Arizona citizen., 1871-12-02

that Crook may yet have to settle the
 question in his own way; the long
 and short of which way Is, that by
 using Indians to fight Indians, they
 soon entirely distqust each 0ther;, that is,
 those that want to stand out against
 the whites are soon afraid of them
 selves all around and then their day
 is over forever. Anything more simple
 i'll human affairs generally, is hard to
 conceive. It was the first Napoleon's
 policy, and it destroyed the German
 Empire-it was reunited by Bismark,
 in whose hands the French were but
 pigmies. I am satisfied Crook would
 have done the work for the Apaches
 this winter, if let alone, and that by
 his system, the Apaches could have
 been easily whipped out years ago.
 But it seems to take people so long
 anyhow to get @ new idea into their
 heads.
 Several years ago noticed the name
 of c. P. Huntington somehow mixed
 in with certain railroad influences at
 work to secure the trade of the great
 Southwest, with an Atlantic outlet of its own at Norfolk, Virginia. l have
 kept track of the idea all along, and since stopping here the importance of the matter has been forced upon my
 mind very significantly. Huntington,
 1 believe, is yet Vice President of the
 Central Pacific road in California, and was its financial agent east during its building; and he managed the bonds, etc., so well that the company were never at loss for working capital, notwithstanding their field was across the continent from the great money centers. On the other hand, the Union Pacific end of the great road was always lame in that respect, and at one time something worse. The management of Huntington was mas terly on that score alone, but the man. ner he has worked up the present scheme in the meantime is appa- rently great. The old Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Company was a "s sick man D in the business, and Mr. Huntington has evidently gobbled 1t, has become its President, and at pres ent strides will soon be the successor of Vanderbilt and Scott (of New York and Pennsylvania Central routes) in the railroad fame of the country. Within a few days Huntington & Go. have gobbled "short line" from Louisville (Ky.) to point on the Ohio river in West Virginia, thus leaving Cincinnati out in the cold Louisville is jubilant, and Cincinnati is glum. That chief of railroad powers-the Pennsylvania Central-is evidently alarmed, and is fighting for hold on Cincinnati. Huntington & Go. are rushing the Chesapeake and Ohio through the Blue Ridge of Virginia with all the intensity that marked the work across the Sierras. They are in the meantime, however, making bet ter grades, double-track tunnels, and everything of 8 nature looking far ahead, and to immense business. A town (called Huntingdon is laid out and under way on the West Virginia side. of the Ohio, opposite the most southerly point ill this State, which promises to be a second Pittsburgh at no distant day. It has 8 fresh field almost-is in the midst of more coal and iron-and boats on the river can always come up that far. It will be a railroad center as we'll. Now, you may want to know of what interest this is to Arizona? We'll, take it, then, in connection with the Atlantic and Pacific, or 35th parallel route, to which the Central Pacific is looking from the west, and you may see the point. Further than this, with such a man as Huntington on this side and Stanford on the west, there is an earnest of 8 road at a much earlier day than might otherwise be. And l am very much mistaken if I didn't see Huntington's name appear in some manner connected with the 35th par allel route, since the war. It seems certain that the dead and forgotten Chesapeake and Ohio concern, is now to take leading stand-that Vir- ginia State will be properly recon structed thereby, and her interior and harbor resources bring her up not sec ond to the Empire State itself. The Southern lines are poor as yet, and you can look to this new concern buy ing them up for through purposes, just as the Pennsylvania road Is doing as they all do. Huntington is de-