| Miles. | ||
| Yuma, A. T.* | ||
| Desconso | 14 | 14 |
| Gila City | 8 | 22 |
| Rattlesnake | 7 | 29 |
| Mission Camp [1] | 3 | 32 |
| Filibuster | 12 | 44 |
| Antelope Peak | 6 | 50 |
| Mohawk [2] | 16 | 66 |
| Teamster’s Camp [3] | 20 | 86 |
| Stanwix* | 20 | 96 |
| Burke’s [4] | 12 | 108 |
| Oatman Flat [5] | 10 | 118 |
| Gila Bend [6] | 30 | 148 |
| Maricopa Wells* [7] | 43 | 191 |
| Pima Villages [8] | 12 | 203 |
| Sweet Water. | 7 | 209 |
| Sacaton. | 6 | 215 |
| Montezuma. | 10 | 225 |
| Sanford [9] | 8 | 233 |
| Florence* [10] | 4 | 237 |
| Desert Wells | 36 | 273 |
| Point of Mountain | 9 | 282 |
| Water Holes | 9 | 291 |
| Tucson* [11] | 9 | 300 |
| Cienega [12] | 30 | 330 |
| Tres Alimos [13] | 20 | 350 |
| Steel’s Ranch [14] | 40 | 390 |
| Apache Pass* (Camp Bowie) [15] | 35 | 425 |
| Ralston, New Mexico | 50 | 475 |
| Knight’s Ranch, New Mexico | 25 | 500 |
| Silver City, ” [16] | 25 | 525 |
| Fort Bayard, ” | 10 | 535 |
| Rio Membres, ” | 40 | 565 |
| Fort Cummings* ” | 20 | 585 |
| Slocum’s, ” | 30 | 615 |
| Mesilla, ” [17] | 15 | 645 |
- * Telegraph Offices.
- At all stations, wood, water, and grass, or other feed, are to be found. At most of them, a small store is also kept. Meals and lodgings can be obtained.
- [1] At Mission Camp, there is a road south and west, to the old Papago country, via Cabaza Prieto.
- [2] From Mohawk is a road due south to the same region.
- [3] Five miles east of Teamster Camp is a route south to the Ajo Copper Mines, and then southwest to Sonora.
- [4] At Burke’s is a road south to the same point.
- [5] At Painted Rock, north of and near this station, a road to Phœnix comes in.
- [6] Near Gila Bend, a road diverges south, through the old Papago country, to old mines and deserted Indian villages.
- [7] At Maricopa Wells, roads north and south diverge direct to Tucson, the Papagonia, to Phœnix, Camps McDowell, Verde, and Apache.
- [8] At Pima Villages, a road diverges north, passing through the Maricopa village (Indians, 800). There are 5,000 Pima Indians, living in ten large and several small villages, between this station and Montezuma. There is also a road directly south from Pima.
- [9] Road south to Desert Wells.
- [10] From Florence, regular stages leave for Silver City, Pioneer District; Globe City, Globe District; San Carlos, and Camp Apache; also, to Hayden, East Phœnix, Phœnix, Wickenburg, and Prescott. There is a direct road to old Camp Grant, east, and thence to the San Pablo Valley and Arivipa settlements.
- [11] At Tucson, the highway to Mexico, via the valley of the Santa Cruz, diverges west. Stages leave for Guaymas.
- [12] Near Cienega, a road diverges to Davidson’s, the Santa Rita placers, old Camps Crittenden and Wallen, the Pategonias, and the old Presidio San Pedro (U. S. Camp Huachuca).
- [13] At Tres Alimos, there is a road north and up the San Pedro Valley to San Carlos, the Globe District, and Camp Apache.
- [14] There are roads north and south at this point to Camp Grant and the old Chiricahua Reservation, now abandoned, and thence, by trails, etc., to Sulphur Springs Valley, Dragoon Mountains, etc.
