The marvellous country, or, Three years in Arizona and New Mexico.: Containing an authentic history of this wonderful country and its ancient civilization ... together with a full and complete history of the Apache tribe of Indians .../ By Samuel Woodworth Cozzens. Illustrated by more than one hundred engravings.

VALUE OF THE ORE.
ing a desire to visit some of the silver mines in the vicinity,
we urged him so strongly to accompany us that he finally
consented; and, accepting the generous hospitality offered
by him, we remained over night at the Fort, and the next
morning, in company with the captain and an escort of ten
mounted men, we left Fort Buchanan for a visit to the silver
mines of Southern Arizona. We decided to first visit the
Patagonia mine, then owned by Sylvester Mowrey, one of
the first American settlers in the Territory. We found Mr.
Mowrey at the mine, and received frm him some important
information concerning it, which may be of interest to the
reader.
The mine is situated in the Santa Cruz Mountains, about
six thousand feet above the level of the sea. It is nearly
three hundred miles from Guaymas, on the Gulf of California, and about ten miles from the Sonora line. It was
worked by the Spaniards as early as 1760, abandoned on
account of Apache raids in 1820, and was rediscovered by
Mr. Mowrey in 1856. At the time of our visit, the company were engaged in putting in a steam-engine, which had
been hauled by mules from Lavaca, in Texas, a distance of
fourteen hundred miles. A boiler weighing nearly six
thousand l)ounds had also been brought in the same way,
to the great terror of the Apaches, who not only kept a
respectable distance from it, but could not be induced to
approach it, believing it to be a huge cannon, brought into
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