Salt River herald., 1878-10-05
CUR RA5LEoAD AND MINING
 INTERESTS.

nl has there been so much interest manifested in the development of this great territory, as at this present time. On every hand we hear cheering news of great enterprises for her benefit that are being inaugurutcd. The Los Angeles Heruld, of late date, speak ing of our railroad interests. states that the railroad programme k now quite plain. The Southern Pacific will probably go no further cast than Tucson under any circumstances. To that pOiat the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railroad is also pressing There is a sharp struggle progressing in Colorado between it and Jay GOuld's combination, of which the Denver and Rio Grandc Narrow Guagc road is the avant garde. Jay Gould's tactics interfere greatly with the through business of the Santa Fe route, and ncccssitateS an early outlet to the Pacific coast by connections that will tap both San Francisco and Guaymas Doubtless an understand ing has been reached by which the Tucson and Guaymas route will be occupied for the mutual advantage of both parties. W. R. Morley, engineer of tine Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fc road, is now in this territory. He recently stated that the track is being laid at the rate of d mile a day. It is now passing over the Raton moun- tains CD the border of New Mexico and Colorado. X tunnel is to be con. structed, but at present the track is going over them at a grade of 374 feet to the mile Work on the New Mex ico side is being pushed rapidly, and it is now nearly certain that within two years the road will be completed to Tucson.
 The San Francisco Post, in allud- ing to the-general prosperity that is soon to dawn on Arizona, says that everything indicates the great future that awaits Arizona. Capitalists and business interests in San Francisco and on this coast generally ought to wake up to conception of the great business prosperity which has been achieved throughout this territory in the last sC oenteen months. St. Louis especially is making great cXertions to control the business future of this region. We know that within the past ten months number of gentle men, representing large amounts of capital in New York, Boston, Chica- go, Philadelphia, St. Louis, CincIn natl, Louisville, Indianapolis, etc, have visited the territory. Favorable results are already visible. General Fremont's advent will be of great ser vice, as his national reputation must fasten attention to this new field of work and duty. Everywhere we hear of continued developments and asSur- ed, if no. rapid, progress. The week ly shipments of bullion at Yuma arc steadily increasing.
 Southern Arizona exhibits the most rapid progress at present. \ mill is in course of erection in the Arivaca valley. The Aztec Syndicate, Operat-
  ing in the Santa Rita mountains, will shortly have one, now en route, erect cd on the SOnOita. Mexican furnaces are in successful operation at the Sacramento mine, near Calabasas, in the Patagonia mountains, and in the new discoveries near the Mule pass of the DragOon mountains on the east The San Xavier company are now preparing to erect smelling works on the Santa Cruz. near the famous San Xavier Mission church, and a GUS toms mill is to be constructed at some other point in the upper Santa Cruz valley, probably CalabaSas. Else where in the region named great ac- tivity in prospecting continues. De- velOpment requires capital As yet but q comparative small amount has actually found is way there. The Globe district and other mining cen ters are also feeling the favorable ef- fleets of the interest aroused in Arizo- na. Each mile of track laid east of Yuma will quicken this, and there after our tcrritory's progress will be assured.
 That which benefits one part of the territory must necessarily be of ad vantage to another, and we predict that with the accomplishment of al these great business enterprises, tho now unploughcd millions of acres O rich soil in the great Salt River val lev will be, in the next two years blooming with golden grain to Suppll the demand thus created by the un ceasing march of enterprise and capi tai throughout the entire territory O Arizona.
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 SECRETARY SHERMAN, through hi Al 1.- n Nt- NT,uIt,u au