Arizona citizen., 1872-04-13
:. Both these gentlemen have

Coover. Both these gentlemen have
 had large experience Ill building and
 conducting furnaces at CerrO Gordo,
 and are sanguine that no such exten-
 sive and rich field for mining opera
 tions has yet been found on the coast
 Other furnaces and mills will be
 transported from San Francisco. It is
 not unreasonable to suppose popula-
 tion of 5000 will be there before this
 year closes. Three towns have been
 started, and already boarding houses
 and saloons are in full blast in each.
 Chloride is located in the northern
 part of the district and is pleasantly
 situated. Four miles south Is Mineral
 Park, nearly surrounded by high hills
 and is very appropriately named.
 Five miles further south is Is Cerbat,
 also in, pleasant location. There
 does not seem, as yet. to be that bitter
 ness which generally exists between
 rival towns. Each man seems to feel
 that his town has sufficient resources
 near by to in time draw the county
 seat without much talk about it-and
 perchance the Capitol of the Territory;
 and should the Capitol at Washington
 get to gadding about, it might just as
 well move to the Great Colorado, as
 to stop on the turbid waters of the
 Mississippi.
 It has been the intention of the
 Central Pacific Railroad Company to
 run branch of the 35th parallel to
 the Colorado as soon as the business
 would pay. If the road were now i'll
 running order, it would probably be
 one of the best paying on the coast.
 The country is much in need of more
 mail facilities. No mail is carried to
 the mines, and all matter has to be
 brought from Hardyville by express
 or private hands; and only a horse
 back mail is carried up and down the
 rive once a week. The route of this
 mail could be changed with little or
 no inconvenience to the contractor, sc as to run through the mines; but a new contract should be at once let to carry mail from Prescott to Califor- mia via this district. As it is now sit uated, 1t requires from six weeks tc two months to communicate by letter with Prescott and Tucson, or with Sar
 Francisco. This delay is simply ruin- ous on the business of the country. Il is surely to be hoped when Uncle Samuel reflects what hard stru ggle these hardy miners have, and arc making to open this immense treas ury, and how largely 1t will contribute to his wealth, that he will without de- lay give them needed mail facilities The attention of mining men and capitalists has been turned that way and there seems to be no fear but Hualpai district alone will give some idea to the outside world of the inn mense mineral wealth of Arizona The little history here given of its dis
 covery and abandonment, will imparr some notion of how difficult it ha: ,, been to even hold possession of any portion of this Territory. As before stated, this district Is within twenty miles of navigable river, and yet fol years the SaVaSeS helu undlSputeu sway and no white man could live there Nearly every mountain in the Terri tory. is threaded with veins of golc and silver, and the time is fast ap- preaching when the adventurous 5 miners of California, Oregon, Ne vada, Idaho and Montana will come here in such numbers that we will bt able to hold, if in no other way, and develope all our resources. Anumbel of men are now working placer mines l. on the bars of the Colorado, abont 7i miles from Hualpai district. They ,, report making from $4 to S20 per day with rockers, and it is thought the dig gings will prove extensive. Little ol no work can be done on account oi high water from May until August.