Arizona ghost trails

APPENDIX

Table Showing the Value of any Amount of Gold Dust, from 1 grain to 10 ounces, at $16 to $23 per ounce.

Out of a ton of ore from the Stonewall Jackson Mine, adjoining the General Lee, in the Globe District, (Arizona) there was extracted October 25th, by the Pacific Refinery, San Francisco, ten bars of silver valued at $3,800, which is over 36 per cent. metallic copper.

At Clinton, Arizona, the great copper mining center, the Longfellow Company have two furnaces running, and turn out as high as 10,000 pounds of pig copper daily. The furnaces used are Bennett’s patent. Arizona has, without doubt, the richest and most extensive copper mines in the world. This metal is all shipped east by way of El Moro.

The Ores of Gold and Silver.

Charles P. Stanton, geologist, writes to the Prescott “Miner,” under date of Nov. 9th, 1877, as follows: The great carboniferous basin of Arizona—and in all probability of the world—exists within 140 miles of Prescott. This immense coal deposit makes its first appearance in Southwestern Colorado and Northwestern New Mexico; but its great nucleus extends from Tierra Ausarilla, in Rio Arriba, New Mexico, to the Colorado River, a distance of 276 miles, and from the San Juan River, a distance of 138 miles. This immense area of 38,088 square miles is one continuous mass of coal. It lies between the parallels of 100 and 112 west longitude, and 35 and 37 north latitude, and all in Yavapai County.

Weight and Specific Gravity of the Common Minerals.

Note.—A vein of ore one inch thick, six feet long, and six feet high, will measure three cubic feet; two inches, six cubic feet, and so on in proportion, allowing three cubic feet for every inch of ore in the lode, six feet high and six feet long.

Excellent Advice to the Emigrant Traveler

Is given by the California Immigrant Union, No. 248 Montgomery Street, San Francisco, which, if heeded, will be of service:

1. Buy your tickets for passage on railroad or steamboat, only at the office, before starting. Many of the runners who offer tickets for sale in the streets are swindlers. If you intend to go in a steamer or ship, examine the vessel before getting your ticket, and engage a particular berth or room in a part of the vessel that is clean, well ventilated and just comfortably warm.

2. Never show your money nor let any stranger know that you have any. Thieves prefer to rob emigrants, who generally carry money with them, and cannot stop to prosecute them, and have no acquaintances to aid in the prosecution. Do not mention the fact that you are an emigrant to persons who have no business to know it.

3. Never carry any large sum of money with you; you can always buy drafts at banks, and if you are going to a strange place you can give your photograph to the banker to forward to your destination, so that you can be identified without trouble when you want to draw your money.

4. Avoid those strangers who claim to be old acquaintances, and whom you do not recollect. A certain class of thieves claim the acquaintance of ignorant countrymen whom they want to rob.

5. Do not drink at the solicitation of strangers; the first point of the thief is to intoxicate or drug his victim.

6. Do not play cards for money with strangers; in many cases they confederate to rob emigrants.

7. Travel in company with old friends, if possible, and do not leave them. Thieves prefer to take their victims one at a time.

8. If you see anybody pick up a full pocket-book, and he offers it to you for a small sum; or if you see some men playing cards, and you are requested to bet on some point where it seems certain that you must win; or it you see an auctioneer selling a fine gold watch for five dollars, don’t let them catch you. Emigrants are systematically swindled by such tricks.

9. If, when you arrive in a strange town, you want information and advice, you can always get it by applying at the right place. First, apply at the office of the Immigration Society, if there is one. If you are a foreigner, you will probably find in the large cities a Consular office or a benevolent society of your countrymen, and you can apply there. Usually, there are attentive and polite men at the police office. Public officers generally in the United States are ready to assist and advise strangers.

10. Before starting from home, carefully read all the accessible books about the State or Territory to which you intend to go; and when you arrive, go to some place where you can find old friends, if you have any. If you are poor, commence work immediately, but do not be in a hurry to buy land, unless with the approval of men whom you can trust. Take a month or two to get information about the country. Advice about the purchase of land is often given with corrupt motives.

White Mountain Reservation.—The boundaries of the reservation to be as follows, as shown in red on the accompanying map: Starting at the point of intersection of the boundary between New Mexico and Arizona with the south edge of the Black Mesa, and following the southern edge of the Black Mesa to a point due north of Sombrero or Plumoso Butte; then due south to said Sombrero or Plumoso Butte; then in the direction of the Picache Colorado to the crest of the Apache Mountains, following said crest down the Salt River to Pinal Creek, and then up the Pinal Creek to the top of the Pinal Mountains; then following the crest of the Pinal range, “the Cordilleras de la Gila,” the “Almagra Mountains,” and other mountains bordering the north bank of the Gila River to the New Mexican boundary, near Steeple Rock; then following said boundary north to its intersection with the south edge of the Black Mesa, the starting point.

