Dolores, San Antonio, Casa Gordo, Cabrisa, San Juan Batista,
Santa Anna, (which was worked to the depth of one hundred and
twenty yards,) Rosario, Cata de Agua, Guadaloupe, Connilla,
Prieta, Santa Catarina, Guzopa, Huratano, Arpa, Descuhidara,
Nacosare, Arguage, Churinababi, Huacal, Pinal, and a great number
of others which it would only be tedious to mention.

The most celebrated modern localities are Arivaca, (also
anciently famous as Aribac,) Sopori, the Arizona mountains, the
Santa Rita range, the Cerro Colorado, the entire vicinity of
Tubac, the Del Ajo, or Arizona copper mine, the Gadsonia copper
mine, and the Gila river copper mines. These last are situated
directly upon the Gila, only twenty-five miles from its mouth.
The writer assures the public that there is no room for doubt as
to the authenticity of these statements, or the immense resources
of the new Territory in silver, copper, and probably gold. As
late as 1820, the Mina Cobre de la Plata, (silver copper mines,)
near Fort Webster, north of the Gila, were worked to great
advantage; and so rich was the ore that it paid for
transportation on muleback more than a thousand miles to the city
of Mexico.

Every exploration within the past few years has confirmed the
statements of the ancient records. The testimony of living
Mexicans, and the tradition of the country, all tend to the same
end. Col. A. B. Gray, Col. Emory, Lt. Michler, Lt. Parke, the
Hon. John R. Bartlett, late of the United States Boundary
Commission, all agree in the statement that the Territory hasimmense resources in silver and copper. Col. Emory says in his
report: