The weekly Arizona miner., 1877-06-15
ARIZONA.


 W letter from Southern Arizona mention Ia ade of the excitement then pervading ! ku section, owIng to the new discoveries in n Santa Rita m0untA.ns, some sixty odd IilsS SOuth-southeast of Tucson. The min 3l fever runs high now ail over the Terri xy. and the roads arc throngcd with pros pczprs, spectators, capitalists, journalists, VI samples of all the species which go tu nke up the human rush into s new mIning 1nIry. But these are not the on,y people ound to Arizona. Attracted by the r.ch atom lands of the Gila in this viciniiy, the alt river, and in the southern portioa of l1o Territory the Santa Cruz, and the So- oit,, d large number of inteinge-t and sue , sssful agriculturists are pushing in, locat- 1a or purchasing m every case as people no mean to make a stay ot il. This iS the n0 of men Arizona most needs; solid, nxxiy farmers and stock growers, men who 1dtrstand their business and are fitted by tnrrenca to grapple with the agricultural N1lem as presented on the Pacific Coast kme mea know all about the climate they to have. the needs of immigration, the iecks upon overiowed lands, etc. They ul not lose a crop through too much or 100 tie water, as men untaugnt byi experience litht. They knew, too, how to rough if, d better yet, they know what sort Of ops 1t will best pay at present 10 raise. mTerritory does not need truck fIrm.rs, sine-growers, nor fruit culturists; we ant men who know how to raise and har- It good crops of barley, wheat, corn and ty: men who know that with the unlimited u nutritious grasses of the Santa Graz and moita-food the year round-:t viii pay raise beef cattle and mutton even al the r.ent low prices.
 THE CLIMATE
 i'd Southern Arizona especially. the eli etc for the farmer, ranging from 60 and 65
 % and 95. Everything fourishes in nngth aad profusion. People who prefer hiQher temperature can find it north Of the tla especially in Yavapai county. about d around Prescott, and in this section. le most fastidi0us person can be suited as climate, for Arizona is large and sutflcl- Gy diversified in that respect. Also. Us to pocation; there is no description of trade. i. ufcssion ar handicraft but what will be oded in the development of this country. 3<very hand, in every section, activity 4ns, and progress is the word. The great aux into the Territory proves this. Daily ' xes now push through from Yuma in ali Nctions. Tine route from Yuma to Pres tt via Phoenix and Wickenburg is we'll xeled, while that from Florence and Tue l. and on into New Mexico, increases its endy large volume of business day by day. col the owners of this latter route has gn bone on to Washington, in relation to Smail facilities demanded by this rapidly wing section. The progress of the great tknilroad builders of modern times is also interesting feature 10 the people of Ari- sn. as well as to the business men of your mk city. The completion of the railroad the Colorado river marks
 AN EPOCH IN OUR HISTORY.
 i've look speedily to see more Impor- h hene-the progress of the railway up | 0ila, and along the Santa Cruz to Tue sn md then on over the border into New
 70. and Chihuahua until it shall at no I'd day enter the City of Mexico! All ' is in the near future. To men who col the destinics of the railways of the
 Coast are not the men 10 imagine ., work done by pushing a line of rail ., D the verge of New Mexico over the ferades and along the noble valleys of
 8ila and Santa Cruz ;-their work is
 Eonly beginning. They are tempted by A X1khes of Chihuahua. Durango and Leon,
 1ith or without concessions, or grants,
 <sidies they can build their line. They C r. aided by the wonderful mineral dis " res. already advanced by this Territory
 arter of a century by years labors in
 " building. They will advance it still
 ufspidly when the trains thunder up the ,< k and roll away to the southeast to cap
 1ned of the Aztec and the Apache.
 APRoPos OF INDIANS.
 cs. b almost ,sd to think that the long
 rn out farce of Indian raids. and an h.
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