The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1870-08-23
ARIZONA BETTER THAN CALIFORNIA

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ARIZONA BETTER THAN CALIFORNIA
A man upon our streets yesterday,
argued that Arizona was n better country
than Nevada; and In q gush OF zeal de-
cIared that there was more gold there
now than there ever was in California.
Poor fool he had no conception of the
hcah uttered from his lips. He had
ridden mail through Arizona; visited La
paz. Tucson, Prescott. Had witnessed
the gold mining operations Of Wager
noar the junction of the Gila with the
Colorado, and p~erchahce had driven a
mule team for Tomlinson in transport
inc ore from La verdad. But of mining
he knew nothing, and to imbuo the
lnborers of this section with an idea OF
the grandeur of n remote section, used
tho expression: There Is more gold
there to-day than there ever was In Cali
fornia. Miners. pay no attention to
such expressions. Many q farm in Cali
soynia which now boasts of the enor-
mons cabbaees it produces n the guam
,;tv of grapes il grows, within the recol-
,ac,ion of the writer, has yielded more
onld than the whole area OF Arizona will
svay he able 10 introduce to the statisti-
c;ar No doubt but Arizona is a coun-
~ I;cb In every material wealth, yet it
oap never equal California, nor still her
o@srr;no-Nevada. With a climate
u,ore eyen and exhibiting no such ex-
,roma degrees of heat and cold,
s,ate IL The nobIest of them all. With
every facility of a nation, we have sought
onlv for the position Of a federal Com
monwealth. Having innumer-
able which we have never yet drawn
upon, and which are open to competition
for all, we claim TO be in advance OF our
parent State. Therefore we insist upon
no comparison with Arizona-and as
Blasdel Is in stature to Stafford, so much,
proportionately, do we tower above her
In all material resources. True, the
Indians within Safford's domain are
troublesome; ours were fully as bad but
a few years since, az the graves of our
.pioneers denote. But the incentive
power which developed the mines of this
State also removed the curses to civilian
ton that stood in its pathway. Indians
were made good without the interven-
ton Of Grant aud his Quakers; and the
Country boasts Of progress, prosperity
and general thrift in the face of many
natural obstacles. Arizonians can boast
of their climate, the wealth Of their
minerals. the patronage the General
Government bestows upon their Terri
tory; but until they show by statistical
record that they are superior to us, let
them brag no more Of their superiority
over the Golden State. Miners Of Nc
vada: never emigrate to Arizonn.
PoLrTIcs.-If one would learn all about
politics; who are candidates; and who
stand the ghost of a show for nomina-
ton in convention, let him go to the
country. The virtuous residents of the
rural sections can give all information
heart can wish. Jones, who is q
Democrat, catches his friend in town,
tells him conidentially Of his aspirations,
and says: 'You II send n delegate for
me? We got the delegation from the
Hill, from Sherman, and half from this
.place-enough to carry, do mt you sect
But still | d like Endorsement from the
Smith, the Republican, soon
after meets the rustic. repeats a similar
yarn; perhaps treats, and after leaves
firm reliance, like Jones, that he
has the 'deadwood.' The countryman
,oes home. Leading a half nomsdic
life. he comes in contact with his neigh
Dor. living in another precinct, miles
who tells him similar experience:
how Clark and Brown expect things TO
mn. In a sober mood they
going 10 other neighbors who have like
-eports-until, as gossip Of %imprndent
lanes, their stories are the common
Iheme Of all. A month in town OF closest
study would not divulge q 1.-THE OF what
learns In the country. An expert
pnce in the rural districts has taught us
10 almost eschew politics, for virtuous
there, inst now, care no more for
nor Republicanism than does
he man in the moon. They can see in
he future no beneficial result that would
arise by the election Of either Jones or
Brown, or Smith or Clark, MOI from the
ascendancy Of Republicanism or Democ.
racy. With no great question Of National
policy before them, and with common
TO know that party prejudice at
this time is only the battle field upon
which demapogues array their hosts, the
people of the country are indifferent to
the connections within the hlthy pool.
Idle promises and faultless rhetoric VIII
them not. Their fealty will be
only to their patrons. Indifferent
to politics they are not insensible to the
Establishments of coin. Severe, though
truthful, comments these.
STAGE DEPARTURES toward Ely are now
TO be marked as eyentful occurrences
just as important as the pony arrivals
were years ago at Sacramento; the de-
partures from Austin to White Pine Of
shannon's '~jerkwaters,' or the an
nouncements Mt Virginia by buck
boards OF the progress toward the
rising sun OF that celestial spike-driver
who was to fasten in place the last rail
connecting the Central with the Union
Pacific with the Atlantic. Though the
stage of Travis, Wilson & Co. did at
tempt to start ut an early hour yesterday
morning, 1t was not allowed to do so; for
the innumerable friends of the host of
passengers who were booked were NIL
out, and what with the pressure of sand
wiches and lunch, and lunch and sand.
wiches, n screw or bolt got loose and a
tire was somehow spirited from one OF
the coach wheels while the wagon was
making a turn in the street. Badly
Green declared it to be the fault of the
blacksmith who last set the tire; but dis
interested parties aver that the lightning
speed Of the six nags he held in hand,
and the pressure of his foot upon the
brake-causing expansion from he at