Pima County AZ Archives History - Businesses .....Arivaca Mining District 1881
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ARIVACA,  PIMA COUNTY.

  This district is in the extreme southern portion of the county, adjoining Oro
Blanco District.

  The Heintzelman, a well known mine, was located and worked some years ago, but
is now lying idle. It has a working shaft 230 feet deep, and several prospect
shafts from ten to fifty feet deep. The ore is a kind of zinc blende, and
frequently of very high grade, giving assays as high as $4,000 to the ton, but
it is exceedingly base, and has to be worked by the leaching process. This mine
has yielded about $850,000. The Juiche is an old mine, which has a shaft down
sixty-five feet, and some open cuts showing rich ore. The Consolidated Arizona
Gold and Silver Mining Company, Mr. John McCafferty, Superintendent, employs
from forty to fifty men. The working shaft is down 160 feet, and is surmounted
by good steam hoisting machinery. Levels have been opened, and a number of
crosscuts run, which show ore said to mill $100 per ton. The company has erected
a ten-stamp mill, which is now in operation. The Arkansas, belonging to Farr &
Unthank, is being vigorously developed. The shaft is down 300 feet, and the
vein, which at first was quite narrow, is widening out. At this depth it
averages $400 per ton; where it was first struck, it carried virgin silver,
yielding from one dollar to five dollars per pound. This rich ore is being
shipped to San Francisco for reduction. At the Lonjarina mine, ore is being
extracted and worked in the Derre & Townsend mill. It is argentiferous galena,
and averages eighty-five ounces to the ton. The Albatros mine is also being
developed, and has a shaft down about seventy-five feet, all the way in good
ore. There are many other promising locations in this district, among which may
be mentioned the Ortega, Tennessee, Vale of Ranja, Hombre, Plomosa, Union, Dos
Amigos, Mentor, and Alpha.


Additional Comments:

Extracted from:

RIZONA 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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