Arizona citizen., 1879-04-04
4 Word Of Caution.

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 Territory, or touching future develop
 ments here in the business of mining.
 We are quietly satisfied that many, if not all, of our well prospected dis
 iricts have locations within their linn
 its, which, with patience, energy and honorable dealing, will well repay the investments of capital and labor neces- sary to put their merits to test. ThereI are some magnificent finds, but thel country cannot, and does not, place. dependence for its reputation as al great mining center upon those. Incl mining business, in the long run, isl built upon a basis of numerous good average properties. BOnanzas may make country for a while, but they may also break it up disastrously, by a sudden collapse such as sometimes happens. And possessing the faith weI do in the resources of our districts under fair treatment, we cannot let pass the reports which come to us of the operations of d certain individual in the Eastern States, without someI word of comment. One Hunter, whol was here for little while, last year in connection with the Aztec Company, has gone back East and is engaged in giving Arizona mining blackeye." !" The prominence which the Aztec has been made to occupy from one end of the country to the other, by such al vigorous advertising and canvass as. no other of our institutions has re- ceived, has led many people to SUD- pose that the property of that cOmpa- ny embraced, if not all, at least the most valuable, of the mines of South eastern Arizona. And the fact that one belonging to that company comes hereI 10 set up mill, and after staying a little while, goes back, with nothing 10 say but the harshest criticism upon the property he was directly connected with, as well as everything else in the country, may give his crusade more
 importance than it deserves.
 We have nothing to say of the Az
 tees properties, except that in number they constitute but an insignificant portion of the discoveries made and in richness, they can claim to in-
 dicate nothing better than hundreds of others, far and near
 NIT. Hunter and the Aztec have had quarrel, of which we know nothing, and the former boards the latter in it's Philadelphia den, and tells many an interesting tale, if the same be true.
 He does not stop with the Aztec, how ever, but travels outside, and asSails theI whole country. It is there that we wish to meet him; for when he says that he has examined the Tombstone, and Pat agonia, ct ceteros, and that there isn'tl enough metal in any of them to make finger ring" and SO on, to the end of his chapter, he knowingly states what is untrue, even in the metaphorical manner in which he meant it to bel understood. He is reported to bel greatly in favor of Sonora as miningl locality, and we believe the TOW with the Aztec has something to do with his desiring to remove the mill to that country. When he was converted toI that belief is not known, for while here he was pretty nearly as severeI upon Sonora as he now is upon Arizo- ma. Visiting some of Pesqueira's mines there, which had been worked for years, with arrastras, and which were yielding sixty dollars per ton under that treatment, and taking from the pulp heaps numerous samples, he! afterwards reported assays far below what the ores were producing by the ton, and coupled his report with a gen eral denunciatiOn of the mines as worthless. Later on he created someI merriment here, by claiming to haveI assayed q specimen from one of the best developed Tombstone locations,
 and reporting four dollars as the re suit. Such absurdities show the man to want knowledge or veracity. Other men who have been here have criticis- ed the country and its resources-some
 of them severely; and we offer noI protest. We confess some of their ar gumentS, claiming to avoid their con- clusions merely: but we never yet heard of a single man, except Hunter, whether interested or not, who wasl known to be capable of judging the subject, who, after examining our dis
 tricts, did not go away possessed with some degree of enthusiasm over them, at least so far as their undoubted wealth of silver and gold ores is concern ed. We say to the people outside, take NIT. Hunters phillippics with a
 grain of allowance.
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