The weekly Arizona miner., 1872-07-27
OUR TERRITORY.
Mineral Resources.

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 Oft have we endeavored to attract the at tention of capitalists to the mineral resources of this, our Territory, and with rather poor success, so far. But, we believe the time ii near at hand when the information that has gone abroad regarding the wealth that lies buried in and crops out of this portion o Mother Earth will be the means of creating feeling among capitalists, competent miners and metallurgists in other sections of oul country, that will cause them to come here And we hope such time may soon come, for there is no use in disguising the fact that "ii takes a mine to work mine." Yes, two oi them: One of knowledge; another of ready cash. The instances are rare, and all cir cumstances most favorable, where, in our country. mine has paid poor owners from the start. Indeed. the only mine that has so far, done so in our Territory. is the Vul- ture mine, near Wickenburg, which, during times when it was properly and economically worked, paid working expenses, debts and dividends But it has not done so, under an extravagant, if not roguish management. Mo- that management has sunk faith, money everything save public confidence in the rich ness of the Vulture mine.-and it is the richest big gold mine ever discovered, al. though but little is now being done with it. owing to the want of means to work it prop crly.
 A friend of ours, who is very we'll pasted on the working of the present Vulture mine management, gave us these figures, some time ago:
 Profit for three years working of mine 500 o0t Total indebtedness about t............. 250 OOO0 0l Total nett savings .s5JO O0o.0 .0t The foregoing may be an overestimate, but all who recollect the immense shipments oi bullion and jewelry, from the Vulture mill 1 since its present manager has, apparently, managed it "into the ground, will be in- clined to stick to the foregoing figures. And the statement looses no strength when we call to mind the fact that, long before a mill was erected to work Vulture ore, Henry l Wickenburg and others made money by working the ore in arastras. Then, soon af ter the ten-stamp mill was erected, the Messrs. Goldwater of Ehrenberg, paid, in about thirty days working debt of s30, ,OO0 besides enormous expenses.
 All this goes to show that, although the Vulture mine and mill are now standing idle, 1t is not the fault of the mine, the proprie- tors of which, could, ere this, have built a narrow guage railroad, from mine to mill, with the money they have sunk or squan- dered.
 But, the Vulture will soon again, we hope, be worked, with profit, if not by the old company, by one or more companies.
 P. w. Smith is at San Francisco, doing his hnc tf,f f,rrr nnsr tn ne tn,, of the Vulture, and, as he owns the little :o no very great expense to start the ball anew.
 His intention is to bore for artesian water, near the mine. The old company are fgur- ing for means to build a railroad, and we hope both companies will meet with success The mine IS monster, and can furnish orc for hundreds of stamps.
 And the Vulture is but one of the hundreds of gold mines which exist in Arizona, be- sides other hundreds of silver and copper lodges. rock from scores of which has, by its great richness, astonished all who have seen it, at San Francisco and other points, where people are not very warmly prejudiced in favor of the country. No, not at all. Mo- have county is ribbed with rich mineral veins so are Yuma, Pima and Yapapai coun- ties, and the beauty of the situation is that facilities for working our mines are good, if we leave out all idea of the isolated position of the Territory, an evil the railroads which arc now approaching us will soon cure. Tim Der and fuel have we everywhere, in abun dance water We have had in abundance, in springs and streams, and we may have plenty of it soon again. But, of surety, there is plenty of water in mines and elsewhere, be- meath the surface. All of which, with the float gold that is lodged in creek and gulch beds,-everywhere throughout the mining districts-will, sooner or later, open to us the way to the portals of the Union and the sympathy of the Indian Ring, whose members love filthy lucre better than Indians.
 Agricultural Resources.
 Az to farming in Arizona, away from the large streams, where irrigation is possible, we are 10th to confess that, at best, It is pe- carious business, owing to the drouth. But, it used not to be so, and change may soon come OCT the spirit of our dreams.
 In 1864 5-6-7 and 8, We bad plenty of snow in winter and rain in summer, and everything that was put into the ground grew and pro- duced well. Since 1868, it has been too dry, and even Horace Greeley, with all his knowl- edge of farming, could not have raised good crops on our 'dry ranches"
 Along our river and creek bottoms there are, however, tens of thousands of acres of good land, small portions of which have pro- duced well, principally, valleys of the Gila, Salt, Verde and Colorado rivers Water in these and other streams Is abundant. the year