The Arizona sentinel., 1876-10-28
FOR DELEGATE TO CONGRESS,
HIRAM S. STEVENS
GAINING GROUND.

is fast gaining ground. The
doubts, fears and perplexities
that for so many years hung over
us like pail, in consequence of
the depredatioDs of the hostile
Indians, have nearly all passed
away. Only a few renegade saw
ages remain at large to endanger
the lives of isolated parties in re-
mote districts, and those few are
being fast hunted down and will
soon cease TO exist.
With the feeling of the general
security Oflife and property new
life has been infused into every
thing that belongs to develope-
ment and progress, and the hearts
of the people beat high with
hope. And this is not an unfoun-
ded hope; it is not a mere chin
erical wishing, but it is a hope
founded upon tangible assurance
of the unbounded prosperity that
awaits this Territory in the near
future. And it is hardly proper
to use the word awaits, for that
prosperity is already here and is
daily increasing, sis seen on every
hand in all parts of our great Terri
tory. There is everything here to
inspire the energetic man with con
fidence; for here in this far off re-
gion, this last jumping off place,
this utmost verge of Uncle Sans
dominions, the most remote point
from the great centres of Ameri-
can civilization, here nature has
been particularly lavish in pre-
pairing for the hand of man all the
elements of a great and prosper
GUS commonwealth. With mines
of uneXamp!ed richness and ex-
tent, from which the precious me-
tails are now being exported in
daily increasing quantities; with
of all the metals used by
man; with mountains of pure salt
and other mountains of soda, lime,
gypsum and all the substances
used in the arts; with agricultural
and grazing lands of vast extent
and of the greatest fertility; then
add to all this the finest climate
on earth, where a man may select
his own favOrite temperature,
from that of the coast of Maine to
India, and it is now wonder that
the people of Arizona feel that
they inhabit Territory which
has been greatly favored by ma
ture and which will soon become
one of the greatest and most pro-
sperous of States.
At last our commerce is begin
ming to tell. Only a very few
years ago Arizona had nothing to
send back in exchange for her
large importations, except money,
which was very hard to get, end
which grew scarcer and harder to
get every year. Money is still
hard enough to get, but from
what we read of the financial con-
dition of other States and Terri
tories we imagine that Arizona is
as well off as any of them.
The G. S. N. Co.'S. steamship
Ne'o6eTn, which, sailed from the
mouth of the Colorado for San
Francisco, on the 10Th of the pre-
sent month, took 900 tons of
freight, all of which was Arizona
produce, shipped from this port,
aud consisted of bullion, ores,
hides, pelts. wool, etc. Some
may say that this is no great
thing, but it shows that we are
gaining ground. And it must be
that this was all
shipped by the way of Yuma. We
do not know the amount Of the
exports by wagons from the large
bullion producing counties of va
vapai and MOhave, but we know
that the amount is large and ra-
pidly increasing. These exports
are only Arizona's beginning, on