Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-12-01
THE SIERRITAS.
Some Fine sceEery-A Beautiful Grazing
 Country-Ihe NIlnes

4 CITIZEN representative in company
 with G. F. Meek and 1I. V. Perry, made
 Q flying trip to the Sierritas thirty five
 miles south Of Tucson, going Saturday
 evening and returning last night. ghe
 road leads out past Silver Lake towards
 San Xavier lhis portion Of the road is ID wretched condition. The county
 road is out of repair.
 The San Xavier mission IS passed to
 the let. At the San Xavier buttes
 about nine mil from Tucson. there is a fork in the road, the Gunsight road
 talks ti the right and the SierIita road
 to the left.
 The San Xavier woods are full of coyotes and their houls were anything
 but tbe music of the spheres" These
 woods are dense growth of mesquite, 6 species Of She locust family pecunar to
 Arizona This particular forest covers
 about fifteen square miles Of territory, and is really valuable property. The fact ofit being on the Papago Ind.an reservation masesIt non available forany practical us8 except the few bu-r0 loads
 that are daliy taken from it by MeZjcaus and sold lu Tucson.
 After leaving the Cans. ght forks the
 SlerrIta road pIsses through a beautIfgl grass country with some mesquite The first place reached Was Pela Blanca
 rancho or White Qlartz farm, twenty
 miles from Tucson. This is a live stock farm. it has large stone corral, and it IS the on-y watering place between San Xavier and The Sierfitas.
 As tEI5 r.in WAS made ID tLe dark tho
 party got of the main road co t-e east and followed a cattle trall some two miles mp @ small valley, when finding themselves lost they halted about md night, and baIidIlg a rou-Ing campfire out of dry lesqu'te, they slept in a lit- tie sandy wash The temperature was very mud, there being none of that sharpness tlst I- felt n Tucson.
 The next morning 'uiggrr' or turk head caclu, WAS ui=sected for the pur- pose ot a5certanllE the structure oI ats anatomy. Tho clelu- grUwg about as big as B uail se-, and has ribs or ridges Wlrh deep creaSrs between running -ou- gItudin-ly. These ridges are cover with taOrus, as though the primal curse had lrat Tested On thls plant. The top 0t tLi- particular 'aIEyer' was covered with Deauiifgl yellow flowers. each rest ing oa a bulb. When this latter was cut Open they were f0DHd tO be full of seeds ike hg. The Fee3s were black. and sHme hat re- em1ieG tlaLsesa. The in- side gf tle rar'us itself contained wli'e, lIlry meat Of .u offensive o-0r.
 There were great nnmbrr ol cattle T-5zrug ll tLs grass. which affords only drr feed at r-l- tiIa of r-l-. There ! were "ta--.a l.1l @ -loCs8ld hIil-," a- . aucieutly.
 Ih- urEt morning the road was easily 1 t0Iud, and TWO u0U-s driving brought ! the party -o "a halt at tLe Garcia house, . a atll-Iullt nd Doe il lltils flat ol tGe banks gf a dry e-r-k. Two miners are ! IIgluE there who are doiug l-z15smslt | work on tLe Nina Du-a mine for tle . proprietor, -. AIusa.
 tHe w-'. ariais place has been out oF | repair five weeks owing Co a peculiar ir- . cldeut- The well ls ahour fifty feet 1elp. L-1 uealI-I7,s fell into the we'll and found safety Gn little bench 0t -ocz lst above fine water. Alter few Jays tl-ir L1l.=r became go E- at tllt one killed and ate -le other, l-av.u- nothing bnt some bones. The miners returning from tLeIr work Gls day had some dOu ts whether cologne factory Jr slau shter nOu-e had been started. and when the lasr ueuhit.s had died hey pulled Hp uIs carcass and cleaned put tle well, nlt tlef- has been DO water u It since.
 West af tle Garc,a house IS tLe old 'r0vl4s1rIa mIue. IT has deep shalt .t tLe top Oftle bill and tunnel Ol the Testeru side facing the Barboquivari alley. The ge on which the P-0vi- !eacIa ls locate has also three other Ocatlou7, iha DlabIto, Coutinuacioa and Town Jewels. The latter claim I= 7catea ou fle ls 'ce where it IS iu the alley. The Diablt0 and Coutinraeiau .alms are owned 5y Messrs. Meek and 5nchta. il- ore IS silver and copper lance. WIih large percentage Of ue- auque. All the shafts show that the eIn wit-n7 and the ore as riche- the Irthe- The vein goes down.
 The view 1f the BE11lu lvari peak and alley from tle SIrrrI;as is g.au3 No ne l- ls sad has ever assembled the I 'ao9 IllEa-- Inls assertion i- u1ii- | ed, however, that an Indian chief once lmbei its p-- lpIt1us highs. B1- the lme tradition does not speak 0E his ss"-u- The B4b7guivari valley Is some fifteen 1. lil=s broad and fifty miles long. It i- 1yarei at present with @ dense growth grass. Dry streams f-Iucel with < forests trend across its p'aius. {. After taking a few sketches the jsur- ey home Was commenced. r a0ouuied ply with % few incidents of target |. Tactlce ou coyotes and qulI. 0f which ~ lsre seemed Go be au abundance. De N,hmieang.FeIdman NnnfilIs.