Southern Pacific Railroad.

1 Allows stop-over privileges, at pleasure, upon notifying Conductors.

2 Includes the Tourists’ Trip from Merced to Yosemite and Return.

3 Limited to a continuous trip between San Francisco and Los Angeles.

4 Limited to a continuous trip between San Francisco and Los Angeles, on Third Class Trains.

T. H. GOODMAN,
General Pass. & Ticket Agent.

Eastern Railroad Rates.

FIRST-CLASS.

EMIGRANT RATES.

FREIGHT RATES.

Household goods, trees and shrubbery, farm implements, wagons, stock, old mining tools, etc., emigrant’s account only, from Kansas City to Denver, Colorado Springs, and Pueblo, $100 per car; less than car loads, $1 per 100 lbs. To El Moro, $130 per car; less than car loads, $1.30 per 100 lbs.

FROM MISSOURI RIVER TO COLORADO, EN ROUTE TO ARIZONA.

First-Class Fare.—Atchison or Kansas City to Pueblo, Colorado Springs, and Denver, $35; Veta, $38; Cañon City, $36.25.

Second-Class Fare.—From Kansas City, Atchison, Topeka, and Lawrence to Pueblo and Denver, $30; Veta, $33.75; Cañon City, $32; El Moro, $35; Del Norte, $51.75; Lake City, $67.75; Santa Fé, $75.

From Kansas City, Atchison, Topeka, and Lawrence to West Las Animas, $26.

Emigrant Rates.—From Kansas City, Atchison, Topeka, and Lawrence to West Las Animas, La Junta, Pueblo, and Denver, $20; Veta, $24; Cañon City, $22.50; El Moro, $25.50; Del Norte, $42.50: Lake City, $58; Santa Fé, $65.50.

Distance to Santa Fé, New Mexico.—From Atchison or Kansas City to Trinidad, Col., 707 miles by rail; from Trinidad, by stage, to Cimarron, 74 miles; to Fort Union, 14 miles; to Las Végas, 139 miles; and to Santa Fé, 214 miles; making the total distance from Atchison or Kansas City 923 miles—707 miles by rail and 216 by stage. From Santa Fé to Mesilla, 180 miles by stage; to Silver City, from the same, 385 miles. At this point, connection is made by the Southern Pacific mail stages either for El Paso and the Texas routes, via Mesilla, or northward, by way of Santa Fé and as above, to the Colorado and Kansas railroads.

FARES FROM SAN FRANCISCO.

By Coast Steamer.—San Pedro or Santa Monica—cabin, $14; steerage, $9, including berth and meals; time about 45 hours to Santa Monica; leave San Francisco every two or three days, at 9 A. M. San Francisco to San Diego—cabin, $15; steerage, $10; San Pedro to Los Angeles, 50 cents; Santa Monica to Los Angeles, $1.

Los Angeles to Yuma, $23, railroad; Los Angeles to Dos Palmas, $13.10, railroad; Dos Palmas to Ehrenberg, stage, $20; Los Angeles to Colton, $3; Colton to Yuma, $19; Colton to Dos Palmas, $10.10. Sleeping berths, (two nights) $5. Yuma to Ehrenberg, steamer—cabin, $15; deck, $10. San Francisco to Ehrenberg, (by steamer, cabin, to Santa Monica; thence railroad to Dos Palmas, and stage to Ehrenberg) $48.10. Same points, by railroad to Yuma and steamboat thence, $65; or by railroad to Dos Palmas and stage thence, $55.10.

Stage Fares.—Tucson to Altar, Sonora, $10; to Hermosillo, Sonora, $20. Leave Tucson every Monday noon; return Saturdays, 10 A. M.

Express Matter.—On 25 pounds and over, to Altar, four cents per pound; to Hermosillo, eight cents per pound.

The fare to and from Prescott to Los Angeles, San Francisco, Sacramento, or San José, by California and Arizona stage to Dos Palmas, and thence by rail, is as follows:

The person holding a ticket has the privilege of stopping over in Los Angeles or other points on the railroad for a reasonable length of time.

Schedule Time by Overland Stage from Yuma, leaving San Francisco by Southern Pacific R. R. thereto

United States Military Telegraph—California, Arizona and New Mexico Divisions.

TABLE OF DISTANCES.

PRESCOTT BRANCH.

APACHE BRANCH.