Arizona citizen., 1875-09-25


 ed in the mineral bearing belts before l mentioned. The natural facilities for mining and working ores are above the average of the American silver dis. tricts. Our agricultural and grazing facilities are so large and. we'll distrib- uted, that provisions for any number of miners can be produced here. At this time but very little bacon and flour are brought from abroad, and up till cou- pie of years ago, it was believed bacon and hams could not be successfully cured here, whereas experiments show the climate to be admirably adapted therefor. The future outlook for the farmer and stock-grower seems espe- cially bright Should we never have an extensive manufacturing .popula- tiOn, the mining one will fill the i'm pOrtant place, with the additional cer- tainty that mineral products always have a more ready sale and assured value that have ordinary manufactures.
 MEANS AND ROUTES OF TRANsPoRTA- | TON.
 Transportation lines and means of communication are about these: For passengers and mails-Kerens & Mitch ell carry the mail from San Diego to Mesilla, in the Rio Grande valley, and over this to Tucson they run two and four-horse stages; east of here to. Silver city, New Mexico, an Eastern manu- factured blackboard drawn by two horses and of passable comfort for pas sengers; and from Silver City to Mesi- l lla, fine coach runs at least once a week and connects with the overland stages East, via Santa Fe, to either the Denver Narrow-gague, the Kansas Pa cifc or Atchinson, Topeka and Santa Fe railways; or southward via Fl Paso to the Gulf States. The time from San Diego here is five days, and to Mesilla eight; the fare from San Diego here is $90 coin, and from here to Mesilla $50 currency. There is constant talk oi improving the stages and putting On more stock, and it is being done in the harder and longer routes. Meals may be had all along for one dollar. Nc traveller should pass over the route without a canteen, and it filled with water. The cost and time of a trip here from San Francisco via steamer to San Diego and stage, are: To San Diego, $20 and three days shence by St 3s ee soc and RI 4 days; then aod $2O for incidental expenses and you have about the exact sum. Presume that it costs about the same to Prescott via Los Angeles and takes the same time. The quickest way is to avoid the ocean and come by rail and stage all the way, but the fare is from S5 to $10 more owing to whether you pass overland to Los Angeles or to San Diego by rail and stage. A semi-weekly mail and stage route runs from San Bernardino via Hardyville to Prescott, and one trip of each week a four-horse coach is run. Of the fare and time on this route, I am not advised, but must be about the same as on the San Diego and Mesilla one. Mail service is established from Prescott direct to Santa Fe and a pas senger conveyance over it has been ad- vertised but it is not regarded as very well equipped. A semi-weekly mail and blackboard line is established be- tween Prescott and Tucson via Wick enburg, Phenix, Mcdowell and Flor ence. Time about four days; fare $5G currency. Then tri-weekly stage runs between Florence and the Pinal mines distance thirty-fve miles; fare five dol lars. Between Maricopa Wells and Phenix there is weekly mail carried in comfortable riding vehicle; dis tance thirty-fve miles From Tucson to the Santa Rita placer mines a week ly four-horse stage runs; distance fifty miles and fare five dollars. Every Monday a four horse coach leaves here for Guaymas via Altar, Magdalena, Ures and other Sonora towns, and ar rives here on Saturdays. It is run by Mexicans and lays over nights. Dis tance nearly 400 miles and fare $28- Another way of ingress and egress is via the Colorado Steam Navigation Company's steamers, which leave your city about once in twenty days, and land passengers in Yuma in from thir- teen to sixteen days at cost of from $40 or more, according to accommoda- tions. Excepting on the Guaymas route, the stages and buckboards make an average of one hundred miles in twenty -fours hours, and do not lie over nights.
 Freight now all comes via steamer and wagon from the west and railroad and wagon from the east, The bulk of it comes and goes via the Gulf, to and from various points along the Colorado, and thence by various routes to destina- tion on wagons. That to and from Phe nix, Florence, Tucson, and all points south of and along the valley of the Gila river, goes via Yuma; that to Wickenburg, Prescott and surround ing settlements via Ehrenberg; that to the various Mohave county towns to| Fort Mohave or Hardyville. Consider