The weekly Arizonian., 1859-07-07
For the Arizonian. Mining Stories and Realities.

Mlnlng SC0rleS ana Reantles.
 Whenever some individual wishes to create an excitement for Arizona or Sonora, he always begins ransacking and parading the old news paper accounts about the mines of Mexico {; drawing heavily on his own imagination, and fil- ling up the intervals with sketches of farming country, that fits almost anywhere else, but in these two territories. At times the intention may be good, but the result must ever be bad to the emigrant and his family The mining stories, too, are generally nothing but heresay affairs, that have wandered through divers gen. erations, and finally have assumed wonderful and to the unacquainted, an entcing shape.- There is one thing they must all have in com mon, that is, the principal parsonage who knew always all about the mines--is dead These stories not only here, but all over Mexico, gen. erally fit under the following heads:
 lst. Some fortunate wretch hunting cattle, or camping out, finds in the ashes of his campfire some white metal which he takes to be lead.- He neglects to notice it-afterwards he can't find the place again, or he dies just while hunt ing for it. AE
 I'd. indians bringing in large Jumps of pure silver. Indians never show metallic veins afraid they will die. Finally some one per suades them to go by the vein and leave a sign, thereby cheating the spirit of the lower regions but that old fellow is not so easily humbugged: : he sends a rattlssnake, or some other thing, in his way, that kills him. The Indian goes to the upper hunting-ground and the story remains.
 3d. A most fruitful source, however, is found in the country surrounding the Mission of the old Jesuits. For the last three hundred years they have been accused of knowing and having worked rich mines. In the seventeenth cen tury they were formally accused of hoarding their immense wealth in Lower California. A commission sent by his most Catholic majesty the king of Spain, reported the fathers hard at work, raising Christians beans and squashes, and the informer as being crazy. These shrewd men are accused of having worked the San Saba mines in Texas, that have never been found They are now said tS have known the Sierra Nevada gold fields in California Sonora and Arizona is dotted with spots where they are reported to have covered up some awful rich mines Generally these mines are said to be closed with massive doors, but the first plank has yeti be found. There is no doubt these industrious priests often worked mines to get metal for their church bells, or to employ the idle Indians, who did not cost them more than the corn they eat, which was raised by the oth CTS of the same tribe But the fathers of these Missions are dead and gone. -......
 4th. Another source for these romantic wri ters who like to see things by the light of Ala din's lamp, are the books and statements o Messrs. Ward and Wilson, of Mexico. The mos reliable of these are undoubtedly the notes O Mr. Ward, the British Minister; but as far a' regards the frontier, at least they are not based on facts either, but mostly on supposition anG reports. MT. Wilson cites MT. Ward generally