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A history of the Prescott Bradshaw mining districts Item Type text; Thesis-Reproduction (electronic) Authors Henderson, Patrick Chester, 1922- Publisher The University of Arizona. Rights Copyright © is held by the author. Digital access to this material is made possible by the University Libraries, University of Arizona. Further transmission, reproduction or presentation (such as public display or performance) of protected items is prohibited except with permission of the author. Download date 05/10/2021 07:20:01 Link to Item http://hdl.handle.net/10150/551323 A HISTORY OF THE PRESCOTT BRADSHAW MINING DISTRICTS x v:-:.- ‘ by . vo. Patrick Henderson \-SsaU .eboshA io .vLHj ; • • A Thesis Submitted to the Faculty of the DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY /.. In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements .. for the Degree of MASTER OF ARTS In the Graduate College UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA , ) 1 9 5 8 aroiflTsia atmmi vr^ c u , m ",rr )oazHi soar %o yhotsih a Yd nosiaJbceH aolTJa? Untv. of Arizona Library djad* :o YJIuoaS 9x1 ^ o3 bsfJlmduQ e laedT A YE0T8IK YO TMSIvfTEAqaa a^ne 'tlx/pdH 9x1^ to tn e m llltlu Y I bI^ ib E n l to esi^eG erlJ lot 3TH/. %0 HSTBAM sgoIIoO eJsubBiiD ddd* n l a k o siea 10 m a E a v r m i 8 ^ 9 1 £ ? ? ? / STATEMENT BY AUTHOR This thesis has been submitted, in partial ful fillment of requirements for an advanced degree at the University of Arizona and is deposited in the University Library to be made available to borrowers under rules of the Library, Brief quotations from this thesis are allowable without special permission, provided that accurate acknowl edgment of source is made. Requests for permission for extended quotation from or reproduction of this manuscript in whole or in part may be granted by the head of the major department or the Dean of the Graduate College when in their judgment the proposed use of the material is in the interests of scholarship. In all other instances, however, permission must be obtained from the author. SIGNED: APPROVAL BY THESIS DIRECTOR This thesis has been approved on the date shown below: / £ (££I_ Russell C. Ewing D ate Professor of History ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. The completion of this thesis was greatly aided by the cooperation and interest of the staff of the Arizona Pioneer Historical Society, the State of Arizona Librarian and her librarians, the staff of the Sharlot Hall Museum of Prescott, and several personal interviews with residents of the Prescott - Bradshaw mining areas. It is with regret that I note the death of James Cash, :.... ' • -- . Arizona Pioneer, who contributed so much to the story of Crowned King and the adjacent mining districts as he knew it. Senator Carl Hayden gave materials that were most pertinent to the Walker period. i i ; TABLE OF CONTENTS ■ , '.’■■■ :''-O. Chapter • ■ - ...1.. •; iPa^e I . EARLY EUROPEANS AND AIvIERICANS IN ARIZONA. 1 I I . THE WALKER PARTY, 1861 - 1863 .................................. 