Colonel Henry Theodore Titus
Mining in Arizona (1858-1860)

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     Biertu map indicating the Titus ranch.
Arizona map 1865 showing the location of the Titus ranch.

 
 


The Titus ranch appears as "House" in Section 14 (1876 map)



 

The Titus Patagonia and French Mines (red dots) Titus owned the Compadre Mine and the Patagonia Mine (red marks)

19th Century Arizona Maps
 

Fort Buchanan, Arizona, location
Fort Buchanan Post Returns, Oct.-Dec. 1858
Fort Buchanan Post Returns, 1859
 
 

SONOITA LAND GRANT
U.S. House of Representatives. Private Land Grants in Arizona, 1882.
_____. Certain Private Land Grants in Arizona Territory, 1886.
Affidavit of George J. Roskruge, June 2, 1890
Ely's Administrator v. United States, 1898
 

N. Y. TIMES ARTICLES
Three Days Later from California (Jan. 8. 1859)
Affairs in Arizona (August 11, 1859, pg. 2)
From Arizona. Mining in New Mexico and Arizona (Sept. 17, 1859, pg. 1)
From Arizona (June 21, 1860, pg. 2)
From Arizona. History and Present Condition of the Sonora Exploring and Mining Co.  (Aug. 3, 1860, pg. 6)
Mr. Helper's Lecture Postponed (Jan. 15, 1861, pg. 4)
News of the Day (Jan. 15, 1861, pg. 5)

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Barnes, Will C. Arizona Place Names (1960)
Cozzens, S. W. The Marvellous Country (1875)
El Sopori Land Claim in Arizona. 48th Congress, 1st Session, Senate Ex. Doc. No. 93, 1884
Farrish, Thomas Edwin. History of Arizona, Vol. 2 (1915)
Hamilton, Patrick. The Resources of Arizona (1881)
Hinton, Richard J. The Hand-Book to Arizona (1878)
Hodge, Hiram C. Arizona As Is (1877)
McClintock, James H. Arizona: Prehistoric--Aboriginal--Pioneer--Modern, Vol. I (1916)
Mowry, Sylvester. The Geography and Resources of Arizona and Sonora (1863)
__________. Arizona and Sonora: The Geography, History, and Resources of the Silver Region of North America (1864)
Poston, Charles D. Sunland Seer (1961)
Pumpelly, Raphael. My Reminiscences (1918)
Report of the Governor of Arizona to the Secretary of the Interior, 1899
Report of the Secretary of War: Affairs in Department of New Mexico, 1858-1859
Reports of the Sonora Exploring and Mining Co., Made to the Stockholders, Dec. 1856-1860
Rose, F. P. Butterfield Overland Mail Company (The Arkansas Historical Quarterly, Spring 1956)
Schrader, Frank C. Mineral Deposits of the Santa Rita and Patagonia Mountains Arizona  (1915)
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