Arizona citizen., 1876-04-01
Arizona EmiGrants.

In THE CITIZEN of March 4, we pub
 lished a telegram from Boston, stating
 that a party of forty-five young mer
 had left that city, on the 2Sth ultimo
 for Arizona, this being the advance
 guard of colony coming to settle 1T
 the Little Colorado section. In tho
 New York Herald of March l, WIG
 find the following item. Whether
 these Boston cOlonists are all one and
 the same party we know not, but il
 they are of the right material and pre-
 pared for little temporary roughing
 they can hardly fail to do well ulti
 mately in this Territory. However
 from reading the Herald's item, we
 are afraid that these emigrants have
 got things very much mixed, and have
 about as romantic and false ideas of
 what they are going into the wilder
 ness for to see," as the boy who jumps
 into his mothers washtub, after his
 first perusal of Robinson Crusoe, and sails out on his native river to realize the fantasies of an excited imagination. The Herald says:
 In August last the lectures on AriZo- ma, delivered by Judge O. w. COzzens awakened a strong desire among many unemployed men in that city to try their fortunes in what he represented to be a land of unbounded mineral and agricultural wealth. A company, hay ing for its object the colonization of a choice part of that far off country, was readily formed, with Judge Cozzens as President; J. NJ. Piper Secretary, and IS. c. Hunt Treasurer. Mir. J. B. May nadier, the chief engineer of Harry Meigg's great railroad constructions in Peru, was engaged by the company and started for Arizona about week ago to arrange for the transportation of colonists from the end of the Atch- ison, Topeka and Santa Fe railroad, and to pick out a location for town at the base of the San Francisco mOun- tain, which is the objective point of the colony.
 Yesterday morning the first band of cOlOnists, 150 in number, passed through this city. They go from here by way of the Pennsylvania railroad and its connections to Atchison, and from Santa Fe will have a journey of six hundred miles by mule teams. The colOnists are nearly all artisans, repre- sentative New Englanders, evidently full of energy and determination, and carry with them all that will be neces- sary for the planting of civilization in those wilds, hitherto infested by mur- derOus and treachereus Apaches. The contract price at which each man, with his 300 pounds of baggage, IS to be trans ported from "the Hub" to the San Francisco mountain is $40. Provi- slons for ninety days are taken along and a full outfit of agricultural imple- ments and mining tools will be obtain ed at AtchiSon.
 The mountain tO which this colony is going is reported to be very rich in gold and silver deposits; and, indeed, the mineral wealth of all that part of Arizona is represented by government explorers as being almost bOundless.
 In about one month the females of some of the cOlOniSts will be sent out, l and at the same time another band of men win go. Already over eighty names have been registered for this second party.
 If we could be permitted to offer one suggestion to these cOlonists, itI would be, that if they haven't gotl Judge Cozzens along with the advance party coming to settle at the San Fran cisco mountain, they should immedi- ately send back delegation to bring him. Don't take any promise of his coming after, and fetching along fresh and recruits. These colonists need Judge COzzens with them first, last and all the tune. He has been here, he knows the country, is fully posted, and is just the man to advise and consult with, and,-to hold re- sponsible for future developments.
 The New York Sun, of March 1, in with reference to this party of emigrants, says that company is forming in San Francisco, with capi- tai of $1OOOO,OO0, to work located mining claims on the west side of San Francisco mountain.
 We think there is a mistake here, and that instead of those claims being on the side, they are on the top rock of the supreme summit of San Fran cisco mountain.