21 I I I . THE A. H. PEEPLES PARTY . ..................................42 IV. THE EARLY MINING CAMPS............................................... 55 7 . THE - DEVELOBUNT OF LODE MNES ’. ....... 66 VI. SILVER BONANZAS IN THE BRADSHAWS , 1869-75 • . 90 VII. TEE PECK AND TIP TOP MINES 1875-84......................... I l l VIII. THE CROWNED KING AND'BIG BUG: MINES, 1880-1920 .134 APPENDIX . •. .149 BIBLIOGRAPHY . .: . ’ . .151 LIST OF FIGURES ■ i ; ■Vv Chapter I . Page : ■ ' -r . Fig. 1- Espejo-Onate - Pattie Routes > Fig. 2- Heintzelman Mine 12 Fig. 3- Heintzelman Mine 12 Fig. 4- Heintzelman Mine 13 # » : ' ;*■ e ' ^■* *-1 1 -— >■ •! f5v * s Fig. 5- Heintzelman Mine 13 Chapter I I. Fig. 1- Walker Expedition 1861-1863 22 Flg. 2- Topographical Map of Bradshaws 29 y - . Xj-';,.': “ : ' -j Chapter III. Fig. 1- Pauline Weaver's Trail to Antelope Peak 4^ -- y ■'' v.:: ::.L; X;- ^ X XvArx':" X 1 X Fig. 2- Miner's Cabin - Weaver D istr ic t £>3 ' : ■ -y.y: X:- X :X%; 0-/.;yIlf Fig. 3- Store and Saloon, Weaver, Arizona 53 Fig. 4- Hotel Stanton, (Weaver District) 53 y y -y y x iy . y n •, Fig. 5- Hotel Stanton Chapter IV. y . y , ' X -X:- y ■ cX X Fig. 1- Sam Miller's Trip Fig. 2- Miner's Cabin on Lynx Creek Fig. 3- Miner's Cabin on Lynx Creek F ig. 4- Lynx Creek ' ' Fig. 5- Mill Race, Lynx Creek 62 Fig. 6- Cabin, Walker District 63 Fig. 7- Cabin, Walker District 63 i v Chapter V. Page Pig. 1- Hassayampa and Turkey Creek Mines 89 Chapter VI. : . P i g . l - Blandy’a Map - 1882 92 Pig. 2- Bradshaw City 100 Fig. 3- Map o f Roads:to Bradshaw City 101 Fig. Ip- Bradshaw City ; - 102 Fig. 5- Diagram of Mining Claim 109 Fig. 6- Extralateral Tunnel 110 Chapter VII. Fig. 1- Silver Prince Mine 116 Fig. 2- Mill foundations at the Silver Prince 116 Fig. 3“ Miner* s Cabins at the Silver Prince 116 * Fig. Ij.- View into Crazy Basin from Peck Canyon 116 Fig. 5- Tiger-Peck Districts 121 Fig. 6- Aztlan Mill 123 Fig. 7- Remains of the Peck Mill 124 Fig. 8- Boiler at the Peck Mine 124 Fig. 9- Alexandra - 1878 12 Fig. 10- Road and site of Alexandra 126 Fig. 11- Headframe of Mine 126 Fig. 12- Peck Mill 127 Fig. 1> Peck Mill 128 Fig. 14- Only house remaining at the Peck 128 Fig. 15 -House at the Peck Mine 128 v Page Pig. 16- Third View of House 129 Chapter VIII. Pig. 1 - Big Bug District lt}.0 Pig. 2 - Poland Tunnel H|)| Pig. 3 - Crowned King Railroad H4.5 Pig. 4 - Switchback on the Crowned King Railroad llj.6 V’-' i e y t--e lo:\ ::■ 1 • y j . 7;iv:1 ■■■■'■■ 7; J yy::" 'yy; - Ir: :vi, ^ - y ■.-•yy: y j-ororiz>; of " ‘"v ;yv;:'.yyy; jy-I ... ■ ^^APTER X : ^r ' ' - - *:M-;'EAliY' EbRbEEi^; X'iro AMERICANS ^ " ' yy ... Icri ::.r pyn1?:;" py, Although the Spanish Conouiatadores entered^ Arizona -» - • ‘ # *• '■' *“ ■ * ^ ’•- -V» ^ .v '» » ^ ^ 6 —- » - ^ ' ' 1-' < > c*' -1 ■. ■' - _ - * «*.'•■> -4«, " * , " . * r,.* 1 18 early aa 1543- r lth Franolsoo 7«Slue3: Coronado, and la te r eatabXlahed aettleBianta in the southern r.glcna of^he. state, the land north of the Gila .was, left almost unexplored untll the mid-nineteenth o.entury. The. few Spanish who did enter. ‘ " - ■ N ^ ^ >• » ^ ^r >' v v*> -r • f ' 1 ‘ ** central and;: northern Arizona, and search for mineral wealth, passed hack and forth along a route that parallels the thirty- fifth degree of latitude and then, went south down the Colorado ’ 1 c ■ * ■ . • *• « ».