Arizona ghost trails

Roads and Distances from the Colorado River South to Prescott.

No. II. From Mouth of Rio Virgen, via Virgin and Beale’s Springs.

No III. From Moqui-Pueblos Trail, via Mouth of Paria Creek.

Road from Virgin to Mountain Spring generally good.

From Moqui-Pueblos trail to Cascades and from Cosnino Tanks distances were taken from map, and for road distances (though correction was made) are probably too small.

The trail used from Cascades on Colorado Chiquito to wagon road is perfectly practicable for wagon; hence good mail-road to Prescott.

Good camping ground at crossing of Muddy Cañon, between Fort Rock and Oaks and Willows.

Road from Mineral Park good.

Road from Cerbat sandy.

Road from Beale’s Spring good; abandoned military post.

Road from Cottonwoods good. Mineral Park and Cerbat are both situated about one mile east of road from Chloride City to Beale’s Spring.

To Navajo Springs, good made road round springs; excellent to Limestone Pockets and beyond, till it passes divide, when it becomes sandy.

From Navajo Springs to Moqui-Pueblos trail, good road, following arroyo.

Camp Wallen, (abandoned) A. T., to Guaymas, Mexico.

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Tucson

Tucson to Camp Crittenden (east slope of Santa Rita Range) via Davidson’s.

The Same, via Tubac.

Prescott

Wickenburg

From Tubac.

(Principal point in the Santa Cruz Valley, Santa Rita mining region.)

Ehrenberg to

Mineral Park, Mojave County.

Phœnix

Florence

Railroad and Stage to Prescott.

The cheaper route to Prescott is from San Francisco via Dos Palmas, (160 miles east of Los Angeles) and stage thence through or via Ehrenburg—Dos Palmas to Prescott being about 200 miles.

Express trains leave San Francisco daily at 4 P. M.—arrive at Dos Palmas 2:10 A. M. second night.

Third class trains leave San Francisco daily at 4:30 P. M.—arrive at Dos Palmas at 2:10 P. M. third night.

Stage leaves Dos Palmas immediately after arrival of the train, every other night.

There are two rates of fare to Prescott via Dos Palmas and Ehrenburg. First class, $78.10; third class, $67.10, coin.

The most comfortable, but more expensive route, is via rail to Yuma River steamer to Ehrenburg, and stage thence to Prescott. But this connection depends upon the running of the steamer up the river from Yuma, of which the departures are irregular. Trains leave San Francisco: first class, at 4 P. M.—arrive at Yuma second morning at 8:30 A. M.; third class, at 4:30 P. M.—arrive at Yuma third morning at 8:30 A. M.

Fare from San Francisco to Yuma: first class, $45; third class, $34.

Yuma to Ehrenburg: cabin, $15; deck, $10. Ehrenburg to Prescott, $33.

Through tickets are not issued by this route.

A daily stage connection is made from Yuma via Phœnix, by which route through tickets are sold from San Francisco to Prescott, at first class rates, $117; third class being $106.

Miscellaneous Distances.

Papagoria Distances.

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Local Distances in Yavapai County

Local Distances in Mojave County

Colorado River Distances.

Local Distances in Pinal County.

Local Distances in Pima County.

The famous Turquoise Mine is in New Mexico, near the Arizona line. It comprises two enormous open quarries, perhaps 200 feet in depth at the deepest point, and covering an area of several acres. They must have been produced with great labor, since there are no traces anywhere of the use of tools or gunpowder. Tradition refers these workings to a period of greater antiquity than the Spanish occupation, and declares them to have been executed by the Aztec inhabitants of the regions who preceded the present Indian races. Stone hammers have been found in these quarries, but no tools of any metal. The trachyte is seamed and fissured throughout, at small intervals, and in every direction; and there is no reason to doubt that hammers, wedges, and levers would be quite sufficient to remove the solid masses. The turquoise occurs fully in the fissures, in the form of narrow seams and plates, rarely or never exceeding the fraction of an inch in thickness. The majority of the seams now exposed show the impure green variety, which is worthless. The Pueblo Indians, like civilized people, value the light-blue turquoise only.

Stage arrives at Florence every morning at 7 A. M. from Tucson, and leaves half an hour later for Yuma; stage from Yuma arrives every evening at 6 P. M., and leaves for Tucson half an hour later. Stage to Globe City leaves every Tuesday at 8 A. M., and arrives at 8 P. M. Saturday. Phœnix and Prescott stages leave every other day at 7 A. M., and arrive alternate days at 12 midnight. Stage for Silver King leaves every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 7 A. M., and arrives every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 4 P. M.

The military-geographical surveys, up to the fall of 1876, under Lieut. Wheeler, in central and western Arizona, have covered a total area of 17,954.6 square miles, or 11,490,944 acres. Of this total, it is estimated that 25 per cent., or 4,488 square miles, being 2,875,238 acres, are fit for agricultural purposes, mostly requiring irrigation. The timber is set down at 10 per cent., or 1,149,094 acres. For grazing, the estimate is 30 per cent., and as barren, 35 per cent. The total available land in the area surveyed is thus set down at 65 per cent., being 11,670.6 square miles, or 7,469,114 acres.

Temperatures and Rainfall.

A copy of this table as an image can be found here.

Table of Altitudes—Principal Points in Arizona.

The surveyors for the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fé Railroad have pressed work beyond Cimarron, New Mexico, and expect to extend their surveys as far as Tucson, Arizona, during the present winter. The building of the road, however, will depend largely upon the corporation’s ability in obtaining a land (or other) subsidy from Congress.

List of all Mining Companies who have Filed their Articles of Incorporation in the Office of the Secretary of Territory to October 1st, 1877.