The Weekly Arizonian., 1870-03-19
THE WEEKLY ARTEONAN
MARCH l9.........................l87O
ARIzoNA's PROSPECTS.

El
 unknown in It's history since the ingress of a
 American population. Whether We look to
 ward her mines, her timber, Or her agricuI-
 turaI lands NC find that progress is surely h
 order of the hour; notwithstanding every offor
 made by Indians and their "Friends' to wres
 the country from the hands of pregress-lo v,
 ing people, and to restore it to the control ofit
 former EsYags owners, the barbAruus and un.
 slmabe Apache. During the past year, nu,
 meross have been the settlers, who, despoilsd
 by repeated. Iudian ravages of every thing
 which dilligent industry had placed their
 possession, have left the field and sought refu e
 in California, or have fled to the Atlantic
 States, but immigration has moro than flied up
 whatever vacancies have been thus brought
 about To-day our population is certainly far
 in excess of what it has been at any former
 time, and, generally considered, consists of .
 brave, liberal and industrious people. In the
 immediate vicinity of Tu0ac, one of the most
 fertile tracts of country in the Territory is well
 nigh depopulated through means of successive
 ravagss by Indians, but the waste here. anu
 at other points removed from any immediate
 source of protection. is counterbalanced bY
 agricultural developme nts in the nsighborhood
 ofmilitary poats At Camp Grant, where only
 syear ago an extensive valley was clothed
 luxuriAnt crop of towering weeds, crops of
 wheat aud barley now spting forth and indicate
 the wealth of the coming harvest. The same is true of the country around Camp CrittsndeR and other military pOsts.
 But our mines, in which repoee the princi- pal wealth of ths Territory, are beginning to attract due attention, and this enterprise once fairly started will be quite certain to secure l growth equal to thatiD California in its palmi
 est days. Our mineral treasures are infinitely moro extensive than were those of California. | although, perhaps, attended more expense in l extracting them from the bowels of the earth
 the expenses thus incurred consist, not merely
 in the separation of our gold aud silver from
 the rocks with which they are associated
 ID tho mines, but are incurred, for the greater
 part, through Indian depredaticns, and tn
 necessity of providing against them yet the
 wealth ot our mines is adequately commensur.
 ate with the cost of working them, to afford a reasonable profit Work is about to be com. menced on the Mowry Silver Mine; the Colo rsdo Mine is about tn pass into the hands off An English company, whose agent, Gen. Ripley. l. IS now on a visit to the mine, having previously subjected Sll the documents regarding the transfer to the examination of lien. Coles Bashford, examining in turn, the records sn- pertaining to the mine, filed in former years. The Apache Pass Mine is already in the hands i; of company in San Francisco, the agent ofI,- which arrived here about the middle of the |. week, and will commence work immediatsIv
 And not only are the Aattering prospects
 which we see in the future confined to the wealth to be derived from our mineral and agrieul- o tural lands. The rocky passes of the Sant. ., Rita mountains have been explored, and the s steam giant IS now dealing destruction Amono o heir ancient forests and s.ockpg our markets with every class of lumber required for home TT This will have the effect ofl T essening the cost of building, and will add p- Iii aculably to the wsalth and convenience of o, he inhabitants of the whole Southern por,iop f, f the Territory. =. Another enterprise destined to materially nd. tb ance the interests of the whole Territory .b nould not be overlooked, This is the waoon to 'ad from San Diego to Fort Yuma, now in be roesss ofconstructiou. The operation oftbis s9 lad will cheapen the cost of frei ghting and .o turn the extensive trade now carried on he. Ur 'een this place and New York via the Rio .o. randc, WilSe turned to San Fra nclscs via San ;t ego. This Till infuss new life into tbe vhoro untry lying between Tucson and Arizop, ! ty. and will give to the latter place devr.. .,r importance even greater than that of which has so lately been deprived through mean, no, the freight contract via Guaymss. il, The prospects of the 32d parallel railrsaa ,b. 1tnue to grow brighter, and before the sd- for Fnment of Congress, the last Inpediuep to p.s,