The weekly Arizona miner., 1880-02-06
About Arizona.
From the S. ?. Stock Eepor.7

For the last few days the haiiways of the Southern Pacific Railroad offices have tcen 1 throngcd with laJorers, anxious t. Troleed 0 Casa GFande and w,Ik on the Arizona
 extension of the ccmpauy's iiLe- i;.l the
 l,i ot March iI is expected that ,he 6J mics will b. iaij. aad once passenger trailc is estaiuished between tb.s oi{y and lhe southern poriioa oI Arizona, an exodus on a small 'caie of mining men and others Ge sirous If going into bu,iucss iu ucw couu- ily lay be looked for. The Railroad will n0l stop a. Tucson, but will push on i0~ ward- ;le Rio Grande aed it Is probable
 l,.!l reach JAe S4H Pedro cropping. sIy 2J
 l1:.cs lrvnl Jlsc famous Tombstone district.
 iD c~urse of ihe next s.x months. Thus
 pilctd iu almost direct r4iiroaa conuec-
 .joa w.sa some of the r,ch-s m,D;a: camps ia ILc woslJ, great iHc:case ia the com- nisIce of sln Francisco Is coi Ii lent to ba anticipated. Thus fai considerable pnr-
 ton ot tac supplies needed for the develop meut of lhc Territory have cIne from tie Easi, just as no snnij quota of her bai.inn las be1u shipped directly E4sy. Th.s wllI accouu: for Wells, Fargo < Cos aanuai es- timat. only placing Arjzonas bullion out put fer 1879 at $l.g424 i3, whereas ii prob ably ,l reality exceeds 'husc figures by 4Jogt one-thi,dr The Territory contains some i5,0-0,00D acres ol land, O! which less than ouc-ieHth has been surveyed. It's asri- cultural resource. have thus never been developed, bu; the Salt River Valley about 60 ! mile, long hy from l tc 20 wide--ha, been 1 found t1 produce aOundanty of barley, !! wheat ard corn. The same is true, though ! ia :. les, degree, of Inc GiIs Valley. which ] is ol,aat ! 400 miles Ion:, stretching from 1 cast b west through ArIzona. EytendIng l from the Giia 10 Sonora is the San Pedro ! YAiey, lying west of the Dragoon MoRn- ! iaius and spreading over sn aret uf lJ0 ! miles iH Arizona, most Of ;hc land be- !ng us3d for stock growing. Parallel ,o i int san Pedro. but 30 miles further west. is ! ihe santa Cruz Valley, extending from su- nora over lQ0 mics in s nofthrFly course eiuhraciUg fair proportion Of wheat. bar iey. Cv!H yrgetaDrs and fruit pToJucing lands ii:h irrigation Arizona could be ] made very different from the arid desert 1 3, hich sa many of those who only see 1t tge!u the iusiinE, Cpniorticss stages describe i fl as being Jauuary and February are fre- quuHtly prolific ln rain. although the great ct rainfall k looked for in July and Au- gust. With the exception si those two munILs, the nights Tn Arizona are always c0og. The heated term extends from April 10 October ;n the valleys, and yei cases of -nn -troke arc extremely rars. December is generally q frosty mouth in the valleys, and last month was especially so. The prncI- pai mines nre m tine mountains, and it is that in addition to her deposits 1f precious metals, Arizona contains many copper and some coal mines Many of her mineral disricts have been as se: comparatively unetpiored, owing to the lack of gU0d wagon and stage roads. Most of these rnais are natural. but tins is one of those cases io which nature needs the as Q>lanco of art and artisans. Telegraphy throughout the Territory is cheap, ten wore message cts'ing only two bi,S within iad.us Uf 2UG mics. ;ui 70 cents over that
 
 southern Pacific Railroad Company k at present revising its freight tariff, i; would ic premature to give traaSporiaiiOa rates ug ncIs handisc from San Francisco From New York to Tucson the average freight large is about cents per pnand, ani as lie A'raisou, Topeka and Santa F. Rail cad IF J!.Tc>sea iu lts couFse towards Tue ,sn, tIic freight will naturally he dIiniDi-h- d. Should that railroad, as now act:ti- ,ated build B branch line to Gaaynas un tc Cuff of California, Stn Francisco viii laye tO lt0k 70 her laurt;s. Tuc great ,aint uow is for OH miniag capitalists and neIuhaHts to secure 2 tpo,h-td iE wiai 'u-h' to he q tributary t0 the metropolis of hc Pacific Coast Eastern houses ari capi- aii-ts have their a-cnts and dIummQi. In agiuus sections of thc Territory anG it noV ,chooYcS our people tO beetir thrmso!rcS at nee in Uiu,r that San Francisco may have ts fair share 0f ihc mines aRd commerce oi , Irizoha. For those drs:rous of changing fcir place of rcSlcnce Arizpna is not by ny mcaus bad iad. l. nearly all Of is 1, louGtaius, except :u !he west, fir, pine a9d | ak tiIpbyr are plentiful. On lhc table . altts grow jaoipcr, scrub cedar ana mes : ui,c, "hjch last k commonly Used fer idcl. t, il 'ac valleys grCw be.iut$ mesquite. cot ? onvood aHd palo vcr,je timber. Socially, r;zpnl IS far rom being inc wi|dcrhe>s il $ IS lh rI , years aga. Thanks 10 Cover ! or SaifbId it possesses an excellent public , -hooi sysIem and crime k uu inc whole i cry much jess frequent than might be eX- E ecied in su Ecw | territory. .e