Maricopa County AZ Archives History - Businesses .....Moor Mining District 1881
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MOOR,  MARICOPA COUNTY.

  This district is situated about eight miles east of the town of Gillette. It
was first discovered in 1877, by William Moor, who, with others, located some
twenty different claims, and organized a district. The first discoverers claimed
to have found a deposit of tin, but subsequent investigation proved that they
were mistaken; several gold quartz claims, however, were found and worked to a
considerable extent by means of arastras, paying very handsomely. The most
promising of these mines are the Magna Charta, Gold Note and Plainwell, a group
owned by Messrs. Nilson, Carpenter, and Hutchinson, of Prescott. The deepest
opening on these claims does not exceed forty feet, but several show
well-defined veins of gold-bearing rock, from three to six feet in width,
averaging thirty dollars per ton. The district is very favorably situated,
having a good, wagon road running through it, plenty of water, a first-class
mill site, and considerable wood. On the north of this district are found copper
prospects, but no developments have been made.


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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