Arizona weekly citizen., 1881-12-11
TALKS FROM TYNDAL.
Rough Journey From Tucson Lively Appear azce or the Camp The Developments n the Mines -Ioraiizirg.

TYNDAL DISTRICT, December 5.-We left Tucson on Friday entirely unmind- ful of the long existing prejudice against the day. Fortunately We met with nc accident on the road, otherwise all the wiseacrcs in the land would have pointed to the prevailing and time hon. ored idea that Friday was not a day to travel, and that Providence had punished us for defying the old custom. The summer rains have hardly left vestige Of the old road and the present one leads in a roundabout way past Tuna cacori Mission. We had to ascend the hills over stones and boulders of very prodigious size, but the assurance of my companion and driver that he was well acquainted with the country hereabouts, gave me ample confidence that We would arrived safely at the Old Hacienda. He managed to prove his close acquaintance with the country by dragging our buck board over every stone and stump. If any of your readers suffer from dispep- sia let them take a drive over those hills. No cure, no pay.
 The camp has assumed q lively aD- pearance of late, owing to a great deal of assessment work, which has to be done between now and the first of Jan uary next. There are from 50 to 75 men at work at present, and more to come.
 Harmon, Campbell and Creary Bros. have lot of men at work on Salero hill, and the outlook IS very flattering.
 Altschul and Lulley are superintend- ing work on the celebrated Major and Southern Pacific mines and the latter blds falr to turn out one of the best mines Tn Southern Arizona. The ledge is at present only foot wide, but yields car bonate ore which will go from S30O to $500 ton. The claim is one of the old ones worked by natives 200 years ago, as seen by old shafts and drifts and stone implements found therein.
 Mr. Cacy Is making preparations to erect a smclting furnace and the shrill notes the steam whistle will soon reyer- berate in the hills.
 We had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Hoffman, mining expert from tucson, and two gentlemen from West Virginia at the Josephine mine. They were much pleased with the appearance of the mine and well they may, for the Josephine is considered by everybody to be excellent property.
 The Emma, owned by l.. M Jacobs < Co. Is the eastern extension of the Josephine and shows up wonderfully as Tar as opened up. In fact many incline to the opinion that the Emma will sur pass the Josephine in richness of ore when she Is fairly developed.
 The Gertrude is the western extension of the Josephine and shows a beautiful body of chloride ore. There are two shafts each 10 feet deep and when the assessment work for this year is done one of them will be about 20 feet deep.
 The ore in the Gertrude differs some what from the Josephine, the quartz be- ing finer and not showing a particle of refractory matter.
 Up here in mountain solitude, away from the busy scenes of civilization, the | hours and days pass silently by, and only an occasional glimpse at watch or calendar brings the conviction that even here there is a march of time. and that l a few prospeetOrs in the hills are as much subjected to the eternal laws of | nature as the rest of mankind. While l sitting in front of my cabin, at the base | of the hills, and in full view of the | watchdog of the Santa Ritas (Old Baldy l as they call him, more properly Mount 1 Wrightson) my eyes are directed to a l small graveyard about 75 yards distant l Were man ever so vain the few grave | stones ornameuting the little bit of pie | turesque ground would remmd him that | 1t Is merely matter of time when he | in turn will follow suit and help to re- | store to nature what she voluntarily en- | trusted to his care. An unknown man | and Slack are buried here, and their ep- itaph cIrtly reads, killed by Apaches | in '6l." Here lie, also, the Shellaberger | boys, murdered about four years ago by | Indians between the Aztec camp and | the Sonoita. Such Is the fate of many a | hardy pioneer who traversed the noun tain businesses in search of wealth; and | of their number how many do succeed | in reaching the goal? More anon.
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