the domain of the Apa- . che. In 1861 and '62, the mines of Salero hill, (Salero, by the way, means
 Salt Cellar, and it is legendary here laway that the old fathers of Tumac. lcaccori Mission had solid silver salt cellars made from the product of these mines and hence the name) were work. [ ed by company from Ohio, under the management of Messrs. Wrightsen and
 Pumpelly. Mr. Wrightsen, the Super
 intendent was slaughtered with many Of his comrades and work was aban- , ldoned. About thIee years ago another
 Ohio company commenced work on these mine but met with no success
 because of want of proper knowledge land information. During the past year
 the mines have come into possession
 of the Tyndall Company, composed of . wealthy ana prominent English gentle
 men, who contemplate extensive opera tion. Large, well-defned and promis- ing lodges cut Salero hill in all direc- tions, it is in fact a network of veins, and those best informed in mining matters finely believe that, at some day Tn the near future, some of the finest and most substantial paying mines I of the Territory will oe worked here.
 In the Aztec District, the Aztec Company of Indianapolis and Phila- ldelphia, own anywhere between fifty and one hundred different claims
 The most important and best known of these are those found on the Aztec, Jefferson and Empress of India Lodes, on all of which considerable work has been done. The Empress of India, a very large lode about three hundred feet in width and cropping permanent ly for a long distance, is now attract ing the most interest and receiving the greatest attention. Two shafts, one sixty and the other forty feet in depth, have been sunk, and is also the case in several small cuts. Good ore has been obtained. At the depth of about fifty feet, water was struck and work was suspended on the deepest shaft pending the arrival of patent whim which is expected soon from San Francisco. When work stopped the shaft was in good body of pay ing ore. It is the intention I under stand, to sink these shafts as rapidly as possible to a depth of 100 feet and then cut across the ledge. If the same promising ore is still found reduction works will De soon erected on the .company's mill-site in the Sonoita, some six miles distant A good road has already been built from the mines to the mill-site, so that travel is now direct from Tubac, through the Santa Ritas to the Sonoita. Men are busy cutting timbers, hauling the same, building roads, mining &c., so that this is busy and prosperous camp. Prospectors are securing the hills in | all directions, and many new locations are being made Roddick and Brown, Doc Smith, Campbell and others, have good prospects more or less developed, | and a good fortune is undoubtedly in ctOrn for th;o boous;c,I .,,o....... region. Timber, oak, ash, cottonwood, &c., is very lentiful, sufficient water is found for mining purposes, and to support considerable flock of sheep and many cattle, and the climate is so delightful as to make the Toltec camp one of the most inviting and attractive in Arizona.
 The Aztec Company is doing a good work in this section and pays cash for everything, and is therefore spoken of in the highest terms by all. Under the able management of Col. c. W. Tozer, the Superintendent, and MT. D. T. Meagher, foreman, everything works smoothly and with a harmony and quiet that bespeaks much in favor Of these gentlemen.
 Taken in connection, Mir Editor, with the recent discoveries in sur rounding mountain chain, it seems evident that this region will soon awake from its long sleep and bound into an activity that will attract atten- ton and command admiration.
 ROVER.