Arizona ghost trails

Name: Arizona ghost trails
Author: Hinton, Richard J. (Richard Josiah)

Hinton, Richard J. (Richard Josiah)

Arizona -- Guidebooks; Mines and mineral resources -- Arizona

Irrigated lands in Southern Arizona will readily produce two crops
of grain each year, and several of alfalfa. Some lands, belonging
to the Pima Indians, as well as fields about Tucson and the ranches
of the Santa Cruz and San Pedro Valleys, are known to have been in
continuous cultivation for at least from two to three hundred years.
Water fertilizes and restores the soil. The valley of the Gila, under
analysis, shows more phosphorates and other fertilizers than that of
the Nile.

A sand storm on the mesas of Southern Arizona is not a pleasant affair
to encounter. If caught in one on horse-back or afoot, imitate the
animals, put your face close to the ground and turn your back to the
blast.


Ehrenberg to Camp McDowell, A. T., via Date Creek.

  =======================================================================
                        |        |        |
      _To_              |_Miles._|_Miles._|   _Description._
                        |        |        |
  ----------------------+--------+--------+------------------------------
  Tyson’s (Los Pasos)   |  25    |    25  |Good water; hay and grain.
  Desert Station        |  25    |    51  |Good water; hay and grain.
  Flint’s               |  19    |    70  |Good water and grass.
  McMullen’s            |   4    |    74  |Old road branches here} Road
                        |        |        |  by Martinez’s Cañon.} west of
  Cullen’s              |  10    |    85  |Good water and grass. } Date Creek
  Date Creek Crossing   |  36    |   121  |Good water and grass. } Mountain.
  Date Creek            |   9    |   130  |
  Martinez’s Cañon      |   7    |     7  |Water, grass and wood; road
                        |        |        |  boggy in wet season.
                        |        |        |  Right fork to Ehrenberg.
  Vulture Mill          |  18    |    26  |Last six miles of road
                        |        |        |  sandy.
  [1]Wickenburg         |   1    |    27  |Settlement.
  [2]Camp on Hassyampa  |   5    |    33  |Water (except in very dry
                        |        |        |  season), grass and wood.
  Road leaves Hassyampa |   2    |    35  |Quicksands in Hassyampa
                        |        |        |  sometimes impassable.
                        |        |        |  (See Note.)
  Mud Tanks             |  12    |    48  |Water in rainy season.
  Point of Mountain     |   7    |    55  |Permanent water in White
                        |        |        |  Tanks, 1½ miles to
                        |        |        |  right of road.
  [3]Forks of Road      |        |    56  |Right fork to Salinas Lower
                        |        |        |  Crossing.
  Crossing of           |        |        |
      Agua Frio Ranch   |   9    |    65  |
  Phœnix                |        |        |
      (Swelling’s R’ch) |  19    |    85  |Settlement.
  Acequia               |   1    |    86  |
  Forks of Road         |  12    |    98  |Right fork to Maricopa

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Arizona ghost trails

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