The weekly Arizona miner., 1878-08-16
Arizona ,lisreprsseniea.


 a The Chicago Times IS nothing if not ser , sational. Commenting adversely on th
 departure for AriZona on a mining explors 2 ton of MT. Hesing, we'll known Germa politician and newspaper proprietor, wh
 has been convicted of complicity with tn
 "whisky ring" and is now bankrupt, ] says:
 Is the trip to Arizona "blind?" Will h
 come back pretending to have made ,;
 "strike?' The character of the mining il that region-which is of the most primitiv,
 kind and furnishes a scanty living to Indi ans and peons who infest the beds of tir, streams and obtain httle ssdustv by hanc | washing-is perfectly known. No intelii gent person can be imposed upon by mis representations of strikes i'll the Apache dis tricts of Arizona. Until railroad pierces I the territory, mining machinery cannot be I taken there. Without machinery, the mines If there are any worth working-cannot be worked. There is no way of getting machin- | cry there except at an enormous cost from San Francisco by the Southern Pacific and from its terminus overarid plains and noun tain defiles in which the savage war-whoop is the most familiar sound.
 The foregoing is as fuil of misrepresenta- tions as blanket is full of fleas-whcn used in the Colorado desert, for example.
 
 the Comstock stage of development is quite true. But it is very far removed from be- ing the ''most primitive kind" of which the Times writes. There are at least 40 000 white persons living in that territory, the greater portion ot whom are working at or prospecting for quartz mining Tn some form or another. It is not "hand washing," by any means, nor is it carried on by "In- dians and peons." There are no '.peons'' in the territory. There arc no "Apache districts" in Arizona. Miners are net pros, pectiDg the Indian reservation, nor is there any conflict with them in progress The savage warwhoop" is not a familiar sound" over "arid plains and mountain defiles," ana has not been heard for several years past. True, it costs great Zeal to get machinery into that territory, but, rev ertheless, there is good deal of it TOW there and more going. In Mohave coustv there are half dozen mills well equipped 1 as reduction works, and one foundry and | machine shop at work. One company has | expended million dollars there. At Pres | colt and vicinity there are a:number of mills. | etc, in active operation. So, near Wieken. burg, in the Castle Dome district. at the Silver King mine, and at Globe City, Me- Williams, Picket Post, Clifton and other points, machinery has been taken and more is going forward. For southern Ari- zona machinery has been purchased re- gently. One body of Eastern capitalists have just purchased twenty-five stamp mill, now in southern Utah, paying $5S, ,0OO for the same and its transportation to the Santa Rita mountains, the former home of the famous Apache chief, Cochise, where it is te be ready for use by November 1st. ne major portion of the work done in Arizona is quartz mining. The Times is reckless in its desire to make point ca an opponent. It is no use lying about region ike Arizona, vixen it has the means of bet er statement at hand. Even in dry placer washing, in which there is recently re- , lived interest clo oital as we'll hs industry is involved, Costly machinery for the pur- ] pose has just been shipped from this city to l he Giia valley, and will be erected iere. l IS hoped no one will be s'imposed upon, Y misrcpresentatio1s of strikes as the lines suggests. Still more is to be hoped hat no one deliberately designing to pros ect and then invest in Arizona will be de- erred therefrom by the false statements e nd inischevious rhetoric of our Chicago fl F. Post. a