The Yuma Apaches had been warned by one of their oracles never to enter a certain canon in Castle Dome range, Arizona, but a company of them forgot this caution while in chase of deer, and found themselves between walls of pink and white fluorite with a spring bubbling at the head of the ravine. Tired and heated, they fell on their faces to drink, when they found that the crumbling quartz that formed the basin of the spring was filled with golden nuggets. Eagerly gathering up this precious substance, for they knew what treasure of beads, knives, arrows, and blankets the Mexicans would exchange for it, they attempted to make their way out of the canon; but a cloudburst came, and on the swiftly rising tide all were swept away but one, who survived to tell the story. White men have frequently but vainly tried to find that spring.
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The Castle Dome mining district is located in southwestern Arizona, in the northwestern part of Yuma County. It is a relatively easy drive north out of Yuma on U.S. Route 95, and east on Castle Dome Mine Road across the Castle Dome Plains. The district lies in the Castle Dome and Middle Mountains, a linear geographic feature that parallels the northwesterly trend of the basin and range mountains of southern Arizona and northern Sonora. They are rugged and blocky, with steep rock spires and domed towers.
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