The weekly Arizona miner., 1871-10-14
OUR TERRITORY.

rious land: learn that which is in store for Us, and prepare ourselves To receive it, whcth CT it be peace. or q continuation of the ycngc- fpl var that has flied our hearts with grief, and burlcncd us with pains and penalties such as have not been borne by the people of any other land not cursed as thi, ha, been, Is vet, with a race of rcd demons. compared with whom the Furies of hell are angels.
 Sad, indeed, is the past history of tlis Territory, and who can say that the Naide>t era is not yet to come. If We look back, and endeavor to peer into the past ali Is cloudcd m uncertainty; save, alone, the ever present, ghostly rcmembrancers oc the race oi beings that once occupied this laul ant used lt for nrDrc noble and glorious purposes than the Apache fiends who, for some wise purpose Ol thU Most High, swept them from the face of the esrth; pulled down their temples and dwellings aye, destroyed almost everything, until only shadows of their monuments ant temples remain, to remind us who have fallen heir 10 their land, that We must ever and anon, be on the alert for the destroying devils, who, in ages past, made of this Ter ritory d bowling wilderness, and who, for the past decade, have put forth great eXertions to prevent it from again being occupied by civilized people
 Exceedingly we'll would we like to know the particulars of the great destructive peri od in the history of our Territory, when bar barOus Apachcs bore down, from where is not clearly settled, upon thousands, ,-perhaps millions-of peaceable, industrious, civilized people, murdering many, and compelling those who escaped destruction to seek safety farther south, among their Aztec and Toltec friends and relatives.
 But, as it is with the present we have to do, we will not now speculate uponthe gloomy past of the Territory and it's former occU- pants, no matter how enticing the field.
 The same race of lsbmaelites that once destroyed the good Aztecs and Toitecs of this portion of the globe and pulled down the work of their hands, are, to-day, as busi- ly intent upon our destruction as they ever were upon that of our predecessors, and fully as strong in the belief that they will event ually, succeed in driving us from the Terri tory, and in reclaiming and reoccupying eve cry inch of its soil.
 This however. is but foolish dream of theirs nevertheless, dream-a hope, in the fulfiment of which they firmly believe Then, let Us regiew their chances of ever again being able to do so. Let us, in ijnag- nation, place an argus-eyed observer on top of the highest pinacle of our great San Fran cisco mountain. from which position he might overlook every mountain, hill, mes1 and valley, in benighted Arizona; command him to look to the east, then to the west, then north and then south. and he would behold something like the following: Resting his eyes on the "sacred" Gila, as it debouches from the mountains of New Mexico, and looking to the southward of it, he would behold billy country, interspersed with beautiful valleys, high, jagged peaks, and long, low, but we'll defined ranges of mountains pointing still >outhward to old Mexico. He would see the Burro range, in which silver and gold bear ing lodges of immense size and great rich. ness crop out, and where, tradition says. there are richer placer mines than any now known Taking his eyes from of the Burru country he would sec the noble, but rather dry SdI Simeon valley, fenced in between two noun tain ranges, from either of which shoot up high fanciful domes, towers and pinnacle upon which the eye rests with satisfaction and which fill the soul with admiration fo the Great Creator of the Universe Shiftin. his eyes towards the west, he will beholC other mountain ranges; more beautiful val lcys, and more grassy BeSaa, until, at last, tn swiftly gliding Colorado river comes unde his gaze, and he follows its tortuous course
 
 clad valleys until it becomes lost in the Gul of California.
 Thus will he have swept over a belt Q country nearly four hundred miles in length by about sixty in width, bounded on tn north by the Gia river on the south by th Mexican States of Sonora and Chhuahua This scope of country includes all of South ern Arizona,-once the pleasant home of mighty people, but now, a bel of Horas fO those who occupy it against the wishes O the Apaches.
 This superficial view of this great belt c semi-desert country does not portray all tha We wish to make known regarding t, an we will have to return over it. Let the read CT then follow us from Arizona City. whic is situate on the east bank of the Colorad, just below the mouth of the Gila, and oppc site Fort Yuma, California. Here, then. a Arizona City, busy scenes are destined { be enacted, for at this point will the Soutl orn Pacific, or 32d Parallel railroad cross tn Colorado on its way north, to San Francisc, This, of itself, will make of Arizona City large, busy mart of trade, and the great, pro ductiye valleys of the lower Gila and Colo rado, when settled and cultivated by an ar trammeled race 0! white men, will add muc to that trade. Following mp the Gia, fc about IS miles the eye rests upon a low spu of mountains from which, few years pas great deal of coarse gold was extracted and spent at Gila City, once busy town now almost deserted. In these digging great quantities of gold still exist, and wi remain until long after capital and euterpris shall have constructed dtches to convey WI ter from the plethoric Gila, 10 wash it out , the gravel tbat screens it from onc's l,az Raynnh faXp Astu nH al,