Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Arizona mining company

The Arizona Mining Company, its Mines, Property and Organization
ARIZONA MINING COMPANY.
ORGANIZED under the Incorporation Law of the State of New York.

Its capital is divided into 30,000 shares of $100 each.

Its business is the mining of silver and other ores, and the production of bullion in the New Territory of Arizona.

The headquarters of the company are at the town of Tubac, near the overland mail route to California, by way of El Paso and San Diego, and accessible by a good wagon route of 157 miles in length, to the Gulf of California, at the Ports of Lobos and Libertad.


The property of the company consists of a celebrated ranch, known as Arivaca or Aribac, comprising seventeen thousand acres, on which are found numerous veins of gold and silver, and it abounds in pasturage, tillable land, timber and never-failing water. This property was famous in the days of Jesuit missions. They own alfo the mines of the Cerro Colorado Mountains, including the famous Heintzelman mine, named in honor of Major General Heintzelman, U. S. A. who superintended and cordially aided its early development.

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