The weekly Arizona miner., 1877-08-10
ARIzoxA.s MINERAL WEALTH.
Our Prospect. ar., Bright aud Interesting.

From the utteFm3>. northern portion oi
 our Territory bordering oa Inc famous San
 Juan country. to thr ,iae- of Sonora, dis
 tance of six hundred miles. ,yc have chains
 of mountains whose silver walls are unpar-
 allelcd in richness ,o-day in any portion of the
 United States. These innuner4i,le hills are a network of uaturc's origin. bound strong ly together with thFeal. of geld and silver which takes the ingenuity or inc hardy miner to tear from their A0HicS where they have slept tnr ages aiII a@rs u'iiSturbcd by the workings of man. Here iR Arizona, in this the 18th century, may !e found the energetic miner ,lciying among lhc hidden treasures which were passed over by Coro- na,iO SJo wears ass1, ulHntsCcd by the great explorer whose mission was ,0 search for the precious metals which were said to exist with the wild ladians who inhabited the country st that time. The croppiugS of some of the huge mines undoubtedly attracted his at- tcntiOn, but n0 account is found oi his hay ing secured 8ny quantity of the treasure of which he Wzs in >earch. although he tells uS that he spent two yc3F~ east ot the Little Colorado. 1t Inscription Rock, 2S miles east of the ZGni Villages, Coronado built a Fort of stone, Iud ficTr l4c inscribed an ac- count nf his travels, rererScs. hard>hips. etc. on the broad slabs uf soii sandstone walls over which Iris towering garrison was built and Stan,ls to ttis day, ihe timbcrS of which are in a fair state of preservation.
 Our shipments of 9oli and silver now reach into the mjlii0us annually. and with the completion of thr various new mills which hayc been brought into the Territory this summer. anuIi}cy year will see Ari- zona producing more bullion tl.an any other Territory ia the Union. Our hardy miners who have fought Indians Cnnirnded with the elements, put up with every conceivable pTivation sn thc NAY oi living. to-day be hold the Territory lifted !rom a cloud of OlScurity and about tJ hccomc a bright meteor in tie no distant future. With the hundreds uYoa hundreds oi hHsy stamps dancing away pUlyoriLinE tRc .iiStenng ores which pass tp the amalgamating pans. from which the shining Bu@get> appear. the miner and pieReeF 0f this country k about 10 realize for all that may have been their priyaiions heretofore. Where :. few year> since the Tcd man rcigned supreme. now. ! over the broad valleys and through the de- {. files of our rugged mountains can bc found ' the happy farmer, hcrjcT, miner and pros pecior Large herds arc g;azia. upon our nutritious grasses. the fIrBIS aEc yielding . cereals. and tine mines aTc doing their part . nobly, poor men have become rich with Us. sad we do not to-day, Wi,h sfl honesty and . sincerity, know of any country that pre- sCHts the fattering inducements to cmi- grants and others as does Arizona with her wealth in mineral, agriculture. grazing and otherwise Raitruad4 gre aa our lines east and west, and it will l,e Iut a shog; time amtil the snort ot Ji8 irnn horse will be flcard as It fleets by Us from the East loaded with cotton, rice, etc, Wilirii viii b. drop yed in the cities of 1lic West, ani return with the gol,i and silver from ou, ionanzas of Hnfnltl rAlue --------