Weekly Arizona citizen., 1880-11-27
CHiRlCAHUA CITY.
4 Recent Birth in the Family Of Min ing Camps -" spicer" on Deck Agsin-Be Ezpiains- The |" Racket" m His Usual EeIicirous Hammer
CurRIcAHUA CITT, November 28.

that Is yet tc decorate and adorn th,
 nap of this great and growing coun-
 try. I have in this a direct reference
 to the new town of Chiricahua City
 The name is hard to spell, but easy tC
 pronounce tCherry-cow); but I expect
 some or the boodiums will get it "red
 COW" the first time
 But to tell you all about the busi-
 ness in this the first epistle from the
 righteous of Chiricahua 10 the heathen>
 of Tucson, l will say that a new camp
 with a boom is sprlnging up here aud
 d town Is being lald off. The people
 in camp commenced to take and i'm
 prove the lots as fast as marked off.
 l. is located on @ beautiful mesa oI
 plateau of land, with at least 200 acres
 without a break, and slightly undulat-
 ing toward san simon valley. The
 rush for lots became stampede.
 Tents went up every fifteen minutes
 fence poles, wickyups, hockells and
 all kinds of cheap improvements were
 in order From Turkey Creek, near
 by, poles and brush and posts and rails and house logs were being
 brought on wagons and carts, on horseback and on foot. The new town of Chiricahua City looks more and
 more like New York city every day; and then is looks some ike Rio Jlneiro, having a large plaza 3J0 feet square in the center of the town, with an avenue eighty feet wide on each side. And around this plaza tAerscbet commences. A. C. Rynersou t Co.,. are going to move their store ou 70 the northeast corner; the Dickson House will adorn the southeast corner, as Mrs. E. \. Dickson is now putting up temporary houses so as to 5e ready To accommodate with restaurant and lodging house in a few days; Douglass Gray will have his assay office ut the south west corner, and other business houses will soon fili up the rest or the space.
 There are from 20 to 70 people com Ing into the camp every day, most of them from the eastward; and We hear Of very many f.om LeaivilIe, Silver City, Tombstone, Harshaw and Tue son who are on the way wirh stores, salooss, restaurants, corrals, etc. h facl, the racket is a biz one, and every body is lumbling 10 it.
 Now about the countfy-where is il aud what about Il? Well, the country in general is the Chiricahua moun- tdins, from Camp Bowie to the Mex ico line, but on the east side of the mountains only The new town ard camp is 25 miles southwest from San simon Station, on the railroad. By wagon road it is 25 miles southwest of Camp Bowie.
 I will say nothing about the mines al Camp Bowie, only that Mr. Stowe had a stamp mill for god ores there nearly ten years ago, at Apache Pass. Ten miles from Bowie 10 the Sou.h- east is Wood Canyon, where good mines of gold, silver and lead were first discovered a little over two months ago. Then, from Wood Can yon around the bend Of the foot bills via San simon Valley-a distance Of l5 mlles-is Chiricahua City, the head center of all this great racket I, is m lhe center of mineral belt about 20 miles in length and about five or six miles iE width, ou the foothills of the eastern slope of lhe mountains. There is plenty of wood and water and grass in every direction
 There are three running streams of water coming out of the mountains, the principal one of these being Tur- key Greek East, on which the new town is located. Il runs through the western side of tbe town and Is, poet ically speaking, babbliug brook. IL would cause the true iuwarduess Of a romantic young lady to Cush to see the clear, peliucid water ripping over the great big stones and pretty peb- bles. l cannot go into an account Of the undeveiopcd mines for there are too many of them. h these two dis California aad Chiricahua Mining OIsiricts-thers are already about 1000 locations, and more being made every day.
 The Texas and Dun mines have been bought by some Oil City men, who have organized the Texas Con- 'olidaled Mining Company, and have ordered a smelling furnace and are lurrying forward lumber and mater al Of all kinds for offices, boarding l houses, and everything else needed. Within sixty days from this date they ! Intend to be shipping len tons of bull . ion per day
 Wood for coal is abundant in every ! direction for miles, and some timber . lbounds over country twelve miles ] ong by five miles wIde. - Send ! IS on a saw-mill, and quick, too, for he racket needs 1t. There are large bodies oi orc, of low grade as yet, but getting better as it goes down. The ! Texas, at 8 depth of 70 feet, has s4s0 . assays with large vein. a Comslock sein, that will average about S2OO, l III good smeluug ore uf the carbonate ,ariety. The large bodies of ore are