Cochise County AZ Archives History - Businesses .....California 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, 3:42 pm CALIFORNIA, CACHISE COUNTY. This district is situated in the eastern part of the county, embracing a portion of the Chiricahua range of mountains. Its general altitude is from 5,000 to 6,000 feet, giving it a cool and healthy climate. The summit of the main range of mountains is covered with fir and yellow pine, furnishing lumber and fuel. Water of a good quality is obtained from springs and brooks, which are quite numerous in this section. Gayleyville, the principal town, is twenty-five miles from San Simon, a station of the Southern Pacific Railroad. The rock formation of the mineral belt is metamorphic limestone, syenite, and porphyry. The ores are generally argentiferous galena, which have to be smelted. The silver is readily obtained as the ore carries its own flux. The Texas mine is opened by a shaft 150 feet deep, from which several prospecting tunnels have been run. It is said to have an eight foot vein of ore, which assays $100 per ton. There is a large amount of ore on the dump. The company have recently put up a smelting furnace, which is in active operation. The Continental mine has a narrow vein of black metal ore of very high grade. It is being extracted, sacked, and shipped to San Francisco. The Roman Beauty, another very promising mine, is being energetically developed, and bids fair to soon rank with some of the producing mines of other sections. The Hell mine has a shaft down 85 feet; the ledge at that point is 14 feet wide, and carries an 18 inch pay streak of high-grade ore. In addition to the above are the Cleveland, Hardshell, Bruce, Humming Bird, East End, Keystone, and other mines, which are being developed and yielding rich ore. 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/californ668gms.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/azfiles/ File size: 3.2 Kb