Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-01-07
SILVER HILL.

4ire col ihe More Prominent Mine, of
 This District.
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 3t long since, in company with two rflemen O. this city, l visited the awe mentioned district. which IS situ- al in a low range of mountains, thirty e miles west or Tucson. and about ur miles southeast oi the Young Amer a copper mine
 The first locaion in this camp, or listrict. was mde April l3, lssO, and bbe second was nat ui the Abbie Water han. made AFil l6, 1880. The Mon Irch was locatd Tn the early part oi
 The clam showing the greatest am1unt of wOk and development k the Abbie Waterusu. This mine Is owned by'IhOs. Gates, Esq, of thls ritv. Ii is aOut eighteen or twenty miles Fr ID thSOuthern Pacific railroad. The country is level and there k not a hill to crossl going from the mine to fine nearest pint on the line of the railway. nhecountry rock Oi the dls- trlct is limelnd porphyry principally, tbouch the7es some quartzite. The Abbie Waterin runs nearly north and .orth The tst wall of the ledge IS ,1artzite anttne west wall lime. The ,siifb of the in on the surface IS from twenty to for feet. Tine ledge IS lrOn- canned and ,n be traced for thirty five hundred or tlr thousand feet. lt can Ina dist1uctlseen the entire length ot tbe Abbie Werman clam. The ore IS carbonate ucharacter, carrying about | forty per ct. in galena, and varying in silver frn twenty to one hundred dollars perOn. Upon this mine there ia abnut ur hundred and fifty feet of tuuneiing raT the center of the claim. Near the n1h end is q shaft about for rv feet dep, and also other smaller openinrs. n lll the workings good ore ba. been ftlrl and in considerable quantities. il the shaft about twelve feet of ledn $ shown. The facilities for vorkin-tis mine are excellent, and its situation i4 very advantageous one.
 The Abbie 'aterman IS surrounded
 bv at least @ dken locations, all showing
 mineral. A lie and a half from the
 mine Is a weltug by Mir. Gates, whlct furnishes n lsge quantity of as fine wa
 ter as can bound in Pima county. A
 good wagon ,ad from the mine to thu annie supp of water can be built a
 very small ,st. The district IS vel
 wooded witlpalo verde mesquite ana irOn-wOOd
 \ tboroI7o examination and eXplOra tion con}d ot be made Tn the shor tima | va,inon the mine: but fror what | saw believe that the day is no
 far distantKhen the Abble Waterma
 will be onef the great paylns mines , Southern Azona. ,
 The soutern extension Of the Abb , Waterman. Nvned by W. r. Wood, Esq of tbis clt- has had abOut a thousan , dollars wah of work done upon 1t, an . shows finboly of ore. ., , The AIor~ch, owned principally | tE. O. ShawEsl-, 60 prominent citizen
 Tucsou. IS Bout a mile southeast Of tt - fine Abbie Iatermau and shows goo l o-a Euonbis mine a shaft about tif' , feet deen bs been sunk. lt IS very SC ? dom +hat sch bold cropplngs are to s saau VbisOiue could be worked by tunnel to gnat advantage, as lt IS stu tted upon a teep mountain side whe % the ledge c,l be easily cut at the dep 3 of several lindred feet.
 ? rThere is aclaim called the Richmon siouf eigbI hundred feet west of [
 southeast ad of the Abbie Waterma upon which, b,oune work has been dor < showing god ore. ,, , Notwithstanding we encountered thr
 ,ncbes of sold ice. the visit to the SilV HiI m1nirrGistrict was an exceeding f nlesssnt on. made SO by the jolly co
 nsnioDshiD q E. c. Shaw and Geo. 3 Cum, Esq. h