Arizona citizen., 1878-09-21
Land ana Mining Com
 pany.

pany.
 This is the title of company organ ized in San Francisco under the laws of California, August 24, 1878, by Col. C. P. Sykes The title indicates it's object. Capital stock is S10,000, 900; trustees, Senator J. P Jones, ex-Su- preme Judge John Currey, E. l.. Sul- livan, Geo. C. Perkins ard C. P. Sykes, the latter manager; office g Mer- chants Exchange A fifty-one page pamphlet illustrated with cuts and maps setting forth the company's pur- poses, and showing notable objects and localities, is published, and one of them is before us The company has six mining claims south of Tucson, abou; twenty miles the one most devel- oped and on which work is going for ward and has been for many months, IS the San Xavier The company claims title to tho Calabasas grant on which, al the junction of the Santa Cruz and Sonoita, a town-sitc is laid out, and scheme is projected for cul- tivating considerable land. \ $20,000 hotel is to be the first building in the town. and picture of it with grounds as they will be improved, appears in the pamphlet; also plats showing lots and blocks of the tawn. We make this quotation from the company's presenta- ton of the country thereabouts:
 Arizona is without question. as to mining possibilities, the coming cOun- try. Within the past twelve months a wide spread and growing interest has been aroused. This is especially true of the southern portion of the Tcrrito- ", lying between the Gila river and the Mexican frontier from north to south, and the i10o and 112o of lon gitude, east and west The area thus defined, and which is in large part en- braced by the map attached hereto, contains the most important town in Arizona, Tucson; and, also, valleys of Santa Cruz, SOnoita, Arivaca, San Pc dro and Babocomnra streams, which in an Eastern State. woulG perhaps be regarded as insignificant, but which in their value as sources of irrigation and consequent fertility, are in arizona of the utmost importance. The section embraced by our map lies within a re- | rly,1, ,l nt area of about forty miles in width, and takes in the whole of the Santa Cruz valley, the Sierras Atascosa and Santa Rita, to the east and west of the stream, as well as the region for some distance to the east of the valley named.
 Manager Sykes obtained the opin- ions of many men, including mining experts, on the value of the properties of his company. Regarding the land at and surrounding the town site, the following card by leading Tucson bus mess men is found in the pamphlet, and as it is pleasant at times to see snch men say something in print in behalf of their section, we give it herewith:
 "To Col. c. P. SYKES, San Francis co, Cal. We, the undersigned, citi- zens of Tucson, arc we'll acquainted and familiar with the Valley of the Santa Cruz above Tubac, and consider that the lands of the valley are quite as good, if not more than equal in richness, with that of any other lands in this Territory, and that with prop CT system of irrigation, there is plenty of water for the uses of all the arabic lands of the valley.
 "The lands are susceptible of the highest state of cultivation, and will produce all kinds of grain, vegetables and fruits produced in any other DOT ton of the Territory, or in the State of California. There is now in the val ley some of the best cultivated farms Tn the county. There is plenty of wood for practical purposes. The me sa is covered with nutritious grasses, and numerous veins of gold and silver have been discovered in the mountains and foothills bordering on the valley We consider this section well adapted for colony of people that wish to fol low either, or combine the pursuits of agriculture, stock raising, or mining.
 F. R. Fully, s. R. DeLong, EsteYan Ochoa, Sam'l Hughes, Jas. II. Toole, F. II. Goodwin, J II. Archibald, Lion el NJ. Jacobs, E. NJ. Jacobs, c. II. Mey- CT, W. W. Williams, John E. Allen, c. H. Lord.
 Tucson, A. T., April 16, 1877.
 The company is evidently strong one, and means business. Manager Sykes is a most energetic man. The san Xavier mine shows an immensel body of galena, carrying large per centage of silver Two shafts are down. to considerable depth and the work isl pushed ahead