Arizona weekly miner., 1875-10-08
THE OTHER SIDE"


 : Junction City, (Kansas,) Union, of Septem Der 18th, containing extracts from lette 3 written by some one in Presco tt, dated Au ? gust 2ith. and put lished in the Topeka Con
 monwealth of Sept. 10th. The writer say ? he lett Kansas in company with Rober : Stewart and Geo. W. Webb, of Fort Scott ) and came here to spy out the land and tes the truth of statements made in Guverno
 Safford's pamphlet on Arizona. After look
 ing about for seven weeks, evidently expect
 ing 10 find gold growing in pods like bean
 on the mesquite trees, he concludes 9Th,
 pamphlet has done the devilment. It ha
 caused families to leave their homes anC
 friends to seek home in this far of lanC
 among strangers who have no sympathy fol
 them, and who laugh at their misfortunes
 They look upon the Kansas immi
 grafton to this Territory as a grasshopper
 plague, and indeed, cannot see for my life
 what these people are going to do this winter,
 and they have not the means to get back.
 About one hundred wagons have arrived here from kansas and Missouri since came All who are able have started back again. but many are unable and have to sell their teams and are likely to suffer. Everything is very dear and no work at any price. There are no gold or silver mines here worth anything. I have been over a great deal of the mining district and they are nearly all bogus. One county in Kansas Is worth either Colorado, New Mexico or Arizona for farming purposes"
 This is certainly doleful view to take of the situation, but happily for those most di- r,ctly interested it is untrue in nearly every particular. In the first place, there is per haps no people on earth more hospitable and kind towards strangers than the average Ar izonan, who has himself, in the past, been too thoroughly inured to misfortune to laugh at those of others. Secondly, very few, if any, who have arrived here have started back, or would go if their expenses were paid gratis, unless the writer of the letter in question would like to go on such lay out. One man we heard of, who came to engage in business that he found over done on his ar rival did go back with the intention of bringing out his family in the Spring. Third ly, those who have teams are not obliged to sell, for the reason that there is not an idle 1 team in the county, unless it is so because its | owner does not want it to work, and every | man who wants work at reasonable wages is i employed. Fifthly, the mills at work on | gold ores are turning out thousand dollars per month to the stamp, and while we have 10 silver mills in operation, we have mines hat produce ores which readily bring Sl 300 'er ton in the streets, and are doubtless heap at that or a practical assayer would lot buy them to ship 1000 miles, balf the distance by teams, to find market.
 So much for the falsity of these publish d statements, in the correction of which it } no part of our purpose to induce poor peo- le to come here with the expectation that Il 300 silver ore can be found everywhere, gold that will pay S1,000 to the stamp. ut merely to relieve the minds of those who ave friends here whom this writer would . ave them believe are suffering for the con- lon necessaries of life Those who read the MINER closely. and we ave quite circulation in Kansas, will bear |, out In the assertion that we have not urped 'or people to come to Arizona, but on the 'ntrary, have advised all to stay away up- ss they could bring enough means to main- f m themselves for time, and assist in de- f doping the mines. We apprehended that r, ere would be rush of destitute sufferers h pm the grasshopper plague that would over the capacity of the country to furnish ri em employment, but such has not been the b SC, and to-day it would be difficult to find B man to saw cord of wood, within the q, mines of Prescott.
 That there are idle men here is true. and of me of them are living on the bounty of Nj ends, or standing the restaurants off for T no, but it is because they will not work. re We trust the writer of the letter of An ta st 24th, whoever he may be, has found en- Sl ynent ere this, and will write a correc- n of his somewhat mischievous and very ar kless statements.