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Twin Buttes Camp

Four miles farther south [from Azurite] was the Twin Buttes Camp (aka Hoffman’s) that included a cluster of buildings housing a bunkhouse, a butcher shop, a company store and a mess hall. The 10-mile Twin Buttes Railroad carried ore from the Senator Morgan Mine at Twin Buttes to the town of Sahuarita.8

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Hoffman’s Camp from Official 1893 Map of Pima County

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
  8. Mine Tales: Pima Mining district grew from humble beginnings by William Ascarza