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Helvetia Camp


1909 Photo of Helvetia

Helvetia District - the principal camp is Helvetia, located southwest of the center of the district. At the time of visit this camp had a population of 300 people, mostly Mexicans in the employ of Helvetia Copper Co. It has good wagon-road, stage, and mail connections with Vail, the nearest station on the Southern Pacific Railroad, 18 miles to the north, and with Tucson, 28 miles to the northwest.2

References

  1. Mineral Appraisal of Coronado National Forest, Part 12, Santa Rita Mountains Unit, MLA11-94 (1994). SR 591-609
    http://repository.azgs.az.gov/sites/default/files/dlio/files/nid1813/usbm_mla_011-94.pdf
  2. Mining in the Santa Rita and Patagonia Mountains of Arizona, U.S. Department of Interior, 1915. Republished 2014 by Kerby Jackson.
  3. Mike Bertram
  4. USGS Mineral Resources Data System - using WGS84 (https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/map-commodity.html#home)
  5. Index of Mining Properties in Pima County by Staton B. Keith, bulletin 189, Arizona Geological Survey, 1974
  6. Index of Mining Properties in Santa Cruz County by Staton B. Keith, bulletin 191, Arizona Geological Survey, 1975
  7. Mindat.org