Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-02-06
Tns view ne.assa.

No one who has lived In Califor-
MIA the past half decade can have
failed to note the interest which
has centered on Arizona. This in
terest has not been confined to the
Pacific Coast. Much Of the capital
and many of the salarled prospec-
tors Of the East are to-day engaged
In TIE work of developing this cac.
tus and rattlesnake land. The ter
ritory has now reached stage of
development which, when we take
Into consideration the tremendous
railway work which the Southern
Pacific and Arizona Pacific are ac-
quitting the mselves of therein,
more and. more attracts the atten-
tion Of the capitalists of San Fran
cisco and of The sation. 1t is time
that their ilf~feN should be
aroused to source Of wealth which
bids fair, at no remote day, to rival
the outcome of Nevada. Sorry are
We to record the fact that Los An
gsles, which should be the chief
beneficiary Of developments in
Arizona, has 90 far taken but q
limited and languid interest in a
region whose very physical rug
gedness and unattractiveness are a
revelation OF the fact that Provi-
dence had some occult purpose in
creating both.
The Apache, OF old days, was the
great overshadowing drawback to
Arizona. As long as man, in ad-
dltion to the drawbacks of an arid
and super heated land, had to en-
counter the danger Of being killed
and scalped, there was precious
little inducemsnt to settle in Ari-
zona. The transportation difficul-
ties of themselves involved rug
gedness enough to repel that ne.
cessary adjunct Of the hardy pros.
pector-the developer with means.
The transportation difficulties are
now practically at an end, because
the Southern Pacific is doing
everything in its power to facilitate
shipments of ore from Arizona to
San Francisco. grading them ac-
cording to assay, from $40 ton
up, the highest maximum still o
moderate figure. The rapid extern
sion OF this railway towards Tucson
will increase the transportation
facilities day by day.
OF q new mining region there is
necessarily good deal of flamboy.
ant talk. For years we have heard
Arizona discussed by optimists and
pessimlsts. One class have breat tn ed
only the most roseate stories of the
capabilities OF Arizona. 1t was o
land which only needed the present
status Of Indian and transportation
matters to abound In q prodigality
OF treasure output which would
shame even the Comstock lode 1t.
self. Those OF the other class come
back denouncing the whole thing
as colossal fraud and they talk
of nothing but the cactus and rat
tlesnake aspect Of the Arizona
question. We are satisfied that the
first named class, discounting a
natural love for exaggeration COM
mon to most Pacific Coast people,
are. In the main, right.
Yesterday Mr.. s. w. Craigue, o
gentleman whom no one will sus.
pect Of exaggeration, either from
temperament or inclination, re.
turned from personal inspection
Of Arizona, over his own buck
board, which was really most ex-
haustive. His trip embraced the
territory from near the navigable
hsadwaters of the Colorado river to
Tacson. To our knowledge he left
Los Angeles with the impression
that Arizona, as long as railway
operations are being conducted
there on large scale, was a good
place for business; but that, from
that time on, a decided collapse
was one Of the imminent proba bill
-ities. Mr.. Craigue returns to Los
Angeles with the belief that the
mines OF Arizona are a living real.
ity, that the prospects are unsur.
passed and that, with prospectors
on every hand, with exhibits of
specially rich ores, from many
quarters, which even the casual
traveller encounters on every hand,
the chances are that Arizona Is
likely to prove the "new bonanza
Not only is the Southern Pacific
Railway pushing out post-haste
through Arizona towards Tucson,
but we observe that an agent of
the Southern Pacific has started for
the Capital of New Mexico, with
the view Of procuring from the
New Mexican Legislature the same
right of building roadway which
was obtained, some two years
ago, from our neighboring terri
tory. Al elderly man has to rub
his spectacles nowadays to keep
pace with the giant strides of q
railway corporation whose parent
may once have depended upon
national subsidy, but which, ,appar.
emily. nav. Ostentatiously. pro.