- [15] There is a road north direct to Safford, on the Gila.
- [16] Stages here for the most southerly station, via Santa Fé, on the Denver & Rio Grande N. G. R. R.; thence east, via Colorado and Kansas railroads.
- [17] At Mesilla, the overland stages connect with branch to El Paso, Fort Worth, etc., Texas.
Distances Between Stations, commencing at Dos Palmas, on S. P. R. R., and thence over Lines of Cal. and Arizona Stage Co.
| Miles. | ||||
| Dos Palmas | west to | Canyon Springs | 15 | |
| Canyon Sp’gs | ” | Chuckawalla | 36 | 51 |
| Chuckawalla | ” | Mule Springs | 18 | 69 |
| Mule Springs | ” | Willows | 29 | 98 |
| Willows | ” | Ehrenberg [1] | 11 | 109 |
| Ehrenberg | ” | Tyson’s Wells [2] | 22 | 131 |
| Tyson’s Wells | ” | Desert Well [3] | 28 | 159 |
| Desert Well | ” | Mungia Well | 17 | 176 |
| Mungia Well | ” | Cullings Well [4] | 15 | 191 |
| Cullings Well | ” | Point Mountain | 25 | 216 |
| Point Mountain | ” | Wickenburg [5] | 20 | 236 |
| Wickenburg | north to | Partridge City | 17 | 253 |
| Partridge City | ” | Antelope Valley | 10 | 26 |
| Antelope Val’y | ” | Dixon | 17 | 280 |
| Dixon | ” | Prescott [6] | 17 | 297 |
| Wickenburg | south to | Smith’s Mills [7] | 15 | |
| Smith’s Mills | ” | Agua Fria | 28 | 43 |
| Agua Fria | ” | Phœnix [8] | 22 | 65 |
| Phœnix | ” | Hayden Ferry | 9 | 74 |
| Hayden Ferry | ” | House’s Well | 20 | 94 |
| House’s Well | ” | Florence | 20 | 114 |
| Florence | ” | Tucson (overland stage) | 63 | 277 |
- [1] Ehrenberg is a steamboat landing of importance. Roads north to La Paz, the Colorado Reservation Camp and Agency, and south to Eureka and Castle Dome district.
- [2] A road branches here southward to Castle Dome landing, and the mines in that district.
- [3] At this station mine roads diverge to the Harcuvar District and mines; an extensive stock range is found within five miles.
- [4] At Cullings, the road forks, the right-hand branch going to Wickenburg, and the other striking more northerly, via Date Creek, to Prescott.
- [5] At this point roads diverge south to Phœnix and Florence, to the Vulture Mine, to Agua Fria and Cave Creek mines, east and north to Prescott, and northeast to adjacent mining districts.
- [6] At Prescott, roads diverge to Camp Verde and valley, with its growing settlements, to Alexandria, and other mining towns and camps; north to the Black Hills and Forest, and to the San Francisco Mountain; northwest to Mineral Park and vicinity, and almost due west to Aubry and Hardyville landings. Also east, via Camp Verde, across the Plateau to Fort Wingate, New Mexico, and thence to the present southern terminus of the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad.
- [7] At Smith’s Mill, south of Wickenburg, a road east diverges to Camp McDowell.
- [8] At Phœnix, roads diverge southward, one crossing to and following the Hassayampa Creek to the Gila, others eastward, up the Salt River valley, to Marysville and Camp McDowell, while other roads strike south, direct to Maricopa Wells, the mail stage line diverging in a southeast direction to Florence.
Military Routes.
Numbers 1-9 include all the Routes north of the Gila River; Numbers 14-25 include all the routes south of the Gila River in Arizona, and the Routes from San Diego to Fort Yuma; Numbers 26-31 include the Routes from Arizona into New Mexico and Sonora, from Fort Whipple, A. T., to Fort Wingate, New Mexico, and the Routes from Camp Pinal and Camp Apache.
