Arizona citizen. [volume] (Tucson, Pima County, A.T. [i.e. Ariz.]) 1870-1880, 1870-11-05

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The farmers Of California last vaat
told me that they had TO difficulty II
raising good crops IN places where
they wore told years ago they could
not raise any without irrigation.
Mr. Mccormick. I was about to say
that we have a great many Cali6orni-
ans in Arizona; and they tell me that
thousands of acres of land that we are
not using at all, that are called desert
lands, seemed to them to be Just such
lands as are now producing good crops
throughout CALIFORNIA;; that lands
which they were told when they went
to California at an early day never
would amount to anything, are now
the most productive in the country.
/ know that when I first went to that
country it was commonly supposed
that no white man could comfortably
live in the valley of the ella, and that
much of the land now successfully cul-
tivated was worthless.
The chairman. Mr. Mccormick,
When were you appointed Governor of
Arizona?
Mr. Mccormick. In April, 1866.
The Chairman. You are not Cover
nor now, but delegate from that Ter
ritory?
If. Mccormick. Yes, sir; went out
first as a secretary, in 1853. There is
only one more point that l can think
of abiding to on this subject and that
is in reference to the mineral resources
of the country.
The chairman. WAS about to call
your attention to that. What are the
evidences of mineral wealth?
Nr. Mccormick. Upon this thirty
second parallel nothing has been said
or known, thiuk, of the mineral re-
sources between the Pacific and the
Colorado, until lately. As you will
have noticed in the papers, there have
been reports Of great discoveries of
gold sixty miles east of San Diego
and about fifteen OF twenty miles
north of the thirty-secoud parallel. [
was at first inclined to think those
stories exaggerated, and there were
contradictory statements in the Califor-
MIA papers, but by files received to-day
! discover that it is generally conceded
TOW { even in San Francisco that
these hedges promise to be exceedingly
rich and very extensive. I have seen
a letter from a gentleman who has
been spending a month there, and he
says that IN that month he has been
thoroughly convinced that the lodges
are as rich as any discovered in Cali
fornia. Upon the Colorado River from
Fort Yuma to the FL Dorado Canon,
and above that, there are great many
veins of argentiferous galena Of sill
yer, aud many ofcopper. In the Castle
Dome district, which is about twenty
on thirty miles above Fort Yuma,
they have discovered argentiferous ga
nela. and q great deal Of that ore has
been taken lately, by contract, to San
Francisco, and sold there at q conside-
rable profit although the steamer
charges are high. The copper lodes on
the Arizona side are extensive. They
are generally at a range Of from if
teen to eighteen miles back Of the Ri
yer. Professor Blake, who made an
examination Of those lodes and silver
veins, has reported that he thinks
them valuable
The chairman. Who is Professor
Blake ?
Mr.. Mccormick. 4 scientific gentle
man who has lived long time in
California, professor, I think, Of geolo-
gy or mineralogy, now connected
with the State Department, and who
represented the State Department at
the Paris Exposition
The chairman. What kind of stone
Go you find on the route? Only build
ing stone?
Mr.. Mccormick. On the thirty
secoud parallel?
The chairman Anywhere along the
route.
Mr.. Mccormick. On the river there
are different kinds, I believe, but very
little of it is used for building pur-
poses. The houses are mostly Of adobe,
or sun burnt brick.
The chairman. There is not much
stone on that route !
Mr.. Chaves. There is a great deal
Of granite.
The chairman. Describe the granite.
Mr.. Chaves. It is the granite that