Arizona citizen., 1877-12-28
THE CITIZEN.
RLDAY. DECEMBER 2s. 1877.
ARIZONA.
Her Rivers, Springs and Mountain Streams Grazing and Farming Lands-Mfnes-W we Want.

A correspondent to the Mining an(
 Scientific Press, gives some interesting
 facts corcerning Arizona. His state
 ments are mild but contain considera
 ble good sense, and are true. Int
 writer compares Arizona with the Stat
 of Nevada beginIng with the climate
 variations, topography, &c, and afteI
 speaking of the mountains, mesas anC
 valleys says here as in Nevada, tht timber is usually found in the noun
 talns, oaly cottonwood, mesquite anC willow being met with elsewhere.
 greater variety of woods grow here
 than in the Silver State, and, general
 ly, our timber is more widely distrib
 uted and of better quality. We have fewer of the alkali flats and mud lakes
 and none of the sinks '" that form { peculiar feature of that region. In
 their places, however, we have tho tremendous canyons of the upper Colo. rado, gorges hardly equaled elsewhere in nature, while we can boast of a
 least one navigable river skirting oul
 borders. In fact, as regards
 RIVERS, SPRINGS AND MOUNTAINS
 STREAMS
 We are able so make a much better showing than our northern neighbors
 The Colorado, which, after crossing the entire northern part of the Terri. tory, forms its whole western border carries during the summer an immense volume of water, and is at all times a river of respectable magnitude, being even at its lowest stages navigable for 300 miles or more. After passing 100 miles east of this river the mountains abound with running streams, many of them large and never failing, the water always of the purest kind.
 AS GRAZING AND FARMING COUNTRY Arizona is much ahead of Nevada, there being here a large scope of good agricultural land, while the grasses are varied in kind, perennial and abund- ant. For sheep and stock raising this is one of the best regions west of the Rocky mountains, pasturage being plentiful and the climate mild and healthful, In process of time, our tiocks and herds will constitute source of wealth second only to that afforded by
 OUR MINES,
 Of which l can in this letter say but little. That we have not in this de- pertinent of industry been able to make a larger production than has yet been done has not been so much the fault of the mines as of other and extrlnsicI causes, chief of which has been the lack of means to open them up and outfit them with suitable reduction works. Notwithstanding the good showing of rich ores our mines have made during the past year, but little outside aid has yet been extended tol them. What little money has been h. vested here has been mostly in thel purchase of mines, not half dozen ot mills having meantime been brought into the Territory. What we most need just now is little money to help openI up some of the rich lodges that exist here. The amount need not be large, | as enough ore could in most cases be | taken out, when once tools, supplies and hOiSting works were on the ground, to defray current expenses. Without a dime to his name, the miner, how ever rich his claims, can do nothing, and these men are always willing tol give to parties furnishing money tol prospect their lodes liberal interest therein. If only we could have the as- sesSments paid on half dozen un- productive Comstock claims scattered over two or three of the best districts here, it would be pretty sure to reward he investors many hundred fold.
 WHAT WE WANT AND WHAT WE CAN DO.
 In the more recent immigration only .hree classes of men have come to Ari- ,Ona: The labOring man without means, he speculatOr, intent on securing any sort of property for gambling purposes, md the capitalist or his agent seeking o buy valuable mine for nominal price. Let now the capitalist or his lgent come here, and, taking his time, OOk about, and when he sees anything hat suits him act in spirit of liberali- y and fairness, and he need not go way without getting properties that will turn out satisfactory in the end He can extract the ores himself, select lis samples and have them tested by ,ur local assayers, of whom we have lere several that stand at the head off heir profession. In this town we have ! number, all thoroughly competent, ome of them being skilled metal urgists and chemists as well. At Picket Post, near the Silver King mine, Prof. Henry DeGroot, Jr., has opened , n assay office, whereat he is doing a l arge business, this being an important 1, mining center where an establishment f the kind was much needed. This oung man has become very popular $ Tith our mining community, he being !, Ot only capable and trustworthy as- ayer but possessing in addition that ltuitive Knowledge of ores that en- t bles him to indicate the methods best S uited for their reduction, a faculty {, nat renders him doubly useful in his alling. Not only can parties have C leir ores well assayed here, but they c an obtain small lots to be worked, if s ley desire it, making all required :, .sts on the ground. To men who have ? ven little money and think of em- t arking in mining, this is, above all V ihers, the place to come to. There s re more lodges in the Pioneer and :, lobe districts showing rich ores on N le surface than have ever been found b l the whole State of Nevada. Parties u )me here need not buy these proper " es outright. They can bond them, ., ny them conditionally, get them, in U ct, on almost any terms they choose Il