"To begin with, how about water and fuel ?" "Lots of it.

A cedar brake, checker-boarded all along the mountain.
There's where it gets the name, Ajedrez Mountain--Chess Mountain; kind of laid out in squares that way.

Good enough for mine timbers, too.
Big spring--big enough so you might almost call it a creek--right close by.

It's almost too good to be true--couldn't be handier if I'd dreamed it! But," he added with regretful conscientiousness, "the water's pretty hard, I'm sorry to say.

Most generally is, around copper that way.