Description:
The Tucson and Amole Mountains are so accessible for visitors
to Tucson that it is believed a brief description of the geology and
mineral resources of these mountains will prove welcome. It is
perhaps unfortunate that the purpose for which the data incorporated
in this report were gathered made it unnecessary or undesirable to go
more fully into details; but the general public may find this brief
report more interesting and useful than one more voluminous and
comprehensive.
The complexity of their geology, the variety of their igneous rocks,
and the diversity of their ore deposits all combine to make the Tucson
and Amole Mountains a very rich field for students and scientists.
The general public, also, find these mountains interesting because
of their picturesqueness, the heavy growth of sahuaro cactus existing
in portions thereof, and the Indian pictographs and other evidences of
a past civilization found at several points therein. In addition, a
number of petrified trees of large size have been found near the Ajo
road on the west side of the Amole Mountains, and this feature is
destined to attract increasing attention. 25 p.