The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-12-22
Salt Lake Herald
SUPPLEMENT
SOUTHERN ARIZONA.
The Land of Big Lodges, CaCti
and TarantulSs.

Thinking q few lines from an old
Refer might prove OF interest to you
and your readers, l will attempt &c
give YOU q short and descriptive out.
line OF southern Arizona. as viewed
by an "Old-Timer."
California District wa discovered
some ten ears ago by a company OIL
FoIdieTs, who we're chasing The In
dams. Since then the camp has re.
manned comparatively quiet, tall some
three months ago, when It a"oke with
renewed activity, and now it Is fairly
bristliDg with excitement. The ledg {
are very lsrge-in fact. We do not
knox their Wild Inland | csp honestly
say that l have seen one sc feet wide
and another 20 feet, the ore assaying
from $40 to $943 per ton. The ore lie
OF a base nature, and tbs formation ID
limestone, porphpry, and granite. |
have been in White Pine, Phoebe,
Eureka, the Cotionwoods, and a great
many other mining camps, but !
never have seen ss much mineral
wealth anywhere As there il here. Il
Is simply astonishing, and how such
8 camp cOnld lay dead go long, l can
not understand. As to obtaining a
claim, it is next 10 impossible, sB the
country for miles around is mOuu
mented and claimed. Il will prove q
harvest for Ia IyeIs and pettifoRgsrS,
for there is q great deal OF jumping
and relocating goirg on, and consid
cradle trouble is anticipated.
The smelling and milling facilities
cannot be beaten, for there is al
abundance Of wood and q sufficient
euppiy of water-the latter is located
and claimed by M'ssrs F F. Lstoher
and E. 2. Van Hagen. two old
Piochers, aud. | think, Reefers.
There is an eastern company oper-
a.iug here. They have jus; bought
mine for $4,000, and the property is
considered cheap at $50 600 Two
mort mines have been bonded for
$4,000, one for S. OCO. and others for
sums ranging from $3.50 upwards.
We have quite f-T cspits l's'' 10
cAmn, one of Whom II Professor John
k James, If Pioche. They oil *
pfess themselves o. highly picard
with The camp We ara cUuIiHuAiiy
growing 10 numbers. for new faces
are arriving every day. We will have
a furnace running in about siIiy
days, and then look out for & boom.
We nave a toRnIite lAid of, and the
Surveyors are expected IN every day
20 survey It. Our population mum
bers about 200. bat before spring II
will be 1000. We have one storp and
a saloon. Parties here are also nego-
tiatiug for saemill. Ne are
situatud on the eastern slope Of the
Chiric4b ua pronounced Chir-re COW
mountains, eighty miles due east
from Tombstone and twenty. five
mlles from San Simon. Jour present |
address,, on the Southern Pacific |
Railroad. The climate is msgni6 |
cent, but rather cold at nights, and
We sleep very comfortably under
three pairs OF blankets. Wild game,
such as deer, antelope and wild tur-
key, are plentiful, and the majority |
of the boys are heartily sick Of veni- |
son and are praying for fresh beef.
Potatoes are Sc. and onions 1910. par
pound, -four S7.75 per hundred,
bacon dc. and beans loo. per pound,
60 you see they know bow to charge
for grub.
[ met a graf many Refers in
Tombstone, among whom we're Neil
Boyle, Blake Boyuen, Pete Gill, John
O'Day, B. D. Parker, I. ]. McPhee,
Walter Parksr, Pete He;tzslman.
Charley Baldwin, Judge Potter, Wells
splcer and Jim Laad. and l hear
that there are several more on the
road Charley MelIEren and Frank
Harter are also in Tombstone Well,
let the Eoys come, We have plenty of
room inr sil Of tDem
The election passed Of very quietly.
Arino went dem cratic.
Well, | will choke myself of for
this time. and will write You again as
We prosress.-Silver Reef Miner.