Arizona weekly citizen., 1881-12-18
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 i juaIc G. ". Bake. Mess-s. J. B. Ba- her. j. B. Baker, IT, and B. ?. Bi-ens, of tao famous GuHsight mines, returned last l.i-Lt from the Meyers District
 They thoroughly inspected the mines in that section, and are fully convinced that but little knowledge of the wonder ful mining resources of Arizona has been given to tie public From Tucson to the Gunsight, and beyond to the dis tance the country was examined. the formation was found tO be tie most ia vorable for minerals O! uny that Judge Baker had examined in any part Co. tle United States, and his mining experi- eace extends over many years and in many localities. 1hs Gunsight mines are sad to be simply prodigious, m the broadest sense of the term, and the work of systematic development has been or dered to commence at once. They will be opened thoroughly and well, and a mlll wlth capacity of from two hun dred and fifty to four hundred tons per day will be erected during the coming year, and the work of producing bullion will be pushed Oa a scale of magnitude beyond any ythlng heretofore attempted Tn thls Territory. The mines already show ore enough above the two hundred loot level to keep such a mill in constant operation for several years, aud when the proposed deveiopme nts are ma ie t will be the work of a lifetime to exhaust the mineral within five hundred feet of the surface.
 Through Ca5abi district and on to the Gunsight, 1t is the opinion of Judge Baker, that many hourishinc mining camps will yet be built, and mills and furnaces will be constructed in great numbers through that section. As vet the developments amount to little or nothing comparatively, and very many lodges of great promise can be seen where no work whatever has been done. These will some day become good mines. many of them bullion producers, which will swell the output of precious metals to an extent heretofore unthought of
 The great need of the Cababi and Meyers districts is a railroad from Iuc- son 10 the Gunsight. The merits of those districts are bound make them of great commercial importance, and it is tO the direct interest of every inhabitant of this city that they should become tributary tO this city, The great Gun sight Company alone will transact an immense amount of business over such a | line, while the other mines will contrib ute tO greater or less degree to the financial success of the road. II the people of Tucson will only inter est themselves in such an enterprise they can rely on assistance from the Gunsight Company; if they choose to neglect the opportunity that com pany will undoubtedly construct line to Gila Bend, much less distance. and through that route the whole business of that section of the county will be transacted, to the exclusion of Tucson.
 The newly constructed road Co Meyers district k in lUte a passable condition. \ few cuts and fills are vet necessary, and when the soil becomes more packed after a rainfall 1t will be a first class road. over which stages could make the entire distance to the Gunsight, with proper relays of horses, in one day.