Arizona silver belt., 1878-12-27


 inclfeased mail facilities. and by th
 establishment of Rourishing week.,
 newspaper some eight months ago
 ahieh has aided us greatly in telling
 he world of our mines another con
 yncug proof of the stability of ou
 camp has been added, for surely newspaper man. in the selection of {
 6eid for his activity, is to be con.
 sidered barometer as to the futur,
 of place. The building of frs
 class wagon road to M1Millen, en-
 tirely done through the liberal sub.
 scriptiois of our eltizeus and thOs,
 of McMllen. tends to show the en-
 terprise of IAe cislaens Of these two
 villages.
 But now let us turn our looks Io-
 ward our mines. Certain soreheads ! nill argue that the good times, when
 silver was found everywhere around
 here, and could be had for .he mere
 trouble of picking it up and bringing
 1t to the merchant, who would pay so much an ounce for it, were things gone by that nowadays will be found nothing but low grade ores that hard iy would pay to mill. These men certainly do not know whereof they speak, for ] challenge the knowledge of every old miner in this camp of a richer silver find in this district at any time than that of the Julius. or the Cox < Coplin, or the Miner k Watson nes-aIl discoveries of tHe last year But, even admitting that tlese soreAS$ds were correct 1t their assertion that there Is no more pure silver to be found on the suface. what of itl A stranger, a most in- telligent man, from the East con versed one day with me on the sub ject of mining here, and the disad- yantages miners had Eo encounter in this region He thought that there was plenty of wood and water. that even the seascis could not be wished any more favorable for minihg pur- poses that there vas neither too much snow during the winter, nor too heavy rainfall dulng the other months to put serious ob- staale to mining and prospecting all the year round. Well, what then do you consider our drawbacks here ? l began to ask. IL certainly must be a very inconsiderabIe one, for those which you have just named as not to be found hrre are generally consid- cred the most serious, and l might Say the only drawbacks to successful mining. Very well, he said now tell me honestly did 1t never occur to you that the great richness on the very surface of many of your mines presents in its consequences a most serious drawback to rigid develop ment of mines, and consequently such i 2 one for the whole camp. Suppose, he continued, t would be necessary in order to strike any kind of pay ing ore body to go down say from thirty to one hundred feet, you may i believe me there would be quite different system and style of mining in your camp. For, as t is now, almost everybody is out after pock- sts, be sinks a few feet, and did t lot pan out big he abandons his hole md continues sinking and sinking few feet wherever he supposes pocket, and al the end, instead ef iaring one developed property, he ms a number of shallow holes for which he cannot find buyer. 1 felt .ather surprised after he had finished, or never had thought of this be- ere, and l must admit that his argu- nent contains 3 truth we should be ,uided by in future. Too much of his surface scraping has been going m; too much, altogether. Let verybody be doubly careful in the uturs n the selection of mining roperty he intends to develop, and ut all bis force and energy On tbis ne property and make mine out of ;, apd then when buyers come he has 5melliing to show It certainly can- 1