The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1876-06-10
EVIDENCES OF ADVANCE
MENT.

Al oAI hOWly oOUOiCO SOuuGA hCo3
or rather in countries in process
of settling, advancement is neces-
sarily slow. Particularly is this
the case where hordes of hostile
savages must be subdued before
any advancement can be made in
the industries, arts and sciences
pertaining to civilized life. This
was exactly the case with Arizona.
Long years of toll and bloodshed,
of difficulties, dangers and priva-
tons innumerable, had to be en-
dured before any real advance
ment could be made. Strangers
coming into the Territory, who
had read or heard of the number
of years that have elapsed since
the first American settlements
were made in Arizona, might
wonder at our slow progress. But
let those strangers acquaint them
selves with the back.sets, trials,
misfortunes and discouragements
that the settlers had to encounter;
let them reflect that whole settle
ments were frequently dispoiled
of all their property, and the set
tiers and their families murdered
or driven to the nearest towns for
protection, and let them reflect
that the hostile savages kept the
country in this condition until
within the last three years, and
they will wonder at the advance
ment that the people of Arizona
have made. On every hand we
now see evidences of growth and
real prosperity. The mines are
yielding larger and larger of their
treasures every day, new mills
and furnaces are being erected in
every mining district, and those
in operation are turning out bull
lion in unprecedented quantities.
The expectation of ores and bull
lion is growing larger all the time,
which is evidenced by the rapidly
Increasing quantities that the stea-
mcrs and barges are taking from
Yuma each trip. These ores and
bullion go to San Francisco, and
some to Europe, for treatment and
sale; the proceeds returning to
the owners in the shape of money.
Mining in Arizona is only in its
infancy, and the mines are so rich
and of such vast extent that the
working of them will 60 on in
creasing from month to month
and from year to year, until the
end of time; employing in the
near future, millions of men, who
will be fed by the produce of our
fertile valleys and clothed with
the wool and cotton that will be
raised and manufactured in the
Territory, thus sustaining and en-
riching the miner, the farmer
and the stock raiser.
Another evidence of advance
ment is seen in the fact, that peo-
pie who years ago were discOur-
aged and deferred from coming
to Arizona in consequence of In
dian hOstilities and the insecure
ty of life and property resulting
therefrom, are now flocking in
from all parts Of the United States
and from across the Atlantic.
They are coming by every stage
and steamer, and many by their
own conveyances, and they are
locating in the mines and on the
plains, and theoretically and earn.
estIy working to advance their
own interests, and consequently
those of the Territory. Add to all
this the near approach of the rail-
road, which will give us cheaper
and quicker transportation for our.
selves and our products and fol
the necessaries and luxuries oil
life, and we think it is fair to say
that we have many evidences OF
advancement, and that the time
is not far distant when our great
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