Arizona ghost trailsHinton, Richard J. (Richard Josiah)
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Arizona ghost trails
Hinton, Richard J. (Richard Josiah)
Arizona -- Guidebooks; Mines and mineral resources -- Arizona
| | || | | holes.
Camp on Little | 19 |1020||131 | 285|Half a mile from road to river,
Colorado River | | || | | plenty wood and water, grass
| | || | | good, road good.
Camp at Sunset | 14 | 493||145 | 778|Plenty wood and water, no grass
Crossing Little | | || | | near crossing, road good to
Colorado River | | || | | Cottonwood Fork, which empties
| | || | | into the Little Colorado, near
| | || | | Sunset Crossing. Cottonwood
| | || | | Fork has a delta, and in time
| | || | | of freshet overflows the
| | || | | valley for several miles,
| | || | | rendering it impassable.
| | || | | Sunset Crossing is not passable
| | || | | in time of melting snows
| | || | | without the aid of a raft.
Camp at Sunset Pass,| 18 | 669||163 |1447|Road gradually up grade, but good
on Big Dry Fork | | || | | traveling, permanent water in
| | || | | tanks in bed of creek for about
| | || | | four miles, in cañon plenty
| | || | | wood, water, and grass.
Camp on a lake of | 21 | 42||184 |1489|Four miles from Camp on Big Dry
snow water | | || | | Fork, the road runs through
| | || | | thick cedar to Jarvis Pass,
| | || | | which is 14 miles from Sunset
| | || | | Pass. Road good to Jarvis Pass,
| | || | | thence stony; plenty of cedar
| | || | | on lake.
Simpkins’ Spring | 7|1681||192 | 411|Spring 100 yards north of road,
| | || | | (trees blazed) good water, grass
| | || | | ordinarily good, thick heavy
| | || | | pine, road stony and up grade.
Stoneman’s Lake | 10 | 859||203 | 510|Is about 4½ miles in
| | || | | circumference, circular, an
| | || | | abundance of permanent water.
| | || | | Lake inclosed by bluffs about
| | || | | 400 feet high, thick heavy
| | || | | pine, good grass, very
| | || | | difficult to get water. The
| | || | | road leads through the Mogollon
| | || | | Mountains from Simpkins’ Spring
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