The Phoenix herald., 1879-04-30
ARIZONA.
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from an Eastern Paper.

IEOIl an Eastern E-aDer-
The following aricle, descriptive o
our territory, written for the Bostor
Transcript by r. f. Strain, will be
read with interest by his many friend,
and acquaintanccs on this coast;
Its wonderful mineral wealth i,
pre-eminently its special resource
md mining its principal industry
Its mineral products embrace all the
precious metals, silver principally
besides its immense coal fields, and
copper and other metals. In south
eastern Arizona are found remarka
ole outcroppIngs and extensive ledges
)i silver ore, which comprise such
large bodies of this mineral, espec-
ally those in the Santa Rita dis
tricts, that they might appropriately
Je termed mountains of silver As
o what portions 1 consider the best
would be rather difficult to answer
tIy preference is decidedly in favor
# the southeastern, which embraces
the Santa Rita mountains and Santa
Cruz valleys, which have become
somewhat famous from the remarka-
ole discoveries made in the Tyndall
Aztez, Tombstone, Orc Blanco and
Patagonia districts. This Santa Rita
fegion is not new us mining sec
ion, it being, indeed, the Oldest in
his portion Of the continent Over Il
iundred years ago the Spanish and
.esuit fathers, in Il primitive way,
worked some of the mines in this
cegion, and there are evideacos
everywhere that operations were
Dllv abandoned when the warlikc
Apaches under Cochise made the
Iocacity untehable. Since then there
nave been numerous attempts made
. reopen these mines, and Sylvester
lowry, Professor Pumpelly, General
Ieintzleman and a host of other
minent men have, from time to time,
ttempted to unearth the hidden
feasures Of these mountains, some
+ them at the cost of their lives.
3ut it has only been since the paci-
.caticn of Arizona that any attempt
las been mal9 on large, permanent
md promising scale. There is per
e tnetwork of silver bearing ledges,
Iany of the locations on these
edges have yielded, under a very I'M
perfect system of working, large
Quantities of ores, at the rate ot
II, 400 per ton from selected ore, with
n average of 5000 per ton. The
,ssays and experiments of such
prominent men as Kustel, Pumpelly,
Booth, Garnett, Dr. Jackson of Bos-
,on, and others. practically demon
,trate that there is great abundance
of rich. available ore in the Santa
3itas Globe district is another one
noted for the extent and richness of
IS mines. Already its mine locations
cover an area of ten miles wide by
twenty-five miles long. Some So
100000 of bullion was shipped from
this and outlying districts last year,
and ii is estimated the amount will
Je doubled the coming year. The
whole Territory of Montana shipped
out $3,0O0,G00 in the same time. The
mount shipped from the Santa Ri
tas was nearly as large. The Pinal
situated, and the Santa Rita noun
tains, in which are found the above
mentioned districts, will evidently be
the bonanza districts of Arizona, judg-
ing from the result of previous de-
velopments. The rapidly rising rep
utation of these mountains as rich
mining regions points to them as the
scene that will yet rival in interest
md yield of silver the great mining
territory that lies at the foot of Mt.
Davidson.
Other portions of the Territory
have been prospected, opened up and
divided into districts You must
know that Arizona is an empire in
extent Its mining resources are in
calculable. 1t is crossed and recross-
ed by mountains largely mineral in
their character, which Will afford a
field for exploration and discovery
for years to come. But comparative
lv.few districts have been opened up.
Mines and districts have TO a great
extent certain individualities of their
own. In the north and west are the
famous Bradshaw, Signal, Castle
Dose. Silver and other districts that
have obtained note from such mines
as the McCracken, Nuiture, Peck, Ajo
and others of equal note, which are
stars of the first magnitude, around |
which cluster numerous smaller sat
elites. So it is with the mines above /
ut Globe; the Chief and
Sacaton mines in the same country,
and the immense properties in the
Santa Ritas and other
districts further south. The districts /
recently discovered in the Santa Cat