Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1880-11-18
THE COMING II
Where ft Is to be situated-siIver
Among the Prickly Pears -
Acorns. wild Turkeys and Bears
I'm n Blanco Foothills.


in the Blanco Foothills.
Many letters are being received in Eu-
reka from New Mexico by different parties
and they are Of a private order; they are
from friends and relatives and are directed
to those who are dear to the writer's. With
scarcely an exception these missives say:
Come, come il you want to live in a
moderate, temperate climate; come, il you
wish to live where fruits and flowers can
be seen in bloom at all seasons; come, If
you want to see the richest mines in the
world; come, il you van to see stock fat
all the year round" etc.
The section from whence comes most of
these letters, lies along the line OF New
Mexico and Arizona. The writers have
been drawn thither, well knowing that
times would be lively about the date OF the
finishing up Of the railroads, which are
now drawing rapidly towards a given
point. That " point" is still a mystery,
but it is easy to guess at for one who knows
the lay of the country.
For forty miles west of Mesilla, and for
fifty northwest Of Ell Paso, the plains are
high, rolling, and covered with the aver
age vegetation of q cactus country.
1t is then that the traveller west
ward strikes into, a strip perhaps
80 miles in breadth, which is tolerably
we'll watered by the Mimbras River and
numerous creeks, which head in fountains
situated in the Burro Mountains. After
passing through this belt of watered lands,
then, by following the old Tucson stage
road, only a few mud-holes show a sign OF
water for 65 miles, and then the traveller
is at Camp Bowie, where there are a few
springs. ]. is reasonable to suppose that
the railroad, which is building to Mesilla,
will pull out for the strip of rich country
at the southern point of the Burro Noun
tains, and, as they ann possibly con-
meet with the Southern Pacific on the San
Pedro in Arizona, they will halt right on
! the Mimbras River. Although the water
courses are not large enough, but C few
miles south of Silver City and the old mill
tary posts about there, for agricultural
purposes, still there is the grandest stock
range on the globe, and water enough, too.
Everybody has read of the Silver City
n adjacent mining districts. The In
dams have kept people out of the noun
tains, 80 that really nothing is known of
the range north of Silver City and along
the line of the two Territories.
From the Burro Mountains, in New Mex
leo, to Tonic Basin in Arizona, and then
south along the San Pedro river, into Old
Mexico, first Cochise, and later Victoria,
have led their bands for many years sue
cessfully against every innovation Of the
prospector. 1t is a new country to-day,
and no man knows the mineral wealth of
that region.
NJ x-,sk4. .4wr 80 ra -rhsaI lnrn
been established from time to time upon
copper camp, and in the vicinity Of camps
Grant, Bowie, ETC., but none were bold
enough to "stick," if they did they stuck
very close to their cabins and had not
much time to develop the country.
just out of the heavy pine timber, below
Silver City, we place the new railroad
town, because that is the only agricultural
point within 65 or 10 miles in either di-
r~ection; because wood, water and coal are
handy and abundant, and because it is the
center Of the mineral region, which can be
approached at all by rail.
To the north the mountains roll up into
the Rockies, and spread west into the
White Mountains; they are rough and rug
ged, and it is left for the Atchison, Topeka
and Santa Fe railroad to find a route
through far north of the more practicable
one, which is now being rapidly built and
for which we have laid out a town site.
The A. T. & s. F. road will be built at
no distant day, but it will have to take the
table-lands OF Northern Arizona, keep
north of Tonic Basin, north of the Bill
Williams Mountains, and supply Prescott
with its railroad connection from the East.
The ella river is q stream which heads
but a few miles northwest of Silver City,
N. M, and runs almost due west through
the entire Territory OF Arizona. Its val
ley commences near the line between the
two Territories, and in many places widens
out to extensive bottom lands, and far out
on the desert towards Yuma it is pro-
ductive of the finest crops of fruits. Al
old Camp Grant post, the valley is
as OF rich soil and deep q loan as ever ar
nlinoisan turned up to the suns rays.
People who go from San Francisco to
Arizona by rail see only the very worsi
part OF the Territory-the desert region.
The moment the road touches Gods half
acre of Arizona, right there it breaks south
for Tucson, and runs across the sand-hills
and up the Santa Rita q desert upon the
right, and q range OF mountains upon the
left, which are rich in treasures of gold
and silver and beautiful to dwell among,
From Tucson the traveller generally goes
to Tombstone, and il they'd only scour the
Santa Rita Mountains they would then be
pleased to stay; but it is safe to say thai
nine-tenths Of the dissatisfied ones move
by rail. through the gap east Of Tucson,
and keep upon the best natural route ION
which to lay a track hence they only see
the giant cactus, q dry belt OF country
etc., while upon either hand are the pur.
est springs, highest mountains, and love
lest country wherein to dwell and gel
rich that belongs to Uncle Sans domain,
Concerning a considerable portion OF the
above described lay Of land the writer
knows whereof he speaks, and the letters
mentioned have helped US to an idea OF
two Of other sections.