After the massacre of four of Crabbe's
unfortunate party near Sonoita by the Mexicans, the Papago
Indians buried carefully the bodies to which Mexican inhumanity
had denied this last charitable office. It is a curious and
suggestive fact that the latitude of places upon Gila, Santa
Cruz, and San Pedro, determined by the Jesuits about 1750, has
lately been verified by the observations of Park Michler, and
Emory. The instruments used by the Jesuits were constructed by
them, the lenses being made from pebbles.
From 1757 down to 1820, the Spaniards and Mexicans continued to
work many valuable mines near Barbacora, and the notes in my
possession speak of many silver mines, most of which contained a
percentage of gold. "The San Pedro gold mine in 1748 was worked
with extraordinary success." Among the mines anciently worked, as
laid down in the authorities heretofore referred to, were the
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.
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