Cochise County AZ Archives History - Businesses .....Huachuca Mountains Mining District 1881 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/az/azfiles.html ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher sdgenweb@yahoo.com December 17, 2007, 4:05 pm HUACHUCA MOUNTAINS, CACHISE COUNTY Twenty miles southwest of Tombstone, embracing what is known as the Hartford District, contains innumerable ledges of gold, silver, and copper, from their base to the tops of the loftiest peaks, nine thousand feet above the level of the sea. The first discoveries may be said to have been made in 1878, when the Wisconsin, Undine, I X L, and other claims were located. Since that time considerable prospecting has been done, resulting in the discovery of silver ores assaying as high as $600 to the ton; also copper ores assaying as high as 65 per cent. Quartz ledges have also been found in Mormon Canon, Dublin Canon, and other places, showing considerable free gold. The formation is principally limestone and porphyry; ores, galena and carbonates. In Montezuma Canon several locations have recently been purchased by the Neptune Mining Company, of New York, who are now erecting extensive smelting works at Hereford, on the San Pedro River, for the reduction of their ores. Timber of different kinds, including pine, oak, ash, walnut, maple, hemlock, and mesquite, is abundant, and on the east side of the mountain some wild black cherry trees are to be found. A large quantity of lumber and timber for building and mining purposes is transported to Tombstone. Water is plentiful, and rivals in excellence that of the Sierra Nevadas. The scenery in this section is magnificent, and the climate unsurpassed, there being no great extremes of heat or cold. Additional Comments: Extracted from: ARIZONA BUSINESS DIRECTORY AND GAZETTEER; CONTAINING THE Names and Post-Office Addresses of all Merchants, Manufacturers and Professional Men in the Territory of Arizona; TERRITORIAL, COUNTY, CITY AND TOWN OFFICERS. A DESCRIPTION OF THE DIFFERENT MINING DISTRICTS AND THE NAMES OF MINING SUPERINTENDENTS. ALSO, A GAZETTEER OF THE COUNTIES, CITIES AND TOWNS, Giving a full exhibit of their Mineral, Agricultural and Manufacturing Resources. WITH AN APPENDIX, CONTAINING THE NAMES AND ADDRESSES OF WHOLESALE MERCHANTS AND MANUFACTURERS IN THE CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO. W. C. DISTURNELL, COMPILER AND PUBLISHER, 534 California Street, San Francisco, Cal. BACON & COMPANY, PRINTERS. l88l. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1881, By W. C. DISTURNELL, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, Washington, D. C. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/az/cochise/directories/business/1881/huachuca690gms.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/azfiles/ File size: 3.0 Kb