Arizona weekly miner., 1875-03-05
LETTER FROM TUCSON.
TUCSoX. February ?.


 he will give some of those fellows who loa
 around the Capitol a specimen of some thing,
 that are done in Arizona's Capital.
 To all lovers of the free school system Tn
 Pima county, the Ac: of the last Legislature,
 apprOpriating $500 to a sectarian school
 has caused considerable dissatisfaction In
 ny opinion, those who voted for the bill
 should be forever damned-politically for
 that one act of theirs
 The mining interests of Southern Arizona
 are looking up, and some pretty heavy sales
 have been made lately. The population of
 Tucson is about 3,5GO Cat present); don't | you think 1t would be capital idea for us to
 vote upon the Capital question" now, be-
 fore the most of our population return to So-
 nora2 look upon Tucson as the "Black-
 hole" of Sonora.
 Hermosllo is, or ought to be, a paradise ! for the male gender, as the census returns of
 that city give l7t females to one male.
 The whole frontier of Sonora is very
 sparsely settled, consequently there is an
 abundance of room for Apaches. However,
 the Apaches may so swell up on political
 divisions and very likely never pitch their hogoaS on the southern side of the line. | There was time when the whole of Cachis' tribe lived in Sonora and did all their raid l ing in Arizona, yet the Alta and other Cali
 fornia papers don't appear to think of this, md tn fyT fn nal- hot ba
 whole of the State of Sonora is densely popu- latod whereas 1t does not contain as many people as the city of St. Louis alone. Even the State of Chihuahua only contains popu- lation of 10000, all told Hence how silly it appears in those papers when We read about the Arizona Apaches raiding into that State, when it is well known that the Apa- ches range over a tract of country extending as it does from the Southern frontier of Colo rado on the North down to- and nearly hundred miles into, Sonora on the South, and from the Rio Picos on the East to the Gulf of Cortez on the West.
 Why, there aIe more Apaches scattered all over the country just named than the Alta people ever dreamed of. Therefore is it not reasonable to suppose that some of the many depredations alleged to have heen committed by a,guRaS OtrOS Apaches outside of those who are reserved" in Arizona? think it quite reasonable. At least half the Papago tribe live in the State of Sonora and l presume our Government supports the whole capoodle; at anyrate the Government furnishes the wherewith for all have seen there some Papagos as far down in Sonora as the towns of Tupitano and Alta. Would it not be equity for our Government to make out " little bill'' against Mexico for the maintenance and support of their Indians The Government of Mexico ought to be com pelled to stand half the expense cf our Agent who is obliged to go down there to look after Arizona Indians. FRANK.
 THE ARIZONA CITIZEN FOR SALE.
 Whether the change of proprietorship in | the MINER has inaugurated movement all ! along the lipe, or whether it is accidental | and simply coincident, would probably be immodest in us to pretend to say, but certain it is that the Sacramento Union has sold out. there are rumors of change in the Alta. and in the Citizen of February 20th we find the following announcement, to which we give the benefit of our circulation:
 "THE ARIZONA CITIZEN is for sale but not at penny of sacrifice. Neither of the pro prietOrS owe dollar on 1t or any other score, and they have several hundred dollars worth of new material due here in two weeks They have also decided to enlarge the paper by adding four more columns to it, on or be- fore July lst, and adding somewhat to their length. As we have always said, just as soon as the business would justify the step. 1t would be enlarged, and the measure Is decided upon. As 1t is, we weekly print ls much, and with due respect 10 others, as valuable Arizona matter as any paper in the Territory, and will continue to do so while we own the concern. The elder proprietor las always regarded the ownership of the paper a burden, and his desire to rid him. ei of it now Is but little greater than at any lime Tn the past, save that he expects to be .bsent some this and nearly half of next -ear. He has labored much harder and with nore care on the paper than any but himself knows, and he knows the worth of the prop rty better than any other one can. Hay- ng broughtit past the point where he was ob- , iged to draw upon his otherincome to meet its urrent expenses, he don't propose nor does lis partner, to sacrifice any thing in the sale, ut will sell to the first party or parties who ffer our price in cash, and that price is not l dollar above the value of the property. In l aying this much, We do not wish to be mis- understood, for we mean just what We say nd nothing else. As before said. our ar angements are made and will continue to be 1ade, just as though we never intended to art with it. We have over twenty fonts of | ew type and lot of other new material | ue soon, and other orders are out and i'll continue to go for still more material. 'r THE CITIZEN is fixture, and in an en- s urged form as soon as stated. Ii men who the business want paying prop- rty that has grown up and subsists upon a T rictly legitimate income, they need not z ar to invest in TIE CITIZEN. Except for . usiness locals, not ap editorial line in it has | Ter been paid for, nor can one ever be under l