Arizona citizen., 1877-08-04
All About Arizona.
NirEinia Enterprise, July 2L

X lClLcI was NcSlcIudN ItCtlNtO III this cIty by E. A. Hyde, from his broih-I CT, D. NJ Hyde, who is at the Silver King mine, about forty miles from Florence, Arizona. NIT. Hyde says JheI Silver King is a very rich mine. It' yields a. large amount Of native silver, large nuggets ofwhich are taken out almost daily. These nuggets are taken to the company's store room and lock ed up.
 There IS no money in tue country 2,l present. The farmers take their wheat to the merchants and trade it for goods. There Is much fine agricultural land in the country, but the people prefer lying in the shade To farming. Butter is not to De had at any pric--, the worst kind of rusty bacon sells at thirty tOi forty cents per pound, and NIT. Hydel says it has been over q month since heI has seen a potato, yet lying all about is the finest kind of farming land.
 Almost anything planted will grow with next to no labor at all. lis the fin est fruit country III the world. Apples peaches, pears, figs and every kind of fruit grown in California may bel raised, yet no one takes the pains toi plant orchards.
 Mr. Hyde has been up the Gila al distance of 200 miles, and finds an abundance of excellent land. He in tends to 90 into the business of raising swine somewhere on the Gila, being, satisfied that he can furnish good ba- con for less than forty cents per pound.
 There is no trouble with the Indi- ans. All the bad ones are made t"i stay on the reservations and the good ones" are not allowed tO come near the settlements on pain of death.
 It appears to be Mr. Hyde'S opinion that the country Is fine one with which 10 grow up. Wells, Fargo SI Co. have just established an office inI Florence, thing they have not ven tured to do heretofore on account off the Indian troubles.
 |. If Mr Hyde has really come to Ari- zona and intends to stay and grow up. with the country, and is the right sort of man, we-are glad of his acquisition. But if he hadn't spelled the word Ar zona" out in full, and if he had not mentioned the Silver King mine and the Gila river, &c., we never should have been able to identify anything in hls letter with the Arizona we are ia miliar with.
 He says "there is no money in the country at present" There isn't as much as we would like to see. IndI- vidually we never feel quite cOmtorta- ble without about two dollars and a half in our pocket, and at the present writing we've got sixty-fiye cents. But that's some money, and we know of ranchmen, miners and merchants who have several times as much, and even more, and if impecunious San Francis cans don't get too thick and borrow us down to bed rock, we have hopes of always keeping some money in this country.
 Further along Tn his statements, We are sorry to see NIT. Hyde depart from the ridiculous and indulge in ignorant misrepresentations. Our agricultural land will not produce without irriga ton. and as far as water was Obiaina- ble the people of this Territory have shown remarkable enterprise and in dustry in farming. About, and far be low Florence, on the Gila, there are many fine ranches, while to the east less than I5O miles from the Silver King, in the Pueblo NicJO seCuon, farming on most extensive scale has been engaged in, this years barley crop ranging into the hundreds of thousands of pounds, If not millions. Northwest of Silver King locality, lies ! the great Salt River valley with Its large grain produce, and this year, its heavy fruit crop. Speaking ofpotatoes there have also been grown in Salt ! River and Gila valleys this season, as ! fine, large, meaiy potatoes as one would wish to see, while the ordinary crop of potatoes in southern Arizona has been very large and the market Is fully sup piled. Then there is the San Pedro
 grain and potato crop, and the Santa ! Cruz grain and potato crop; and "e'en the story" runs that with great care they can raise samples of potatoes and things around Prescott. But this Is merely curious or exotic produce and should noH perhaps, be counted on as "a regular thing.
 In fine, many of Mr. Hyde's state ments, as published iu the Virginia, Nevada, Enterprise, are somewhat wild-not malicious, al all, as is evil dent from the balance of his letter but ignorant. His statements will do no particular harm, put up Tn the way they are, only many of them are all wrong and false
 However, if his statement about the entre absence of money here, will in- duce all future visitors Co bring along money enough 10 pay their way here and carry them away if they don't like the Territory, we shall all have cause for gratitude towards the writer.
 YUMA. July 24-La>t night about min o'clock William II. Smith, of san Francisco. died on the South ern Pacific Railroad, at Mammoth Tanks Station. He had drunk freely