Arizona citizen., 1880-04-03
FROM PATAGONIA.
Physical Description of the Dis
 triet.
A Large Showing of Ore-Mills and Shelters on the Wsy-CarbOnate Hll-Charactera and Extent
 of Developments,
 Etc, Etc.

~ f would endeayur to say something O
 the developments made in this sectiur
 Of the district. The district is new no reduction works have started up
 hence there has been but little en
 couragement for the prospector tc develop his mines. But now that tho railroad has been completed to Tue
 son, and freights reduced so that ma chinery may be brought in at com
 par~tively cheap rate, every thing i. changed; capital Is seeking invest. ment Tn our mines; life and activity have been inspired; two thirty ton smelters are on the way for the Hol
 land, and twenty-stamp mill for the Alta. Other companies have invested m mines here, and as soon as sufficient development has been made to war. rant 1t, more smelters and more mills will be ordered. Indeed, when the district gets fairly under way there is no telling how many mills and smelt. CTS will be needed for there seems to be no end 10 the enormous deposits of ore. l have never before been in a mining district where there were SO many large lodes which so uniformly yield ore. Both Washington and Car bonate hills seem to be vast deposits of ore; dig where you may, and it seems almost impossible tO go amiss. I know of several instances in this camp, where the ground has been To- caied because it was vacant, and not b cause it was thought to contain any
 cad or silver bearing ore; yet when he time come to do the assessment work, good ore was found on what had been supposed 10 be barren ground. For the purpose of dividing the ground, in order that the lay of the country may be better understood, will make two groups of mines, though in reality they are all of one parentage-one mother lOde-the Bel mont and the San Antonio; the one running from southeast 10 northwest, and the ether al right angle, hr from southwest to northeast. From these two lodes, which lntersect each other at right angie, all others seem to start from or intersect; and vet the lateral branches If 1 may be allowed the ex- pression) seem to be as prolific in the precious metals, as the mother lOdes, and some Of them even stronger, in both metal and vein matter.
 The formation is very much like the Tombstone district; an overlying cap of lime, which juts mp against granite on the south and west, and pnrphyry on the east. The general character of the ore IS ferugenous gllena, green, blue and gray carbon ates, though there are one or two leads on the north that yield milling ore.
 Looking to the east from Mount Washington towards the valley of the upper Santa Cruz, each succession of hills fall lower and lower down to the lterraced mesa below, and then the rich bottom lands of the beautiful Santa Cruz. To the south, stretching away into the Mexican line, lies the Belmont basin. beautiful plateau dotted over with magnificent groves of live oak. with here and there grassy openings, the whole presenting the ap- pearance of a grand old English park. On the west rises up the highest peaks of the Patagonia Mountains from whose summit may be seen the Sierra de San Jose, Santa Cruz and Cannonir Mountains in Mexico, the Huachuca, Mustang, Whetstone, Dragoon and Santa Catarina Mountains in the north and east, and the lofty domes Of Mount Wrightson and Old Baldy in the northwest, while far in the west may be seen the dim outlines Of the sharp peak Of Baboquivari some eighty miles away.