Arkansas true Democrat., 1857-08-18
The New Territory of Arizon.

we learn" says the Aew York JourpaI of commerce, '" that the residents of Arizona will come before Congress at its next session with new ana stronger claims to a recognition AS A olS'l'ct territorial people. They will set forth III strong terms their grievances and necessities. l hey Will ask that the Gadsden purchase may oo erected lbto separate territory, under the name oi Arzona. and for such other legislation as as may pc deemed proper by Congress to place the people of that large district of country on all equal footing with those of Oregon and aShngton territories. The Gadsden mr. chase extends from the Rio Grande to the Col. orado or the west-six hundred miles in length oy between fifty and sixty in width-emIra. eng an area of about thirty thousand square mics, or say two-thirds as large as the State of New York. We are assured. upon comne. tent authority, that the impression which has Tn some way been dffused throughout the conn., try' that ths great territory is mostly desert. IS entirely erroneous
 The great emigration to California in the early years of the gold excitement traversed tne whole length of the Purchase" without dlfhcnlty. From the Rio Grande to Tucson. two hundred and fifty miles, the country is un surpassed tor grazing purposes, and is we'll wa tered and wooded. In the center of the ter rltory are the valleys of Tucson, Galabozos. oahta CIuz, and San Pedro-and they will sus. tam population of tens of thousands. The San Pedro Valley alone was reported by Lieut. Parke' of the United States Typographical Engineers, to be capable of sustaining pop- ulatlon of several thousand. The valley of the ulla nver, which forms the greater portion o' the northern boundary of the purchase, is susceptible of cultivation throughout it's entrie extent.
 "The Pimas Indians, large and scmi-civil- iZeo 'floe' ralse magnificent crops of cotton, wheat and corn, in the valley of the Gila. The coCtoh IS woven into blankets by hand and the laoric Is most skillfu, and even beautiful ne portion of the territory stigmatized here toiore as desert, contains, we are confidently assured almost fabulous mineral wealth in sil- yer and copper; and, at what appeared to be a most uh'avoraoie point, water has been found Tn great abundance by sinking wells. A few arteslan wells in Arizona will forever redeem that country from the name of desert.
 " A late valuable work on Mexico gives in Its appendix, statistics taken from the archives oi the government at the city of Mexico da. tlng back to the days of the Spanish Vicerovs which prove that in acquiring the Gadsden Pnr- chase we became possessed of the richest min. eral portion of Sonora This fact is confirm ed by the testimony of resident Mexicans, as well as by the tradition of the country.
 he silver mines lately opened at Arizona. Sobori, Santa Rita, and Barbarsomer number Ing over one hundred distinct veins of rich ore are only an earnest of what will be seen under the favorable auspices of territorial govern ment. Tn copper mining, already, about two millions of dollars are invested, and the ore of bte dtz0na mines has been pronounced, ia Londo,a, ute r1cIIest eoer sold ta tut marhet. The Gila river mines and the Gadsonian mines are pro- wing themselves equally opulent."