Arizona citizen. [volume] (Tucson, Pima County, A.T. [i.e. Ariz.]) 1870-1880, 1871-03-11
Rogues at Work to Injure Arizona

ROgues at Work to Injure Arizona.
Just praise does not enhance nor di-
minish the merits of any man or thing,
and so long as it is not excessive, it is
neither Objectionable nor damaging
but when exaggerated, it is injurious
even if well intended. In this specu-
lative age, men must read with caution
and reason, the prospectuses of all Or
CARNATIONS, especially when put forth
in ford style. Manipulators of spec
ulative companies dupe the Ignorant
and unsuspecting by deliberate false
hoods neatly and seductively narrated,
and eventually damage the localities
in which they propose but never hon
estly purpose to operate. Chicago
sharps have lately taken an interest
in Arizona, but an interest which does
no credit to themselves, nor anything
but damage to the dupes they may
ensnare, as we'll as our Territory.
There are thousands upon thousands
of people who are truly ambitious to
improve their fortunes, but have little
or no knowledge of the geography of
any place beyond their own neighbor-
hood, and know nothing of the soil,
minerals, climate, timber, water, &c.
of any other place, and are incredulous
enough to accept as truth fancy state
ments in print, especially those in
pamphlet or circular form which pro-
mise profit to those who may accept
the proposals.
To show our readers in Arizona as
well as elsewhere some of the PROPOSE
tons of the rogues referred to, we give
extracts from couple of Chicago
prospectuses. The first is entitled
b" Prospectus of the Arizona Mutual
Colonizing and Mining Company"
and puts up its job in this language:
The recent developments and dis
coveries in Arizona, of immensely rich
deposits of gold and silver in ''placer"
and quartz mines, has induced Col. S.
B. Farnham, of San Francisco, who
has spent the past eleven years among
the gold-ields of the Pacific Coast,
and who was one of the first white
men known to have penetrated into
this wonderfully rich yet, until within
a few months, unexplored country, to
organize party of men for the pur-
pose of returning Immediately to Arr
IONA, and take possession of and work
the different deposits of gold and silver
discovered by him.
Col. Farnham's explorations en-
braced an extent of country more than
300 miles in length by 100 in breadth,
never before known to have been trod-
den by white man; and he discover
ed lodges Of gold and silver quartz,
yielding from $50 to $4,000 per ton
and "placers" of unlimited extent,
which will yield by the old fashioned
banning" process, from 500 to 5000
per man per day.
These wonderfully rich deposits are
of such vast extent that years of inces-
SAINT working cannot exhaust them,
and are on the line Of the new South
ern Pacific Railroad.
The possession of this country by |
hostile Indians has heretofore entirely |
prevented the possession and working
Of these mines, but with force of 800
men, the number to which thia COM
pany is strictly limited, the country
can be safely traversed, and the mines
worked to immense pecuniary advan-
tage.
Each member Of this company is to
be equally interested, and an equal
participant III all discoveries and work
lngs of placer or quartz mines; in the
location and division of town lots in
Ill the new mining camps or towns
in mill-sites and water-power, in loca-
ton OF ranches, and in any and all
profits which may arise from the ex-
petition.
An opportunity is now offered for
Did Californians, and the many desir-
GUS of making their fortunes in this
land of gold, to go at an expense far
less than would be actually incurred
by individuals or small parties, and
IN opportunity which probably will