Arizona weekly miner., 1874-01-02
From Wednesday,. Daily ]
Old and New.

To-day, we bid farewell to 1873; and our readers shall be spared tbr lnfction of the customary remarks.' It is cnded-gone- worn out. Let us drop it as we would an old shoe. It is dead and useless. What do We care for the deeting pleasures it afforded us {? They will last but a brief time in our memo. ries, and in ,hc coming year each one is con tidently looking forward to greater enjoy msnts. The batch of troubles, trials and vexatious disappointments which old Sev. enty-three brought to us are now, thank God buried in the ashes of the past, and we will net refer to them.
 In the language of great stat esman, "we VII take retrospective view into the dim future and see where we stand" Ten years ago the first hardy pioneers of Northern Ari- zona, mere handful of men -prospectors, miners, xplorers-wintered in these noun tains, Placer dggings on Lynx, Granite, Big Bug and Hassayampa creeks were rich enough to make money plenty, and, though freight from the Colorado river, the nearest point of supply, was twenty-five cents per pound and bacon, beans, lard, coffee and sugar were each dollar pound, and flour forty cents, mo- body sutfered; and the evidences of mineral wealth, in quartz, were everywhere so abun- cant that all were rich in anticipation, and hopeful of speedy realization of their desires.
 In 1861 those hopes were blasted by the outbreak of the internal Apaches, and the 
 history of our sufferings at their hands needs no repetition. The attention of men of means who were interested in mining, which was eagerly directed to Arizona, was turned aside by our Indian war, and, a little later, com pletcy diverted by the completion of the Central Pacific railroad through the rich min ing regions of Nevada and Utah. The past four years of drouth put the cap-shcaf on our stack of set-backs, and here we are. Many alas, how many, who were pushing to the front decade ago, have been victims of the arrow, bullet and scalping. knife of the red skinned savages. Others, after years of en- durance, lost their nerve and left us for other abodes. The ranks have been kept full. however, by recruits from other sections of Uncle Sam's domain, men imbued with that restless spirit which is always urging
 ace into new countries, and our progress
 fs 'een unceasir-, thoneb very low. As
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 fl of hari 6,ted miners who are deter mlnv4 10 stay with the mines of pro GU value, until they make their fortunes, or grim death calls them to end their abors. | All these are rejoicing that the light of new year seems to bring with it the dawn of that our Indian foes are con quered at last, and so nearly brought under complete control, that the farmer, miner. or can each pursue his avocation in | safety. We are to-day in tele- | graphic communication with the whole | world. In short time the railroad will af- lord means of rapid transit for freight and travellers, and though we do not expect the millennium to commence in 1874, we do look or more permanent progress in population, wealth, and development of our resources in The next twelve months, than in any two of .he past ten years.