Yuma County AZ Archives History - Businesses .....Bill Williams Fork Mining District 1881
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BILL WILLIAMS FORK,  YUMA COUNTY.

  This district, located in the extreme northwestern portion of the county, is
bounded on the west by the Colorado River and on the north by Bill Williams
Fork, a tributary of the Colorado. During the excitement in regard to placer
diggings in this vicinity several years since, considerable prospecting was done
for gold quartz, resulting in the discovery of the Planet, one of the largest
and best known copper mines in Arizona. It has been worked at different times to
a considerable extent, yielding ore of a very high grade, from which several
thousand tons of copper have been extracted. There are many other rich veins of
copper ore in the district, and when this region becomes more accessible they
will no doubt be worked on an extensive scale.


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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