Arizona citizen., 1879-03-07
Gro eianco Correspondence.

approached as it is by one of the most travelled and best graded roads in Southern Arizona, possessing by req son of its elevation a climate free from the enervating and sultry summer weather, so notOriously peculiar to our interior desert tracts; having abund- ance of water pure and good and sup piled by perpetual mountain springs. Wood growing on hill and in valley in quantities sufficient to guarantee to us a cheap, ready and large supply for mill and furnace, possessing a rolling country over which wagon roads can be built at but slight expense; among good mines with large bodies of pay ore and more in the dumps, having q primary soli1 formation, second to none in the world for permanency. Why does not this district assume the leading position, all experts have pre- dicted for it? The reasons are many and various. The Bible says (quoting from memory, Where thy treasure Is, there shall thine heart be also" To make it more applicable in this case, let it read, Where thy mines are, there let thy tongue run constantly, morning, noon and night" The good people of Tucson are not interested Tn Gro BlancO property except to a very small extent. Less than a score of miners and proSpectors own the best and most valuable property in the dis trict Believing religiously in the val ue of their prospects, these few men have labored winter and summer, de- veloping and showing them up. Hav- ing no money to fritter away, they have abstaIned from visiting Tucson and mourning unpaid board bills. Cal ifOrnia sends her experts; the East her scientific men; capitalists arrive and depart. Tucson is full of purchasers and no one Is there to represent our district, and present its merits and ad- vantages. They are met by the cry of Tombstone" It seasons their morn ing steak, lavors their midday soup and sweetens their evening tea. The barber, in the soft melodious measure peculiar to his profession, fills youI ears with its merits and while delicate ly manipulating your cranium, pour, magnetic current of Tombstone into your brain You go to bed anC cemeteries of buried hopes rise up be fore you and on every monumental head piece stands out in bold reliel that fatal an4 ominous word, Tomb stone"
 l do not wish to cast any imputation: Oh our new sister district of the som ore and sepulchral name. That there are several good mines there 1 have nc doubt; likewise others that are nO so good. Deserving undouJt, dly O, d high reputation and with tue light o a brilliant future dawning upon it. heartily wish il and it's people happi ness and success. l do not wish tC pull down even were 1 able But do wish to add my little might toward building up a district that in the neal future bids fair to rival even Tomb stone, ii it Ioes not Surpass il in orc
 production. Ore Blanco does not pos sess only two or three mines, the Oth
 CTS basing theIr pretensiOns on the de velopment of those few Gro BlancC
 has scores of good mines, deserving of the title good, on their own mer it's and not deriving a borrowed lustrt from more fortunate neighbors.
 I will not now describe our variou: mines in detail. 1 shall reserve tha
 for future communications. 1 desir, simply to assure capitalists and tho
 public generally, that in Gro BlancC
 we have valuable mining property awaiting investment, that our ore wll
 pay for reducing, that we have large
 bodies of il. that our formation Is pri
 mary and permanent, that cur facill
 ties for reduction are second to non' in the Territory, and furthermore tha
 we court investigation of our property
 and will be pleased to receive any anC
 all who may come, assuring them O
 hearty miners welcome, and of oul
 desire that nothing may escape thel
 attention. Respectfully yours,
 ARTS.