The Arizona sentinel., 1879-10-25
Arizona's BOnanzas.

Under this caption the Boston Econo
mist prelujes description of some of oul
mines with the following, which we re
print oD account of the statistics which
are Of interest:
Over three hundred years ago Arizona
was the most noted mineral field in all
New Spain. Old Mexico, New Mexico
Texas, California, Nevada, Arizona, Utah
Southern Western Colorado, with an
area Of 1,729,O9t squire miles, were en-
braced in The territory then known as
New Spain
Mexico, by the conditions of the treaty
of Guadalupe Hidalgo, in the year 1S4S,
and by the subsequent treaty of 1858
known as the Gadsden Purchase, ceded
to the United States, in toto, 967, ,451 square
miles of territory, comprising California,
Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, Texas. Ari-
zona, fractional parts of other States and
Territories, leaving herself less than one
half Of her original territory, viz, 761, $40
square miles. California is only a part
of this acquired territory which has been
at all extensively or generally prospected
and worked for the precious metals, and
her mines have yielded but tithe com.
pared with the vast and exhaustless min
eral wealth buried in her sister States and
Territories of the Pacific, waiting to be
unlocked. and to be poured into the great
monetary channels of the commercial
world.
Tabulated statistics of Mexican produc.
tion of precious metals show that the
development of the mines was a steady
and continuous growth. from the con-
quest, in 1921, to the revolution by the
native Mexican priest, Hidalgo, in 1910.
From 1S4S to 1876. Mexico produced
S702, 100000, whilst California during the
same period, yielded s1,O64, ,62s, ,5O2. Had
the same skilled industry and vigOr been
applied to the Mexican mines during this
period, its product would have been iu-
definitely increased. Anderson, in his
recent work on 1.-The Silver Country" "
gives the aggregate production of pre-
ciols metals in Mexico and ON vilo / ot I,l'
Coast, at S4,SS7, ,5l2,605, which indicates
the vast volume of treasure poured into
the channels of commerce by our mineral
regions.
OF this immense region the richest por.
ton is undoubtedly that embraced in the
present Territory of Arizona, which is
now rapidly rising into prominence as the
coming country" for precious mineral
production. 1t was Humboldt's predic-
ion that Arizona would surpass Central
md Southern Mexico, rich as they were.
Located at the forking of the great South
ern Cordilleras into the Sierra Nevada |
and Rocky Mountains, both of which are
silver bearing. It is rational to infer that |
The mountains cf arizona. or :he parent
trunk are richer than the divergent 6raaches.
No mineral country discovered carries
az high.grade ores as do the mines of
Arizona. Silver nuggets have been picked
10 in late years in many parts of the
Territory, and veins containing the pre-
,ious metal in an almost pnre state have
,een discovered, and the ores, shipped to
San Francisco and smelted, have yielded
thousands of dollars per ton. So frequent
lave been the discoveries of this charac-
er that Arizona is known among miners
IS the poor mans country"
Wit this preface we will mention some
# the representative mines of the Terri
or