The weekly Arizona miner., 1869-02-20
4 Word to Arizonians.

the present ughtness Of the times-are talk ing Of going to White Pine, men are arriving here, almost every week, from that now ia nous locality, as well as from Colorado, Ida ho and Montana Ask them what they came here for, and they will tell you they came in search of employment and a temperate cli- mate. They will tell you that the places mentioned are over-crowded with men, that their climates are too cold, and that there is not one man in every thousand that will cor ral good thing at White Pine. Stfl, some of our people talk of rushing, furiously, from this country.
 Now, we do not pretend to deny the factthat Arizona has been, is yet. slow mining coun- try, and developes at a snail's pace, but we challenge any man to prove that it has been, is now, bad country for working man. At present, owing to a Hull in quartz mining. and the stingy policy of the Government towards farmers, there is but little money in the coun- try, and thcse whe possess that little, hold on to it with firm grip; yet, no man need be idle for want of work no man, to our knowl- edge. goes hungry for want Of something to est. Nearly every nail brings US letters from former citizens of the Territory-now in other parts Of the Union-expressing regret for hay ing left here, and determination to return as soon as possible.
 It pains us to see pioneer citizens of the Territory throw up the sponge at this stage of the game, leave a country they know and acknowledge to be rich. and strike out, over dreary deserts, for some inflated humbug of country, hundreds of miles away. Our ad- vice Co those who came here at an early day, and who have braved every danger, is to stick to the country and hold on to whatever prop erty they have acquired in it. What, if om- inous clouds hover above us just now. They will soon dispsrse before the steam from our mills, and the blasts from our furnaces. It Is not in the nature of things that Territory of the United States. containing, as does this, immense forests of timber, vast tracts of farm ing and grazing lands, and hundreds of gold, silver and copper bearing quartz lcdes, with many rich placer mining districts, can remain much longer under cloud. Recollect, you who talk of leaving this country-which, for climate, soil, timber, water and mineral wealth, has no superior on the Pacific coast. unless it be California-that another Pacific Railroad will soon be built, and that there is but one route over which it can pass through this Territory, and that route is right at your doors. Don't weaken because Borger is not working the Sterling mine; because Gray 6 Co, arc not working their mines in Big Bug District; because the mines of Walkers District, the Bradshaw, Agua Fro and other districts are not beIng worked; the time will come when all of them will be tried, and all that will not be found wanting, will be worked. But, say those who were created to prophecy iii tuck. those who have tested the Sterling and are about to buy it, do not mean to work it until they freeze somebody out. This is grand mistake, for after they buy 1t, there will be nobody to freeze out, and it will be to their interest to work 1t. So will it be to the interest of Cray & Co. to work their rich mines when A process that win save the gold is found and tried But, again, say our doubters, "are the mines rich enough and big enough to pay'" We'll, to use . vulgar phrase, Eve reckon they are" and we challenge the world to produce big ger, richer sulphuret mine than the Sterling What think you of a mine that at depth of about sixty feet from the surface IS ten feet ten inches in thickness-the poorest ores of which assay sixty dollars to the ton. and the richest, nearly seven hundred dollars. We think that miners and inalnea who cannot make such ledge pay, ought to go to- Congress, especially when it is surrounded by plenty of good timber-in a we'll watered country, and easy of access. Then, too, the Sterling is not the only rich sulphuret mine in this vicinity, although we think 1t the richest. The Chase, iE same district the Galena, Dividend, Ticonderoga, Big Bug, Eugenie, in Big Bug District; the Tie-Tie. Plymouth, Eureka, Accidental, Dead Wood, Pointer, etc, in Walkers District; and many others in the Bradshaw and Agus Frio Dis tEicts, are almost as good as the Sterling. In conclusion, We would say to our readers, worry along the best way you can, little while longer, and all will be we'll When breeding over air castles long since planned but not yet eompieted, recollect that the country is not 10 blame for your disappointments blame them, rather to our isolation, to the devilish Indians, who have thinned our population and robbed us of our property; to the Gov ernment for its neglect o{ as, and to we'll meaning, but incompetent men who have undertaken to work our ores and fsiled We know of no successful mining country that In It's incipiency, was net rocked, siuiced and analganated iB the cradle of despair, but sooner, or later, science and capital came to It's aid, disenthralled it, and set it upon its pima it sill bs SO with Arizona.