Arizona weekly miner., 1876-09-29
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2s, 1876.
SHORT REVIEW OF THE SITUATION

III any respect, CuOOSlng IO kecp DtiO'
 rather than above the truth, in order ths
 no one should be betrayed into coming her
 by any false representations of ours, it doe
 seem queer that parties should have so littl
 regard for truth as to go out on the roa'
 and attempt to fighten the immigration b
 pretending to have been deluded into com
 ing to a country abounding in nothing bu
 starvation, and that too in the face of tn
 fact that it is to-day, and has been fo
 months, almost utterly impossible to find
 man here out of employment who is willing
 to work at anything. We know that MT
 Banghart, Mir. Shivers. and many othe
 farmers have made repeated trips to towr in search ofmen to cut corn, milk COWS and do any kind of farm work, and at last ac. counts had not succeeded in finding enough who were willing to work, to enable them to carry on their business properly.
 If anything could provoke us into brag. ging on the country, the letter We publish to-day from Hiko, New, would be tempt ation {; but we shall not give way to our feelings The country is neither better nor worse for these false reports, and we shall not exaggerate it on that acconnt.
 Arizona, as we have often said, is not an extensive agricultural country, and those who represent it to be such are either mis- taken or wilfully misrepresent it. Outside of .Maricopa County, we hear of no large bodies of land capable of producing grain. But there are throughout the Territory small valleys of excellent land, that cannot be excelled anywhere.
 ! What we claim for this country is, that 4 wherever water can be found, with the ex- ception of part of New Mexico and Texas, it the best grazing country in the United States. We have never claimed, nor do we now, that it is a we'll watered country; on the contrary, some of the best grass districts in the Territory are entirely destitute of water, on the surface, during a large portion of each year. These we believe can be made available for stock raising, either by dig ging ordinary wells and using wind-mills
 
 boring Artesian wells. The latter has never been tried, but the former has been a suc- cess in many instances, and we know of | very few failures to find water in abund- ance within forty or fifty feet of the top of the ground. As a mineral country, it has the endorsement of every expert and expe- rienced mining man that has visited it, as containing more veins, and higher grade of ore than any other of the mining dis tricts on the Pacific slope. This is what we claim in the way of natural advantages.
 The drawbacks are apparent, and we have no inclination to conceal them. The want of water, in many places, as we have al- ready said, is the chief obstacle in the way 'f stock raising, and yet there are many places unappropriated where water is { abundant for watering stock. And by the ime the pasture lands contiguous to water i. Ire all taken up, no doubt means will be ound to bring up water from the bedrock ( D places now running to waste. c Want of cheap and more rapid means of is another disadvantage un- Ter which the people labor Everything ', reduced Is so heavily taxed to get it to d ,arket that much of the profit that would q therwise accrue to the producer is con- lmed. While everything required and is a ot produced here, has to be imported at so :, lrge cost that it brings the ordinary ex- ., enses of living up to an extraordinary gure. This, too, it is confidently hoped r ill be partially remedied in the near .n, ~ ture by the advent of railroad or rail- - ads. " of There is perhaps no country now on the ,u rth which the building of railroads would " neft so much as Arizona. She has the :" population to take advantage of ", e facilities railroads would give, and is Ia, present the most remotely situated, com ad ercially, of any of ,the Territories of the tn ,ited States except Alaska. These are the co vantages and disadvantages as We see tir em, and growing out of this want of fla bu ities for transportation is lack of suffi- izo mt capital to develop the mines. Capital always shy about going into inaccessible ices, while muscle and the spirit of ad- ma nture are bold and ever ready to pene- Tn te the widest and most remote regions. Le For the above reasons we have never held the inducements to those without means to hin ne to Arizona. Such are sure to come sufficient numbers to supply all the de- i'i' nds for muscle; but for those who have to ans, whether in sufficient quantities to law 'elop mines, or in more moderate and un- sho tending amounts, can, with tact and in- in , 'try, find better chance for profitable wb, estment in Arizona than in any country latr h which we are acquainted. if s Q those who are now, or contemplate in ulo lre, the bringing of stock, especially jest tle, we have no hesitation in saying, that that the present there is plenty of room and no , abundance of excellent grass, yet it is eve, te essential that the owners of stock deci uld bring with them sufficient cash to and ble them to live over one season without mpting to realize on their property at G, 3, as come by whatever route they may, Joh impossible to reach here with stock in rest, lition to sell until they have remained iron 'ast year. -