☞When there is more than one route, the distance on the usual route is marked with an Asterisk (*). There is a difference of ten per cent. less, as a rule, on the roads and routes surveyed by the military authorities, as compared with those given by the stage companies and mail contractors.
| No. | Route. | Distance. | |
| 1 | Camp Mojave to Willow Grove | 79.78 | |
| 2 | Camp Willow Grove to Fort Whipple (Prescott) | 84.88 | |
| 3 | Fort Whipple to Camp Verde | 38.59 | |
| 4 | Fort Whipple to Date Creek | 59.65 | |
| 5 | Ehrenberg to Camp Colorado (Indian Reservation) | 45.50 | |
| 6 | Ehrenberg to Date Creek | { | *130.32 |
| 137.17 | |||
| 7 | Ehrenberg to Wickenburg, A. T. | 131.32 | |
| 8 | Camp Colorado to Date Creek | { | *175.82 |
| 84.00 | |||
| 9 | Date Creek to Camp McDowell | { | *109.83 |
| 126.18 | |||
| 10 | Date Creek to Maricopa Wells | 101.05 | |
| 11 | Wickenburg to Fort Whipple, (Prescott) via trail | 55.00 | |
| 12 | Wickenburg to Camp McDowell, via trail | 65.00 | |
| 13 | Camp McDowell to Fort Whipple (Prescott) | 109.85 | |
| 14 | Camp McDowell to Camp Reno | 33.00 | |
| 15 | Camp Reno to Camp Verde | 90.00 | |
| 16 | Camp McDowell to Maricopa Wells | 44.81 | |
| 17 | Camp McDowell to Camp Grant | 106.17 | |
| 18 | San Diego to Fort Yuma, Cal. | { | *191.61 |
| 229.05 | |||
| 19 | Fort Yuma, Cal., to Maricopa Wells (Yuma) | 176.73 | |
| 20 | Maricopa Wells to Camp Grant | 90.78 | |
| 21 | Camp Grant to Camp Goodwin | 153.46 | |
| 22 | Camp Grant to Camp Bowie | 135.34 | |
| 23 | Maricopa Wells to Tucson (Camp Lowell) | 98.01 | |
| 24 | Camp Grant to Tucson (Camp Lowell) | 52.08 | |
| 25 | Tucson (Camp Lowell) to Camp Goodwin | 149.85 | |
| 26 | Tucson (Camp Lowell) to Camp Bowie | 105.36 | |
| 27 | Tucson (Camp Lowell) to Camp Crittenden (east of Santa Rita) | { | *50.78 |
| 87.36 | |||
| 28 | Camp Crittenden to Camp Bowie | 97.55 | |
| 29 | Camp Bowie to Camp Goodwin | { | *88.00 |
| 99.00 | |||
| 30 | Camp Bowie, A. T., to Fort Cummings | 114.00 | |
| 31 | Tucson (Camp Lowell) A. T., to Guaymas, Mexico | 350.78 | |
| 32 | Camp Wallen, (abandoned) A. T., to Guaymas, Mexico | 317.50 | |
| 33 | Tucson, (Camp Lowell) A. T., to La Libertad, Mexico | { | *225.23 |
| 226.97 | |||
| 34 | Tucson, (Camp Lowell) A. T., to Lobos, Mexico | 213.64 | |
| 35 | Camp Pinal to Tucson (Camp Lowell) | 114.63 | |
| 36 | Camp Pinal to Fort Whipple | 243.97 | |
| 37 | Camp Pinal to Camp Grant | 87.65 | |
| 38 | Camp Apache to Tucson (Camp Lowell) | 221.85 | |
| 39 | Camp Apache to Maricopa Wells | 316.24 | |
| 40 | Camp Apache to Fort Whipple | 268.00 | |
| 41 | Fort Whipple (Prescott) to Fort Wingate, N. M. | 285.76 |