Charles W. Hackett, ed. Categories: Exploration Explorers Spanish. Sign In. Advanced Search. Search Menu. Article Navigation. Close mobile search navigation Article Navigation. Volume Perrigo Lynn I. New Mexico Highlands University. Oxford Academic. Google Scholar. Cite Cite Lynn I. Select Format Select format. Permissions Icon Permissions. Article PDF first page preview. Issue Section:. He visited salt mines near the Jumano and Zuni pueblos.
Passing San Francisco Mountain and continuing near modern Flagstaff, they found grass and water for the horses near Laguna, one of several springs in the region.
One chief showed the Spanish the source of the ore located in the snow-covered clefts of the Bill Williams Mountains. They continued their expedition to near present-day Prescott, Arizona, and found suitable pastureland in the higher elevations among pine groves, cactus patches, and maguey stands. Its inhabitants provided a feast of venison, mescale, and supplied the Spanish with samples of different colored powdered ore. Here they were shown an old mine shaft that produced minerals suitable for dyes.
They named the mines San Francisco and San Gabriel and established several mining claims.
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