The weekly Arizona miner., 1879-01-10
GOVERNOR FasMosrs MESSAGE.
Gs!.sieEea cf ase Council aud cf lle House q Represmtaiirss:

Ge1stenea ef the Council aud of nse House 9
 Representatives.:
 Before asking yoar consideration for such
 suggestions as my iinperIect knowledge ol the Territory enables me 10 offer. wish t0
 congratulate you upon the fortunate ocea- sion which the events of the day have given ! you to make this an illustrious session oi your legislature. IL is in your hands to
 shape the prosperity of your future State. { to mark out the channels of its commerce
 and to establish the foundation of its laws upon the largest experience. Until lately, your uncertain trade has rested upon such
 casual business as accident and insufficient
 means, or the GOYernmet expenditures, | have been able to build up from day to ' day. in isolated districts remote from each
 other, and united only by communication so encumbered with obstacles as almost to prohibit inIercourse-o.istacles which made of the travel of thst day for ordinary busi-
 ness a record Of dangers, courage and per severance, honorable to the pioneers of your ! State To-day. the power of the railrsad IS
 added to your resources. Al once you are | brought in contact with the great centres Oi commerce upon an equality with all the
 world. snd its organized capital IS equally at your command In these new conui- lions, it rests with yon to shape the bust ness of the Territory at a moment when there is no cause for political excitement and no embittercd or sectional feeling to disturb legislation, or distract attention 1 from the one great interest which is com
 mon to the whole of this Territory. Under these circumstances tine people look conf dently 10 your foresight and ability to pro6t ! by an occasion which can be made memo- l rable in the annals of their prosperity. At present there Is nothing to Interefere with l progress in the Territory. The Indians are quIct and have sincere disposition to re- remain so Acting in concert with the General Cemmauding this Department, l lately visited the northern Indians, and am satisfied that under prudent management they will not only remain peaceable, but may be brought into the condition of peace fuI citizens, increasing and not Obstructing the business of the county. 1 had inteuded before the meeting of the Legislature to visit the Southern part of the Territory, which have not seen for. many years, but have to regret that I was unable to do 90. Some anticipation of Indian destur- bances made the visit tn the Northwest nee essary, and obliged me to defer the journey Souta unil l could make it with more jus tice to the interests of that section than the brief time remaining permitted.
 Assuming it to be true that our prosper ity depends for its realization chiefly upon the great mineral wealth known Co exist in the Territory, 1 have directed t0 its deyel- opment the few recommendations l have tO
 make. Without mining population there k-r.rfI Ina mn tufluaa.saauf fft ArizBua fO ao- riculture, for the reason that we can have no other than home market for such pro ducts. We certainly cannot export our grain, nor except in stock-iarm produce can we compete with California in any farm products whatever. Her wonderful fertility hars our products from the sea, and stock raising and wool growing wonlG not neces- sarily require such an immediate outlay of mcney as 1 recommend. But, with the ac cumulating evidences of this great mineral wealth, sustained as they are by the statis- tcs of centuries in the neighboring States of which until recently Arizona was part, these measures become urgently necessary, and with them we may fairly anucioatc such an abounding activity as will give ample employment to all our resources But at the outset, in order to get into this country and travel over it, the first necessity is to provide good roads. Al this moment all the interests of the Territory resolve themselves into question of transporta- ton.
 Having been requested by the Secretary of the Interior to furnish him with q report upon the condition of the Territory, l made brief preliminary statement. amounting only tu a very general view of its resources and necessities. In drawing his attention to the development of these resources, | suggested the radical and primary import ancc of beginning this development by
 first expenditure of half a million dollars in building common roads. lt k asserted as fact by distinguished English writer of the day that the new civilization which had of late years been spread over France had been largely brought about by the agency of common roads. It was the policy of the third Napoleon to decentralize Paris, and lay the whole empire open aud acccssi- bc to influences from himself. To this end he covered it with a network of good roads, and in so doing opened France to all man ner of progress. breaking down the prciu dices of neighbprho0ls and sections, pro- noting social intercourse, introducing mod tfn Improvements dtsil tAil iA- "Atit AAl'"'N a general advance in wealth and trade The facilities which did such good work m re- moving the OhstruCtions Co progress inter- posed by the fixed habits ana established business of an old country, would certainly be of cardinal value in new one, where there exist only the natural obstacles cf mountains to overcome. The proper grad ing Of good roaas among beds ot mountains would entail a large amount of rock and earth work, and five hundred thousand dol lars Is not large sum to be expended m opening such communication over hun drcd thousand square miles of mountainous country, especially when by so doing ten fold the amOuntin bullion would hequickly uncarihed, Co pass into Use over the whole country.
 Addressing my suggestions always to the fact that the prosperity of the Territory de- bends on it's mines, have advised that men of experienced and practical ahilitity should be kept regularly at work to determine the character of the gold and silver, and other mineral veins. Co the end that by some authorized method their value might be made reliably known. and so save both the time and labor of the miners. and the money ui the capitalist The now acknowledged mineral wealth of the Territory would jus tify the government in tbe slight cNpond- iturc required Co establish at the Capital ot thls TprTi:s~v. a Mining Burcau uad say