Gila County AZ Archives History - Businesses .....El Capitan Mining District 1881
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EL CAPITAN, GILA COUNTY.

  This district is located on the south side of the Pinal Mountains, 18 miles
south of Globe City, and contains two groups of mines, named the Pioneer and the
El Capitan. They are sometimes included in the Globe District. There is a
plentiful supply of wood and water for mining purposes.

  The Pioneer, owned by George Scott, has been opened at considerable expense,
and 55 tons of ore packed on mules to mills near Globe City, and worked. Packing
the ore cost from $18 to $30 per ton. Milling cost $45 per ton. Still there was
a margin left more than sufficient to pay the expenses of extraction. This will
give some idea of the difficulty of mining profitably in districts where no
facilities for reducing exist. The Pioneer South, an extension of the Pioneer,
has three shafts and is yielding high-grade ore, which is shipped to San
Francisco for reduction. The Great Republic, in the same group, is owned by D.
Larry.

  In the El Capitan group are the Little Giant, National, Zuni, Farragut,
Mohawk, etc., owned by S. A. Lowe; the El Capitan, by Lowe & Anderson; the Burns
by Holt & Burns; the Olympic, Topia, and Foote by Hardesty & Oury; Bullion Dust
by Anderson & Curry, and several others.


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.


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