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.

CHAPTER XS3.
T~,J3,; o/cdontoLE broke camp early the fol lowing morning, in order
to reach the Santa Rita
mine, situated in the Santa
! Rita Mountains, the next
day, the distance being about
_q ~forty miles. We found at
the mine a Mr. Grosvenor,
A d \~Y;who was the general manager
of affairs there. He had but
recently been appointed to the position, and was laboring
hard to get things in order. He informed us that the
Apaches, within the past twelve months, had killed his
three predecessors in the management of the mines; and
within six months from that time, Mr. Grosvenor suffered a
similar fate.
Up to the time of our visit, several assays of the ore had
been made, yielding from sixty to four hundred dollars to
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