The Phoenix herald., 1879-09-17
Wednesday,. September 17. 1879. INEXHAUSTiBLE WEALTH. Arizona the Mineral Store house of the Nation. An Unbiased Opinion of her Won
 derful Resources. An interesting Article
 full of Facts.

From the Boston Adusrtiser of re-
 cent date we condense the following
 interesting interview with MT. Thom-
 as B. Lexis, of San Francisco, re
 garding Arizona as amining country.
 From thorough knowledge of the
 mining history of the Pacific Coast,
 and having been identified with the
 mining interests tor over thirty years,
 Mr. Lewis is especially qualified to
 express an intelligent opinion.
 MT. Lewis thinks that the impres-
 sion among Californians is not gen
 orally favorable in Arizona as per
 manent mining country. In the ab-
 scence of the hurrah and impulse
 which creates rush, new country
 must submit to 8 slow and cautious
 development, which in the end is
 deemed the most healthy and profita-
 ble.
 The causes of their lack of faith in
 her mines or the ultimate success of
 the country is due to the ephemeral
 superficial causes men usually set up,
 when they lack solid practical knowi-
 edge of what they presume to judge
 and condemn. Arizona like Oregon
 Idaho and Nevada, has had to pass
 through trying ordeal. Isolation.
 Indians, and primitive pioneering, followed by spalse settlements. sub jected to hsrdships, privations and
 poverty, comprise the first chaItsr
 in her history. Califor
 mia was settled by rush. She had
 navigable rivers leading to her mines
 and seaport to which the commerce
 of the world had access; and sup
 plies oe every character we. carrie
 there in such great excess over de
 mand that the means and imple
 meuts were at hand to enable the ca
 ger thousands to gather the treasures of the New Fl Dorado. Arizona has had no such good fortune. The poor fellows who crossed the Yuma des- ert to search for gold and silver in what was supposed to be an arid waste, open to the world New El Dorado; but the story of their suffer ings will never be written. Some perished of thirst in the desert; some were murdered by savages; some sickened and died; some succeeded, and returned tO civilization with mug gets of gold and silver. For years this sort of invading and retreating was kept up The beginning of the l end of trouble dawned upon Arizona when General Crook and his brave | soldiers entered the Territory to es. tablish security and to turn the coun- try over to settlement and industry. | The second event of importance is the observance of the self preserva- tion law by the Central Pacific Rail- road Company, in the rapid con- struction of the Southern Pacific Railroad. By that move Arizona Is getting what, under ordinary circum stances, she might not have had for decades to come, viz, great rail- road running through the heart of the country, connecting her with both the East and the West, and from which line every part of her territory will be reached and developed. The people of the Pacific States and Ter still clinging to the prejudices and unbeliefs of the pasti but the Arizona of to day is s new birth, and will grow rapidly to the importance and wealth of great State.
 Who has come up from the depths to tell us all this bosh about there be ing no depth, and subsequently, no to her mines? Califor- nians commenced mining by rocking the cradle; then came the sluice-box, followed by the Georgia Long Tom; then tbe mammoth Hume, by which rivers were turned. All these rude were specially for surfAce mining. Dld the miners of those times dream that high up on the ridges of the Sierra Nevada ancieit river beds were buried, and that down one, two, three h1ndred feet under the ground, under forrests of giant trees, the richest gold deposits in the known world glittered in the cement floors of the dead rivers? Do you that the faintest idea of the power of the hydraulic, as used in tEs gravel mining Of tNdsy, ever