New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-08-21
NEW ORLEANS REPUBLICAN, WEDNESDAY,, AUGUST 81 1872

New York under the same influences
Smaller parties are starting from several
Western cities, and throughout Colorado,
Kansas and Nebraska men are organizing
into companies for the purpose Of hunt
ing for the rubies, sapphires and diamonds
that, report says, need only to be gathered
to enrich the gatherers in the wiIds of the
West 1t is calculated that twenty thou
sand hardy men will soon be congregated
IN Arizona in search Of the riches that are
said to exist in that Territory, and these
men will hardly come back without
being heard Of in some capacity, if
they are not heard Of as success
tul diamond hunters. The American
dislike5 to be laughed at above all
things, and where he can not succeed at
one thing he turns his hand to something
else. The leaders Of the miners in Ari-
iona will at once attempt to organize a
government, in which they will be sue
cessful, for if there is anything our people
can do with success it is organizing gov
ernments. The adventurers will next
turn their attention to the rich provinces
Of northern Mexico, and We may say with
confidence, if their feet stray into the
beautiful department Of Santa Cruz they
will be very 10th to come Eout again. So
nora offers as tempting field to the Amer
leans Of to-day as it did twenty years ago,
and the excursions which were planned in
1854 into that State from California, Texas
and Missouri, may find their realization in
the men who are now gathering in the
waste places Of Arizona on a big hunt for
easily made fortunes.
At least one good result viii follow the
diamond excitement, which will be the
settlement Of the Apache question without
any further trouble to the United States.
Twenty thousand Adventures in Arizona
will end the Indian fighting in that quar-
ter, for they will soon know as much of
the Apache haunts as the Apaches do
themselves. Arizona will spring into a
new existence, and her rapid rise will
necessitate railroad connection with San
Antonio and New Orleans. Colorado will
take the start of US in this respect for
time, as the people Of that region will
build a road to the Colorado while we are
discussing about its necessity. But by
degrees the South will build her railroad
connection, and then the trade that be-
longs to Us will seek its proper market,
and that which belongs to st. Louis and
Chicago will go that way. So we are the
friends Of the Arizona settlements because
they must ultimately pay tribute to US in
one way or another.
But the principal feature Of the diamond
fever is that it is preparing body Of men
to move down upon Mexico in the due
course of destiny. The route to the Pacific
from San Antonio needs to come into our
possession out Of that of Mexico, and
the present movement in that direction
can not fail to accomplish this necessary
transfer. The port Of Guaymas must
belong to US as being on the same line of |
latitude that belts the world and passes
through the Sandwich Islands and the
Chinese seas. 1t will constitute one Of
the termini of the Southern Pacific rail |
road, and in order to be thus it should |
pass under the jurisdiction of the United |
ct a very early day. All these eventuaE-
ties are concerned in the diamond fever, |
and whether any precious stones are ever
found in ARIZONA or not, there are some
political changes to be developed |
in that section which we are very much
seeing accomplished as soon
As possible.