Arizona citizen., 1879-10-25
The MInInQ Fufure

Specter, has coniured up a series of
 grim financial hobgoblins as the final
 outcome of American mining enter
 prise; but those hobgoblins are the
 creation of his brain only. unreal. in
 tangible and as little real as the spec
 tral illusions and phantoms present in
 certain brain troubles and disorders of
 the opthalmic nervous ganglia. On
 one point, though, his remarks arc we'll
 placed, in cautioning persons of slen-
 der means from taking desperate min
 ing chances and warning them of the
 dangers of stockjobbery. Such ad-
 vice Is valuable, but is equally appli-
 cable to railroad stock and to shares in
 nearly every enterprise that has been
 lnaugurated. To make haste slowly
 IS well enough, but to stand aside, CT
 remain comparatively inactive, is i'm | possible with the American people in
 view of the wonderful future opening
 out before them.
 MT Del Mar says: con the whole. quartz mining in large districts never | dld, never can pay" Now, where are his facts and figures, for hls ipse diNit alone Is insufficient, more especially when he says it never can pay" X thousand things that "could not be done are being done today. The i'm provementS in metallurgy, mining en- glneering, the science of geology and the arts of the reduction of metals. the highways opened up by the iron horse and other advantages create new fields Of possibilities, compared with the cruditieS of the past, that few men dream of That enormous quantities of the precious metals were obtained
 " by conquest or slavery is no proof that new supplies cannot be obtained from their native sources at great pro fit, in view of modern improvements in extraction and reduction, the limited amount in circulation and the incrcas- ing requirements of the world. That
 " the mines are eXhausted.' does not apply tO mining in general; they are
 as yet comparatively untouched: min
 ing k in its infancy. The mountain ranges of the backbone of our cOnti- ncnt, through our Western States and Territories from Montana and Dakota, north, to Arizona and New Mexico. south. are scanned in increasing mum
 berS and richness with innumerable
 veins of silver quartz, and aurifcrouS
 golden bands, waiting the advance of American enterprise, Of modern science
 and progress. tO develop into won drous living results before which Mir.
 Del Mars pale, doubting, financial
 ghosts vanish into thin air. Mining does not pay!" Ahl does it not?.
 Why, it is the fairy wand that in thirty years has turned into the laps of the American nation, at a moderate esti-I mate, fifteen hundred millions of gold and silver, helping to make the nation wealthy, and, with its fertilizing stim-
 uluS. giving gigantic aid 10 agriCul- ture and manufactures.
 California was horn in a day from mining and mining has laid on the great Pacific Slope the foundations broad and wide of an empire that promises 10 be as the " Mother of Ma. tiOnS.' and the fullncSS of which mol man can foresee. Mining, l. makes a market for the farmers produce
 work for the railroads, work for the tcamSter and laborer, work for the iron fOundrieS, machinistS and me chanics, employment for the scientist and inventor, business for the mer chant, commerce for inc world. lt. calls for the wonderful and gigantic results of modern engineering skill. IL starts the iron horse throbbiug. across the continent, through the dcs- crt, wilderness and mountains. IL. opens the way for towns and villages innumcrable. Science. steam and cleo tricity are it's servants, and, learning by past experiences and past failures, ! the success of the future is more fully. assured. Manufactures and art agri !. culture and commerce must come up. through individual trials often, but. are not the less grand in their general aggregate and results. Few of our| men on the Pacific Slope but are so through mining, or through the| demands that mining created or sus- tained; and the wealth created in the past is but the beginning of what will. be, for it is yet the first hour in the. day.
 "The Comstock Lode is honey combcd and used up' says MT. Del Mar. But that remains to be proved. Many very competent men predict yeti great discoveries. But even if it were so the C0mstock mines are but one group. There are groups of mines elsewhere, showing as well for the de. velopmcnts they have received as the ComStock ever did. Just think what millions of wealth the ComSt0ck has produced-about S3j0.0OO,OOO, accord. . ing to the Pacific Coast Mining Rel view. 1S1S-9. The past history of theI Comstock. with its gambling and stock should be a school 10. teach men 10 avoid those evils whilst. they still obtain the benefits of lcgItI-| mate mining enterprise.
 \ new transcOntinteutal railroad, . dhe fruitful parent of many future brauches). the AtchisOn, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad from San Francisco Arizona and New Mexico, k being fast completed. When il is, and even now. a new world is opening up to Eastern men and Eastern enterprise n mild climate. stock region of i'm mrnsc capabilities, much fine agricul-I tural land. and. above all and through all. mountains rich with minerals, not only gold and silver, but all those. needed hv man. The rocks and earth promisipc to yield their many mill-' ions of gold and silver, as in the palmy days of Mexico, when the Spanish gal Icons fioated immense treasures to old SpaIn. This enormous wealth, not this time the product of slavery, but of American ingenuity and enterprise, steam and mighty iron stamps and levers. doing the work of millions Of. slaves and modern appliances pro duciBr results more surprising than anything accomplished in the past.