The border vidette., 1934-01-06

iCST.
We must try to get things
moving" the governor said. TO
the aid jobless men in this state"
"criadero" or a growing place Of
silver.
However. before Captain Anza
could get official backing on his
claim the high graders got in
their work and carried away sew.
eral tons OF native silver. right
from the grass roots. Several
pieces weighed around thirty,
i've hundred pounds and had to
be chopped up. Five and one.
half tons OF pure silver we're
taken away st the first gather.
ing. The find did not continue
in richness, but for many years
silver mining continued at more
Or less profit and still continues
in small way. Silver placer
mining is even now being car.
ried on in the creeks of Arizonac.
The place then became known
as the Planchas de Plata slabs
or plates of silver or Los Bolas
(ouggets OF silver.
Thus Arizonac became cele.
brated, rising from an obcure
Indian water hole TO q kings
natural treasure trove, aud over
Q century later to become per.
petuated as the name Of great
state. producing yearly more
gold. silver, copper and other
metals than the entire spoils
wrested from the Americas by
the Conquisitadores.
Bolas of silver are still found
in various localities centering
around the original Arizonac
mine. most Of the latest discov.
cries having been made By
American prospectors on the
Arizona side or the lire ID the
Pena Blanca. The old St. Pat.
rick mine, only q mile south OF
Pena Blanca Springs, produced
around quarter of q million in
silver between 1888 and 1890.
Old man Bschstrom, sitting un.
der al oak tree up in Pajarito
Canon about three miles south
of the old Ruby road. whacked
on rock with his pick and the
pieces broken off huug together
By the silver wires running
through them. About fifty thou
sand dollars worth of silver was
disclosed from the grass roots to
a depth OF only thirty feet, bot
that was the end Of the treasure.
Old Peter Kitchen. who built
the original road from Tucson
to Tubac to Tumacacori and to
Help. as be named It, took out
some rich ore from near Monu.
ment 129 on the border aud was
2enned up several days in his
tunnel by the Apaches. To get
back to the course of events that
led up to naming state after
old Ari2onac, for many years
after 1886 the entire region
around the original Arizonac
mine was known simply as Ari.
zonac and the mountains on both
sides of the present border we're
called the Arizona mountains.
since renamed the Pajaritos or
Little Bird" mountains. The
old trail used by the padres and
soldiers of Spain going to and
fro betwee1 the Altar Valley and
Santa Cruz missions winds
around the northern slopes aud
through the canons of the origi.
nal AriZonac.
After the coming OF the west.
ward bound settlers from E,st-
ern states and New Mexico had
been organized as territory. the
vast expanse of country clear to
the Colorado River, Including
the Gadsden Purchase, south of
the Gila River. lay too far from
a central governing point.
10 1856 q petition was sent to
| Congress asking for separate
territory. Several names we're
suggested for the new political
unit including Pimeria, Arizuma
and GadsoDia, but the attorney
general OF New Mexico recon.
mended the name Arizona, after
old Arizonac.
Several years Of political shut.
! ding and buck passing went on
in Congress, so it was not uutil
1868, on February "a, that Ahrs.
ham Lincoln signed that import.