-• -■ £»'** - * v -, Lf 4 .;. "*V . ■ *• .. V, . Z ... *, V 1* V / 4 ^1, ^ K.* 4 River. jo f-ryyr'. y' yyy rf ■■y.vyreyv b'yy y:; c; 0 ; The first .white man to enter this area was Antonio • • •* /■ f * "• < «• •.*. '*■ ^ ■ ,v- -i ,0 - 0 %' ;v $ J.) '. Espejo. In 1582 Espejo was Tisiting the. Santa Barbara Mine, Chihuahua, aid learned p f a proposed ezpedition to search for Fray Rodri^ez ^ ha& gone north into .what is now. .i v . , New Mexico.., The search pe»ty aroused the interest of Espejo and he agreed to furnish money for equipping the men and he, . .. vU:; y..r-:y .M-yyyvyn = ‘,y x v:v,yyy8 Espejo, would, lead them. The authority, of. the church was rep- y% . y,;, . yyy v.=;y p vy-y-.,, % . d y ■ ; yy.-.r.y,:: y i:.-. resented in the person of Fray Bernaldino Beltran.1 0 -y iU'r, -o ’"‘.y-'y. >' ::::.; j c x : The group left San Bartolme November 10, 1582. In . , yj'yx. \..n. y oUy # cycy:;u" yi: l:'- ;" U y....C„N.;y y yyoyy New Mexico they found that Fray Rodrfguez had been martyred. ■ - ■ - 4: -* s W - - ,«4 w* W . w. ^ ;;r. »-v’. , Si ■: < W y - j - y .» v-. • j , "• * ' - f-' k •' W1 : ^ %. H. - Bancroft,. Arizona and New Mexico, ! 5 30-1888 (San Francisco: The History Publishing Company),pp. 7A-so. The primary .objeetiTe of the expedition had been jm tlafled by. obtaining.this info^titm,--teat Espe|o hear4: reports of friei^ ly -Indians and mineral .w^lth_ ^o ti^ west • .. ilt, .Puar&., the group aeoided ,to (Cwntlmie their journey with prospecting and exploration as their purpose. cri3 roim ded a t ti t ; Eventually, vEspe jo yisited -Ifoqiii,yillagea^nd went on west.,aloi^. a route. late^ called the Beale Trail {This roughly, follows ,the;^thirty-fifth parallel„and,,is now the route or the Sante Fe,.Baj#oa^>hTO^,OT*Wn;Ari%)na.) At some point,west of :the 8an yra^isco Peaks Espejo altered his western route and went in a southweaternly direction. He, followed the, Santa Marjfa River to /the fork# of the B ill •Wiliiams River and then west to the Colorado. Bspejo found r^gns„ of ^neyalizatiqn, bur-he. did not return after 1583,. to develop rthe region -for. Spain.; c In^ although ■;he,-did :not realize it,, ^paio.rphMed.:^ ^ een distriots rthah would ,become W port^t mining centers of.ort,.. Arizona,in the nineteenth»century: the Mohave D istrict and the Presqqtt-BradsMw region.T.r,- ir, !•; : i;The mert; European -to enter central :Ari»oaa .was vJuan de Onate. Onate had.beengranted permissionto colonize in New Mexico; and desiring to search for the water passageito the .South -Seav in C1604, crossed over to the Colorado .along approxim-tely;the same, route :as E sp e jo ^ x ltii tls 011^ ■ m i - ‘154*55 •. '.4 n,,c f =* " ; * .Tu; v •' -v;:xt ? ••si-■ Hi.-. ♦«.* c--:N* i: % -l. i-lirvo ! < 3 Both Bspejo and Onate had evidence that Arizona, north of the Gila, was mineralized, hut there were no attempts to follow up the original explorations and develop the mining resources of the area.