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.

.DISAPPEARANCE OF JIMMY.
high as six hundred dollars per ton, which, even when comn
pared with the richest silver mines in Mexico and Nevada,
is very large, their average being from sixty to eighty-five
dollars to the ton.
The Heintzleman mine is, without doubt, the richest
silver mine in the world; but in 1862, the Apaches made a
descent upon it, murdering Mr. Poston and many of the
miners, since which time the mine, like nearly all others in
Arizona, remains unworked.
The same company of capitalists who own this mine, are
also the owners of the celebrated Arrivacca ranche, a few
miles distant, which is said to be the most valuable property
in the Territory, containing some thirty thousand acres of fine
agricultural land, together with many valuable silver leads,
some of which have been worked, while others are yet virgin
to the miner's hand.
While Dr. Parker, in company with 5Jr. Poston and myself, had been exploring the wonders of the Cerro Colorado,
Jimmy had disappeared, and with him an old but highlyprized Sharp's carbine. Becoming somewhat alarmed for
his safety, Mr. Poston kindly dispatched two vaqueros in
search of him.
After an hour or so they struck his trail, and following it
for some distance, at last found Jimmy sitting upon the
carcass of a fine buck, that, much to his surprise, he had
succeeded in shooting.
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