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.

GOLD AND COPPER MINES.
stream, into a pool at its base, evidently designed for bathing purposes. We tried it, and found, even then, as hot a
bath as we cared to take. The medicinal properties of this
water are said to be very wonderful; and, judging from
cases which have come under our own observation, we think
they have not been overrated. In scrofulous and syphilitic
cases they are especially efficacious.
Leaving the "Ojo Caliente" early the next morning, we
journeyed as far as the "Santa Rita del Col)re," where we
arrived about night-fall. These mines are situated in a
magnificent valley abounding in the most luxuriant vegetation, and surrounded by lofty mountains, whose peaks are
crowned with ice and snow, while the country for leaogues
around is covered with exceedingly valuable timber. That
these mines were worked as early as 1678, is undoubtedly
true, although we have no authentic history of them until
1799, in which year they furnished employment for some six
hundred persons who came there from Chihuahua, four hundred miles distant. Provisions were dispatched by mule and
ox teams to the miners every month, aid the wagons were
freighted back with ore, which was delivered to the Mexican
government at a cost of sixty-five cents per pound, the government extracting from it more than enough gold to pay
for the ore, using the copper only for purposes of coinage,
it being far superior to any other copper known to them.
Masses of virgin copper have been taken from these mines
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