Arizona miner., 1867-11-16
Arizona and her People. as scen by a snob.

of October 2G, lsG7. The letter Is dated ot Fort Yuma. California, October l. lo'5, is signed "B. C. r" and was written, we ,up- pose. by that "mol'el ari-tocat,' Ben. C. Truman. who was out here la-tsummcr in tue employ of thc PC Department He says: 'AS q people, therc,idcnt,ol this Territory would be little more prosperous and mnhiieiE more happy. ftley would pull little more together and eject. if uot from the Territory at least from their mercantile and social cir clcs. set of illitcratc. iudolent, gtosping, grumblmc. tlaubes l1t of adrcnurcrs. ] spent 90 days in Arizona last winter and spring: and travelling as | did, an over the northern and southern portions of the Terri tory, with uboadal Gc.iiue9 forseeng and studdying thc people, took the advantage l afforded me of making the most minute ob- scryatious I met in Prescott at least dog en men who urctcudel to own mines in that ] locality and who hold them for sale at prices ranging from S41D0) to S2yo,Gho These ! fellows with Gm,,hng look and with a ] sign of distress sticking out of the seat of ] their brooches. will tell you that their claims are as rich as the famous Washoe lode, and that before they will sacrifice themselves as l Comstock did, they will ,taryc. One man remarked Co me. in conversation about mine he held for sale at S2jo0, that h. preferred starvation rather than part with it for less and he was desperately near starvation point when he made tic iilitcrate declaration. There are a collection of just such character, in every town of note in Arizona Territory. They have. or pretend to have, some gold, ! silver or copper mines, which they put up for ] sule at an eNtrayagaut price, and Icing too ] lazy to work, and ;oo poor to get out of town, ! they ekc out a miserable life in rum shops, ! just Experimenting enough of their ndeycl- oped stock ;o keep their richatty bodies and souls together This is 2 correct representa- ] ton of one class of mcnin Arizona Territory ''
 We may have % a lot of iiliteratc, indoent. ! grasping, grumbling, thankless bt of adyen- 1 venturers in our midst they can be found 1 in every new country But we will venture ! the assertion that several of this "setn or lot are fully as industrious, as honorable in their dealings and rery ne1rly as intelligent as this stuckup penny-a-lincr whom chance las thrown Co the sIrlace. Our people may have appeared rough and uncouth to this digni- fled Shoddyite, who, while going up on tho steamer from San Pedro to San Francisco some time since, remarked Go a gontlem with whom he was conyersing in relation to this Territory, that $ the only gentleman he met with in Arizona, north of the Gila, was Gov ernor Mccormick"
 His assertions in regard to the miners and prospectors in and around Prescott, is bas, fabrication. They do not ask for from SEQ | GOO to SOC. .OO0 for mines which [" they pre- tend to own in that locality;n do not gc about town with sign of distress sticking out of tEc seat of their brecchesn and hay, never yet arrivel at "staryation point There are, we admit, some teIc persons her, who might answer the description given by Truman, but they are scarce. There neye was a more Ferseyering, industrious and in telligent lot of people in any uow countr, than the old citizensof Arizona. They hay, worked hard to deYeiop tke country, and though as yet unsuccessful, do not "grumble' as much as they might. A great many O them have, at various times in their lives had en0ugh nioHev to buy thousan, special correspondents" twice oyer The, are mostly immigrants from California and neither come here to escape the yigi lance committee or avoid the draft" IS as certed by a certain gentleman of this Terri tory, in speech made by him in New Yorl in the summer of 1865. All of them pai,
 their way here, and did not travel at the ex
 pense of government.
 The following is the closing paragraph O NIT. Truman's letter, and we will do him tn
 justice to state that it is truthful and cor
 rect:
 " I suppose there is some real good caus
 for little grumbling on the part of the peo
 pie of Arizona Territory. About Prescott the dread Apache seems to have things yer,
 much his own way, and will have, so long a
 1t remains fashionable to permit sayages l.
 massacre whole communities and then mal,
 peace on their own terms. Besides, the troop sent out to this coast. for the most part ar professional thieves and highwaymen. an, those who do not desert before arriving A
 their place of destination manage to cfFec their release from the service shortly after ward. In the neighborlood of Tucson an. Tubac the Apaches make an occasional visit
 The residents of these towns, however. ar
 ever on the alert for the red devils, and thci
 incursions are few and far between. New dis coyeries of gold, silver and copper are almos ? daily made in different sections of the Terri tory, while it Is well known that the Indian
 have their homes in the finest natural vallie