The ghost town of Tiger is on private property and difficult to reach. I used to work for Magma Copper at their San Manuel Mine and gained access to the site in that way. Over the term of my employment there I was able to drive through the area and visit the ruins on several occasions. This was back in the early 1990s.

Most of what was left then were some rock ruins, various chunks of rusting metal from household appliances, old car bodies (shot up with bullet holes, of course), the old Mohawk head frame and shaft buildings, a portion of a water tank, a subsidence area over one of the underground drifts, and many scares on the landscape from the various mine activities.

One of the interesting finds were the many 50 gallon drums that had been filled with rocks and debris and used as reinforcement to support the areas around some of the former dwellings on the sides of slopes. The houses and foundations are gone, but the barrels are still and place and doing their job.

This is a desert area, covered in typical Sonoran Desert vegetation, including the tall saguaro and the ubiquitous barrel cacti, as well as the many varieties of prickly pear and cholla.

Some of the concrete foundations for the milling operations are still standing and solid and the old mine dumps are still visible, where they haven't been covered by the more modern operations.

Apparently Tiger was once called Schultz, and I posses a document prepared by Kim K. Howell for the Magma Copper Company, titled The History of Tiger, Arizona. As I have time I will add notes from this document to round out the information contained here.