Arizona weekly miner., 1876-12-22
YAvAPAI COUNTY.

ical division of the Territory of Arizona.
 She has more rich mines of gold, silver,
 lead, copper, salt, coal, etc, etc, than any
 of her sisters. In fact she has the only
 good coal and salt mines yet discovered in
 the Territory and the shipments of placer
 gold, gold and silver bullion, from Prescott,
 Wickenburg and other points during the
 past year, amounting to something more
 than s5O0,0Oo, is good evidence of
 has more quartz mills and furnaces in sue
 cessful operation than any of her sister
 counties. Within her borders are forests
 of pine, oak, etc., one of which is fully
 200 miles in length by about 50 miles in
 every mountain range, and there are scores
 of them in the county, has more or less
 good timber Her water courses outnum-
 Der those of any county; her mountains
 are higher; her grazing resources greater
 and far superior and her climate, or rather,
 climates, cannot be excelled. Her popula-
 ton, which does not fall far short of l6,OOO
 souls, is almost exclusively white popula
 ton, with high aims and laudable ambi-
 tions She has the only practicable route
 upon which a railroad can be built between
 San Francisco and New York, the two
 great commercial cities of the Union. This
 route is on or near the 35th parallel of lat
 itude, and not far north of Prescott Peo-
 pie talk of the 32d parallel route, but it is not
 considered route leading any way straight
 between the two great cities spoken of It is no more and no less than an outlandish route between mushroom town in Southern California and Western Texas, through country most of which is almost as dry, barren and dreary as the Great Desert of Sa- hara. No timber, no water, save little here and there in oases, which the Lord made expressly for the fox, coyote and other cunning animals for whose residence He designed this unfurnished portion of His Earth One has to leave the 32nd par alleI route and go north to the Valleys of the Gila and Salt River, in this Territory, be- fore as much aS drink of water can be ob- tained in a dista nee of hundreds of miles, in which distance not one stream of water ;, oroSsoJ. not oro bnrso Y,,ou.bf,l of rr,Ss save galleta which is more like brush than grass The Scenery is, of course, in keeping with the other parts of the panorama. On nearing Tucson, the ountry commences to look a little better; but farther on desolation is planted in many a wide spot, until the Rio Grande is reached And this is the boast ed 32nd parallel route of which the country has heard so much It is, or ought to be, a last resort route, startin.y from nowhere and going to smaller place. How different is tue 35th, with its superior climate, fine fores ts, adjacent mines, large settlements of industrious people, gorgeous scenery and its sea of grass?
 The above remarks are plain and un- guarded They are made because we think the time has come when Yavapai Coun- ty newspa per should speak its mird. Our County has been systematically lie d about, and its best people insulted by men and journals in other parts of the Territory. The MINER, while formerly under our control, tried its best to eradicate all bit ter sectional feeling from the hearts of the people in Pima County. This, too, after they had robbed Yavapai of the Capital and published to the world the shameless, merciless lie. that people were leaving this County by the hundred and as there were not more than few hundred here, the | County would shortly be bowling wilder ness; Not content with this their first string of lies and insulting inuendos, they broke out afresh when the result of our recent census startled them out of their adobe encasings and made known to them the fact that Yavapai County had over 13, ,OOO inhabitants, while their county, spite of all figuring" could raise 5000. How their pusilanimous, time-serving, h. dian Ring organ prayed aloud, donkey as it is, over the announcement And no wonder. Its pampered supporters read the handwriting on the wall and ordered their man Friday to mount his goat and charge. This didn work, so they tried the Secretary of the Territory, the Courts, affidavit men, &c., but all to no purpose. Yavapai had the floor" and kept it. The tables had turned and Pima-that Pima which robbed us of the Capital had stole our school money. deprived us of our quota of troops, cheated us out of the result of one election; broke up our Indian reserva- t;oo. usaJ bar v,ouar and ipf1uence fO