Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-04-28
NO. l5
WAYSIDE NOTES.
The 4 -ta Cruz Vallsy---Oro BlancO d
 AriNara-- Winning Matters.

The < -ta Cruz yalIey---Oro BIaneO d
 AriS4ra--- Whining Matters.
 EDr~B CITIZEN.
 Perhaps some of your re7ders would like to know how the world iogs along on the outside of the "Ancieut Pueblo" and If you can spare the space I VII give -0u some points of interest. South of Tucson and stretching away to the sonora line IS the santa Cruz valley. Ids valley will average at least two miles in width throughout It's entire length. On each side the hIils or mesas slope gently to the valley, and farther away ID the distance tower the Santa Rl,a and San CayetauO mountains on the one side and the Sierrita and Som Uretllo mountains on the other. Along tuis valley our country can boast of some fine herds of stock. At least 30,- utU head Ot cattle are quietly grazing between Tucson and the Sonora hne. The stockmen are fast improving their herds. Here and there one can readily note the change between the small, slim Mexican stock and the compact and well propOrConed English herds. By taking the cOmmudlOus stage of our friend Don Pedro Agulrre, one Is carried 4t a swing Iug gdlt eItl CT to Cala0ssas or Arivaca. On leaving the valley at the Junction one com es suddenly Co she SOpOri ranch. Here are more cattle, and about eighteen mIIes dIstaut lies the Arivaca ranch-a vast picture of green with a background of brown m uutams rising and stretch a a comfortable hotel here, and a week cuI 1e spent here very pleasantly riding over the hllls Or up in the mountains. Tue season has been a good one for the st0ckmeu, and green feed IS abundant uu all sides. \ fine wagon road leads to Gro Blauco SIX miles dis taut from Arivaca. I venture to say that some of the mues in Oro Blauco will astouish us yet. Among the num- ber there IS one which bears the express sive name of "Old Stiff" owned by J. N Kirkpatrick and others. A good road has been built Co the mine, and the owners are buslly extracting ore which -uey propose to have mllled at ArIyaca. The ledge OH the surface is over loo feet ID width and seems to carry hae body of free milling ore across its entire width. An average Of twenty assays gave over SlOU From the present showing [ know nothing to equal ir, and should the ore only mill one third of the average assay, these gentlemen will iu my opinion be amply rewarded. The surface cruppIugs are bold and strong. and there Is enough ore in sight on the ledge to keep the mills at Arivaca busy for many a day. Messrs. Blanc and Iuderstrotte ar. the lucky owners of e uIls near by called the Bullion. The have had -OO tons uf the ore milled ArIvaca and realized nearly S90O0 frOI 5t From all the information l could Ecr, the m-ue IS destined Co be famous a~ a bullion producer Like all minmc camps Arivaca and Gro BlancO have had their ups and downs, but I think rhr mining interests Of both places will be very active before the summer IS ended When you are tired of town life and need a rest for a week or so. take .Le stage for &riyaca. Get a saddle 1Hg5e and roam over the valley or Up into the mountains among the trees l.I ferns, l venture say that you will ,tme back ready for work and feeling ls well as if you had been inhalng the 1raez.s of the Pacific ocean. Adios,
 ROVER.