Arizona citizen., 1873-09-27
THE OUTLOOK FOR ARIZONA.

grain money is scarce and times are dull in all portions of the Territory, and yet the outlook to the future was never half so promising. Farmers with few exceptions will be able this year to liquidate their debts; large numbers of them are accommodating stock and raising more vegeta bles than usual; many will make their own bacon and pork and all are paving the way to produce more to subsist upon and in that proportion will be compelled to buy less. More sub stantial Improvements are being made upon their farms and better agricul- tural implements are being accumu- lated. Instead of the taxable property of the country decreasing ill conse- quence of the low price of grain, 8 large increase will be shown by the next assessment. This will be ex- plained by the fact that no country is ever enriched by the accumulation of money alone, because money will seek avenues for investment and If not in vested in the country where 1t IS made 1t will go elsewhere. This fact is illustrated by glance at the richest mining portions of California, where millions upon millions were taken from the ground. and the country from whence 1t came IS now almost destitute of wealth and. population. Hence the substantial prosperity of Arizona does not depend. upon the money that can be annually made but upon the farms that are converted into comfortable homes, upon the stock that is brought upon our plains to consume the grass that would other wise go to decay, upon the manu- factories that are started to give en- ployment to our people, and to keep the means we have from going out of the Territory, and upon the mining enterprises that are developed to make market for our products.
 It is but few months since no stock could be found in the Territory except teams that were never allowed to run at large, or few bands of cattle that were strongly guarded by day and brought within high walls at night. Now go where you may and the stock has so increased that 1t seems as though it had sprung into existence by magic. It is but a brief period since there were no sheep in the Territory except few brought here for mutton; now there are sev- eral thousand, and many thousands more are expected soon.
 The mines, which are among the richest and most extensive in the world, have so far added but little to our wealth or prosperity, principally because the means that has been brought here for investment has been used by those who knew nothing about the business or were more fond of making show than of making dividends for the stockholders. Such has been the history of nearly every mining enterprise where any consider able sum of money has heen expend- ed. Poor men have been prevented from carrying on mining enterprises on account of the hostility of the h. dians, as no small number of men could live in any exposed location. In proof of this statement now that we have enjoyed few months of com- paratlve peace, operations by individ- ual miners are starting up Tn all directions. Arrastras are being suc- cessfully run at the Wallapai mines, Bradshaw, Walnut grove, Peoples valley, and besides, William Smith and Peter Taylor have erected and