Arizona miner., 1867-02-23
SAN FaANclsco, Jan. 24, 1897.

SAN FRASclSco Jan. q, lSG7
 GEsrLEMEs: Accept my grateful acknowl- edgment of the receipt of yonr very compli- mentary letter of the 22l inst While my engagements will prevent me the pleasure of meeting you as proposed, most heartily app preciate the honor you have shown me, and the estimate you have been pleased to put upon my efforts for Arizona.
 My residence of more than three years in that Territory has convinced me that it Is one of the richest mineral regions on the Pacific coast, and that its development is of the high est importance to California
 In addition to it's boundIess metallic wealth it has large extent ef agricultural aaa gsaz ing lands, and unequalled advantages of eli mate; and, although somewhat off the pres ent overland line of travel, and hitherto sur- fering from Inlan hOstilities, it offers induce ments to capital and enterprise which l am pleased to find the people of San Francisco disposed to recognize ard embrace.
 The additional military force should make life, property and travel secure, and the large interest and confidence every where shown in the Territory promise a rapid in reaSe in it's population, and in all the facilities requisite to the early and profitable improvement of it's vast resources
 Thanking you again for the high compli ment you have pail me, and assuring you that l shall continue to labor without ceasing to advance all that pertains to the prosperity Of Arizona, I am, gentlemen, with great respect,
 Your obedient servant,
 RICHARD c. McCoaMicK. To Messrs, Hartshorne Hooper, Hitchcock.
 Selby, Sheath and others.
 In publishing this correspondence the Ata made-ihe following introductory remarks
 |" We give place with pleasure to the cor respondence between Governor Richard c. Mccormick end number of our prominent citizens, relative to coinplIm ntary dinner rendered the Governor on the eve of his de- parture to Arizona. The compliment is well deserved, as this gentleman has in every sense been alive to the best interests of the Terri tory over which he has the honor to preside g
 The same paper announces the departure If our Governor on the Ofisaka the following day. On the same steamer were Companies J and K Sth U s. Cavalry, and J and K l4th U. s. Infantry, under olonel Gregg. These | troops will be with us in all of ten days more, and the Governor and wife will reach home by the 18th of March.
 In month from now an agent of Wells, Fargo & Co. will be here to establish an agen- cy at Prescott, and other points in the Ter ritory. The new Postal agent will also tray- el through our country to examine the differ. ent mail routes already in operation, and ar range for such new ones as he may deem ex pedient. The Alta. too, consulting the inter ests of its readers, will establish regular cor respondents in the leading towns in our Ter ritory.
 The new Daily Times also announces the departure of our Governor, with many high compliments and kind wishes. The entire success of every effort of Governor McCor mick in behalf of Arizona, is most emphatical- ly noticed by the Times, as well as the Cali fOrnia papers generally We eare also advised that there other matters not yet ready to be made public, which have been consummated by the visit of the Governor, tending greatly to the interest of our adopted country.