Arizona citizen., 1877-07-14
TUCSON TO SILVER CITY.
The Trip-EnterprIsIng People of Silver City Business Mining Immigration to San Pedro.

Ill lllS lOWu dJ noon or Ine lSJ lnSt.,
 thus consuming two days exactly on
 the trip. The conveyance through
 was by stage, the alternate trips being
 by blackboard. Considering the busi-
 ness demands, the conveyance was
 good enough. The road is also good
 with the exception of crossing Apache
 Pass and the San Simon desert. The
 latter, in this dry, hot weather IS about
 as bad as was the California desert in
 ante-railroad days. The meals on the
 road were good with one exception,
 which was rough. But it cost a dollar
 and so we were satisfied. When you
 get a bad thing for nothing you are placed at a disadvantage You have to keep quiet and the thing strikes in and makes one unhappy.
 I We wonder now that more is not said by travellers of this enterprising town. It is an exception to the balance of New Mexico and IS a good specimen of what American energy and spirit can do even under discouragements and difficulties. To one accustomed to the unpleasant and dead appearance of some of the settlements in this lat. itude, Silver City is an actual relief and reYives faith as to our later and better destiny Here are buildings which would do credit to the larger cities of the coast, and the people who have built them and established this town between inhoSpitable and barren hills, are of that smart, enter prising class which has dotted the better parts of our land with beautiful towns and cities. The town is situat- ed Tn a narrow, naturally barren val | ley between barren hills, but some of the hills contained precious metals and these people came in here some five years ago and in the interim have taken out the ore from the hills and established merchandise traffic with Chihuahua, and built mills, and dug out standing room from the hillsides, and built beautiful stores and resi- dences, and planted trees along the streets, and altogether made a marvel of town, considering time and re- sources. And all that they have has been produced right here. They have fine brick buildings, one and twoI stories, and some with mansard roofs in addition. They have large front openings, making show windows and doors which one only expects to find in the larger cities. We stopped at the Fremont House kept by Peter Ott, and found a very comfortable hotel, good fare, beds, conveniences and reasOna- ble charges. We wish we had time to go around and then to write minutely of this place and people, for it is the center of the county desiring to annex itself to Arizona, and we are confident that if Arizonans travelling this way would only let the people of their Ter ritory generally know what a fine thing is beng thrown at them, they would become more awake to the desir- ability of our possible future posses sion. Why, these people are all live men, and the cemeteries are small, and they are just the kind of infusion de sira5le for our Territory.
 We haven't time to tell much of Silver City just now, Tn detail, but will speak of it in future. There are now two fine quartz-mills running here. The Pope, (H. Lesinsky &I Co's.) and MT. Bremen's mill, a com bination of the Tennessee and Wiscon- sln mills, making a very fine firstclass mill. II. Lezinsky & Co.'S mill Is in fine working order, and is working oyer tailings with satisfactory results under the handling of a practical mill man. Here, as elsewhere, they are be- ginning to find that after fortunes have been lost under solely though perhaps imperfect scientific mining and milling, little leaYen of practical milling and mining, adapted to the peculiarities of local ore, is very good thing and the only road 10 findh- cial salvation.
 There Is a good bank here, the Grant County Bank, located Tn B. Weisl's fine establishment There are also two foundrles, in successful opera tion. There are good private schools but no public schools. There Is no agricultural land immediately adjacent to the town but the fine Gila valley on .he west and the Mimbres to the east find their market here. If we had time it would be a pleasure to speak individually of the various enterprises and establishments of Silver City but we must leave them to The Herald and your weekly quotations therefrom. We learn from Mr. D. B. Rea. who used to be q TucsOnite and who still man. ifests an abiding interest in Arizona, that considerable body of emigranis is en route from Kansas, 10 pass through here, and whose destination is in the upper San Pedro. There are, we are informed, some twenty-five families in the party, and they are ev- ;dantI,, tbe moSt desirable population