The weekly Arizona miner., 1873-05-31
Let Us do Something Nore than
 We have been Doing

We need enter into no argument ,o prove
 that business in the Territory is quite dull, or ,lat money is scarce Feeling the full ! fore. Of these two depressing facts, away down l in our pockets. and knowing that twothirds of our Territorial fellow citizens feel said force in the sam, pllce and know that the
 assessors are now guinc the rounds, fixing tn
 taxes we have Iu pay. is it not time for all
 Co practice economy tp labor harder and tO engage in new industries II SD, let the jco- ple cut loose from pa.t eNtraya-ant Aahlt, and l1zincss. "Thauks" tD the foolish ats of contra tors and wOull-be contractors, the price of grain has been wLIttled down, from year tn year, until neither contractor nor producer can make anythin; 7, with present . price, of labor and store goods.
 l But, if grain raising will not pay in our ! larger valleys. the raising ut cation will, anl l into lt our valley iarmer> must 70. Let tHcm, | then, prepare tn plant largely of cotton, the
 coming year. Farmers of Salt Rv'r, the Gila, san Peiro. Colorado, etc. need have no ic tr- concerning its successful production. The question has already been tested in the val l leys of all these streams, and, when we tell 1 farmers that the poorest quality of cotton l will bring Is cents per pound in San FraH- . NlNA's 'AEF OuEuN lD hANt ul lEDlblt III lt-i ceiyin. that a, it cost, no more to ra se a
 cropoi cotton than one of corn or barley. tlei!
 profit, would be larger and the demand ',lea ad
 certain Again, it, production might induce
 men uf means Co start cotton factories wh.c |
 would give employment to hundreds of men
 an l women. The South will, this year, get
 millions of dollars for its cotton. anI many of
 those who have raised this cotton have paid
 II per cent for money, with which they have
 lived and paid help. Yet, even this dear way
 of farming in the South pays. As to the de
 mand it is, and will continue 10 be- far greater
 than the supply.
 As to sugar, every Arizona farmer of the
 rivers named. can raise sufficient for his own
 use, but we do not think that the crop would be as successful as cotton. Coffee might also
 be gown, and, although the grazing in and | around sud valleys k not as good as in the mountainous portions of the Territory, horses | mules, cattle and sheep could be pastured up-
 on strips of alfalfa, timothy, etc. Then veg | etables could be raised by some owners of ! lGO acre lots, whose custom has been to l plant 10 barley every foot of their farms
 In the mountains, we'will have tu % into
 stock raising into the manufacture of um- l Der, and last, but not least, into the working | ot mines. We do these things now, but in a very weak fashion; there being but one citi- ! zen saw-mlll in country that boasts of one l forest two hundred miles in length by from l 5O to 100 miles in width, and of many smaller ones. Tue danger from Indians has cur bed onr stock and wool raising interests, but
 should tine savages stay upon the reservations
 and eat tbe bread of civilization. their days
 as successful murderers and thieves are mum bered, and this country would shortly be ! covered with all Of the domestic animals. Concerning mining if we cannot get costly
 mills, furnaces, etc, We must get arastras, ! mules and horses, and paving, already, great
 many mines, the ores of which have pald, in
 arastraS, We ought 10 be able to make them do so again. or these mines we will name the
 Big Bug, the Vallenciana the Josephine, the
 Pointer, the War Eagle, the Benjamin, the Astor, the Bully Bueno, and many other, in this vicinity, not 10 speak of those in dis tricts of other counties Really our resources
 are rich and varied and VIC oggh; u have tue benefit of some of them