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amps, and the ore averages about $40. The great draw-back to mining in that section is the expense of securing supplies, which are mostly packed in on mules. Wood is also quite expensive as it had to be packed in on burros or mules. ( 87 ) Alhambra Via Saddle Rock Canon It is well worth the time of the New Mexi- can tourist to make a trip to the famous silver mines of Alhambra camp, probably better known to many by its earlier name Black Hawk. While the road over the hills from Whitehill’s well, in the Mangas valley, is shorter and in better repair, yet the grandeur of the scenery through Saddle Rock canyon amply repays one for the extra five miles of travel by the latter route. The canyon takes its name from the massive granite mountain situated near its mouth, and about half a mile from where the canyon emerges into the Mangas valley. The summit of this isolated mountain is an exact facsimile of a McClellan saddle seat, and as you approach, imagination forces the expecta- tion that the base of the monster monolith will prove a stony centaur, upon which the riderless saddle rests.