Table of Altitudes—Principal Points in Arizona.
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PLACE. Lat. Long. Altitudes above Sea Level REMARKS.
° ′ ″ ° ′ ″
Antelope Springs 8,065.1
Apache Camp 33 48 18.70 32 52 5,000.9
Apache Mesa 5,800.0
Art-too-hah (Cañon Creek) 35 44 43.28 Bunch-grass, cedars.
Beaver Creek 34 44 02.52 3,671.4
Big Hills 33 23 07.70 5,702.5
Bill William Mt. 8,000.0
Black Hills or Tonto Plateau 9,000.0 Estimated.
Bonché’s Fork 34 33 08.54 5,820.1
Bowie Camp 32 10 16.02 4,871.6
Bradshaw City 7,000.0
Cedar Creek 34 04
Chevelon’s Fork 4,000.0 Trib Col. Chiquito.
Chevelon’s Fork, upper course 5,200.0 Estimated.
Chirricahua Mts. 7,000.0 Estimated.
Desert Station 32 30 08.80 2,135.2
Diamond Creek 35 45 19.11 1,350.4
Disaster Rapids 35 55 52.10 Colorado River.
Eureka Springs 4,900.0
Florence 33 02 32.53 Town 1,000 inhabitants in Gila Valley, fertile.
Gila River near Camp Goodwin 2,517.0
Graham Peak, Mt. Graham 10,516.0 Nearly 6,000 feet above base.
Grant, Camp (new) 32 25 32 23 10 3,985.0 Suyly.
4,753.0 Rothrowp.
4,833.0 Wheeler Map.
5,400.0
Grant, Camp (old) 32 47 35.00 113 37 15 2,500.0 Abandoned, Jan. 1873.
Green Springs 36 11 13.00 4,931.2 Little wood & water, wood in gulch.
Limestone Water Pocket 36 32 18.40 5,405.4 Little wood, grass; to right of road, water in small gulch.
Lowell Camp (Tucson) 32 12 33 49 2,530.0
McDowell Camp 33 40 111 40 1,800.0
Mineral Park 3,000.0 Approximate.
Moen-copie Cañon 36 08 4,984.1
Mogollon Mesa 7,000.0
Mojave Camp 35 24 114 34 40 600.0
Navajo Spring 36 46 19.10 4,410.02 Wood, grass, & water scarce.
New Creek (Ives) 35 36 51.00 Pabroach Spring; plenty of wood, water, and grass.
Nelson’s Tanks 34 46 20.42 6,216.0 Or Mogollon Mesa.
Oraybe 35 52 57.00 4,756.8 Moqui Village and tank near.
Pah-guhn Springs 36 24 51.83
Pah-wash 35 36 51.00 New Creek of Ives.
Paria River Cañon (Great bend Col.) 36 59 3,873.5
Peach Orchard 35 46 42.40 6,297.5
Picacho Station 32 44 20.67 1,750.2
Picket Post 33 17 01.27 2,669.6
Pinal Camp 33 21 01.45
Pinal Creek 33 32 3,112.2
Pinal Mountains 33 23 10.24 3,925.5
Portage Rapids 35 48 35.90
Prescott 34 29.06 35 27 30 5,318.0
Prieto Crossing 33 33 47.30 5,332.8
Pueblo Colorado 35 42 10.40 6,400.9
Pueblo Viga 32 49 00.00 2,711.6
Puerto River (mouth) 34 53 16.80 5,083.0
Rattlesnake Cañon 34 55 49.83 4,600.0
Relief Springs 35 08 34.28 5,526.6 Near Lookwood’s.
San Francisco Mts. (Humphrey’s Peak) 12,561.0 Forest and sheep range. Extinct crater.
San Francisco Mts. average height 7,000.0 Volcanic.
San Pedro River 32 43 5,874.5 Grass, water, wood; settlements.
Santa Rita Mts. 8,000.0 Water, grass, wood plenty. Camp Toltec near Tubac.
Sierra Blanca 11,388.0 On Mexican line.
Sunset Camp 33 13 24.00 5,276.2 Colorado Chiquito.
Sunset Crossing 33 59 41.70 4,891.5 Colorado to Chiquito.
Truxton Springs 35 24 52.51 3,885.5 Bunch-grass, sage brush; water good.
Tucson 2,500.0 Town, 4,000 inhabitants.
Verde, Camp 34 33 34 57 3,500.0
Whipple, Fort 34 29 6.00 35 27 30 Near Prescott.
Willow Spring 7,195.0
Wingate, Fort, N. M. 35 20 31 22 6,822.0 United States Post.
Wrightson, Mt. (Santa Rita) 10,500.0 Mining camps near.
Young’s Spring 35 32 04.28
Yuma, Fort 32 23 3.00 37 33 9 267.0 110 ft above river bank on bluff. Yuma city on east back of Colorado.
Zuni Mts. (N. M.) 9,000.0 Estimated.
The surveyors for the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fé Railroad have pressed work beyond Cimarron, New Mexico, and expect to extend their surveys as far as Tucson, Arizona, during the present winter. The building of the road, however, will depend largely upon the corporation’s ability in obtaining a land (or other) subsidy from Congress.