The weekly Arizona miner., 1880-02-06

can now be produced and shipped only al loss. l know uf one mine out here, on Hp- 1 per Lynx Creek, in which there T. ore de-
 pOsIts both oi caruohate and galena silver
 bearing crcs which are just rich enough no; ! tO pay when il is sent by Ihe prcsen. cir
 cuitous route down tn MaTicopa and then around tu San FFanclsca or New York, but ] which would nay ii the 3j h parallel road were built. The difference of one or two cents pound in the cast of transportation often makes the diff, renee between profit and loss iu working q mine. Say you take : the copper mines nf the Back Hills. There they can produce copper matte at profit, even now, and ship II tD NAucoDa and then send it around 10 Eew~YoFk, but if they could send II twenty miles by wagon up 10 1 the Atchispn, Toueka and Santa Fe, and l have it then 1000 or 1900 nearer New : Yerk than at MaficOpa, they could work Il ] at very much larger profit. And above all l ii" 3Jth parai!cir'ad wnali bring to us him : fir whom va have sighed. hiui for whom we ] haze yeaEued, him ID whom VIC have tOT ] years daily sung, lin waiting, I'm wait 1 Ing. I'm waiting my darlinG for thee need l SAY l allUde to the capitalist ' ho la tn ! try and develop mines, .applauseI and, gen. . tiemcn, without Toad VIC won't see hIm 10 any considerable extent. Laughtcr-
 The capitalist nowadays does not nOssess. that confidence in mining experts which per taiued to the elrier and purer days of tic Republic Iaugh,er.i Tue capitalist now aGays likes, personally, to inspect mining property before he purchases II. IL don't
 make any difference whether he can tell granite from limestone, quartz from flint, or
 ,v-f. bf, fp af rit. mine before he buys il, and he does not like
 the buck board, and does not like the brolled
 chicken and strawberries atthe stage stations.
 daughter aud app!ause-) He never wan
 dcrs far from ihe Pullman car. II you get
 the capitalist to come into the country, you
 must give him the accommodations ot mod
 him you won't see him.
 X rairoai within fifty miles of Prescott
 connecting Us directly with the east will
 bung tt Us opportunities of developing the
 wealth of this wonderful country, which
 lies all about Gs, opportunities which NC
 will get in no other way, and in my judg-
 ment, from no other source than the great
 Kansas Railroad, which is now on the Rlo
 Grande. Now if We were perfectly assured, i
 fellow citizens, flat this company would 1!
 build thIs line along the 35yh parallel with ]
 out delay, and with the same speed that II !
 Is building COwn the Rio Grsnde-I say if
 Te were assured of that, we might Congrat- 1 uiatc ourselves upon our good tuck, adjourn !
 this meeting and go home, but we are not 1 perfectly assured of 1t. know the news !
 paper and teegrams tell Us 1t is c0mIng,and ! the agent of ,he company, whom l have 10
 doubt believes everything ho says. tells Us it is coming; still there is little doUht as [" ! the rate of speed at which it Is conlinx. and i If We can to anything to encOur z. II, 10 1 bring it along little faster, we ought 10 do ! II.
 The Directors If the Atchis0n, Topeka & i Santa Fe F. +. are probably the wisest men 1 in the world; dust tell thcm said tlIa; l Mr haren, when you 90 back.) (Laughter.J ! Tell them that that is the deliberate tx- prcssion of this meeting. They have shown ! their wisdom by heading their road in tiiis ! direction, where instead of crossing deserts i they will pass through land filled with i wealth both under and above lhc ground ! a land oi pure cedar forests, land of gras,y ! plains, q land holding vast treasures ut coal ] and copper. and lead, and silver and gold. ] but wise as they are, their knowledge ui ] Northern aHd Central Arizona IS necessarily i only AencraI in is character. and ike Mr. 1 Gr,d-riud in Dickens novel, u cy want facts. l Thc.r disposition to hurr, up their road | through here can be promoted and cncour aged, and mil: up, and enthused Oy redhOt 1 facts. iithicG or fuu:,or q half q dozen men i could name in this assemblage, were to walk l in Q ;hc Directors office of the \. T. < 5. F. R. +. G.. to-mo.r1w morning for instance, and one were tU say, am \ merchant of i Prescott: there has been shipped t0 Central ! ahd Northern Ar!zpna, during the last year 1 OH the Southern Pacific, and by team, fiOm i Naricnpa. over 400 carloads of miscellaneous ! freight. 1 dm authorized to say for my urother merchants and myself, that your road can have that freight as soon as you get : within 300 miles by decent wagon road {; another one We're 10 say, l am m1nin- i man. own copper mlne out here in the Black Hills; 1 an acquaiated with other 1. copper mines iD the vicinity. Bring your railroad within forty miles of Us and we will take twenty car loads day of coke i from you and give you ten car iOaus a day 1 of pig copper for tine next ten years from what l. already iu sight. And another one were to say, There ate thirty quartz mills wanted tO mitl :he oIeS In Such a district. and as soon as your road gets within iis- tance we will be enabled id enlist St. Louis ! and Chicago capital tO fOrward the machin- cry. And ail were to sag we are prisoners locked up in the treasure caveTns aud guard ! ed b. jailers wiIn are called Isolation aud | Dis, ancr; come and destroy our jailers, divide these treasures with us and let Us out. And ] ail were further t1 say, We will give evi- desce of our good faith. We wont require you to wait until you can Dulld 800 miles of road on hope. IT you will help us, and help our Delegate in Congress to get an appropriation 10 build a wagon road across the Nogolions, We will commence fo ship goods from lhe Eas: by your road before the summer is over. ! suggest, If just such an interview could he had with the Atchisnn. Topeka X Santa Fe Directors. and that interview were followed up by trip of these gentlemen l have named to Washington, ana the War De- pertinent melted to ask an appropriation | from Congress for military wagon roaj across the MogOllons, and the Missouri and Kansas a1d Colorado delegations persuaded to go to work ill the Senate and House, I believe the appropriation could be obtsiBed before spring, and the road across MogoI- lon. before tall and tide of travel, of freight. of progress, of capital turned in this direction that would hurry the railroad along and start boom here that would make us ali rich in a year CT two. [Ap- plause.
 Just little energy and spirit in their business, about as much as Chicago drum mer would Use to scii bill of goous. fiaugh- ter and town lots will be worth four hun dred dollars q front foot before spring, and all you old Hasssyampers, who have been