The weekly Arizona miner., 1871-09-23
STILL THEY COME.

No record of murder and robbery in this Territory, at the hands of tue Indians, how ever terrible, can avail Co turn the tide ot immigration. The name "Arzona," coupled with everything that has q tendency to awaken tue fears of men has gone forth to the world but tho same has likewise gone forth clo;Ied with those reports which are fr,t to arouse the ambition of men. Hence, with the thousands who have lived without ihe boundaries of Arizona and gazcd upon her mountains, resolving yet fearing to enter, it has been a continued struggle between ambition aud fear. The inducemeDt to visit the land of gold and silver from which no aayenturer ever fled but to return again was almost irresistible, on the one hand; and, on the other, the idea of visiting country wherein 800 adventurous had fallen at the hands of the savages--cut down at various times, on the highways, in the mines, and at ,hc plow-could not be entertained. The arguments on either side of the question were nearly balanced until the discovery of tae Bradshaw mines, which placed an addi- tional weight upon the scale, in favor of i'm migration. Gradually, yet slowly, the miners who sought in vain for fortunes among the mountains of Nevada and New Mexico turn cd their footsteps toward Arizona. They found county the mineral wealth of which far exceeded tbeir expectations, but they found, also, q country replete with hardship and danger. But they were of the class known as frontiersmcn, and hence men who would not be deterred once they had entered the field. 4 few have obtained, at Brad shaw and the neighboring districts, all that they sought and failed 10 find elsewhere A more powerful impetus to immigration, and cause which bids fair to remove the cheI obstacle which interposed, is the presence oi General Crook among the Apaches. This cause is now operating Not only is Nevada sending in detatchments from her army ui miners, and New Mexico attachments from her floating population and her traders which together have given us an average in' crease of population, since the arrival O General Crook, of about ten men per day but California has resigned many of hel more timid miners who arc now operating il the western districts. And still the stream O immigration continues to swell Almos every week We find in our Nevada exchange accounts of expeditions for Arizoua; iron time to time we see it stated that parties ar being organized in various parts of Califor ma to visit Arizona and locate mines iron Montana We have accounts of grand expe dition that is being organized to visit Apach land, "now that General Crook is there t prevent the Apaches from cutting thei throats.n h addition to these we have nr merous letters from various parts of ColC rado, from Texas and from Missouri, which the writers state their determnatio to visit Arizona the coming fall, and ask | to inform them of the rates of wages, u prospects of obtaining employment and tt prices of board.
 All these prospects arc very iattering the hopes of Arizonans and we may loo with confidence to the rapid settlement of a our valleys and the early development of 0, grazing and mineral resources when Genert Crook shall have struck the final blow the settlement of the Apache difficulty.