Arizona citizen., 1876-12-02
THE CITIZEN.
s4TURD4Y. DECEMBER ? 1876.
Arizona day afthe CeuienniaI-AG'
 dress by Gov. xFcCormick.

;. dress on the Territory. extracts of D which we take from the San Francisco
 Chronicle of Eovemb 18th:
 Ex-Governor Mccormick delivered an address yesterday in the Judges r hall on the history and resources oi 7 the Territory of Arlzpna. The au- dience was respectable a. to numbers. though not SD large as it should have - been. The substance Of his address - was as tollowes: Arizona was ceded to the United States q few years ater r the close of the Mexican war, being part Of he GadSdcn purchase. which cost 5lO.0000JG. The Territ it3rial gov egnment vas organized in 1863, em
 1racing an area three times as large as ,' the State of New York \ great DOT ' 'iion of the land is barren and parched and unprOductIye for agriculture, but |therc are many valleys which are eN- Iccedingly ricn and fertile, especially 'lwhen irrigated The country is eX- ! lcredingly rich in mineral, gold, silver, tcopper. quIcksilycr, etc. The valleys i produce much finer corn than could
 be raised in Indiana, Illinois or Alis- !, spuri, and much larger and liner ycTe- tables than could be found in the
 Atlantic States. Fine fruits are also |raised there. Tn 1863 no one would have dreamed that wheat could be raised there Flour then cost S2O per 100 pounds. Now wheat enough for home consumption and t0 supply the army Is already raised the pIice of flour being S6 per 100. There are
 TEN OR TWELVE FLOUR MILLS
 In operation, some of them run by .. steam power. The setilcrs-about 25, O0O-aIe cMefly from Mexico, Texas, C loralH. California, aud sof1rth. and live together in entire harmony. !. The climate If Arizona is very much like that of California People If .lle Pacific Coast ldud their climate 90 much that they are sometimes asked by Eastern people if they lived on climate aIoIe. There Is just ground flor praisug the Western climate. On would suffer more from heat Ou Chest hut street. Philadelphia, OF Broadway. T New G0lk, with the mercury 8, eJ .Ider,ees lhan in Arizona OF California Il at l0I degrees. Arizona is destined Go .. become d great grazing country, Many sheep and cattle are already raised there with success and profit, and the humber of herds must constantly ln- crease. In mining, con siderable pro-
 gress has been made, notwithstanding
 the difficulties in the way. Placer diggings are not extensive, and there is but little capital in the Territory for .cXteusive inning operations. Thirty thousand mining claims have been registered at Prescott alone. Of course,
 but few of these would prove rich
 mines. Miners know that one in a
 thousand would be fair average of
 successful mines The mineral pro
 dues are chiefly silver ores of low
 grade. Miners of experience always
 prefer lOwgrale ores and large lOIe> ] to narrow l0des of high grade. Such mines are more permanent and such
 are those Of Arizona. The average
 yield of he Cumstock lode at Nirgi-
 nia City is about $50 per ton, while fortunes have been made in California from ore yielding from Sl0 to S25 Ter. ton. Arizona is uch in mineral that would yield from 3l0 to S5o per t5n.
 With the
 SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD Completed through the Territory.
 these mines cuull be worked with great advantage The need of the Ter
 ritory is not only cheap but quck
 transportation With the railroad com
 pleted, 5l0000 capital would be equal 10 S40G0Jat present The speaker had. therefore, a. a Delegate in Congress. . favored national aid to the road. He. was still at a loss to know why ihe Ea . ton should hesitate tO build il. II is probably the finest natural route on. the continent He believed we should. have four, five or six Pacific railroads
 The copper mines cannO, be worked because the ore has to be hauled b, teams GOO miles Timber is scarce. . but two coal fields have been discover ed, one of which is anthracite The. mineral yield of the Territory would som repay the government for build . ing the railroad. The present govern or estimates the mineral yield at S20,-. uJD,1)0 pr year with the railroad built. and the Indians controlled. The pres. tnt yield per annum is but about @i,-. 5D3,ttJ. There l. general OUrcIv. against giving away the public domain, but there are millions of acres of land In Arizona which would no. in their. present condition bring one cent per. acre. These lands could only be made. valuable by means of artesian wells and irrigation. By irriga.ian they could be made very fertile. The gov. erament should encourage these inn p.oyemenis by giving liberal grants of. land Co those who would bore wells or. construct canals. The great drawback tO the Territory has been the Indians. 1. who might be classed as follows: IO.-I oj3 War.ike, l000O peaceful and 10000. uncertain. The uncertain Indians have gwen more trouble than the war like tribes, as they are
 MORE DIFFICULT TO MANAGE. The Apaches have been warlike. They are small and >,oveulv, uu bold like. ihe Sioux, or they could have been. conquered long ago They fought ini ambush and had Co be constantly watched. General Crook had conquer ed them and driven them tp the re,es-. va,ioEs, but the government unfortu
 ately changed iJ, policy and ceased 10 issue the supplies promised. The. Indians were therefore placed in dam ger of beng starved il they remained ou the reservations or of ben- shnt. down b. the milia if they Jeff them
 The speaker had the name of being. very severe on the Indian question. He. alNocatcd severe measures with war
 like Indians, mild and just treatment. Io peaceful Indians, and a fixed ana
 steady policy not liable 10 changes ana
 Euctla'ion every year or two. The.
 policy of Congress should be fixed rol
 period of ten wears in advance Uai