Arizona citizen., 1873-08-30
MINES AND MINING.
What is Most Needed to Promote Mining in Arizona.
 Communicated

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 By repeated conversations with
 8 number of persons belonging to
 Tucson and directly or indirectly in
 terested ill the development of the
 mining resources of this Territory,
 and the examination of a great num-
 Der of ore-specimens, l can come but
 to the conclusion that good mines are
 abundant and if properly worked, of
 such 8 nature as to warrant more
 than ordinary profit on the moneys
 invested in their working. The cry
 of the miners of this Territory has
 been and Is still "money to open our
 mines and money to set and put in
 operation the necessary reduction
 works" Some years ago it was law
 ishIy given by the capitalists of this country, the necessary machinery was
 brought, but in some instances not even put up, while for the rest there were either no mines las with the Col oradO) or the ores of such nature, (rebellious that all attempts to treat (reduce) them, turned into signal fail ures, so that ct this moment not single one of all the reduction ma chinery Is ill operation. No berome- ter is more sensitive than money; itI annotates every success and every fail ure, balances the sheet and goes it further or retires altogether. From the mines of Arizona it has retired and when once more called upon, 1t has but scowl, & " French " shrug of the shoulders, or & malicious smile, which signifies; Do you think that l am 8 greenhorn? Mining there fore in this Territory is at this mo- ment almost at stand still, and the only remaining hope of the miner Is the Texas Pacific Railroad. They take out their patents with the inten- tion of laying on their oars until the of the locomotive tells them that tears" with capitalists and money are coming to purchase their mines for their own prices, which, need I say so, will rarely fall below the round tone hundred thousand" Their siesta-dream Is & Utopia ! The area of mining on the Pacific Coast | and east of 1t, has become so eXten- 1 sive that the States and Territories ! have almost to fight for the capital | looking for mining investments as they do for immigration. The State ! pr Territory offering the greatest ad- will get the money. And now does Arizona stand as compared with the other mining countries of his great Union Outside and even , few steps behind the line And yet are the mines of Arizona numer- ous and rich and favored by climate, heap (Mexican) labor, abundance of 1. timber, grass, water powers and the agricultural .productions of @ semi ropical climate. What IS wanted irst of all things, and even ahead of money, is knowledge in mining, theo- etical and practical knowledge, since II money will be of no avail unless is expended and applied by knowl- dSSJ CCOHOhAJ dHO AO4CStJ- 4AS honest pick-sxe miner has had his ] air sail and is played out 7" as su- of mines. The mere book-worm" of mining is nuis- ( nee and the dabbler " an abomina- ion. Mining will Do best 8 success { f planned, headed and directed by zen acquainted with the pickaxe and hovel, the drill, the hammer, the aw, the crucible, the furnace, the { hysical nature and chemical compo- [ ents of the ores and their treatment, markets, value, etc. Such men were { are on this Coast but ten years ago, re sought for even now, and will sat ' 'fy the demand for them, before an ther ten years have passed by. So- t ora IS in this respect decidedly ahead i f Arizona. There, all tho reduction c rorks put up by the numerous Amer an companies gotten ap in the ' So- ora rage" " of 1S63-4, and af5erwards t-